The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-01-08
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CONGREssIONAL,

and read.
Mr.. Ten Eyck presented petition OF the
citizens of N j. requesting Congress to pass
an act to authorize the people to elect dele
CRATES on the 22d of February to a conven-
ton to be held at Philadelphia on the 4th OF
March to consider the welfare of the nation.
Referred.
Mr.. Crittenden presented 81 memorials
asking that the Crittenden resolutions be
submitted to the people of the country.
The Pacific Railroad bin was made the
special order at o'clock on Tuesday. Mr..
Crittenden moved to take up the resolutions
offered by him few days since.
The bill for the admission of Kansas was
made the special order for Monday next.
Mr.. Crittenden spoke in favor of the pass
age Of the resolution to submit the question
of the resolutions to the people. 1t seemed
to him necessary, in the distracted state OF
the public councils it would be better to sub
NIT the question to the people, and he saw
nothing improper in it. 1t does not conflict
in any way with the Constitution. He re-
ferred to the proposed amendments to the
Constitution and argued in favor of their
adoption. He contended that the establish
ment of a line dividing territories was not
80 much a compromise as fair adjustment
of rights.
He asked if statesmen and Senators had
rather encounter civil war, with all its hor-
rors, than make fair compromise and rec
ogniZe the existence of slavery in terrific
~ till it becomes a State. Was it party
dogma that no slave State shall be admitted
into the Union And will Senators sacrifice
the country for mere party dogma?
The territory was acquired as the COM
mon property of all, and now few attempt
to exclude portion from their just rights
because they have conscientious scruples on
the subject. Would Senators sacrifice their
country rather than their scruples? But as
a matter of right--have Senators right to
exclude any property? He was now to con-
slider the sacrifice of the country, and YVES
here as an advocate for the Union, contend
ing for what he thought would save the
country. This triumph fills some portions
of the Southern States with alarm. Will
the party now in the proud triumph of vic
tory plant itself on platforms and dogmas
and not yield an inch, or will they, like
generous men, be not only just but liberal.
He appealed TO them as patriots and coun-
trymen to grant equal rights to all. He
did not think he was asking them to make
concessions but only to grant equal rights.
He did not believe in the right of secession.
1t was a new doctrine.
An attempt to secede with the bold front
of revolution is nothing but law less VIOLA
ton of the law and the Constitution. But
he only wanted to bear his testimony to the
Constitution and to let it be known that the
Constitution can't be broken. If States
wish to secede let them proclaim revolution
boldly and not attempt to hide themselves
under little subtleties of law, and claim the
right of secession. A constitutional right to
break the Constitution was q new doctrine.
He argued that Mr.. Webster always went
against any right of secession. On one
side was an asked concession, and on the
other civil war.
Mr.. TrumbulI asked if the Senator did not
know that one State claimed to be out Of the
Union already. How would concession set
tie the case.
Mr.. Crittendeu contended that the adop-
ton of the compromise would put an end to
all revolution.
Mr. Toombs said the Republicans had
long been sowing the dragons teeth, and
they now reaped crop of armed men. The
Union was already dissolved. South Caro-
lima had nobly and boldly met the public
danger The cause Of SOUTH Carolina was
the cause of the South. They had appealed
to the fraternity and justice of the north in
vain, and now they were voting what was
called revolution, and were ready to appeal
if need be to the stern arbitration of the
sword, and the ground would echo with the
tramp of armed men from the Capitol to the
Rio Grande. The South had proclaimed to
the civilized world that they had taken up
arms because a power had been elevated to
federal power which outlawed their pro-
perty and stimulated insurrection, within
and without. The Senator from KY. Doubt
ed the right of secession. Ere long he will
see it thing accomplished.
They take it up both ways at the South,
regular as in South Carolina, and irregular
below that State, and they were armed to
defend both. AS the Republicans deemed
treason, there stood before them as good a
traitor and as good a rebel as ever descend
ed from revolutionary loins Slight APP
plause). He received the demands of the
South and contended that such demands
were only for an equality in the Union
Unless a government give protection it
could not expect obedience. This was a
reason for the armed men that now spring
up everywhere. The Senators from Ohio
and New York had sworn to observe the
Constitution, but no oaths could bind them.
They had higher law. They take oaths
and break them. A professional periurer
bought for Is shillings by an Old Bailey
lawyer would scarcely be less pregnant
He quoted the personal liberty bill
of the State of Vermont an illustration
of the acts passed in perjury, and continued
his detail of revances. He cited the tacit
encouragement to invNsions of the Slave
States by the declarations of the Republi-
can leaders. He denied that blood had been
shed to establish the Constitution. Not one
drop. Many of the revolutionary patriots
had voted against it. 1t was adopted in
Virginia by % majority in New York by
majority, and in Massachusetts by l9 ma
jority.
The people of Georgia believed the Con-
stitution was the best form of Government
that could be desired. For himself he did
not share in the opinion. Had he been in
the Convention, he would have voted with
Henry and Mason against it, Every tribu-
nal of the government have decided in ia
vor of Southern demands yet they were not
yielded and now the only arbitrator was
the sword. He argued that the Chicago
platform had logically declared that the
treaty which had acquired Louisiana and
Florida as well as the decisions of the Su-