Year: 1861

Now was the time for actOm-nOw the time
for earning the blessings Of the people Napoleon
the First told his soldiers that when the campaign
OF Italy was over and they returned to France COW
cred with laurels, the people would point them out
to their children and say, "There goes a soldier Of
the army of Italy" The members here might no.
bly, do their duty before they returned to their


homes, and so great and glorious will be deemed


the work OF saving this glorious Union, that, in


years to come, the people in the several States


will point tosthem and saw, "There is member of
the Thirty-sixth Congress. He called on the mem


oers, therefore, of all sections to adopt the Crtten-
den or the border State propcsitions.--M KEEL


LOGG, of Illinois, obtained the floor. He doubted


not but in the course of his speech he should differ


an toto with many of his Republican friends But


he could not help it; his country was in danger,
and he would stand up for her [Applause.l He
said that there was a time when peace reigned
through this country. and throughout the Union


1t was during the existence of the Missouri Com
promise line. Then peace reigned But im1ne-
diatey upon its repeal evil feelings again swept


over the land land the old controversies were again


begun. This confederacy was now in a state of
disruption, and old Virginia has nobv thrown her.
self into the breach, ard was glorously striving to
arrest the awful blow that seemed about to fall
upon Us. God bless the Old Dominion. Ap-
plause. He would not spurn the States that had
seeded, but he would if there was a settlement
and an amcable adjustment of our national
dllhcultes, welcome them back with blessings
to the cOnfederacy as children to a common
household. He was not bound to party
what made the Republican party? Was it not
the repeal of the Missouri compromise line? He
knew he was abused for his opinions by many of the
presses of the North, and now the little Chicago
Tribune had attacked him, and he would read them
out of the party within ten DAYS unless they
changed their policy. Laughter. He was for
the old Missouri compromise line; and if his friends
OF the Republican party would leave party and
party preudces, and come to the side of their
country, God and that country would bless them
forever Great applause in the galleries. !
Mr. Mr.. WlNSLOW said he thoaght the galleries
should be cleared If this demonstration was not
stoPped.-Mr. KELLOGG said that it was the
bubbling up from the hearts of the people of one
great feeling of anxiety for and devotion to this
glorious Union. Great applause. The SPEA.
kER said unless order observed in the galleries
he would be compelled to enforce the rules and or
der them to be cleared.--Mr. KELLOGG con-
tnued-He had heard gentlemen say on the Repub-
lican side of the House, that they would see the
Union shlyered to atoms rather than make c0nces-
slons. For Gods sake, and for their cOuntrv's
sake, bend little. He asked men of the South to
DO the same. Take his proposition, which was with
out any equivOcation, that Congress should pro-
hlblt slavery in all the territory north of SO 30 and
that IN all south of that the people should deter
mine for themselves whether it should be free or
slave. his Republican friends charged him with
having abandoned the principles on which he was
elected; but he contended otherwise, because the
republican platform was opposed to the extension
of savery.-Mr. FARNSWORTH asked if the
gentleman, when he made the propositions was
willing to take the responsibility of ESTABLISHING sla
very south of the proposed line?-Mr. KELLOGG
replied that he made the proposition with the deter
mination to assume all the legal and logical re-
sponsibility. lie would ask if the gentleman
meant to establish slavery when be voted
for the Lecompton measure ?-Mr. FARMS
WORTH said he did it with the fore
sight that the people would vote to make Kan sas
a free State.-Mr. KELLOGG said the gentle
man did not mean to do what he did. When he
made proposition, he meant to stand by it. He
hoped the members would, before it was too late
come forward and swear that the Union shall be
preserved.-Mr. SMITH, of North Carolina, OBJ
tanned the floor, and spoke in favor of the Criten-
den propositions. He did not know certainly how
North Carolina would determine to act, but he did
know that before gentlemen talked about fighting
and the enforcement of the laws, they had better
consider well what they did. North Carolina was,
and always had been loyal but she would have her
rights.-Mr. Case, of Indiana, obtained the floor.
and the House adinurned till I 2 NJ