Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-03-29
FROM WASHINGTON.


side, IN the course of his remarks, express
ing sympathy with the strikers in New
England, and hoping their com bination
would continue until they obtain the high
estwages compatible with the general good.
Mr. Wade advocated his motion to take
up the Homestead Bill, which he showed
to be more liberal than the Senate bill
Mr. johnson, of Arkansas, opposed Mr..
Wade's motion, and referred to Mr.. Hale's
remarks as insincere and demagoguish. He
wanted to hold on to the canaiHe of New
England by the cry Of "Free homes tor
free men," fearful that under the pressure
of starvation they would desert him and
his party.
MIR. johnson. of Tennessee, knew the
House bill could not pass this body, and
the true friends ofthe Homestead principle
should take that which they could GET
He opposed making this party question.
Mr.. Wade withdrew his motion.
MIR. Wigfall regarded the matter as
party question. involving, as it did. the
power OF the Federal Government. Ifthis
government is elecmosynary; if it was es-
tablished to provide for the hale, blind,
lame, deaf. &c; il it could give land to the
landless why not niggers to the niggerless?
1t might open the African slave trade on
missionary grounds. and bring negroes here
to be converted. He then went into an
examination of the powers of the Federal
Government, and contended that, as the
trustee Of The sovereign States, it hal no
right to vote away their land. In the
course of his remarks he said it is nonsense
to talk ola State committing treason; the
thing was impossible. He owed allegiance
to the State of Texas, which, conjointly
with the other States, exercised the same
portion of the sovereign power. Whenever
she declared the Federal Government no
longer her agent. then it would be his duty
TO return to his State; and if he should be
captured fighting under the Lone Star, l"
under the law of nations he could not be
treated as traitor, saying that he believed
that no Black Republican ever could be in
augurated President Northern men talked
of subduing the south. but he believed that
a southern army would winter in Boston
before northern one could reach Texas.
He would like to know how they were GO
around the chamber, and they would see
on the Republican side but one man who
ever saw the flashing of gun, while he par
ticularized numbers on the Democratic
side, who had rendered signal military SER
vices. The military chest was the first
matter of consideration in war, and where
could the north get the money to fill it?
Mr.. Wigfall was sorry to hear any Dem.
ocrat refer to preccdents. If they are ac-
cepted, banks, tariffs, internal improve
ments, DC, could be granted. lie then
denounced the policy of New England,
which, by Federal legislation, had got rich
and kept the other sections poor. He
thought nothing better could occur than a
dissolution of the Union. New England
would then beg the South to come back.
Her spindles would cease to turn. and her
ships rot at the wharves. Her sailors and
operatives tnrned ont to starve, would burn
and steal. He also drew a picture of a
mob of deceived and infuriated people,
bearing on poles the heads of Seward and
Hale. If these men only knew the South
was in earnest they would keep quiet
They were not the men to coin their hearts
blood into drachms. He denied that these
were threats. These mere days of farces
were gone by. He would speak his mind
freely. The South could send out her cot
ton. tobacco, DC, in the bottoms which
wouh carry them cheapest.
Where would the Senator from Rhode
Island (Simmons) get the money for hi,
calico? They might talk ofblockading tn,
southern ports. out their officers and mer
would want money, and where could thcy
get it? Cotton was King, and without i
Queen Nictoria's crown was not safe. Tht
Union was nothing more than a compac
between confederates, which the North ha,
broken. End then tried to persuade us j
was of divine origin. Our forefathers she,
, their blood not for this Union, but 70
liberty. He compared the Federal Gov
ernment to lens which concentrated am
applied the powers conferred by the SOW
ereign States, as the lens concentrating tn
rays of the sun.
They admired not the laws ont the clio
/ rious orb from which it derived its power
; The ancestors Of New England went I
Holland, bnt as the Dutch would not lie
them persecute anybody. they came to tn
r North. They drove out Roger Sherman
and the Baptists, and spread themselve
over that country. Providence having m &C
adamizel that country. they thought
useless to dig for what the soil would pro
duce, and have since lived off their neigh
bors. He went into an argument that tn
Slave. States. properly speaking are tn
only free States. He concluded by denoan
. cling the Homestead Bill as unconstitusion
! al. s3
c Washington, March 23.-The Post OF
c flee Committee ofthc House this morning
: after two days argument, resolved wit
c but one dissenting voice, that the milan
& postal service Of the country should De re
: stored To its condition of the 3i of Marcel
!. 1859, and instructed their chairman to Ore
d pare and report bill for that purpose
y special meeting OF the Committee to-mo1
J, row. es
: From present indications, the Pacif
E. Railroad Committee of the House wi
&c lprobably reconsider, at their meeting o
d Monday, the vote in favor of one road.
: The Cabinet had a private sitting to-da,
,e at which the Capture of the Mexican steam
'c ters, and prisoners. before Vera Cruz wa
&c much discussed The President will NJ
>. probably reply at once to the Senate re