The national Republican., 1861-02-08

treasonable ends. This faction we're determin.
ed to rule or ruin. The secret Of their success
at the present time was because they had been
able to keep the public mind constantly ex.
cited. These demagogues had circulated msrep-
reservations Of the purposes OF the Northern
people, until feeling of fear, Of apprehension,
of dread, and of insecurity, had taken posses.
sion of the minds of the people of the South.
The mischief had been done, first, by backening
the characters of their political opponents at
the North, and then by imputing similar mo.
tives to their brethren Of the South. The man
! ner in which gentlemen on this floor had as
sisted in this vile act was also a chief cause of
1 these disturbances. 1t was in their power to
put a stop to this alarm at the South. IL they
would repeat the declarations of good feeling
made by Corwin, Adams and other prominent
| Republicans, that there was no intention to en-.
croach upon their rights, all would be WELL
He had little hope of that, however.
He repeated that the people of Maryland did
not recognise the right Of secession. While
the storm had ragged all around her, Maryland
had stood firm for the Union, and would con-
tihue so to stand.
He also advocated the adoption of the ma
jority report of the committee of thirty.three.
Gentler en- on this floor had asserted that this
report, did not satisfy them. He would say,
that though it might not satisfy them, it would
satisfy their constituents, and that they would
find out before long
Mr.. Sedgwick, Of New York, then proceeded
to address the House against the recommends.
tions of the committee, and against all compro.
mise, because the complaints were groundless,
and the remedies proposed equally puerile.
Nothing would satisfy the rebels but the incor.
poration in the Constitution of the Breckin-
ridge platform, with the Dred Scott decision
attached. A permanent union between free
and slave States was O failure. He would con.
sent for peaceable separation of the slave
States, and for a gradual emancipation in what.
ever slave States might remain with the free
States.
Mr.. vallandigham introduced amendments
to the Constitution, by dividing the United
States into four sections. On demand of one.
third of the Senators of any section, vote
upon anything requiring the concurrence of the
House is necessary, shall be had by sections !;
and a majority Of the Senators from each sec.
ton shall be necessary to the passage Of the
measure, &c.
A joint resolution was passed, authorizing
Lieutenant Craven, of the navy, to receive
medal and diploma from the Spanish Govern.
ment, for services rendered in behalf of ship.
wrecked seamen.
The House, at four, took recess till seven
o'clock.
NORTH ALABAMA.-The Nashville Democrat
publishes the following letter, written at Athens
Alabama, on the goth of January;
"The working men Of this town met in the
public square on Saturday night last, and fred
thirty three guns for the Union and that flag
that still waves at the court house, our enemies
at Montgomery and dsunionists everywhere
Notwithstanding They then paid visit to
General Houston, who had just returned from
the Athens (Ala.) district in the House. The
Nashriile Democrats correspondent says:
"The General received the Union men in
his usual happy style. He hoped that this glo.
rious Union may still be preserved by the
working Union men, and that they may still
work in the Union, and find plenty of brave
hearts and willing hands to help in every time
of need. On taking leave of the General he
was saluted with a volley of musketry, and
three cheers for the Union.
"On return to the headquarters, the follow
ing resolution was unanimously adopted:
Resolred, That we, the Union and working
men Of Athens, return our sincere thanks to
the Union and working men of South Nash
vile, for their kind and generous feeling to.
wards US of Athens and to all Union and work
ing men in every State in this glorious Repub.
lie, and especially to those of Tennessee, for to
her belongs the banner Of defence.
"We had all the town in the greatest ex-
citement, by the burning of the efigy of Yancey,
on Saturday night January 26.
Yours, respectfully. UNION"
The following items were brought by the
Anglo-Saxon:
An influential meeting had been held at
Manchester, to devise measures to relieve the
cotton trade from the anxiety resulting from
the dependence on the Southern States of
America. Resolutions were passed recon-
mending efforts commensurate with the i'm
pending danger, to prevent calamities, approx.
ing the steps taken for the formation of a cot.
ton company, and expressing the desire that
the company recently launched should COM
mence operations without delay.
Several American vessels have been regis.
tered at Liverpool, under the British flag, in
order to enable them to carry salt to South
Carolina, and return with cotton, without fear
of capture.
The Paris correspondent ofthe London Daily
NeUs says there is no doubt whatever that ex.
traordinary naval and military preparations are
being made by France. The excuse is the
menacing attitude of Germany toward Den.
mark, and the speeches of the King OF Prussia.
A MoNARCHY.-The Augusta (Ga.) Chron.
icle of January 26th has long editorial upon
the comparative merits Of monarchical and re.
publican Governments in America. 1t gives
a most fattering picture of the stability, pros.
perty, and success of constitutional monarchy
in Brazil and Canada, which it contrasts with
the miserable condition Of Mexico, Peru, Bue.
nos Ayres &C., and warns its readers to profit
by the lessons of experience. Our own Re.
publican Government, it says, has failed mid
way in its trial. and with it have nearly vanished
the hopes of those philanthropists who, believ.
ing in mans capacity for selfgovernment, be.
lieved, therefore, in spite of so many failures,