Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1861-01-01
|rty-sizth Congress Second sessi
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Il b!es are crowded. and crowds ar
doors and ladies' lobby. On motion
s. CRITTENDEN, a portion OF the CALLER,
feserved tor foreign ministers and thei
zes.
MIR. POWELL reported from the special com
hittee that they we not able to agree mar
#any general plan of adjustment, and asked
that the journal of the committee be printed
Mr.. DOUGLAS said he wished to speak on the
u SUBJECT, and 1t was postponed till Wednesday
MT. CRIrTENDEN asked the senate to set some
day tor the consideration Of joint resolution
offered by him, and it was made the special
order for Wednesday.
Mr. WILSON offered a resolution that the
secretary OF war be requested to inform the
senate Whit disposition was made of the arms
manufactured at the national arsenals OBJ
jected to and laid over.
Ehe Arizona bill was taken up. Mr. TRIM.
BULL favored an amendment allowing the
Mexican law to be enforced Mr.. GREENE
favored the people deciding whether it should
be free or slave territory. The special order
the Kansas bill, was taken up and postponed
till Monday
Mr.. BENJAMIN addressed the senate on
secession. Alter referring to a speech he
made i'll 1885, predicting that a time would
arrive when the south would resort to the
sword, and saying his prediction had proved
true, he said it almost seemed as if the other
side OF the chamber desired to bring about a
civil war. He said South Carolina had sepa.
rated from the Union. Other states stand
ready to support her, and next week Missis.
spp, Alabama, and Florida will follow. The
week after next Georgia will follow, to be
followed by Louisiana and Arkansas Now
then shall we recognize South Carolina as a
tree state, or shall We coerce her by force
4 He argued that a state had an inherent right
to declare itself free. The compact was not
binding on one party unless the other lived
up to 1t, and the compact broken by one could
be broken by all. He claimed as a precedent
the seeding from the Old confederation of all
the sta.eS but Rhode Island and North Caro-.
lima He asked who should judge if a com.
pact was broken, and argued that congress had
Z no right to negative the action of the states.
4 Mr. Benjamin said a sectional president
s had been elected who, with the aid of a
sectional senate, will grant all the benefits to
and appoint al the officers from one section,
and thus ruin the south. He argued that we
could not collect the revenue by force. Such
threats are only preteXt to cover up the real
question, which was, whether to acknowledge
the independence of the seeding state or re.
duce her to subjetion by war. He closed with
an appeal to the republican senators, and
said they claimed a right under the constitu
ton to deny the right of the south to slave
property, and to encourage the robbery of that
property, and besought them to let tile parting
be in peace; but If they could peryert the con
sttution and undertake to subjugate the south,
then, appealing to the supreme Judge, they
would meet the issue as best becomes treemen
He could not foretell the issue of this horrible
contest. The fortunes of war might be adj
verse to the south; cities might be in flames -;
land the horrors of insurrection might be added |
to civil war; but they could never subjugate
hem, never convert the free sons OF the soil to
assals, never degrade them 10 a servie nfe-
y br race, never, never, never Applause
throughout the galleries, shouts, cries, hurrahs
waving Of handkercliefs, and great contu
sion.
Mr.. MASON moved that the galleries be in
standby cleared seconded by a number of
voices, amid whistling and Kisses in the gale. |
ries
President BRIGHT in the chair, ordered the |
sergeant-atarms to clear the galleries (Hisses) |
Mr.. YULEE moved to adjourn.
Mr.. MASON hoped not until the dignity OF |
the senate had been asserted.
The sergeant al arms cleared tile galleries.
MIR. Mason said he did not mean to clear the
ladies' gallery.
Mr.. BAKER got the floor, but yielded to
soa to adjourn. Adjourned to Wednesday.
- HOUSE.
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