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Hewce of Repxcecemtatives. THE CRISIS. the, ccctlon to, pat Sate operation the oBly for Ceukstun, Ty olde of the wont of ¥ymMpathy in \!.e frew Siates with the olforis of slaveholders tives from eervice. aie iGRy im & 30K (CONTINUED FROM FIRST PAGE) ‘apd they are abundanuy whediergerr hy =, suppose that disunion would tren or that any other jon, be iavokyé © @omain io either vecount tbat the Poet Office, Sub-Dreasury and Outen the people within what are ~han war would, after , 18€ i a es... a question of physical endurance THE DEFENCE OF THE UNION. , apd the minority, and we can ‘Wamameron, Jan. \2, 1661. ») you can worry us, and thus we G OF anne . Tw: GCCIPAMON OF TM YRDERAL OFFICES AT SF. LOU 1 2 coor ory ists woe SECOND ae pa ad reaeesic. gg low debate uj now. ON OF A NSTITUTION, LA wa Mr. Onan, (Ovp.) of Mo,—after reading a wiographi: Cropeat, it 1 oy ated i's = OF A CAPTAIN AND ORDERLY 8Ki~ os GEANT, BTC., ETC., ETC. House had been taken possession of by Univer Atte gropawod that i showdead et both | The second mceting of the Usion Volunteers—a corp troops under an order rom Genera! Soott—expiained, leet | Si Mew od that it should be mace a spec of young men who have organized themselves into « ‘Thirdly—This movement arises, in apother VioW, o the relation of Afvican slaves to the dormestic eedom is t then, a& to all YY erto, moder the operation than from tsoge who reside witha the as. ‘Union ig an old, fixed, settied Habit of the from convictions of ite necer _ ies OF tho Timtted States, act ite votes Cur the suecessful Presidential can hap bean allowed .nrectia-the nliona party, which song) ee ae ELA, pi tlhe Stale Ad ie tao same bu!) special order. No lspeeition on his part tocut off debate st | rittary pody, with the intent of offering thelr serviced fae ding. Ae to what was ff time, and if tha House desired to debate the therefore not likely to be hastily disoarded. while existing as colonice, We: rectly, through a commer’ « of the Unix, chey have pravtwally re.ealned ignorant of ‘opregentation, no ¥! the condition of things at St, Louis to justify euch an act, (1s bearing cn Uhemsolyes, ur elaki aiaeensoy” te polioy , principles and even 1s temper, have bern 89 rairopre= ¥ od, maton Mepiance ¥, {rq | the controversy Bented as toes they’ could do fo, But, as 1 said before, a | to the President of the United States for the preserva- mujority uf both «ides decided that it was better to post- } tion of the Uniou—took place last evening, pursuant ta ho knew not. The people thore, 60 far, have been quiet a dab ‘the condition of the country to Mercer House, Chairman, The Legisiature of Wewouri is | 2°P‘\Er time: or when the Committee of Thirty-three had | tournment, at the a hive aiaie now in session, and will consider what measures are no- | brourbt up thelr repart, of when tho Farco b as iv was | Mr. - — rage ad caper. Con we hope that fagre porcheps ions that it denies ‘mportaut aius even ab inceriereuce ite overthrow by State authorities or onside aie the treo Sbitesy interes vice 90 misrupee tations as means of par- Uean strategy, have lon ir sys to the party 7 Whi the result of the election brings the republican party necessarily into the g disanion, the rived bave deprived them of the Wriotic citizens. on Ghat alingianos te yal to the Union, presumptuous as Lo suppose politacal ‘with dieunion; and, one British crown. “Doos history cura. ny the horrors of & <9, #0 skilled in arms, intent’ in purpose, as we ve chimera which suggests an aggravation ors beyond oudurance when, On either side, ¢ shell ocour the intervention of an uprising ferocious Atria can elave population ef four, or six, or perhaps iwoaty ES among a peopl. 89 - . lied, came up for copyiction, and #0 cosrary for the perpetuation of the Uvion. dissowi |), tain nomew ttem—they wore the mere ri- makes no threats, while sho is determined to take such steps as ber honor, interest and safety require, aud this | © she will do in her own way and time. . Mr. Pastow, (xep.) of N. can side ebjectod. After further remarke, Mr. Clare asked lecvo to offer a resolution calling on of War to communicate whether and Custom House situated in St. sxperienee in war and 1isTenly comyinced the loose confederac ‘cont from 1776 watil ‘@ perpetual Union, ; Siinerent troM. the intemperate couduct of skis threaten, and theee who on defy digunion. They