The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-26
UNITED STATES SENATE SPECIAL SESSION.

! WASHINGToN, March 25.-The PRESIDENT of
| the Senate announced that the resolution intro
duced by MIR. Hale, for the election of Sergeant-at-
| Arms, Doorkeeper and Assistant Doorkeeper was
| first in order.-Mr HALE moved that the reso-
luton be permitted to lie upon the table, that the
! Senator from Wisconsin MIR. Howe) might con-
| clude his speech begun on Saturday; agreed to. -
! Mr. POW ELL introduced resolution requesting
! the President to communicate to the Senate
! all dispatches from Major Anderson to the War
| Department during his command at Fort Sum-
! ter; adOpted.-The resolution of Mr.. Doug
! las was taken up.-Mr. HOWE continued his
| speech of Friday last. He did not think the
acknow owledgment of the independence of the Con.
federated States would give peace to the country.
| The last alternative mentioned by the Senator from
| Illinois was that Of war. Such war wonid not
! be war between the States of the North and the
States Of the South, but between the loyaists of
the country and the disoyalists. He repudiated
the idea of subjugating the South. In that section
| there had always been Union and Disunion par
! ty, and though the latter had apparently triumph
ed recently, he was reliably informed that the popu-
lar vote was with the Union. The success of the
disunionsts resulted from the fact that, under the
| late administration, Cabinet ministers had con-
! trbued to it by direct assistance and by placing
in the hands of traitors. The UnOnists in those
States he believed in the majority but had been
! crushed beneath the worst despotism the world
| ever saw. 1t was the duty of the government to
assist those who had thus been stricken down with
the flag of the Union in their hands. He would en-
ter into war of subjug alton, but rather would
endeavor to free the South from subjugatiOn. lie
willing to pay due regard to the wishes of the
loyal citizens Of the border States, but thought it
mistaken view in them to claim the privilege
of carrying their peculiar labor outside
Of those States into the Territories of
the United States. Labor taken out
of State was so much loss to it. Because ten
persons in ten years might want to 90 from North
Carolina into the Territories with their property,
was that reason why the Union should be dis
solved forts sezed the troops of the United States
driven Off and the collection of the revenues inter
taJ Mr. ,cln nd - ~
sion Of the Territories a matter of such small
Importance, why the Republican party manifested
such extreme anxiety to monopolize them?-Mr.
HOWE said he would answer by asking another
gu son. Where had the Republican party shown this
exteme anxiety? y?-Mr. CLlNGMAN read the Chica-
go platform on the subject.--Mr. HOWE said that
did not realize his idea of extreme anxiety. Itwas
rather an expression of what they thought right
and eXpedient than of a fixed determination
When the territories had been given up to slavery,
there was revolt at the North, no traitors there
Mr.. CLINGMAN said the Republican party
had steadily voted against the extension of slavery
and some of them had thought the Union
should be dissolved rather than such ex-
tension be permitted.-Mr. HOWE said the
Republican party should be judged by the
action of its representatives and not by indi-
vidual declaration of opinions The question
regarding the territories belonged to the people of
the United States, and all should abide by the de.
cision of the peope.-Mr. CLINGMAN asked if
he was willing to adopt the popular sovereignty
uOCITlne! dS ne Wiling tBaJ tne people OF
Nevada should decide the question for themselves?
Mir. HOWE said the territory of Nevada be-
longed to the United States and not to the people
of Nevada. The whole people of the United States
had control of the question, and the will of the
majority should be obeyed. He argued that there
was no ground for secession, and no necessity
for fresh guarantees to the border States
Mr.. Douglas was struck by the grounds of opposi-
ton to his resolution expressed by the Senator |
from Wisconsin. He recapitulated his objections,
which he regarded as inconsistent. Fort Pickens |
was the only fort in the Confederate States con-
cerning which any collision was likely to arise, and
it would relieve the country to know what the |
policy of the Administration to be. The Tor |
tugas forts outside the Confederate States, |
and were of national character. He no
reason for holding on to Fort Pickens, unless the
object was to secure Pensacola harbor base of
operations for war upon the seeded States. Not.
wthstanding his construction of the inaugural
had been spoken Of uninvited by the
other side, he still believed it the correct one
His arguments had been objected to. Could they
be answered? He had shown that the revenue
could not be collected shipboard that the south
ern ports could not be bockaded, and the Presi-
dent could not use the military power to enforce
the law unless authorized to do SO by Congress.
