The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-01-26
THIRTY.SIXTH CONGRESS---SECOND SESSION
SENATE

THIkVl-NIAIH UUNuhESS---SEOUND DENNlUN .
SENATE
WASHINGTON, Jan 25.-The CHAIR laid before the
Senate communication from the Secretary of
War in relation to Fort Abercombie. Laid on the
table and ordered to be printed. IA large number
of memorials in relation to the present crisis
presented by Messrs. Biger, Anthony, Polk and
others.-On motion of Mr.. SLIDELL, it was agreed
that when the Senate adj ourn to-day it be to meet
on Monday next.-The Senate then, at l.. 80,
took up the special order, being the consideration
of bills upon the private calendar.-A bill for the
relief of Robt. Stockton was passed.-Several
considered when the Senate, finding itself without
quorum, at an early hour adjourned till Monday. |
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
The House met at u NJ Prayer by Rev. DR.. |
Butler.--The SPEAKER laid before the House |
a communication from the Secretary of the Navy |
transmitting a report from the Superintendent OF |
Ordnance in the Washington Navy Yard, with re-
ference to rfed cannon and other munitions of
war: Also communication from the Secretary
of War, transmitting the report Of Lieut. John
Muan.--Mr. CRAIG, of Missouri from the Com
mittee on Post Offices and Post Roads, reported
bill for the relief of Major Arnold Harris and
Samuel /. Butterworth, in connection WIN thelr
suretvship for W. d. Kendall, formerly Postmaster
at New Orleans--Mr PALMER called for |
the report of the Committee, from which |
i. was reported, and also the report of the |
Judiciary Committee, who formerly had it under |
consideration. --Aiter the reading of the report
Mr. COLFAX said that he differed with the gentle
men who claimants in this bill in politics, but
he had not in its consideration looked at any thing
except the tavOrers of the claim. For when the
Pos master for whom these gentlemen were sure
ties was accused of robbinG the mail, upon which
criminal charge he was, however, acquitted) and
afterwards of defalcati0n, the securities came up
and paid up all that the Government claimed
Sl0,5l3, and afterwards again new claim Of
$4,000, which they pretended to base upon the
fact that the clerk who made out the first claim
was Incorporate and had made error. This
was after Mr.. Kendall had left, and it was sup
posed that all was settled.-Mr. PALMER
said that he demanded the yeas and nays on
the passage of the bill, that he might see who re-
corded their votes in favor Of such unfair claim
as this.-Mr. CRAIG said it was fair claim,
had been introduced regularly, and should be
granted.-The morning hour having expir ed, the
SPEAKER called up the regular order, and Mr..
Nelson, of Tennessee, took the flo or upon the
port of the Committee of Thirty three.-Mr.
NELSON said he rose in the consciousness that he
engaged in the greatest cause that ever fell to
the lot of mortal man, that of pleading for the life
of his country. God grant that in pleading
cause so sacred this, which related to the great
disturbances which now agitated our country, he
might be able to do his duty, and not be
con sidered as furthering the cause of the
Republican party on the one side, or the of
the Secession party of the South "a change had
come DER the spirit of dreams" within the
past few months or year. Thousands of laboring
men had been thrown out of employment; the tocsin
of war and the clash of sounding in our
ears: we have witnessed these things come
to saveit? Shall we fold our hands and sit still, or
rather shall we not stand up like and rally
round the flag of our common country? Week af-
ter week. and day after day, the representatives of
the people rise here and discuss these great subjects
which involve such great interests, and are
acting with the greatest Indifference this ter
rible drama What spirit is it that broods
over us?-He went on to note in detail the griev-
of which the South complained, and said
that they had just cause to do so. He then
called upon the North to make or do something Of
justice in the way of Cancellation. He would ask
the North to give them the Missouri Compromise
line.-Mr. STRATTON asked if the gentleman
would say that the South would accept it, if they
would give them the old Missouri Compromise
Gne?-Mr. NELSON said they would accept it in
accordance with the present advanced state of the
country. He said the North had no right to inter-
fere with slavery. He thought that the Crittenden
propositions were the very on which to base
plan to save the country, and he glad that the
