The national Republican., 1861-12-27
'TAIRTI-sEYERTH. CeNGREss, I,
SEOOND SESSION.
IN SENATE,
THURSDAY, Dec. 20, 1861.
MklloRiAIS.

~ \ ... ABHORlAIS .....
4 The following wrr pr, sented and +, fsrred
. BY hr. GRIMES Attire petitioLs spkiog for
ihe establishment Of iii weekly mail route
rom MGr-gor TO Strawberry Point III
From citizens Of Iowa for the estab lishment
Of an ormOry and foundry at Rock Island.
From cit zens Of Iowa for the appointment
OF hem opathic surgeons 10 the army.
By Mr.. UMNER: From citizens of Water.
town, Mass, for the emancipation Of slaves BY
hr wa power.
BY Mr.. r.TRUMBULL Several petitions pray
ing tor emancipation Of slaves by the war
power.
By M. HARLAN: From oitiseus Of Iowa
TOR e-lauilshiny an srmory and foundry at Rock
Island.
ADJOURNMENT ovRR
Ca motion of Mr.. HALE, voted that when
he Senate adjourn, It adjourn to Monday n-x
aud when 1t adjourn on Monlay, to Thursday
following. -
Our RELArt ,Ns WITH ENGLAND. -.
Mr.. HALE asked permission 10 submit ttr
present consideration the following
Resolped. That the President of the United
| States be requested III not incompatible with
| the public interes) to transmit to the Senate
copies of dispatches and instructions which
| have passed between this Government and the
Government pf Great Britain, or between this
Government or any Of It's ftnc cionaries, RELATIVE
| to the seizure OF Messrs. Mason and Slidel, on
| board the steamer Trent, to be transmitted
| either open or In executive session, rs he may
judge best.
| lie did not speak by authority, his relations
| vi the Administration not being confidential
through ao ault Of his own. He was always
confd ntial enough but had fears that u g
Administration have in consideration the Civ
ing up Of Mason and Slidell, for the sake Of
peace. A peace bought at such price was
infoiteiy worse than war His feeling In view
| Of such u contingency was, t3at Of o brother
SENATOR who said. this morning: Indiana has
so, 900 troops In the 6eldr-she will double ,hem
10 sixty daye-and sfe wants war rather ,han
a surrender. IL we have n war, It will not be
because We release Mason and Slidell. but be :
cause England has determined to fight us. IL
.he makes demand for their release, II is be.
cause she hopes to humble us frst and fight
US afterwards. II there mast be war, let 1t
come-let towns and Villages be burned, lei
armies be destroyed but let not our national
ito 10 desst from such an act of humiliation, Ia
b lieve that thousands would bare tkeir bresstt
TO the shock rather than submit to dishonoi
and degradation, and to know that such rub
mission would cause q fire In the rear that
would burn all before IL Ike hay aud stubble
If we must fight, we shall fight In cause thai
has sent one monaI ch to the block, and another
| to wander In exile over the earth.
II II ths nation is thts humiliated, II will bs
because 1t has fallen into the hands OF pettifog
gers. A war with E,glsnd cannot be carried 0,
,oiltout fighting. But 1t will be one that viii
command the sympathes of the whole civilized
world. If Louis Napoleon has one sentiment
one principle that predominates over all others
; it is desire that ne may have q fair field I,
fight the battle Of Waterloo over again Their,
ore thousands Of Irshmen 10 all quarters OF th,
world that are burning to retrieve the wrongs
Of ages. The slightest sagaclty among thos
who control the destiny Of England will tel
them that they epgags in the most doubtful
contest ever wagtd, and war against cause IL
which the God OF lterty will'in his own tim
aud day vindicate the right by his chos.h 10
strum ,pt.
Mr.s6MNER thought the Senator bad spokei
too swiftly. He was no5 aware that the Ad
ministration contempa ed such action. H.
would treat this question when 1t came up II
practical form. The Senator from New
Hampshire was treating It on a hypothesis o
his own. He believed it would be PEACEFUL,
and honorably adjusted that It was In saf
and patriotic hands.
ALIEN ENEMIES
Mr. GARRETT DAVIS gave notice that h
would INTRODUCES bill declaring alien enemie
, all persons who have gone into the service Q
tuo 81 Cblltu DuutucTu OObIcutrdCy anu III
persons giving aid and comfort to the Gonfed
n crate cause.
3 BILLS INfRobUcED
, Mr.. HARLAN asked leave to Introduce
! bill authorizing the President Of the Units
- States to esiablibh a provisional g, ,ternmen
in each OF the ten sec, ded States.
: Mr.. HOWE introduced bill to repeal th
o fugitive slave law. He believed that act ha
, done a. much mischief as any other, perhap
t all other injurious acts of Government, nor ha
= 1t done the least particle Of good. 1t was tn
I worst devised act he ever knew. Under II
4 provisions, 1t was perfectly easy for Vice Pres
dent Hamln to remove his nextdoor neiRhboI
be he white or black, bond or free, from hi
home in Hampden, Maine, to Texas, and n
!. man could refuse to assist In the removal.
d was so Insulting and degrading that there wa
} not man, scarcely a boy In a single schoo
district in the country, but would feel lik
heading his district and fighting the nation o.
the question Of submission 10 Its revolving re
quiremens.
$ The Senate adjourned.
a HOUSE OF REPRBSEN rATIvBS.
q The House met at the usual hour and afte
;. reading the Journal Of Monday, on motion {
Mr.. STEVENS, Of Pennsylvania, sajourns
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