For this be was accused of belitting the country.
Was it belitiing the country to show what the laws
were2 Did they want their President to perjure |
himself and violate the law 2-Mr. HOWE said |
he did not find fault with the Senator for pointing
out the laws, but for failing to see the necessity of
collecting all the revenue of the cOuntry.--Mr. |
DOUGLAS said he had opposed the reck- |
less passage of the Morrill, bill as measure |
calculated to destroy the revenue, and he believed |
that extra session would be necessary to repeal |
it. The Senator said that his (DOuglas') argu- |
ments reminded him of incidents of the revolution,
and implication compared him to the traitors of |
that period. He would enter into defence of |
his patriotism; he had no fear that the people |
would look upon him as an enemy. 1t seemed that |
the Republican Senators could not make speech |
without assaiing him, and impugning his motives.
| ba rprnt IN wtlul6 dnnhtlnse hau thn
largest funeral cortege ever seen-there would be |
many politicians deprived of the material out
of which they manufactured their speeches.
Laughter. The Senator from Wisconsin objected
to his proposition for amending the Constitution,
as to restore tranquility and fraternity as the
worst of all his suggestions. Now, unless fra |
ternity restored, the Union was irretrievably
gone and he could not agree with those who favor
ed dissolution. The whole question to be settled /
was, whether they would have Union or dIsunl0n, |
and consequently peace or war.-Mr. CLAIM
said he thought it better to stand on the Consttu-
ton as it was, than to attempt any compromise
Mr., DOUGLAS had no doubt that was the Sena-
tors position He would rather let war come than
amend the Constitution AIR. CLAkh said he
deprecated war as much as any one. He wished
to stand upon the Constitution as it was, the best
means of preventing war.-Mr. DOUGLAS said
reducing States to obedience was not the way TO pre-
vent war.--Mr. CLARK disclamed any such inten-
tion.-Mr. DOUGLAS-Then you don't intend to
enforce the laws ?-Mr. CLARK wish to ex-
plain. l meant that believe the time will soon
come when the laws will be enforced all over the
country, and without resort to bayonets The
States of the South will return to their allegiance
MIR. DOUGLAS said he was dealing with facts
as they were. 1t fact that certain States had
seeded, and that the laws of the United States
were inoperatiye.--Mr. CLARK asked if the mails
were not carried in the seeded States.-Mr.
DOUGLAS-Only by their permission. He then
went on to say that as the Senator from New Hamp-
shire did not propose to enforce the laws while the
people were opposed to them, there difference
between them on that point. He did not suppose then
that the Senator proposed to collect the revenue
everywhere.-Mr CLARK said when the President
was authorized he could collect the revenue on
shipboard.--Mr. DOUGLAS said of course put
he had not been authorized He interpreted tnis
as an admission that there wouS be no attempt 10
collect the revenue South till the law was changed
by Congress. ss.-Mr. CLARK said ne meant 10
commit nobody but himself. lie knew nothing OF
| the intentions of the administration.--M
DOUGLAS said though he had been re-
buked for impertinence when he made his
speech short time ago, 1t now appeared that
he was right in his Interpretation of the Presi-
dents INAUGURAL Beforefthe fourth of March the
Republicans talked of collecting the revenue right
off, they wanted to find out whether they had a
government, etc.--Mr. CLARK denied that any
such declarations had come from Senators on the
Republican side.--Mr. DOUGLAS said he was
now satisfied his views were right, and the Repub-