good old man had thus been able at this period, so
near the close OF his mortal life, to offer PROPOSE
tions of ach concihatory character. And when
he was gathered to an honored grave by a mourn
Henry Clay, they would shake hands in Joy
over the returned hopes of their country in that
happy land. Loud applause in the galleries and
on the floor. lille said that the gentleman from
Massachusetts,, Mr.. Adams, had, although he came
from the very biterest portion of the Northern
part of the Conederacy, offered proposition in
the Committee of Thrty-three granting more
than the Constitution guarantees The pronosition
provides that slavery shall not be interfered with
in the States without the consent of all the States,
and that the proposition must moreover come first
from slave State. The Constitution allows that
two-thirds vote may amend the Constitution
in any respect. He said that the North had been
wronged by Misrepresentation, and quoted from
Southern publications to show the fact. Judge
the party by the Republican Chicago PLATFORM
He did not call this up in order to uphold the Re
publican party, but let justice be done though the
heavens fall.--Mr. BURNETT and Mr.. FOUKE
both read resolutions which introduced last
perty in man.-Mr. MCKNIGHT said the gentle
men would recollect that there was at the same
time or shortly after presented resolutions instruct
ing the Committee on the Judiciary to inquire into
the expediency of emancipating the manufacturers
of boots and shoes in New England from the tyran-
ny of the capitalists of the North.-Mr. NELSON
said that the Governor of South Carolina said in
his message that the South must come into the
be coerced by either the North Hb0u or f he
secession party of the South. The men who had
been represented at the battles of Eutaw Kings
Mountain Yorktown, and the battles of Mexico,
would never be forced into anything. And they
would resist to and to the death, movement
which would cause ruin to come, not on the polti-
clan, but on the laboring men of the country--
Mr. LEAKE, OF Virginia, obtained the floor He
declared that the election of Lincoln was cause for
secession. Not precisely the election ITSELF but the
evidence which it gave of the fact that that
exists. These great pillows of evil had risen up
and rolled on until they had overtopped
our beacon-light, and hidden our lighthouse, and
when the good ship of State had been broken
to pieces, and the SCATTERING fragments float
ing on the great ocean of popular tumut, they of
the South were called upon, and it was even de-
msnded of them, that they should come and help to
put the ship together again. He had no idea of a
reconstruction. The gentleman from Virginia, his
colleague, (Mr. Clemens had quoted from the
Farewell Address of Washington. Did not the gen.
teman very well know that in that very address
he warned bis cOuntrymen against the evils of
cfr ifoo ,fn Al
ernor of Iowa had both refused to deliver up
fugitives from justice and criminals upon requi.
siton. In the former case the proper aflidavits
were affixed. and the requsition fully and strictly
legal. In the latter case the Governor of Iowa
refused to give up a criminal on the pretext that
the affidavit was only made before notary public,
and more than that, he had given notice to the
criminal OF THAT fact before the so-calIed mistake
could be rectiGed In the North they had not only
sactitied crime, but they had made it high crime
and misdemeanOr to obey the highest law in the
land. Virginia would most certainly go out before
the 4th Of March next, and when the Republicans
did meet on that day it would not be to inaugurate
President, but to install miserable King over
their petty provinces, instead of binding their
brows with the glorious wreath of reconciliation.
Ii they refused it, ard determined to hold the
Union together by force of arms in Gods name
he would bid them welcome to it.--Mr.
POTTLE, of New York, addressed the House.
He was willing to concede all that he could con-
slstenty with the Chicago platform, and if the
South would not accept that he washed his hands
of the whole matter. If the South would stand to
law, well and good; ii not, he was for coercion-
Mr.. GROW, OF Pennsylvania, introduced a resolu-
ton instructing the Committee of Five to inquire
whether or not any organization exists in the Dis.
trict Of Columbia whose intentions were to seize
on the federal property. -Objec tedfto in conse-
quence of no quorum being present, and at 4 =
O'Clock the House adjourned.
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