The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-12-20

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! WIGFALL hoped the Senator weuld not so per.
| Verting facts. He had corrected the statement
that the Senators did not vote the last session to
| protect slavery in the Territories. MIR. JOHN
| son said the Senator corrected it wrong. Ht
| thea continued TO demonstrate that If South Caro-
lima sent her Senators back here, there would be
majority against Lincoln on the 4th Of March, anC
he could not select Cabinet unless he had the con
sent of this Senate as there would be a majority o
six against his party. All shoul1 come together
| and save the country, preserve the Constitution
and defend the Unon.-Mr. LANE said that he
| could not at this late hour reply to the speech
| The Senator had alluded to the Northern Dem0cra
| cy, and be was one of that number; but he would
tell the Senator that they would not follow under
| his bloody banner against people who had been de
MED their equality in the Union But when he un
| dertoOk to march against Carolina, he would fac
| those ready to defend their rights. Applause and
| Misses. He would save the Union, but he would
save it on equality, There were seceders in the
olden times. George Washington was one of them
| He seeded from TIE old Confederation, and formed
| this Governments but he (Mr. Lane) was dis
unionist. He was for the rights within the Union
| and il they could not be maintained IN the Union
| he was for obtaining them out of it. He proceeded
| to read from the speeches Of Messrs. Seward anC
| Lincoln to show that they were sectional and tha
the latter was elected a sectional platform. He
| looked forward to the day when the Northwestern
States should join the Southern Confederation, i
| secession should take place. They would cease tc
! hold relations with the agitatoTS and fanatics.
any attempt was made to coerce a State he would
aid her resistance and the coercionsts would have
to walk over his dead body. [''Good" and ap.
| piause. Disunion is fixed fact, he believed; and
the States resolving themselves into their elements
! great and happy Union could yet be formed
| Mr.. PUGH obtained the floor, when the Senate ad-
! j0urned at $50 p. NJ.
| HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr.. WASHBURNE, of H., offered Joint re.
| solution, that when the two Houses of Congress
adjourn tomorrow, thev adjourn to meet on Mon.
day, January 7th.-Mr. ETHERIDGE, of Tenn,
moved to lay the resolution on the table, upon
which the yeas and NAYS were ordered. and re-
suited, yeas II; nays a. So the resolution was
laid on the table.-Durng the call of the roll,
Mr.. BOCOCk said the adjournment of both Houses
would interfere with the action of the committees
during the recess. He would suggest that the
House pass a resolution, asking the consent of the
Senate to adjourn over to the period named. That
would obviaIe the difficulty and enable the commit
tees to sit.--On motion of Mr.. GROW, the
special order, Territorial business, was post
poned till the End Wednesday and
Thursday of January, and made the special order
for those days.--Mr. SHERMAN, from the Com
mittee of Ways and Means, reported the Legisla-
tive, judicial and Executive Appropriation Bill
--Sundry bills were presented for the cOnstruc-
ton of military roads in New Mexico.--Mr. Ed
MUNDSON, Of Virginia, presented series of reso-
lutions which, without being read, were referred
to the Committee Of Thirty y-three.--On motion
of Mr.. SHERMAN, the House resolved itself into
Committee of the Whole upon the bill making ap-
preparations for DEFICIENCIES in the appropriation Of
the fiscal year ending 3Oth June, 1861 Mr. Bocock
in the Chair. The bill was read by sections. -
Mr.. SHERMAN, from the Committee of WAYS and
Means, offered sundry amendments appropriating
money for deficiencies in the appropriation for Senate
and House printing, growing out of additional print
ing orderedby the House, which were passed.--An
amendment approprating $4,000 for the Custom
House at st. Louis, resisted by Mr.. Quarles of
Tennessee, but was passed.-Mr. SHERMAN of.
fered an amendment placing 5000, 900 at the dispo.
sal of the President to supply deficiencies in the
appropriation for suppressing the African slave
trade.-Mr. PHELPS opposed the amendment
He wanted the Africans rescued from slave ships to
be apprenticed until they earned enough to pay
their expenses home This would enable the phi
lauthropiss to take the native African and civilize
and christianize him. If these barbarians were
thrown into the midst of the civilized Africans in
Liberia, they might overwhelm the latter. lie
thought the present system entirely wrong.-Mr.
