Daily national Democrat., 1861-02-14
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SACRAMENTO CORRESPONDENCE.
SACRAMENTO, Feb. 70, 1861

SACRAMENTO, + cO. II, 1861.
EDIroR DEMOCRAT In the Senate to-day
no important business was transacted. Vance,
(Breck) of Butte, made a speech on the
Union resolutions.
The proceedings in the Assembly were
somewhat exciting. Wood of Plumas offer
ed resolutions upon the State of the Union
which were referred to the Committee on
Federal Relations. Percy whose vote yes
terday was given towards the defeat of the
resolution to go into joint convention on the
2Oth to-day offered new resolution to go
into convention on that day. 1t was tabled
by a vote of SO to SO. The event of the day
was the Offering Of a resolution by Harris OF
Butte endorsing the Crittenden propositions
for amending the Constitution, and endors-
ing the positions of Douglas and Breckin-
ridge upon the great issue of the day, which
positions, the resolution goes on to state are
adverse to anything like the use of force to-
wards the disunionists. The resolution was,
after considerable parliamentary skirmishing,
adopted, under the operation of the previous
question Tomorrow motion will be made
to reconsider the vote. 1t cannot be that the
Democrats who voted for the resolution com
pretended its full import. Under the
guise of endorsing the efforts of the patriotic
Crittenden towards Il compromise, good
Union men have been inveigled into much
more than that for if the resolution endorses
Mr.. Brecknridge's letter to Gov. Magotln
as it would appear to do, it endorses the fol-
lowing words
"Let her Ii. e. Kentucky have the oppor.
tunity, through her chosen representatives, OF
deciding upon the prospect Of rennHj"g all
the States in Constitutional OnioH,' etc.
Here is plain admission that the Union
has gone to pieces, and that the only question
is, how, if at all, shall the fragments be re-
united If such language is beftting for
Union men, then the disunionsts are the only
Union men. and rebellion and loyalty are
convertible terms. If the Union has gone SO
entirely that we must look solely to a recon-
struction, pray what is all the talk about, of
God save the Union. Until the Federal Gov
ernment Acknowledges the independence of
the rebelous States, | had thought that the
friends of the Government were bound to
take sides with IL and not with them. SO far
Mr.. Douglas is concerned, surely he has
never said that coercion forbidden rem
edv in case of a revolt against the goverA-
ment lie is for compromise. frSt. The al
tentative he says, is WAR! What if no com
promises are effected? Then the Govern
ment or the revolutOnsts must 90 doTN, aud
G cd help the right. Propositions to compro-
mise are made to arpease discontents who
have been defeated in an election, and not
because the Constitution or any of the laws Of
Congress Cypress any portion Of the people
If the friends of the Government choose to
grant favor5, it is an act of generosity, not of
justice. If the extent of the favors to be
granted cannot be agreed upon 10y the Gov
ernment adherents, then the Constitution
will probably stand as at present. These
are, of course individual views. and may be
regarded 10y you as out of place in my letter,
but what can one write about, besides, when
everything else is absorbed in the one great
question?
The Senatorial question has not been heard
of much to-day. The Breekinridgcrs are as
much divilcdas other parlies,and the chances
Of an election seem to me to grow less daily.
CAPITOL
STARTLING SrArEMENr-ln his argument
before the jury in the lIargln murder case,
in the Fourth Distict Court. on Friday, says
the 5. + Mirror, District Attorney Brown.
after begging the jury to consider the terri
Die consequences that might ensue if the ac-
cused was not convicted, stated that "thcrc
are in this city three thousand women
who gain living wholly or in part by pros
tituiion!' Each one of these ~ said he, "has
some relative whom they have disgraced by
their conduct-so that if the accused is ac-
quilted leencc is at once given for three
thousand murders this very night ~ We
have no means of knowing whether there
are. or are not, so vast a number Of wrctchcd
women in our midst; but Il statement to this
effect coming from the District Attorney,
who has every facility fer KNOWN its truth.
we accept and believe; not being Of those
who, without any knowledge of the matter
themselves, have the assurance to call it an
"eXtravagant statement aud assert that "thc
District Attorney fails in his statistics -
District Attorney Browns himself man OF
family, aud none would be more careful of
presenting facts in such statement. Be
Heving him, we cannot but regret the amount
of depravity in san Francisco. and perceive
clearly the vast good that may be accom-
plished 10y the Magdalen Asylum.
BLocKADING THE MIssNsIrPI-A ST. Louis
correspondent of the Alta says:
The complication of the secession plot
thickens. A dispatch from Jackson Miss,
states that artillery has been ordered, 10y
Governor PeItus, to Ecksburg. to hail and
question all passing boats That is all it
says, but that is enough. The ST. Louis and
Cincinnati papers are out against the move
ment like thousand of brick. The inter-
ference ola seeding State with the free navi-
cation of the Mississippi has started the
boatmen on the Ohio river from their dreams,
and, if persisted in, will raise up a terrible
feeling in the Northwest, As the river is
not now navigabe above Alton, owing to the
ice, the effects not now felt; but if an
barge ON the free navigation of the river
Is laid in the Spring trouble will ensue 1t
is proceeding that Mississippi is herself less
interested in than almost any State along the
river lanks. Louisiana has far greater in
terest in the matter. New Orleans will
probably at once protest against it,
THE UNIoN AND "Roor HOG or DIE."-The
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