Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-02-01
LATEST NEWS.
BY TELEGRAPH
TO THE WORCESTER DAILY SPY
THIRTY SIXTH CONGRESS.



Commissioner of Patents, transmitting the
meteorological observations Of 1859, which he
thought of sufficient interest to be printed.
Referred.
Mr.. INVERSION introduced bill to carry out
the provisions of the 18th article OF the treaty
with Mexico.
Mr.. FIToH Introduced a resolution to print
$4,000 extra copies OF the Presidents message
and accompanying documents. Adopted.
Mr.. GRIMES asked to be excused from serv-
ing on the committee on private land claims
Granted.
Mr.. Douglas resolution was called up
Mr.. HUNTER said the Douglas resolution in
Itself, was a commentary on the times. 1t was
resolution to suppress civil war, founded
upon an actual case of outbreak The labor
OF the south Is not in rivalry with the labor
OF the north. The Union is not a collection
of hostile, but of subordinate interests. The
foreign exports OF the South amount to S2OO,-
OOO,000 and the freights on them are from
to per cent of that amount. He went into
statistics to show how greatly the north is
benefited by the products of the south, III car
rying them to foreign and domestic markets,
and manufacturing them. -Four to flVe millions
of northern people are sustained by these pro-
ducts, i'll the manufacturing and navigation IN
tereSts. Heavy duties have been lald In past
lines, to protect American manufactures.
q. fne location of the United States Bank at the
north contributed to hasten the concentration
II of commercial power there. The south never
asked one dollar of protection, except few
sugar planters, who constitute but small por.
ton of the southern people. He said there
had been assaults on the south by the north,
in the Missouri restriction, the abuse of the
right of petition, asking the abolition of slave
ny in the District of Columbia and elsewhere,
and the suppression of the slave trade between
the w
moral and physical improvement Of the negro,
as 1t carried him by natural laws to a climate
better suited to him. lie next referred to the
personal liberty laws of the northern states,
the higher law doctrine the nomination by the
same party in the House of an endorser of the
Helper book, etc He now asked what was
the end aimed at by the Republicans, unless it
was the eradication of slavery in the states.
He pointed out the evils resulting from eman-
cipation--general decay at tile south, vessels
rotting at the wharves in the NORTH and manu-
features stopping. Her own interests ought to
induce the north to change her policy. The
effect was to invite the south to secede 1t
had been said here that the north could coerce
the southern states into submission How
could they hold them? AS conquered PROVING
es. Would not that necesstate an entire
change of the Constitution He argued to
show the thing mpractcable. There was not
a respectable form of civilization that ever
existed which was without the institution Of
slavery. Without it, this continent could not
have been opened up. Take the states Of South
America; any one could see that the region
which had retained slavery had prospered.
Slavery was necessary in new countries. The
happieSt situation for the negro was that of
master and slave. He defended slavery on
the abstract ground Of right. The honest
course of the north, if it could not carry out
the provisions of the Constitution was to pro-
pose a separation. He believed there might
be contederacy found which might preserve
some of the benefits of the Union, and avoid
the conscientious principles of the north.
1t might be necessary to form three or
four smaller Unions L bound by closer
bonds. He believed there was no neces
sity for this. There was necessary col
lsion between the interests of the sections
He claimed the right Of the south to carry its
institutions into the territories, and extend its
social system. If there was an 'irrepressible"
hostility between the social system of the
north and the south, the sooner they separated
the better-but he believed there was no such
antagonism. He analysed the social systems
of the two sections to sustain his views. The
experiment at the north Of combining free la
Dor with universal suffrage had so far succeed
ed that he hoped it would prevail But it was
still an experiment, and had not yet sustained
should press upon the means of subsistence.
Mr.. Hunter then alluded to the dangers likely
to result from collision between capital and
labor All the evils denounced as incidental
to slavery are to be found under the system
of voluntary service. Free society being an
experiment. why should the territories be
kept open only to that, and shut against slave
ry, which had been proved to be stable.
He argued to show that the condition
nf bp oil
by contact with slavery. In conclusion he
asked, if there was no "irrepressible conflict"
why keep up the agitation If the constitu-
ton was faithfully carried out there would be
no difficulty He spoke OF the past progrt SIS
and glory of this country, and the evils to re-
suit from its dissolution He trusted the no.
BILE band Of northern Democrats and the con-
sentative elements would unite to preserve
the Union. He did not despair of the Union,
but said ii the Republicans succeeded and re-
fused to administer the government according
to the constitution, the south would not hesi
tate moment to take care of herself
Adjourned
HOUSE.
When the House met to-day seven members
were absent, viz: Boyce, Stallworth, Brown of
Kentucky, Junkin, Sickes, Somes and Clark
b. Cochrane.
Mr.. SHERMAN moved that the House pro-
Mr.. BococK, in order to give time for alb
sentees to arrive, moved to adjourn. Mega
lived.
Mr.. SMITH of North Carolina rose amid
cries of "sit down." "order" Quiet be.
ing restored, that gentleman said :-"Alr.
Clerk cannot find language adequate to con-
vey to the members OF this body, my deep
sense OF obligation to the honorable gentlemen
of the various political organization constitut-
ing this House, for the honor which they en-.
deavored to confer upon me, by placing me in
the Chair, and entrusting me with the high
and important responsibility of presiding over
this body. When l recollect how much of
selfsacriice must have been incurred,
how much these honorable gentlemen have
given up in the patriotic effort to concentrate
the vote Of this House on some individual who
stood on national grounds, and when remem-
Der that | myself, with name unknown to
fame, now making my entry on this floor,
have received the honor of so large a vote as
cherish the kindness during the residue OF my
official term, and carry it with me into the
shades OF private life" Impatient cries from
the Republican side of "Call the roll"
Mr. REAGAN said there had been combina-
ton of various elements of the House with
the view Of securing for speaker man of
national and conservative character, lie saw
that Mr.. Smith could not be elected, and now
hoped the South Americans would vote for a
candidate whom the Democrats would present.
He therefore nominated Mr. McClernand of
Illinois.
Mr. HILL remarked that justice to himself
and those he represented required aim to say
NJ. Al. hxr