The constitutional union., 1861-01-25
THLRTE-SLYTH CONGRESS.
WASHINGTON, January 15.

WASHINGTON, January l5. HoUsE-Among other preliminary busi- ness, Mir. Harris, of Maryland presented a memorial, signed by twelve thousand citizens of Baltimore, irrespective, of party, praying for the adoption of the Crittenden compro- mise, He said if there was desire to tran quilize the public mind, it could not be done more etectually than by the adoption of that measure.
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 The House went into committee on the whole on the army bill. Mir. Reagan of Texas, said he came hither with the hope that such measures might be brought forward by those who have the power to control the question, as would assure the South of future security
 The Republicans hold sullenly back, and determine that they have no terms of peace to offer
 Mir. Stanton vindicated the Methodists from the charge of Mir. Reagan that they stirred up insurrections at the South.
 Mir. Reagan explained that he did not mean to be understood that insurrections were inaugurated by that sect as body, but by members of 1t in Texas.
 Mr, Stanton defended the Republican par ! ty. He informed the gentleman from Texas that the principles on which the Government was founded cannot be surrendered under any threat of civil war The Republican party has no principle or policy not sanctioned by the Republics fathers. From this point they could not be driven. He said he knew no Republican who looks to that organization as l tn int T ,J the remotest degree with slavery in the States.
 During the course of his remarks, Mr. Crawford, of Georgia said that Georgia had seized the forts in that State because they were intended for her protection and defense, and takes all the responsibility.
 MT. Stanton said that Georgia takes on herself the inauguration of civil war; and makes no pretense of constitutional justifca- tion of the act.
 Mr. Hill disclaimed on the part of Georgia as a State. It was done by soldiers without authority
 Mir. Love, of Georgia, thought the position of both his colleagues was wrong.
 The forts were seized as defensive act, there being a probability that the Govern ment wonld send garrisons to them. If the convention of Georgia determines not to se- ccde, the forts will be surrendered
 Mir. Hardman said if Georgia should secede he was determined to sustain the governor ill his act for veal or woe.
 MT. Stanton was willing for an amendment to the Constitution to prevent the Federal Government from ever interfering with slave byT vote of the States. He was also willing to remove the agitation of the territorial question by admitting New Mexico as a State.
 Mir. Adrian, in the course of his remarks, said if the Union was to be dissolved 1t would not be without an effort, by all patriotic men, to prevent it by all constitutional measures. The conservative men of the North will de- tend 1t to the last He urged it was tle duty oi every one to allay not excite the feeling, and not add fuel to the fire now intensely burning. Mr. Lincoln, he said, was con servative man, from whom the South had nothing to fear. He concluded with patri- otic appeal for concession and compromise The doctrine of peaceful secession was utterly talacious.
 Mir. Anderson, of Missouri, favored meet ing of the border States, and that the Gulf States participate There should have been concert and Union between all the slave States. He appealed to northern men to yield amendments to the Constitution, so as to prevent anarcey and bloodshed and to re- store peace.
 Mir. Garnet got the floor, and the House adjourned