The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-02-13
THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
THE SOUTHERN CONGRESS.

The SOUTHERN CONGRESS.
The Questions Pending between the Several
Seeding States and the General Govern
ment Assumed by the Southern Confeder-
acy.
MONTGOMERY, Feb. l2.-The Congress of the Con.
federated States of America met again this morn
ing, pursuant to adjournment. Various standing
committees were announced.
The President received and read despatch from
the Louisiana State Convention cordially approx
ing the selection of Messrs Davis and Stephens, as
President and Vice President of the Provisional
Government.
Designs for the seal and flag of the Confederacy
were submitted and referred.
resolution was offered that, until otherwise
provided the several officers of Customs be continu-
ed in office; referred. resolution was offered
that the Committee on Foreign Affairs be request
ed TO inquire into the propriety and necessity, as
soon as the President is inaugurated, of sending
Commissioners to the Government of the United
States; referred
| The House then went into secret session, during
which was adopted the following resolution from
which the injunction of secrecy was removed:-
ReSotredThat this Government takes under its charge
the questions and difficulties now existing between the
Sovereign States of this Confederacy and the
OF lhe United States relating to the occupation of forts
arsenaIs navy yards and other public establishments
and the President of this Congress is directed to commu
ncate this resolution to the Governors of the various
States.
Special Despatch.
ACTION OF COMMITTEE OF THE PEACE CONGRESS
| WASHINGTON, Feb. l2.-Fifteen minntes are al
lowed to speakers in the sub committee of the
Peace Convention; therefore, where many points
are presented, to which members of the Committee
may each speak for that space of time, the day
Is pretty much used up in discussion. 1t is under
stood that the Committee, by vote of ten to nine
have adopted the propositions of Reverdv johnson
over that of Mr.. Crittenden. Mr. Guthrie has
move the Kentucky proposition as an amendment
to Mr.. J0hnson's. On the territorial feature tbev
do not much differ. Mr.. Guthrie's plan is an
| expansion of the idea contained in that of Mr.
Johnson's, and also makes provision upon several
points other than the territorial one. Mr. John
sons is more limited in its scope. Mr.. Smith, of
Indiana, has moved the plan proposed by Mr.. Eth.
eridge, of Tennessee, in the House of Representa-
tives. This would probably command large
Northern vote. proposition of Mr.. Field, of
New York, is to the effect that the recognition of
slavery south of $50 30 shall not operate to estab
lish it where it does not now exist.
Judge Wright, of Ohio, is very dangerously ill,
having been stricken by paralysis on Saturday.
lie Is close upon eighty years of age. On re-
cent festive occasion given to the Ohio commits.
sioners by Senator Pugh, he exhibited great viva
city and related many interesting anecdotes of
John Randolph and other statesmen of his day.
with whom he was associated as a member of Con-
gress. Judge Douglas entertains the peace COM
missioners tonight. Mr.. Holt entertains them to-
morrow night. There is a great crowd at the
fresluents TINS evening. OBSERVER.
From Washington.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12.-In consequence of the
seizure of the Arsenals in the Southern States with
ordnance and stores therein, including gunpowder
intended for the service of the Notifications of the
Gult, Col. Craig, of the Ordnance Bureau, through
the Secretary of War, has asked the House for an
additionalal appropriation for the armament of
Notifications, including the purchase of punpow-
der, of Sl0O,000, and for ordnance and ordnance
supplies equal amount.
The Select Committee of Five dispatched two ofits
members Yesterday after Governor Hicks to testi.
tv as to the existence of conspiracy to seize the
Capitol. While they were an their way to Anna
polls, the Governor was on the train for Washing
ton and he will be examined tomorrow on that
subject.
The Senate confined to-day the nomination of
Horatlo King, as Postmaster General, together
with number of Deputy Postmasters and other
minor appointments
A committee of the Philadelphia Board of Trade
arrived here this evening, and have already enter
ed actively on the labor of promoting the passage
of the Tariff Bill which is expected to be taken up
IN the Senate tomorrow.
THE PRESIDENT ELECT on HIS ROUTE
TO WASHINGTON.
