Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-02-01
LATEST NEWS 81 TELEGRAPH.
1NAlY.smTR cONpRIss..sEcOMp SESSION.
WAsnlnaror. Januarr al.

SENATE-Mr. Seward presented a mon.
ster petition from the citizens of New York |
for the passage of the resolutions, substant- |
ally the Border State resolutions. The pc
ition is signed by $4,000 people, aud is LOO |
feet long.
Mr.. Seward, in the course Of his remarks,
| said be had been asked TO support this pc
tition. He had not yet, though be anxi0usly
waited and hoped for a manifestation on the
part of The people of the country and Repre-
seDtatives which would justify him in say
| ing the seeding States, or those who SYM
| psihize with them, have made propositions
| which the citizeDs of the adbering States
| could accept, or that this or any other of the
various propositions from the citizens of the
| adhering States, or those desiring to adhere
TO the Union, would not be acceptable to the
| other party. have thought it my duty TO
hold my self open and ready for the best ad-
justment that could be practically made. |
have, therefore, been obliged to ask this
| Committee to be content with the assurance
that | would express to the public and the
Senate that in the spirit in which they come
/ is perfectly commendable. 1t is perfectly
satisfactory and gratifying to me TO see
proper spirit of traternal kindness of concilia-
ton and affection, as adopted by large por-
iion Of my fellow citizens of New York.
have asked them, also, in returu for per-
forming my duty on this occasion, when
they arrive home that they will act iu the
|
the Union above all other interests and sen
timents, by speaking for the Union, by
voting for the Union, aud, If it should be
demanded, lending, even giving their mouey
lor the Union, and fighting in the last resort
for the Union, taking care that speaking
always goes before voting voting goes be-
fore giving money, and ali 20 before battle,
which | should regard hazardous aud dan
eeious, and therefore the last as it would be
The u ost painful measure to be resorted to
for the salvation of the Union.
This is the spirit in which determined for
myself to come up to this great question, to
pass through 1t as | sincerely believe we
shall pass through it, for although this great
controversy is not settled, do not therefore
any less calculate upon aud expect It will be
: peacefully settled, and settled for Union. |
do not expect the Union will be firmly re-
established in ninety days, bat my conf
!, deuce remains, that as | have not believed
: the passion and frenzy of the hour can over
turn this great tahrlc OF constitutional lib
erty and empire in ninety days, as have felt
sure there will be time even after the expira-
ton of ninety days for the restoration of all
that has been lost, aud the re-establishment
u OF all thst is in danger. Secession and revo-
> luton on one size and coercion or defiance
!; on the other are all to pass away before the
Union is to become the grand absorbing
object of interest, affection and duty on the
: part of the citizens Of the United States. A
y great many partisan interests are to be sup
: pressed, and party platforms TO be swept
away before the Union if in danger, and lflt
: is 10 be saved, can be saved; but will require
J. but q very short time if the Union does re-
e quire to be saved for all these interests and
. platforms, all these men, to disappear. You,
y every body who shall oppose, resist or stand
y il the way of the preservation of this Union
u will disappear like moths on a summer eve
i, when the whirlwind Of popular indignation
Al. .I.-n -. E,Vl Aan
oI covery that this Union is in danger, through
y faction or even the impractlcaollity of on'
10 part.
- Abiding TO the question Of slavery in th,
Territories, which bad been vital one TO
twelve years at least he said the admission
R of Kansas had settled all that was vital o
K important, leaving nothing but the passion
70 the contest engeDdered Kansas, California
ay and Oregon are in the Union, and now tn,
e same contest distTacts this Union as before
The extent of the Territories after the ad
III mission of Kansas is l,063 500 square mile
l05 area-twenty- four times that of New York
,9 Twenty -four such States as that of Ney
3 York are yet to be organized. Now, uude
what is accepted by the Administration as
4 judicial decree, every inch of that is slav
4 Territory, not as he accepted, but as inferre
by the existing Administration. He had n
73t fears of slavery, where in the peculiar cor
%; dtion of things slavery has succeeded i
planting only one slave upon every 44,OO
SQUARE miles of territory, this, theI
te- ceased to be the practical question.
we lieu comes up the fearful question-U nion {
ue dissolution of the country, or no countr.
yhe The question of hope, the question
sinking forever under the contempt of mar
90 kind. Why then despair that thirty million
w @ of people will be unable to meet the crisis
70 he had no fears. This is a Confederacy, NJ
90 an Imperial government or government OF
, "a single State. 1t is a CoDfederacy dependeI
upon the imperial consent of all member
ose and subject to dissolution by their own az
fsit ton; but that assent is always to be take
Law by virtue of original assent, and held unit
yer the form, time; manner, aud condition
at which the Constitution prescribed, be met |
AS. those who constitute the Union, shall decla
vas that it shall be no longer. He trusted the
er- may be time enough for the policy, and d
A purposes of the lovers of the Union, if n
,is these controversies all be settled, just as o
foreiathers foresaw when they framed q
Constitution, by submission to the people
thv the United States in Convention, called a
or. cerdiDg to the forms of the Constitutio
or and prescribed by law.
,oo Mr. Mason said: After all, the recon
nm mendation of the Senator is battle. Bloc
end then, is to save the Union. The Union
me- broken. There is no Union in the countI
ton Mr.. Seward was not surprised that I
Senators from Virginia differed. The Ser
tor sees discovered country. He saw
n A. turning reason, judgment and harmony
II the Union, and the Senator from Virgil
om. here. Is he in the Union or not2 Senat
ain are here, States are here, Union is be
red He had contemplated fighting, because
lort knew treason North ana Soutn mlgnt
ther against the Union.
Mr.. Mason said he wanted to place bef
the people the tact that the Senator propo
as q remedy war. He has presented
argument of tyrant-force, compulsion-