considered the ‘Vnben as @ subject comprehending Jess than the safety and welfare of ail the par “which the country was comporod, and the in many respects the mos! inte ‘those who now on ‘abe other rash! somtinuance of t ¥.; and others on the repub! The opivlone of mankind change, and with them the policies of nations. One hundred years ago all the com mercial Luropesn States were negro slaves from Africa to this hom those States are ilrmly set in hostility vw the extension, co operation of many good and comples issue between the republican party and the dis. unionists, although it involves the direst national calauti tieg, the reanlt might be doubtful for the republican par- jou | persons were in attendance, including a number wha not present at the previous meeting. at necessary if no State + 1 SOE eT nce whatever ik | ‘The Secretary, Mr. Hassler, road the minutes of the -country. Therefore it all this is a | former meeting; after the adoption of which r es SpPORITICE UA > Mr. F. J. Warre begged leave to say a few words in ex- hry a Se Vir; ee cereat) ana i planation of the present moyement, inasmuch as some eal frienda can indulge were present who had not been at the last meoting. Indeed, if the House should see tit to allow debate wy Some time since, he said, a great political struggle had the P the next ‘opriation bill—-the Army bi rok "a ke which ‘ome up on Monday, he ‘would | taken place, and when the contest was over the nation possession of by United States | have no objection to offer, nor will I move to make ita | had prepared to abide by the will of the people, Previ- treop:, and if #o by whose orde-*; and whether there has tees order unless a large majority desires it. Under | ous threats had been made of socession by the Southern ty is weak in a large Umon, Butona direct | Louis have been en iseue, with al) who cherish the Union on one side and all who desire its diseolution by foree ou the otner, the ver- t und almost uuanifous, issue, and, for that pur) questions and relleve’ it of all I consider the idea of enter upon the subject of contin: y Gnpremed with the samo generdur aud ey viehion. How could it be otherwise, thirteen, the country ie now com} and the empire embraces, .ns jes than thirty millions of | inhabitan Bee founders of garded the Union as no mere yran interest. with deep sensibility that it seempe aud even to the practice of slavery. takes two forms—one European, which iswimple, direct abolition, effected, if nocd be, by compulsion, tle other American, which secks to arrest the African slave trade and resist the entrance ef domestic slavery into / Ties where it is yet unknown, while it leave sition of existing slavery to the considera action of the Btates by which it ie retained. stricis the opposition to slavery in this country within {f dissolution provail, what guarantee Opposition to 14 been apy attempt by the State or munic pal authoriti.e rly i.terfere with sad property has been th es.cned tl. led ty order Zrom the r tion was made to the reception oF Mr. Ciark asked whether he could move a suspenelo instead of four d did not believe the To waa again call rate from it all collateral part'san passions and prejudiccs. the withdzawel of the Gulf States, and their permanent reorganization with or without others in a distivet cole deracy 28 @ means of advantage to themselves, go cer- unwise and 60 obviously — impoxsib!e they confessed od co them to have bean y to decide whether ‘authorities | these circumstances 1 hope the gentleman will withdraw | 1549 in the cveut of the election of @ certain candidate, He eail he ee Roar ge Rapa egy Peat rt pens 4 Ae al but they had been regarded as merely the gasconade of on bebalf party—and I know can do s0— election South sijcan side, | that debate will be allowed on the Army bill on Monday | * CP appl a a a Cavcline, hes resolution. | next, I will withdraw my present opposit proclaimed the diseolut ¢ Union, Seven at Rervriicay Mr. HLassick—I call the gentleman to order. According Méwprrt—No, no. Mr. Simznaix—I cannot do that, but I promise that the | to eno conditions of our assembly these meetings were ‘The Srkaken seplled that that could be done only op | next bill of a general character, upon which general not to partake of a sectional or political character, Cries regeryed for the people of this countr, a Spr che pene et onable shall there be against the full developement here of the