Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1861-02-18
IHIRTY-SIx CONGRESS- SESSION.


WASHINGTON, Feb. H. 1861.
SENATE
Mr.. Wade presen ed petitions Of citizens Of Philadel
phia in favor of the Union, Constitution, and the en-
iorceuent Of the laws.
Mr.. Thompson re snted petitions of citizens o
New Jersey in favor Of the pas age Of the border State
resolutions He asked to G excused from iuther 81
vice tie committee on naval aittrs-agreed 10.
priva BILL for the relief of Geo. II. GdCings 70
mail SCI vices, debated at some length, and final.
passed by yeas ~, nays l9.
On on of kr. Green, the bills for organizing thu
TIE ro,e Of Nevcdl and Dacot IN made the speca
order for to-mCrrow, at IL o'clock.
Mr. Trumbul presented petition from citizens o.
Chicago in opposition to compromise. and in favor @
he laws and the protection OF public property.
The tariff bill then taken up, and sundry an end
ents reported by the Senate committee were concur
red in
The Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
Mr. Conway PRESENTED memorial from the citizens Of
Kansas praying for the relief of the citizens thereof sui
ieiing from famine in the State. Referred TO the com
mittee on claims.
The House went into committee Of the whole and took
10 the postal route BILL aud after he addition OF sundry
amendments the bill was reported to the House, and MI
mendment pisso directing the Postmaster General tC
examine into aud restore, if Lot incompatible with the
public at,ret the discontinued service certain post
routes but that he should be guided in said action 10y
the exigencies OF the case.
The bill was then passed.
Mr. Yandeyer of Iowa, then addressed the House on
the special order the present crisis He said that this
the first time that the people had been called upon
incorporate guarantees in the Constitution The peo
pie OF his State went for sustaining the Constitution as
our fathers made it, Whatever might be the dictates OF
lis Judgment, he would regard such amendment
to be conceded under duress 1t said that unless
their demands acceded 10, the incoming Admins.
taton would be crippled and those who held the purse
strings would withhold the means of goyernm mt. With
regard ths he said they wond not be ntimdaed by
threats restrained by fear Of consequences. These
guarantees had been submitted to and repudaed by the
people.
The revolutionary cabal appealed TO the Democratic
Convention held Charleston, and demanded these
guarantees and they were positively denied by Demo-
cratic Convention and 10y the voters Of their
section Out of four millions Of the the last
ec c.ion oneffth part in favor OF
sti,utional guaranee And this the issue gain sub
mted to the people through their representatives the
hJor Of this House.
Mr. Clark of Missouri said that all the South wanted
constitutional protection for slayery in the Terri
tories
Mr. Vandever said that question the turning point
The minority having succeeded in breaking up the Unor
and in awakening in the heart hatred Northern peop
and hostility the government unless ind ed the
OF Abe Lincoln be sirck off the roll and that OF John
Breckenridge established in its place President of the
United S'ates.
II the Union could be preserved in any other way
he would never for the proposition. Ii he could
preserve the rational flag in its purity he would never
have il polluted by the yis reptile OF secession The Crit
tenden propositions specifically recognized and protected
slavery in the territories OF the United States sOnth OF the
line of 30 deg 30 min and he would not under any cir
cumstanees, vote for support 10 any manner such a
proposition.
Mr. De Jarnette obtained the floor He had. he said,
reviewed the history OF the country; he had looked with
care and socitude upon the present crisis OF Affairs
and in so doing he had looked North, South
When this great American Union in IFS giant strength
stepped from the Mississippi river to the Pacific ocean,
the whole globe quaksd for her equilibrium was dis-
turbed and the of Europe with CONSERVATION
that another satellite had arisen, around which they must
now and hereafter revove and it greved him to this
great star growing dim. There had been aggiesions
on the part of the North and they had not yet been
dressed.
He wished t to be distir Is understood that there
we're no submissonists in Virginia If her rights were
led aud her reasonable demands scceded to- she
would still remain to I'll the breach in the Union; but II
o. every sword would leap from its scabbard and defy
a world in arms. He argued ia favor OF SOU hern over
northern society. In republic, he said will have
no element Of Dis ;ord Capital and labor will work in
beautiful harmony. African slavery is the only basis
which republican liberty be established. He attrbu
ted all the present trouble 10 the republican party.
IL the South wa, allowed to go peaccaby, she would
leave the Union quietly Ii not she would stand in M
scous innocence and defend her rights. The State of
Virginia would quietly part from the State of Pennsyl
v. ia because under the present system she did net
like the company 10 reference TO the determined OPP
position of the Northern people against slavery, he
would say that for every slaveowrer in the South who
beat and abused his slaves white matreated and
murdered their wives.
He knew that other countries looking on now
with eager expectancy, awaiting our downfall because
we were their rivals in trade and commerce and pros
pory.
Mr.. Webster, Of Md. obtained the floor, and mo-
ton of Mr. Clark, of Mo-, the House adjourned.