Year: 1861

For the benefit of his friends on his own side OF the
House, who opposed to conciliation, he would
respectfully recommend the words OF Sir Francis
Bacon, who says:


Concerning the materials of seditions, it is thing


well be considered for the surest way to prevent sed


tions f times do bear m to take the matter


of them for If there be fuel prepared it is hard to tell


whence the spark shall that shall set it on fire As


for discontentmens, they are in the polite body like
the humors in the natural which are apt to gather
preternatural heat, and to infame. II great


expressions the things that provoke the patience


do witha wake the courage; but in fears it is not


Neither let any State be secure concerning discomfort


ments because they have been often long and yet no


peril hath ensued for is true that every vapor


fume doth not into Storm so it nevertheless true


that storms though they blow divers times, yet


may fall at last and the Spanish proverb noteth we'll


The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull :"


Such deep sagacty as this, said the speaker, con-


vinces me, if ever doubted, that the way to peace


in times of disorder is not always found by refusing


to listen to complaints. differ, then, with some
of my rigid friends on this point. lprefer to con-
slider grievances ii it were but to be that they
have no Just foundation; much more if they prove
to merit attention for their reasOnableness. He
embraced the topics of complaint under the follow


ing heads lst. The passage Of laws in some of
the free States operating to discourage the recov
cry of fugitive slaves. ID. The denial of equal
rights in the Territories. Sd. The appre-
hension of such an increase iH political
favor in the free States, as to tempt to an
invasion under the new forms of the constitution,
of the right of the slave States to manage their
own domestic affairs. After full and calm
animation of the grounds furnished to sustain these
complaints, | am ready to declare, that if these
are all that endanger the continuance of the pres
ent common bond of association between the States
in my opinion, similar sacrifice to abstrac-
tions ever before made among reasoning men.
AS to the first, ask my friends-the slavehOld-
ers-f you going to dissolve the U MON about
it on the one side, how are you likely to improve
your chances of recovery of fugitves by that on
the other? ask my own triends-if you are will
ing to stake the Union upon adherence to your
are you not risking substance
for an abstraction ?-sacriicing benifcent system
to uphold statute which has never prevented the
recovery OF single slave secured the liberty of
a single freeman? Now l would ask how stands
the fact as to the second ground of complaint. The
Territory of New Mexico has been organized ten
years. Y ct now she has twenty-five slaves the
surface of over two hundred square miles of her
tent And only twelve of these are domiciled, the
remainder transient residents As to this it needs
no other argument to show that the question wheth
er this shall or shall not be slave territory, is like
that alluded to by the Roman poet de lana caprna,
or in other words, of getting wool cut of goat
As to the question of territory hereafter to be
quired, have we not difficult problems enough to
solve within our present enormous geographical
limits, to save US the necessity of puZzling our
brains with others that are without? AS to the
latter cause of grievance, Mr.. Adams repudiated
the idea of danger from any such source. As for
himself, he would only say that if the alternative
of the salvation of the Union be only that the
people of the United States were to plant upon
their broad front the dogma of establishing the pro-
paganda of slavery, he would vote for
no such measure. But no act of his should ever
serve to widen the breach which now exists be-
tween the seeding States and the remainder of the
U Union. After the close of his remarks the
House again resolved itself into the committee of
the whole, and took up the deficiency bl.-Mr.
SlCKLES addressed the House on the amendment
of the Senate in reference to the right of way for
the transportation of arms and munitions of war
across the Isthmus of Panama by the Chiriqui
route.-At four o'clock the committee rose, and
The House adjourned until P. NJ.