fearful aud uncompromising hostility to siaver; jes the world, and < establi¢hing good or whether they execution, when the purpose ds understool, that 1 alread; Monday. y it with the discussion I Mr. Chane hoped the majority of the House would not | fair latitude of discussion. Gent elsewhere pervs debate can be hed, I will make no objection to all tlemen on the other | of “Go on’ succeeded, upon which convinve to object to the resolution, and countenance a | side will find that we on this side will moet all ques- ‘Mr. Warts continued, disclaiming that his remarke par y incidentally bestoweu upon it. The cage is different, how: ever, 1 regard to the other subjects which | have brought in thik conection before the Senate. Bnion fs vitally Important to the republican citizens of iti a ‘destined to depend for the political constitu: feared, therefore, that invasion of Virginia was Mr. President, 1 have designedly dweii so long on the probable eifacte of digunion upon the safety ot the © little time to militery despotism, ‘The 3ymakme eaid objection having been made, the rego- | tend to lution could not be enterta‘ned. coident and force. Hone on aceite continue aud perfect the Union would be ‘fa misfortune to the nation, iow much more, sir, would American peop! y and fy OW duty in- Tien a eee am te | took of tho nature which tho gentleman ascribed to ‘hall peiform the duty imposed upon us by | hem. They (the people of South Carolina) had dared to where, W WITHURAWAL.OP THR IDMLAPF! DELRGATION. the people of the United States. ‘There is ample time be- | joist thoir piratical flag over the ‘stars and stripes,”” verthrow now be a calamity to maui ty oF covernment is indispensable her: Whatever form we have, every individual y State must cede to it some natural rig! ‘the government with the requisite power. the United states; but it ig just ag tmportant to the whole the othor eyile which mus: follow in its train Repabiicaniaes ie, Valet tically, the logs of safety involves every other form of When once the gnardian an the House a Jeter eigued by } fore us for debating all the important questions now be- the Miseiseipp! delegation, stating that they had ‘Becived | fore the country, and gentlemen will have every oppor- official intormatton that their State had are, therefore, now ‘The SreaxkR laid beiore Republicanism is ‘suberdinate 1 Union, a8 everything else is and ought tobe-—republican- ism, democracy, every other political name «nt thing, all convertible terme, and had sent commissioners to Washington. They had ‘an ordi- | tunity of expressing their political opinions. At all | aroused a lion where they believed a to’be, and had a convention representing the sovereignty | events, eg mild experience no hindrance at his hands. | united the North—democrats, and all other n the greatuces of oir ¢ eteracies could exist and endure, yreno share of the common the cousteliation is to be tars, Whether seattered widely apart or gigupod insmailer clusters, will thenceforth shed forth feetly lights, Nor will great ach: the new confederacies. triumph by acts of me | of the people, question, therefure, for us now to decide, while layag tho federal govornmey aside all pique, pastion and prejudice: uees inore to the interests. of Uke people of hs country Yo remain for the genoral purposes of pe eommieree inland and foreign, postal communi: home aud abroad, the care and disposition of the ation, the organization and adi and, generally, ihe ‘one pation "neer our present by which the State has withdrawn from are suberdinate-—and they ought to disappe ®. all powers heretofore delegated | other issue which may be prosented by our sworn Sed constitytion and the Union. In furtherance eo of the great question of Union. So jar «# Lam cou- cerned, it shall be so; it should be so if the qu © be tried as it ought only to be detorinined, by che Tt shall be £0 all ibe more edness to rofor it to the Ihave ech faith in via repub- lican system of ours, that there is no political guod whic Ldosire that fam not content to seek throuyh its peo ful ordeal of the ballot. ther dccberation3 of that body. While they regret the glimmering and lurid ments be possible for arbitrament of etyil war. largement of inj i Thave no disposition to prevent debate on this or any | political partiee cepa bree ee ee tbis end they hey thought i¢ their duty to lay the fact | whether hero or elsewhere, Let these bills