DEPARTURE FROM SPRINGFIELD
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, Feb. 1l.-Mr. Lincoln left the
hotel at 7.30 A. NJ, accompanied by large con-
course to the depot, where nearly one thousand
citizens had already collected. After he had
shaken hands with number of his friends, he took
stand the Of hn oar
follows:
MyFriends-No one, not in my position, can ap
preclate the sadness feel at this parting To the
people l owe all that am. Here | have lived
more than a quarter of century; here nv chill
dren were born, and here of them lies buried
l know not how soon l shall see you again.
A duty deyoves upon me which is perbaps
greater than that which has devolved upon any
other man since the days of Washington He
never would have succeeded except for the aid of
Dlvlne providence, upon which he at all times re.
he'd. feel that cannot succeed without the
same Divine aid which sustained him. and in the
same Almighty Being place my reliance for sup
port.
hope you, my friends, will pray that may re-
celVe that Divine assistance without which | can
not succeed, but with which success is certain
Again bid you all affectionate farewell
Loud applause, and cries of "We will pray for
you.
During the speech, Mr. Lincoln BETRAYED mucb
emotion, and the crowd was affected to tears.
The train left at precisely hal-past eight O'Clock
This following persons accompany Mr.. Lincoln:
); u. Nicolay, Private Secretary of the President
elect; John Hay, Robert L. Lincoln, Major Hunter,
U. 5. A; Col. Sumner. U. S. A; Col E. Ellis.
worth, Hon. John X. Dubys, State Auditor: Col.
W. IL. Lamar, aid to Governor Yates; Judge David
Davis; Hon. o. H. Browning E. L. Baker editor of
| the Springfield Journal; Robert Irwin, n B. Judd,
| and George Latham.
| Mrs. Lincoln remains in Springfield until next
week, and will meet Mr. Lincoln in New York
ARRIVAL AT INDGANAPoLTs-HIs ADDRESS TO THE PEo.
We repubish the speech of Mr. Lincoln at In
dianapolis with some important corrections, as we
find it in the New York papers:
FeLo.o-cltizens Of the State of Mdidna--I am here
to thank you much for this magnificent welcome
and still more for the very generous support Given
by your State to that political cause which think
Is the true and just of the whole country and
the whole world. Solomon says, ''There is time
to keep silence;" and when men wrangle by the
mouth with no certainty that they mean the same
| thing while using the same word, it perhaps were
as well if they would keep silence. The words
"coercion and "invason" are much used in these
days, and often with some temper and hot blood
Let us make sure if we can, that we do not misun-
derstand the meaning of those who use them Let
us get the exact definitions of these words not
from dictionaries, but from the men themselves
who certainly deprecate the things they would re-
present by the use of the words. What. then is
"coercion?' What is "invasion? ?' Would the
marching of an army into South Carolina without
the consent OF her people, and with hostile intent
to"d lueu, De Invasion +! certainly think it
would be coercion" also if the South Carolinians
were forced to submit. But if the United States
should merely hold and retake its forts and
other property, and collect the duties on foreign
importations, withhold the mails from
places where they were habitually violated, would
any or all these things be INVASION or "coer-
con " DO our proessed lovers of the Union, but
| who spitefully resolve that they will resist
coercion and invasion, understand that such things
as these on thepart of the United States would be
coercion or invasion of a State? If so, their idea
of means to preserve the object of their great
| affection would seem to be exceedingly thin and
airy. If SICK the little pills of the homeopathist
would be much too large for it to swallow. In
their view the Union, family relation, would
seem to be no regular marriage but rather sort of
"free love" arrangement, to be maintained on pas
slonal attraction. By the way, in what consists
the special sacredness of a State? | speak not of
the position assigned to State inthe Union by the
Constitution for that is the bond we all recognize
That position, however, State cannot carry out
OF the Union with it. speak of that assumed pri-
mary rgnt OF State to rule all which is less than
Itself, and to ruin all which is larger than itself
II State and county, in given case, should be
equal IN extent OF territory and equal in number
OF inhabitants, in what, a matter of principle,
Is the State better than the county? Would an ex-
change OF names be an exchange of rights? Upon
principle, on what rightful principle, may State
being no more than one-iftieth part of the nation
in soil and population, break up the nation and
then coerce propOrtionably larger subdivision of
itself IN the most arbitrary way? What mystic
rlous right to play tyrant is conferred district
OF country with its people by merely calling it a
State Feow-citizens, | not asserting any
thing: am merely asking questions for you to
consider And now allow me to bid you farewel