Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1861-01-18

Bili 10 enable the Superintendent Of Public
Printing 70 carry out the provisions Of the
resolution creating Bureau Of Public
Printing. Agreed 70 81 10 8. MIR. GWin Of
fsred an amendment 10 the Deficiency Bill
10 pay Commodore Vanderbilt $4,000
dollars per snnum for carrying the malls
via New, York and Panama 70 san Francis
co.
Mr. Latham moved TO strike out Com
modore Vanderbilfs name, Agreed 70
Mr. Hale moved to amend so that II
should read from the lst Of July 1850 to
the Let OF July 1861. Agreed TO.
Mr.. johnson, Of Arkansas, from the Com
mittee on Public Lands, reported an amend
ment appropriating S5I dollare for the
Kickapoo land office, Kansas. Agreed to.
The bill was then passed.
At half past one the Pacific Bank bill
was taken up.
Mr. Lane said the principal object Was to
get branch to Portland
Mr.. Benjamin said il the United States
pays for building that portion which
would benefit California, other States have
8 right 70 similar demands.
Mr. Given said the building Of q Pacific
Railroad has been pressed upon the Senate
as q means Of military defense to the
country.
Mr.. Lane said this Government has no
power to build road through State,
Mr.. GreeR--I will vote for great main
trunk line. regard it not only cOnyen-
lent but indispensable.
Mr.. Latham-The Southern route will
cost just Sl5,0OOOOO
Mr.. Green-The Government never paid
3 quarter Of dollar advance for the pay
ment Of the mail, but for having the Navy
at command at q moments notice
Mr.. Douglas-The bill is not measure
to make road; il is a contract for trans
portation, not for construction.
On motion Of Mr.. Bigler, the Senate went
into Executive session.
HOUSE.
Mr.. Thomas, Of Tenn, said if coercion is
attempted, every Southern State will make
cause as 8 band Of brothers.
Mr.. Sickles said it was now too late to dis
cuss the right Of secession. It must be
looked upon as a fixed fact. We should by
all means avail the employment of coercion,
but like purpose and q like spirit should
animate our Southern friends. It will never
do for them to protest against coercion while
at the same time they seize the arsenals,
forts, navy yards and ships which come
within their reach. When the Southern
States themselves employ force, they cannot
cry peace and complain of coercion. Alter
showing that secession ordinances could not
deprive the governmel Of ceded jurisdic-
ton and property in the forts, &e., which
are the common defence, he said the danger
lies in collision. The act of secession from
the beginning TO the end was as perfect as
human agency could make it. No interfer-
ference was attempted by the executive or
legislature Of this Government, therefore, in
no sense has coercion been employed, but
the acts Of the West were acts of hagraht,
which, if it had been attempted by any
foreign power, would have raised ever man
in the nation TO resistance. At the close of
his remarks, Mr.. Sickles said whatever may
be the issue Of events, whether happily by
Cancellation, Justice to the South, we may
find an honorable and fraternal solution Of
our difficulties, or whether unhappily we
blindly drift into alienation war and irreVo-
cable separate the great commercial inter
ests Of this country.
The destiny Of American civilization de-
mands that the political and territorial con-
troll Of this continent, from the mouth of
the Hudson to the mouth of the Mississippi,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, shall remain
where it now exists-in the hands of the
Government Of the United States. In all
the partisan issues between the South and
The Republican party, the people Of New
York city are with the South but when the
South makes an untenable issue with our
country; when the hsg Of the Union is in
suited when the fortified places provided
for the common defense are assaulted and
seized when the South abandons its North
ern allies for English and French co-opeFs-
tion--then the loyal and patriotic popula-
tion Of that Imperial City are unit for the
Union.
Mr. Ashley, Of Ohio, maintained that
there were no causes for dissolution Of the
Union and overthrow Of the GoAernment.
To meet the secession movement, he would
abolish all the ports Of entry where the laws
are now obstructed, proclaim blockade in
the rsbellious States, and let Southern men /
take the consequences of their own rebel
liOus acts.
Mr. Edwards, Of Maine, said when it
should be tried to cut of New England from
the rest of the Confederacy, it would be
found she could live as well without the
South as the South could without her.
New England was always prompt to re-
pei fres from without and to meet traitors
at home. She was willing to make any
reasonable com promise which could not be
construed into an Abandonment Of princi-
pie, but the Union must and shall be pre-
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