pass, and | bad met, and if the conflict should come, they would ba - | they would bave debate to their heart’s content. ready to do their duty. The shedding of a brother’s blood and withdraw themselves from the fur. 5 a oy no avers to As eis aR the a trie at rs wae wore vim cain pila necersily for this action they approbate it, and will re- | shape of debate or any otl shape, here or—to use the | treason e not an effort to repress it. turn to her busom to share her fortanes through all their | gchtiemau’s own phrase—clacwhcre. iy The heading of the roll of organization was then read phases. Mr. SBERMAN- , Very well; there ig no need of un- | aloud by the Secretary, with a request that all desiring Mr. Jones, (opp.) of G»., moved that the names of the | due excitement about the matter. 3 bo i it’ should step forward. A large number immoe- Ir. Firvpawan did not feel in the slightest degree ex- | diately advanced to tablo and added their names to | shock and astound the would provineialize Mount Vernon and be to divide themselves into separate cont wantonneas . which forms of administration without invoklag revolutionary | representatives of South’ Carolina and Mississippi be | stricken from the rol! of the House and not called by the | cited, nor was it in the gentleman’s power to create any | the list of signers, who now amount to about sixty, Slates? Gur country remains now as |b was not of detached amd distant Territe y fone whole well-connected and fertile region lying within ‘the temperate zone, with clunates and soils bardiy moro ‘various than those of France or of Ital) Tr others shal! invoke that form of ,ction to op- and overthrow government, they shail pot, lepends on me, have the excuso ‘that I obstinately left myself to be misunderstood. acase I can afford to moet yhig capital over to desolation at the very moment 13 rising over our to be crowned with the statue of Liberty. would remain for disunion no act 0: to be committed Clerk hereafter. Mr. Ex, (rep.) of N. ¥., ohjected. Mr. Parr, (rep.) of I When the dome ind., demanded tho yeas @ad nays | debate on the appropriation bills, Now he would submit | man, two preaml No petty couvedoracy that ejudice with coneiliative, excitement on his mind. (Laughter.) ‘The reports of committees being then in the Lr, Garverr—it was not theordinary course to prevent | Ceromitteo on By-Laws reported, their Chair- 0] 6, ‘the choice of whi they submit- to the gentleman from Obio that, supposing that he (Mr. | ted to the senee of the meeting. ‘The following was then, Mr. Burwerr, (opp.) of Ky., assumed that these geu- | Shermen) thought that the army and navy were to be | by a vote of the majority, adopted:— Yersity quickens and ampliiins maw merce. Our rivers and valleys, as improv mish ws a system of highways’ unequaile Ye ditferent forms of labor, if slavery were uot political ambition, need uot oon element of strife in the confederacy. img recent vekeroent expressions and manifestation intclerance in some quarters tisan excitement, we are, in @bietly of one ed. We have, exaction wilh concession which surrenders 10 and violence with the right hand of pen sir, 80 far as the abstract question whe! 4 stitution of the United States, the bondsman, who is made such by the laws of a State, is sti property, I anawer that, within that State, its laws on that when he has evezped from constitution regards him as a bondsman who may not, by any law or regulation of ©, bo discharged from hia service, but shall bo d ered wp, on claim, to the party to whom his service isdue. While pradenco and justice would combine in persuading you to modify the acts of Congress on that subject, £0 Ae NOt ty oblige private persons to assist in their execution, and id vrotect abuse of the lawe, carried into slavery, I laws of the States, whether free States which relate to this class of coming Mom of resi the United States can prolong, or eve the majestic drama of national rested bocause its sublimity is incapable of Lat it be so, uf we haye indeed be After Washington and the intiex!iJe Adais, Heury and the peerless Hamilton, Jefferson and the ma- jestic Clay, Webster and the acut® Calhoun, Jackson, the modest Taylor and Scott, who rises in greatness under the burdemor years, and Franklin and Fulton, se, have all performed their ui, While listening to these deba ometines forgotten myself in marking their contrasted effects upon the page who customariiy stands on the dais the yanerable Sécrotary 9 its | tlemen haye withdrawn {rom the House, amd that it can not be avsumed that they are now members of the | fair motive to refuse the appropriation? Did not he to purposes of manor only | Mr. Server, (rep. they have resigned en of N. Y.