The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-30
NEWS BY TELEGRAPH.
BY THE E. ; W. LINE.
Exclusively for the Journal.
CONGRESSIONAL.

sidered the Senate amendments to the post
route bill without action, the morning hour
having expired The special order was re-
sumed, being the report OF the committee
of 50.
Mr.. Stevens of Pennsylvania regretted
that he was compelled to believe that no
compromise could now be made, when six
states are in open and declared rebellion,
having seized the public forts and arsenals,
and robbed the people of millions of public
property; when he saw our harbOrS block
| AIDED and armies in array against the flag OF
our country, which has been insulted. He
| had no hope that concession, humiliation or
compromise would have any good effect.
| Rather than give concession to rebels, he
| would see the Government shattered into
/ ten thousand fragments.
| Mr.. Harris of Md. spoke of the glOries of
| the country and said the disasters now
| pending spring from the empty rivalries of
/ political parties an inability of boosted
| statesmen to solve the problem of the state
! of the territories. The verdict of impartial
| history will be that there is no reason for
| secession and none for a dissolution of the
! Union He believed that the responsibility
| of national safety rests on the present rep
resen tatives of the people now assembled in
| Congress. The question now is on whom
rest, and that will fall on the party or set of
men who win not spurn mere party tram
| mels and come up to the question how a
/ great nation can be saved. Too much of the
/ present mischief came from the section to
| which he belonged, springing from the am
| bilious desires of politicians at the South
! who want greater eminence than they
can demand under our present system. He
4 repeated that secession is the unhOly Off
/ spring of Southern political ambition and
/ far too much of the aggravatlOn which rous-
/ ed the resistance of the North
! He appealed to the North if there was
| not too much aggravatiOn on their part and
| by their representatives which administered
! to a Southern spirit which was ever
! ready to seize with avidity what would feed
! their appetites Both sections are response
/ bic for the secession of six Southern states.
I Secession met with no sympathy from
| Maryland.
Mr. Hughes denied that Mr.. Harris spoke
| for the part of Maryland he represented.
Mr.. Harris-Not more than a corporars
/ guardian Nd. favor secession. He denied
! the right of secession. He urged his
! northern friends to do something at once
/ for pacifcation. There is a smoulder;ng
! fire under Nd. which might break out and
sweep her into disunion. Let them rise
| above prejudice and party and cement the IN,
! ion more firmly than ever. Let Us have less
| eloquence in speeches and more pertinent
| eloquence in votes. Give US the Crittenden or
/ a similar proposition. He closed as follows
| Let me not, instead of our national music,
| hear the Marseilles which is not music to my
| ears, fout not before my eyes the flag of
| divided nationality exciting no devotion in
my American heart, but let me and my
| people go to our graves with our conse-
Grated melodies ringing in our ears and
over US let the flag of our Union hout with
all the consolidated stars. Applause.
! Mr.. Winslow spoke of Northern aggres-
sion. High sounding words he said
would not save the Union, nor could the
piece of bunting with the stripes and stars.
He spoke il favor of the Crittenden resolu-
tions, with nothing less than which the
South could not be satisfied. By this the
Union could be held together. 1t could
be done only by mutual justice and affec-
ton.
Mr.. Van Wyck of New York spoke at
length. Among other things he said you
ask us to compromise what have we to
concede? We have done you no wrong
and propose none. You have proposed no
compromise which does not involve
surrender on our part. You want the
| constitution amended.
How would that avail you if your present
position is correct; if one state however in
significant can destroy the whole fabric
You have violated the Constitution and set
| the laws at defiance and are demanding
Constitutional guarantees that we will do
| neither. Do you propose any concession to
| the North Any security to the liberty
and life of northern men in the southern
Of Al, f,oo
dom of speech and the press as alrea dy Sc
cured by the Constitution. You say you
concede to freedom territory north of 36S
| 30. We have q double title to that already:
| first by purchase and then by conquest
| We bought it when we took Missouri into
| the Union as slave state and then we con-
quered it in the strife of civil war. AL our
| future acquisition must be in the direction
of the tropics and you demand it's uncon-
ditional surrender to slavery. You want
! us to surrender to men who themselves are
| compromise breakers.
Believe not in reconstruction Of the pres
ent constitution. Once lost you never can
| regain. Think you that another Senate
can reform wherein Florida and Delaware
can equal New York and Pennsylvania
| You are opposed to the army and navy be-
| cause you boldly assert that an enforce
1
| States, but you are willing to send troops
| 1000 miles to coerce our brethren in Utah.
You sent the army into Kansas. You have
used the federal troops to enforce the fugi-
tive slave law and to rescue the arsenal at
Harper's Ferry from John Brown. The
camp had no terrors for you then. But
now you oppose coercion, yet by force of
armed men you have seized the forts and
navy yards and trampled the stars and
stripes in the dust. We do not mean to be
driven from the Union by force. Do you
desire peaceable secession? A conven-
ton of all the states would possibly allow
you to depart in peace.
House adjourned.
SENATE.-Private bills were considered
till l o'clock, when the Pacific Railroad bill
was taken up
Mr.. Chandler moved to amend so as to