Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-12-28

This is no fault of ours, and the North is not
responsible for that. The Senator from Vir-
ginia (Nason( holding that q few years ego
Virginia lost annually 100000, and he be-
Heyed she lost the same now. lie would
concede that for the sake of argGment, Yir-
ginia had about 5000, 900 slaves, worth about
$500 at least, before the panic, making $4s,-
100000. The loss of 100000 is only one
fortieth of one per cent, or about one quarter
of a mill on the dollar. This is less than the
risk incurred in any other species of property
in the United States. Suppose the people
Of the border States resolve themselves into
an insurance company, how small would be
the premium to cover the loss, and special
prosperity has special advantages. II has
advantages of representation. Is it strange
that such property should be subjected to
peculiar risks2 What will those gentlemen
gain by severing the bonds of union if they
run these slight risks now? What risk will
they run when the Northern States will be
under no obligations to return their property?
Would ten per cent. cover the loss of the
State? Let the bond of the Union be broken,
and slave property would of necessity retire
from the border
He said the Abolitionists of the North
stand looking with anxiety, and praying
that the Union may be dissolved, that the
North shall no longer be compelled to re-
turn fugitives. They know what the effect
hOhAu Dty uuu uCblIt ulhbOiublOu. lneY
know that the time is coming when the
slave population of some of the slave States
will preponderate, so that the physical power
of the State will no longer keep them in
subjection, and they want the Unien broken
up, so they may arm the Federal Govern
ment and not be called upon to put down in
surrection. They are as anxious for disso-
luton as the extremists in the Gulf States.
liz said there was one other matter which
no wish p0 IN ppfpr fo Tho fnu st,,gf -
the supreme law of the land, and of every
State, any State law to the contrary not
withstanding. Every citizen of the United
States, therefore, holds double allegiance to
the Federal Government; also to the State,
and may be guilty of treason against either
or both. If Congress goes beyond the Con-
stitution in enacting a law, the law is null
and void; and if the State makes a law
against the Constitution of the United States,
it is also null and void.
Mr.. Benjamin asked if citizen could be
placed in conflict between these two; if so,
he must, of necessity, be guilty of treason
to one or the other, and be hanged any way.
Mr.. DoOlittle said he could not. There
was no act of State making treason which
is in conflict with the United States Consti-
tuition. 1T does not make treason though
the State declares it so.
Mr.. Benjamin asked what advantage that
could be TO the citizens?
Mr. Doolittle said the citizen must act at
his own peril. He went ON to argue that it
was not in the power of the citizens of
State to annul an act of Congress. If a mo-
ton can dissolve the connection of the Fed
eral Government, if one State can secede
from all the rest, then all the rest can Sc
cede from the one which gives power to ex-
pei a State so the right Of secession in
wolves the right of expulsion. He referred
to the War Of 1872, and the Hartford Con-
vention, and said if the doctrine was correct
the New England States could have resolved
themselves out of the Union and gone over
to the enemy and taken the fortresses in Bos-
ton harbor and other forts, and turned our
own guns against us; or, If now In time of
peace, Pennsylvania should withdraw, she
could cut off all the mail-routes and we
could not 60 from New York to Virginia
without crossing foreign country, and so
with Illinois.
Further discussion ensued between Messrs.
Green and Doolittle, when the Senate ad-
journed till Monday.
HOUSE-Hon. Mr.. Stevens, of Washing
ton Territory, rising TO personal explaua-
ton in relation TO a special dispatch in q
border paper, said that it appears, upon in
'Vestigati0n, that the Indian Trust Bonds
were stolen for the use of the Central Breck-
lnridge Committee during the late Presiden-
tial election.
Mr.. Morris, of ILL.,, rose to a question of
order, saying that it had heretofore been de-
cided that newspaper article was not u
privileged question.
Mr.. Logan-"My colleague was treated in
On Indifferent manner"
The Speaker-"I am sorry if that is true"
Mr.. Houston raised the point that this was
not privileged question, if not affecting the
privilege of any member here.
Mr.. McClernand-"l was cut off the other
day ungeneTously, it is true, but the example
is not worthy of being followed. appeal
to my colleague Nogan), to withdraw his
objection.
Mr.. Stevens resumed, and read the Her
ads dispatches, and likewise that in the
New 1ork World, of December "a in which
IT is stated that the robbery of the Interior
Department has caused some speculation in
Washington, and it is thought by some who
are deemed du Jdit that the defalcation of
bonds has been going on since the COM
mencement of the Presidential campaign;
that the Breckenridge Club and Secretary
Cobb knew exactly how these securities
were to be used, and for what purpose
these bonds were deposited as collateral to
raise money in behalf of the Breckinrid ge
Club.
Mr.. Stevens said his attention was called
to these dispatches last evening, and they
seem to be matter of sufficient consequence
to arrest the attention of the House.
II was his fortune to be Chairman of the
Breckinridge Club, and he did his entire
duty, accor dirg to the best of his ability, in
the premises. His heart was in the business
for be believed he was striking blow'for
the honor of his country and the prosperity
OF its institutions; but these were most false
and calumnious assertions on the integrity
of the Club. Although he might not be
known to fame, for twenty years he had
gone through many perils and faced death in
the discharge of his duty. He repeated, in
the presence of the men who knew the facts,
who had seen him in the Valley of Mexico,
in the van of the victorious legions, he did
his part to plant our banner on the palaces of
the Montezumas. He bore the wounds of
the service which, physically had broken
him down. He had in the Northwest faced
most savage foe, and on the Pacific exerted
his utmost energy to make the wilderness
blossom as the rose. He repeated here, it
was most false and malicious slander prop
agated on an honorable body of men, and
which required a most severe rebuke He
never knew these bonds had existence till
the fact of the robbery was made known
this morning. He called on the Chairman
of the Select Committee asking him to probe
this matter to the bottom, so that LGnish-
ment may fall on the guilty
In relation to the article in the Boston
Herald the speaker said it appears on in-
yestgation, the young gentleman informe
him to-day that these words were interpo-
lated in Boston, showing a disposition to
break down an organization supposed 70 be
| adverse tn that of the aditor l., tha Wo.IJ