—Do you consider th: | when he thought that the troops sent to Kansas were to oof astotng Iu The ‘naintvesees of the U de unconstitutionally employed? And if it was proper | const oritg gw Ter Gi the 1st Mr. Borxett—I do; and not only this, but that they ar. | for him then, was it not equally proper for them now? : volunteer out of the Union by the action of their .) of Chio—The rem: that subject are suprem t State into another, e ons well assumilat- actically, only one lang, ion, one system of government, ant @astoms common to all. main henceforth as hitherto, one peopl human society is safety or seen tleman are out oi i ‘The SeRaKER roled that the motion, being objected to, | propriations for it, and could not be considered. ‘THE NAVY APPROPRIATION BILL. ‘The House went into Committee of the Whole on the | He had on the occasion referred to refused to vaje sup- tation bill, Mr. Colfax in the chair. plies for the army, because he then believed that it | laws of “to know whether {t would be in | would be employed in an unconstitutional way. aiject of every i for which, if need be, thoy will, and ¢ ‘sacrifice every other. This security is of xemption from foreign aggression and influence; the @iber, exemption from domestic tyranny and sedition. Fereign ware come from either \ lulatious @omertic violence. The Union hag, thus welf an almost perfec or me, ani freemen from being, by demotion im irreverent word that is uttered order to make a speech #1 tor should not be made. He beli prt of the army and navy, that they were to be | history that debate shonid be atlowed upon the great The subject of electing a captain of the company of the States recently belonging to any it im otler States, and which laws contravene tho constitution of the United jaw of Congreas pagsed in conformity “p no more, Rather rejo.ce, for youre has begn a lot of rare felicity. You have seen and vise | against a portion been a part of all the greatness of your country, the tow- — used for an unconstitutional purpose, would it not be a ‘Where: She himself, six ye: 0, do the same thin, $ f (Mir. Sheman) A are ago, ra Gunner of constitution tha eis will bo to tive Si ate Mr. SuxRMAN was glad that this matter had been re- | we are in in our endeavors to preserve the Union in- of the ge fevredte. If he supposed that the army was to be used | tact; therefore, it hi form ves into for an unconstitutional pee be wi Rerolved, be agg! do hereby gy Jato foment tion a the game time he would observe. all the rules of order opinion It be net for the purpose which onght to govern the action of memberson that floor. pose any © had formerly dona ws But at | organizal _ inion it be necessary) in maintalning the permanency Union of Rates, aid we do hereby Agree. 10 abide by the tution of the United States and 4 ie a. 2 bee by the by- Mr. Sicxuys, (opp.) of N. Y., said—It is entirely just | tion by section, ther with a ieaemen and couformal Deakin all our parliamentary printing and distribution of & ies. jovs of the day. The House is consideriag an appro- mY ion bill, an4 debate should be allowed upoa itr In | Lix,ceanGere, Sa coe eee clectioa of perm. te ) af Ohio, said sueh remarks were Fie Teoneué with the geatleman from Vin inia (Mr. Gar- | nent or temporary captain. "The latter was fiaally agreed , Dill. thereto, ought to be repealed. Secondly-—Experience in pinion, that domestic ering national greatnesa of the world, Weep ouly you, Dnited States, cont! ly enlarg) thei Se ee and weep with ail the bitterness of anguish, who are jus tance, have now treaties with Fran blic aflairs has conilrmed existing in any State, cer:); Dut I dissent from his declaration that the Preai- | to, with the tbat tho election Of, tho permanent ‘The Cam decided against general debate, and was sus- } de: is using or means to use the army and navy for an | officer shouk {ake place at the first regular meeting im steyping on the threshold of life; for that grontnoss perish- es prematuyely and exists not for you, nor sor apy that shall come after us. Tho’ public prosperity | how ments are industry in fruit; mining of all the inetals; com- quain' Jands, Great Britain, Sweden, Prussia, Spain, 2u: mark, Mexico, Brazil, Austria, Turkey, Chile, Siam,” Mus- eat, Venezuela, Peru, (reece, Portugal, New Grauada, ly loft by the constitution of the United States ex clusively to the care, management and disporition of that State; and if it wore'in my power, I would not aiter the constitution in that respect. tained by the House. ima, Houndor, Hanover, Hesse Cassel, Wurtemburg, | could it survive the storm? Its If misapprehension of my the navy. Sir, said Mr. unconstitutional purpose, The President has solemnly | February next, i the | declared to the world that he does not possess the powcF | third regiment, N. ¥. 