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xxxvI.h CoNeREss-F1RsT SESSION
WAsuISeroN. March %.

| citizen OF the United states from Prussia in
| 1859, which was adopted.
The bill to establish mail routes in Kansas
was passed.
Mr.. Yulee, from the Postofice Committee
reported bill in relation to undeliyered let
ters. II provides that persons, by indorsing
their names on letters, can have them re-
turned free of additional charge when unde-
livered. The bill was passed.
Mr.. Toombs presented petition in favor Of
the Homestead bill.
Mr.. Bright introduced bill for the prose-
cution Of the work on the Capitol. Re-
ferred.
Mr.. johnson, from the Committee ON Pub
lie Lands, reported back the House Home
stead Bill, amended by substituting the SEN
ate bill @
On motion of Mr.. Gwin, the Pacific Tele-
graph bill was taken up in order that certain
amendments might be introduced aud
printed, which were ordered.
The Homestead Bill was taken up, when
Mr.. Wade moved TO substitute the House
Bill.
Mr.. Clingman explained the amendment
offered by him, which proposes TO give
at once TO every man in the United States,
who comes within the provisions of the bill,
IL warrant for one hundred and sixty acres,
with power to retain the land or sell IL out If
unsuitable. The present bill requires man
to work five years continuously on the land
in order to get title.
Mr.. Pugh spoke in favor of the passage of
Homestead Bill.
Mr.. Hale spoke at length on the same side,
| in the course of his remarks expressing SYM
pathy with the strikers in New England,
| hoping their combination would continue
until they obtain the highest wages compat-
ible with the general good.
Mr.. Wade advocated his motion TO take up
hn
liberal than the Senate Bill.
| Mr.. johnson, of Arkansas opposed Mr..
| Wades motion, and referred to Mr.. Hale's re-
marks as insincere and demagoguish. He
wanted to hold on to the cdnditLe OF New
| England by the cry of free homes for free
men, fearful that under the pressure of star
| vaton they would desert him and his party.
Mr.. johnson, of Tenn, knew the House
Bill could not pass this body, and the true
friends of the homestead principle should
take that which they could get.
Mr.. Wade withdrew his motion.
Mr.. Wigfall regarded the matter as party
question, involving as it did the power Of
the Federal Government. If this Govern
ment was established to provide for the halt,
blind, lame, deaf &C.; if it could give land to
the landless why not niggers to the niger
less? II tmight open the African slave trade
on Missionary ground, and bring negroes
here to be converted. lie then went into an
examination of the Federal Government, and
contended that as the trustee of sovereign
States it had no right to vote away their
lands.
In the course of his remarks he said that
il is nonsense to talk of State committing
treason, the thing was impossible. He owed
allegiance to the State of Texas, which, con-
jointly with the other States, exercised the
same portion of the sovereign power.
Whenever she declared the Federal Gov
ernment no langer her agent, then it would
be his duty to return to his State, and if he
should be captured fighting under the Lone
Star under the law of nations, he could moi
be treated as traitor.
Mr.. johnson, of Tenn, remarked that there
were precedents of the policy proposed in the
bill. ....r...
Mr.. Wigfall was sorry to hear any Demo-
crat refer to precedents. Ifthey are accepted
banks, tariffs, international improvements
&C. could be justified. He then denounced
the policy of New England, which, by fed.
eral legislation, had got rich and kept thu
other sections poor. He thought nothing
!. better could occur than dissolution Of thu
Union. New England would then beg tn,
South to come Back. Her spindles woulc
cease to turn, and her ships rot at thu
wharves her sailors and operatives turned
out to starve, would burn and steal He als(
drew picture of mob of deceived and in
furiated people, bearing ON poles the head o
Seward and Hale. If these men only knew
that the South was in earnest they woulC
keep quiet.
They were not the men to coin their hearts
blood into drachms. He denied that thes'
were threats; the day of forces has gone by
He would speak his mind freely and say tina
he believed that no Black Republican evel
could be inaugurated President. Northern
men talked of subduing the South, but hi
believed that Southern army would winter
in Boston before a Northern one could reaci
Texas. He would like to know how they
were going to take the South Let them looi
around this chamber and they would see OF
the Republican side but one man who eve
saw the flashing of n gun, while he particu
larized members on the Democratic side VIII,
had rendered signal military services Th
military chest was the first matter of consid
Grafton in war, and where would the Nortl
get the money to fill it2 The South coult
send out her cotton, tobacco, ETC., in the bot
toms which would carry them the cheapest
Where would the Senator from r. l., (Mr
Simmons) get the money for his calico2 The,
might talk of blockading the Southern ports
but their officersand men would want money
and where could they get it? Cotton wa
King, and without it Queen Victoria's crow
, was not safe. The Union was nothing NOR
than compact between contederates, whic
the North had broken, and then tried to per
, suade us that it was of Divine origin. Gu
; forefathers shed their blood not for thi
! Union, but for liberty. He compared til
Federal Government to lens which concen
! trated and applied the powers conferred b
+ the sovereign States, as the lens concentrate
I the rays of the sun. They admired not tn
lens, but the glorious orb from which it dC
!. rived its power
The ancestors of New Englanders went I
= Holland, but as the Dutch would not let thel
4 persecute anybody, they came to the Nortl
They drove out Roger Sherman and the Bal
q lists, and spread themselves over that country
. Providence having macadamized that couI
. try they thought It useless to dig for wii
+ the soil could produce, and have since live
); off of their neighbors. He went into an argl
u ment that the slave States, properly speaking
are the only free States He concluded b
4 denouncing the Homestead Bill as unconst
I tutional. .. ., ..u ..... ..r...
a The sueect was then postponed till MOI
? day. Adjourned. Hr ..
d H0USE.-Mr. Noell made few remarl
on the bill heretofore introduced by him, pr
}. posing to withdraw from the people Of Uta
.; the power to make their local laws throue
y an elective assembly. If the House shoh
ii attempt, by direct legislation, to suppress p
lygamy they would fail, for they would n
~ strike at the root of this fostering sore ON Il
s. body polite. He held that organized teri
4 tories derived this power to legislate fro
3 3 Congress- but Utah should be an exceptio
" and instead of legislative assembly h
| noXyar shOul1 ha invasfpd in soma nther 4,