The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1862-03-28

Senator Sumner presented several pc
titlons In favor OF the emancipation OF
Slaves. Hale offered resolution asking
Secretary of the Interior to transmit to
the Senate all the correspondence in re-
latien to the bark Augusta. Adopted
Hale also offered resolution that the
Committee on Naval Affairs be instructed
to inquire whether there was any laxity
on the part of the officers of the biocka-
ding squadron on the coast, especially
at Charleston. and if any foundation for
the statement Of the British Consul
at that port that armed troops and ships
of the Confederate States had been al
lowed 10 90 in and out of the port of
Charleston. and no attempt made TO stop
them. Adopted.
The joint resolution giving pecuniary
aid to- the States in case they should
emancipate their slaves, was taken up
Mr. Henderson said he felt disposed to
vote for the resolution There was a
strong objection to it iii the Border States
and they believed this was an attempt to
abolish slavery in those States, and then
In the other States He was sure there
was no such intention on the part of the
President, and be thought there was no
such intention on the part of tAe mem
bers of the Senate Although the sub
ject OF slavery was the cause Of the ie-
bellion. yet there were other interests in
the State of Missouri. The people in that
State were deeply interested in having
the Mississippi river kept open to its
mouth. He had opposed all agitation
0. the slavery question. He had also OPP
posed the bill for the abolition Of slavery
in the District of Columbia. not because
he considered it unconstitutional, but
because it was inexpedient to bring the
subject up for discussion. The South
had been annually frightened by some
story Of an abolition monster, yet if the
Congress should abolish the petty amount
Of slavery in the District of Columbia, he
did not believe that his State would Sc.
cede, but hoped that ifSenators were de-
termined to do this thing they would be
quick, for the great State Of Delaware is
getting peep behind the curtain, and
discovering the awful plot to emancipate
the few slaves she has, already nearly free,
might go South for her constitutional
rights where certainly her constitutional
rights will be preserved in full force
The Senators from Kentucky are getting
excited, and the Senators from Virginia
and Maryland are getting suspicious Of
some dreadful thing to happen. He had
been opposed to the bill for the cultiva-
ton Of the cotton lands, though he sup
posed it harmless, for the reason that il
might havea bad effect upon the Border
States. Yet if the statement is true that
slavery should be the corner stone Of the
Government be was willing to fight TO the
last with the North against such Govt.
Nothing would tempt him to raise his
hand against the Government All the
revolution he wanted, was the bslIot-box.
He did not think there were City thousand
slaves left in Missouri, as large number
of them had been taken South. The peo-
pie in the State had lost property equal
in value to the whole amount Of her slaves
at the commencement Of this war. He
regarded the Presidents message not as
. threat. but as a prophecy, which he felt
would be fulfilled everywhere if the war
continued. He was perfectly willing that
the proposition should 60 to the people Of
his State, and the matter be left entirely
to the States. Ninety-six days Of the war
expenses would have paid for all the
slaves in Missouri, Kentucky, Delaware,
Maryland and the District Of Columbia,
and the expenses Of the war for two years,
will pay for all the slaves in the country.
Mr.. Pierce, from the Committee on Fl
nance, reported bill to allow arms order,
ed By states to aid in tbs suppression Of
the Isbeliion, 70 coma free of duty.