The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1861-01-19
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Washington, Jan. IA.
HOUsE-Mr. Stanton defended the Republi
can party He informed the gentleman from
Texas that the principles ON which this govern
ment was founded cannot be surrendered unde
any threat Of civil war. The Republican part,
has no purpose, principle or policy not sanction
ed by the Republican fathers From this poin
they could not be driven He said he knew O
: no Republican who looks to that organization Al
designed to interfere directly or indirectly in tht
slightest degree with slavery in the States.
|, During the course of his remarks, Mr.. Craw
ford said that Georgia had seized the forts, be
|, cause they were intended for her protection ant
defence, and taken all the responsibility.
NJ. Staunton said, Georgia takes on herself
the Inauguration of civil war, and makes no pre-
tence Of constitutional justification for the act.
Mr.. Hill disclaimed the act on the part o.
Georgia as State. 1t was done by bands o.
soldiers, without authority.
Mr.. Lane thought the position ofboth his col
leagues wrong. The forts were seized as de
fensive act, there being probability that the
Government would send garrisOns to them il
the forts will be surrendered.
Nj. Hardeman said if Georgia should secede
re was determined to sustain the government il
his acts, for veal or woe.
Mr. Stanton would vote fol amendment to the
| CONSTITUTION 10 pTeveuI Tie TeuSfhi uONeTuueu
from ever interfering with slavery in the States
except by unanimous vote of the States He was
also willing to remove the agitation of territorial
questions by admitting New Mexico as State.
Mr.. Adrian SAID, if the Union was to be dis
solved it would not be without an effort by all
patriotic men to prevent it by all constitutional
means. The people of the North will defend ii
to the last. He urged that it was tue duty OF
every one to allay not excite this feeling, and
not add fuel to the fire now intensely burning.
Mr.. Lincoln, he said, was conservative man,
from whom the South have nothing to fear. He
concluded with patriotic appeal for concession
ana compromise. The doctrine OF peaceful Sc
cession was utterly fallacious
Mr. Anderson of Mo. favored meeting of the
border States, and that the Gulf States be in
vited to participate. There should have been
concert and union between all the slave States.
He appealed to Northern men to yield to amend
ments to the Constitution, so as to prevent an
archy and bloodshed, and to restore peace.
iMr. Ga,nett got the floor Adjourned.
SEyArE-Mr. Bayard presented a memorial
from the citizens of Delaware, without respect
to party, praying for the passage of the Critten-
den resolutions. These resolutions embody the
import OF no more than the public sentiment of
the slaveholding States will demand will vote
for the resolutions, and speak on them next
week.
Mr. Seward presented the memorial of Samuel
| f. B. Morse the illustrious inventor of the cleo.
tro magnetic telegraph, praying Congress for
| an extension of one of his patents, which con-
sttutes his title to the property in that inven-
ton. He asks the extension of the one that ex-
pires earliest in order to protect his property.
Referred to the Committee on Patents.
| Mr.. Seward also presented memorials of cit
zens of New York, concerning the state OF the
| union
Mr.. Kennedy presented a memorial from cit-
zens of Frederick county, Maryland, without re-
gard to party, asking the adoption of the Crit
tenden resolutions.
Mr.. Cameron introduced a resolution, chan
ging the name of the steamboat John G. FIRE.
mont of Pittsburgh, to the Horizon-passed.
Mr.. Bigler presented eight memorials, praying
that the proposition of Mr. Crittenden be sub
mitted as amendments to the Constitution. Ia
bled for the present.
Mr.. Wilson moved to take up the resolution
proposing certain amendments to the Consttu
ton of the United States.
Mr. Powell presented the proceedings of the
Democratic Convention at Louisville on the 9Th
of January, containing resolution favorable to
| the Crittenden compromise.
Mr.. Hale objected to receiving them; they not
being officially directed to the Senate.
Mr.. Powell The resolutions express attach
ment to the Union, and protest against coercion.
Mr. Hale insisted upon his objection, and mo-
we'd that the documents be laid on the table
The special order, Mr.. Crittenden's resolution,
was taken up.
Mr.. Clark moved an amendment, striking out
the preamble and the first resolution, and insert
iHg that the provisions of the Constitution are
amply sufficient for the preservation OF the
Union.
Mr. Green The present Constitution In its
provisions for the whole Union is good enough.
| hold that State has a right to secede. This
is not a government of unit 1t is a multiple.
ity of units A county cannot secede from a
State, because it is not unit OF sovereignty
State has the right to go out as 1t comes in.
There is no power in the government to prevent
them they are sovereign; unit. am for i'm.
mediate secession, if my State is not, unless
there be a revolution of Northern public senti
| ment.
Further consideration postponed.
The Pacific X. R. bill being the special order
was taken up. A vote was taken Oh postponing
indefinitely resulting, ayes II, nays 80.
Mr.. Rice objected to the iron being necessa
riy American. The price should be only Sl5,"Oo
per mile from Lake Superior to the Rocky Noun
tains There is not clause in the bill which
binds the stock holders in anything whatever.
NJ. Gwin said his constituents were in favor
of the bill and were willing to take nythng pre-
sented
The Government has the first mortgage on the
Road and within twelve mouths after the bill
becomes law the greatest obstruction will be
overcome, and we will have a road over the
Sierra Nevada to the Washoe Mines.
After debate Mr. Briggs motion to amend the
first section by adding the words nor until said
acts of corporation shall have been approved by
the Congress of the United States. Carried by
81 against 10.
Mr.. BENJAMIN offered an amendment to limit
the time of the corporation, afterwards with
drawn.
Mr.. Benjamin favored amendment in the
saith and 300th lines to strike out the word ma
iority of such guarantees admitted as associates
and insert shall cause associates to become sub
/ scribers to cooperate with them as hereinafter
provided. Pending vote, adjourned.
Washington, Jan. 16.
HoUsE.-Mr. Cox, of Ohio, presented the re
solutions passed by the Legislature of Ohio, ex
pressve of their attachment to the Union, ant
against the right of secession, declaratory tina
the laws should be maintained, and against on
r State intermedding with the laws Of another
&c He said that although the Legislature hat
y not unanimously passed the resolutions,-th
b. State has already began the work of concilia
;. ton by giving vital stab to the personal libel
;, ty bills, and he had been assured that the wor
y will go on until every obnoxious act of Legisla
c ten shall be removed from her statute books
e and full justice done to all sections.
: The resolutions were laid on the table and OF
d dered to be printed.
S Mr. Briggs, of n. T., presented memoirs
e numerously sigred by citizens of New York, i
e favor of the propositions made by the Borde
Z. State committee
If The House, on motion, went into committe
e on the whole, on the state of the Union, an
took up the Army appropriation bill.
Mr.. Garnett, of N. Y, thought the time ia
is come when they should consider the impendn
or dangers calmly and without passion. The caus
of the present crisis is not the mere election
10 Lincoln, but the dominion of one section ov'
lie another, differing in character, institutions an
is race. The Republican party has steadily a.
lie vanced until they have gained possession
r. nearly all the Northern States. 1t controls Il
&c House now, and it cannot be long before it wi
~ have entire possession of the legislative and e
~ ecutive departments, unless there is some gre
ID change, which is not likely to occur. The r
to publican party is an anti-slavery party, witho'