Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-01-17
THIRTY-sIXTH CONGRESS.
MONDAY, Jan. 16.

Mr.. DOUGLAS offered resolution that the
judiciary committee be instructed to report a
bill for the protection of all the states and ter
ritories against invasion by the inhabitants of
any other state or territory also for the sup
preston and punishment of conspiracy and
combinations in any state or territory with the
intent to invade, assal, or modest the govern
ment, inhabitants property, or institutions of
any other state or territory.
Mr.. SUMNER presented petition in favor of
cheap letter postage. He also offered a reso-
luton instructing the committee on post offices
end post roads to inquire whether the present
rates of ocean postage are not eXhorbitant, and
as to the eXpediency of reducing them.
Mr.. POWELL offered resolution authoriz-
ing the president and directors of the Portland
Canal Company to construct canal between
the present terminus of said canal and GER
tain point on the Ohio riy er. Referred
Mr.. HALE presented petition in favor of
the homestead bill.
Mr.. GREEN presented the memorial of the
Chamber of Commerce of st. Louis praying
for the establishment of branch mint in St
Louis.
Mr. YULEE offered a resolution instructing
the committee on post offices to inquire into
the practicabiiity of providing a system for
the transmission of money and valuables with
greater security and further to inquire how
far post office money orders can be safely graft
ed on our postal system. Adopted
Mr.. SEBASTIAN introduced bill for the re-
lief of the American Board of Commissioners
of Foreign Missions. Referred.
Mr.. Bigler introduced a bill for the suppress
sion of invasion of the state or territory by or
from another, the fitting out OF military eXpe-
ditions or enterprises against another, and, for
the punishment of such offences. Referred to
a select committee.
Mr.. Clingman discussed Mr. Pugh's resolu-
tons. He referred to the remark of General
Cass in 1856, in reply to an inquiry about his
health He (Cass) said: 81 am very well but
depressed in spirits. L used to think the
Union could never be dissolved, but now l
have painful apprehensions to the contrary.
They say Kansas creates this excitement, but
a hundred Kansas bills could never have pro-
duced it. These people mean to hberate your
slaves, you may not think they are fanatics,
but the misfortune is they are ignorant tana-
tics, you will gain nothing by making conces-
sions, you cannot help us but destroy your
selves. But if you are firm you may protect
yourselves. Mr.. Clingman then went on to
Aghow that the abolition feeling had so spread
that it controlled nearly all the secular and
religious press of the north. He said the old
Wing party had been demoralized especially
by such men as the Senator from New York,
fMr Seward.) Now there was party at the
north whose only principle was hostility to
the SOUTH this party passed bills to evade
United States laws
They hire men to run off the slaves of the
south by the underground railroad, and send
members to the other part ofthe capitol to make
speeches hostile to the south. The American
people would decide, if the question was fairly
put, that Omppotence had made difference in
the negro and white man, and we must take
4be fa,t ia Hp a pim a q
negro is inferior to the white man, and is bene-
fitted by slavery. There were two ways to
remedy the present trade one is to make the
north see its wrongs, or else, for the south to
be independent Two things had made the
south dsunionists one was the small vote
Mr.. Fillmore had received, and the other was
the manner in which the raid of John Brown
was received at the north. The south had no
fear of rising of tho negroes than she had
of rising of horses. He declared that the
election of a Black Republican President
would furnish sufficient cause for dissolution
of the Union. He thought that would be
sufficient overt act 1t could hardly be ex-
pected that the south would wait until she was
completely In the power of her enemies
A Black Republican President could draw
away all the arms from the slave states.
and take such other measures as would
leave the south open to hundred
John Brown invasons. If the south submitted
to the election of a Black Republican Pres.
dent, she would be in the same condition as an
army who surrenders at discretion, entitled
only to such terms as the victor might choose
to grant. He referred to the value of the
Union as exercising powerful effect in slim
ulating liberals of Europe to contend against
monarchical and arist0cratic institutions. In
the course of his remarks, he said that south
ern men would rnot recede from the capitol.
This was the last place they would ever give