The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1861-01-29

CONGRESSIONAL.

Jan. 24th.-In the Senate, Mr. Crlttendens re-
solutions were again postponed.
In the House, the whole Georgia delegation
withdrew, except Mr. Hill, who resigned. Mr.
Etheridge of Tennessee made speech on the crisis
which highly gratifed the Republicans.
MIR Montgomery of Pennsylvania, and several
others, proposed to resign their seats, and that
new Congress be elected on the present issue.
Kansas has been admitted into the Union as a
State.
Mr. Colamer, of Vermont, in the Senate, intro
duced bill in relation to the collection Of the re-
venue in the seeding States. 1t provides that
whereas, in consequence of the legislation, ordin-
ances DEGREES of any States, 1t becomes, In the
opinion of the President impossible to collect the
revenue from the duties on imports to the said
States, by the ordinary officers and means, then
the President is empowered to discontinue such
ports of entry, and give due notice by proclama-
ton And when the cause or hindrance to the
collection of the revenue is removed, the Presl-
dent shall open said ports, and proclaim this fact
to the world.
Another section of the bill authorizes the Post
master General to discontinue post Offices and post
routes in the seeding States, when interered with
in any manner by the authorities of such States.
An informal canvass made by the Republicans
in the House and Senate shows two-thirds op-
posed to all compromise. Therefore, the Repub-
cans voted down MIR Crittenden's compromise re-
solutions.
MINORITY REPORT OF THE COMMIT
TEE OF THIRTY-THREE.
The minority report of the Committee of Thirty
Three of the House of Representatives, which is
signed by Messrs. Taylor of Louisiana, Phelps of
Missouri, Rust of Arkansas, Whitley of Delaware,
and Winslow of North Carolina, states, in sub
stance, that the changes which have taken place
in the situation and sentiments of the people of
the different States since the formation of the Con-
sttution have been produced by misconstructons
of some Of its propositions and willfu perversons
of others, and the introduction of new principles
in the forming Of parties which in direct
taeonism to the opinions Of the whole American
people when the Constitution went into effect, and
that that instrument has ceased to accomplish some
of the most important ends aimed at by it's adop-
ton. Differences between the Northern and
Southern sections of this Confederacy from this
cause, have at last risen to such he ght that they
have resulted in the formation of a sectional party
in the North, on the slavery question alone, which
will practically exclude the Southern people from
any voice in the management of national affairs in
which they have common interest with their
Northern brothers; and that as this fact, notwith
standing the republican forms of the Constitution
are preserved in truth, destroys the spirit Of Re-
publican1sm in the Government, it is, therefore,
impossible that the two sections should any longer
go together people, unless the existing
state of things is removed.
The report proceeds to say the present difficult
ties can only be remeded by amendments to the
Constitution, and it suggests the amendments pro-
posed in the Crittenden resolutions. If adopted
they would restore tranquility to the country and
place the Union on such foundation that it could
never again be shaken. These amendments would
| not in reality change the Constitution They
would only have the effect of restoring it by added
provisions to what it was in point of fact On the
day of its adoption, through the operation Of the
circumstances which then surrounded it, and
which erected barriers against the present Sec
tiona contest then, constitutional propositions
would now If constitutional majority cannot
be united in support of Mr. Crittenden's resolu-
tons, or the substance of them, then the dissou-
ton of the Union is inevitable.
The report recommends that steps be taken for
calling Convention of the States, with view to
a peaceable separation, by providing for division
of the common property of the United States,
settling the terms which social and commercial
intercourse between the separated States shall be
conducted and making permanent arrangement
in respect to the navigation of the Mississippi
river.
The report gives what the signers consider full
| account of the rise and progress of the slavery
agitation, which produced the existing difficulties