SHERMAN said the rightfulness of the laws
for the suppression of the African slave
trade not now the question. While
they laws they should be carried out
All departments of the Government had agreed
that they ought to be executed. He caused a num-
Der of letters from the Secretary of the Interior
advocating the appropriation, to be read, in which
twas stated that the bountes due the officers and
seamen who had captured the Wildfre and other
sIayers, had not been paid, and that the Colonial
tion Society and the colony of MOnrovia objected
to the landing of more Africans unless provision
made for their support.--Mr. JONES
thought this thing Of paying bOunties for the cap
ture and support of Africans only encouraged the
slave trade. If the Colonization Society were paid
500 head per for the support of captured
negroes they would send out ships to capture them
MIR. MAYNARD said the original appropriation
for this purpose only S250,000, and now it was
proposed to make an addition of 5000 900. The
slave trade was mainly carried on between Africa
and Cuba, and there were treaties between England
and Spain which would enable the former to sup
press the traffic whenever she chose. The trade
was carried on by the connivance of England, and
he reliably informed that the negroes captured
by English vessels apprenticed in the English
West India Islands. He would like to be in
formed when this apprenticeship ended and what
became of the negroes. 1t was the inter
est of the English vessels on the coast of
Africa not to intercept the sla ers as they went
in, but they came out, laden with slaves, by
reason Of the bounty allowed per head for their
capture. lie thought we should protect our own
coasts, but beyond that take no acton.-Mr.
SHERMAN explained that the appropriation em-
braced S4G0, 900, due for captures already made
and $3.50 900 for the estimated expenses of captures
MIR. PRYOR, of Virginia, was willing to ap-
prOpriate money topay for expenses actually con-
tracted for, but would not go beyond that. He
thought the whole system should be revised.
These appropriations constituted an enormous
tax, and might be a pretext for taxing the Gov
ernment for the benefit of Liberia and the Col
onizaton Society. He was averse to the
revival of the African slave trade and in favor of
its suppression. This system of sending captured
Africans to Liberia, might swamp that colony
He wanted change in the whole system, and ap-
proved the suggestion of the apprenticeship system
He would support any plan suggested by the Com
mittee of Ways and Means for the suppression of
the African slave trade consistent with their fnan-
ciaI condition and the exigencies Of their situation
MIR. SHERMAN said the Committee of Ways
and Means had project under consideration upon
the subject. He thought if Liberia did not want
the negroes, she could refuse to receive them and
the Colonization Society could decline to carry
them.-Mr. BURNETT moved an amendment re
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tisfied the policy heretofore pursued was inbuman
and cruel He was ready to vote money we had actu.
ally contracted to pay, but no more. He approved
the apprenticeship system pursued by England, as
which give the phianthropists opportunity of
civilzing and Christianizing the negroes. BY pay
ing the Colonization Society so much per head for
supporting the negroes, and the navy much for
capturing them, it had become profitable branch
of trade.--~Mr. CRAWFORD, Of Ca, thought
the great mistake was made in Interpreting the act
of 1919, which only contemplated receiving, and
not supporting, the negroes. He believed there
were not hundred men in Georgia in favor of re-
viving the African slave trade.-Mr COBB, of
Ala, thought the most etfectual mode of prevent
ing negro stealing to order our ships of war to
scutte the slave ships when captured after remov-
ing the negroes. He would sink ships and crews, and
he believed not a Southern man would go down in
them, for ships and crews came from the North
Mr.. REAGAN, of fTexas, offered an amendment
providing that no money should be appropriated
for the support of negroes captured board
SlayerS not bound to ports OF the United States.
He opposed to the African slave trade but OBJ
jected to the policy sought now to be pursued
Mr.. CLEMENS, of Virginia. thought the construc-
tion of the act of 1919 should be settled now The
contracts made by the President for the support of
Africans, in violation of aw.--Mr. JOHN
| COCHRANE, did not rise to discuss the question
! in its philanthropic or humanitarian bearings.
| Expenses incurred upon the faith of the Govern
ment, should be paid. The question not wheth-
| er the law of last year was in accordance with
| the act of 1919, or not. When the law required
| that helpless human beings in the possession of life
should be received by the Government, the infer
| ence that the Government should conserve
| that life, and had power so to do.--Mr. GLEN
! EMS asked where the power given in the
Consttution?---Mr. COCHRANE said the
| higher law, the law of humanity, gave the
power. When the law directed the Exec
utive to take human life under his control, the
letter and spirit of the law required that he should
conserve that life. That was the construction put or
| the law of 1919 last year. Mr.. Cochrane further
deprecated the suggestion of the apprenticeship sys
TEN. The future of the negro race was dread ques
ton, which ght find its solution in blood He wa
opposed to mingling these barbarians with the civ
| ilized negroes upon this continent. He apprehend
ed war OF races, and an rrepressible confic
! wherever the aspirations of the colored man made
him desire the superior position of the white race
--MeSsrs. Bingham, of Ohio, and Kunlle, 0
Maryland, severally expressed their views. Th
latter thought should devote ourselves solely t.
the protection of our own coasts against the in
PRODUCTION OF Africans He opposed the views o
the gentleman from New York (Mr. Coch
rane) in respect to the apprenticeship system
After some further desultory debate. Mr.. Reagan
amendment was rejected, and the Committee rOs
and reported the bill to the House.-The amend
ments appropriating sIS7,OOO for deficiencies o
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