5. M., was choecn on the first Re by oe pedal to coerce a State, and that Congress has no such power. ballots .’ ” 4 Pryor, Bo } J ipsist he has done no act mconsistent With inose decla- | Tho election of an orderly it wae then proceeded the laudable bene- | rations. Nor ts it right to assume that he will, with, and Mr, W. P, Holl, was for that position on China, Bavaria, Saxony, Nassan, Switzerland, Mecklen’ burg-rchwerin, Guatemala, the Hawa ian Islands, San Sal- ee tee Lam Wiliag to, vous it : mato i Jong as the navy was engaged in pervees ee Cy Beet eee n amendment of tho constitution, declaring that i ¥ the interests of the coun- | measures taken and to be taken to preserve and defend | the first ballot. discovery, and sustaini the forts and arsenals are only in the performance of a Mr. F. M. Patrick was fet ye ae elected Secretary. that knows no obstacle and has no end; invention that ticent enterprise ot protect: ranges throughout the domain of naire; increase of vador, Borneo, Costa Kica, Peru, Bremen, the Argentine od the human mind can'oxplore; per- Confederation, Loo Choo, J. agnay. Nevertheless shall not, by any future amendment, be go altered as to Fongress a power to abolish or interfere with our tiag against foreign attacks, Ishould | duty imposed upon the Executive by the constitution and | 4 motion was made have accorded it a that the Common merous support. But now, sir, since | the laws. It is as much the duty of tho President te de- | Council be petitioned for a drill room. purpose of bub fend Fort Sumter against all trespassers as it would boto | ‘The foknos ‘which ombraced quite @ number of mili- fection of art ag high as human genius can reach; and so- cial refinement working for the renovation of the our successors prosecute noble objects in the midst of brutalizing civil coa- What guarantees will capital invested for such purposes have, that will outweigh the premium ofiered Sates, within thoir entire existence under the federal constitution, haye had flagrant wars with only four States, two Of which were ingigni coast ‘of Barbary, and amounting to reprisals and they are now at p: slevery in ae, ‘Thirdly—While I think that and sovercig authority to legislate on all eubjecta what- common Territories of the United States; nad while | certainly shalt nover, directly or indirect!y, my vote to establish or sanci haz exclusive for the humiliati gating Southern States, and tary despotism upon the people, whe are. beyond that of ff pression, 1 would sink it in the efore I would grant it one farthing. cant Powers, on the roke of a mi bave had direct sainst ouly two or thre: Nant against jon slavery in such Terri- Moopest abyse of the ocean or agywhere elsg in the world, yet the ques employ all the resources at his command to defend this emen, then adjourned great be ofnocrime | Capitol, where we are deliberating assiduously and car- a ‘the ‘eee ‘® cockade, to be worn by the ee ae ane between the | members of the company, was exhibited. It consists of North and the South. a red and white rosetie, with blue ribbons, “4 enclosing 4 As the bulwark of | "Mr. Sraxrow (rop.) of Ohio, always claimed that the | brass medal, on which are the words, **Cnstivation and by political and riiitary ambition? What leisure will or invention, or art, under th n of conscription; nay, what interest in them Unieu should be divice 1 them would need to mak + tion what constitutional laws shall at any time be Bow, and, of course, would passed in regard to the Territories, is, like every determined on —pructieal national defence, it invokes » mation’s rej en tind for study, instrument of death and desolation in fatricidal strife, | tlemen say, after reasonable time is allowed for ; the dread | minority shoul an epportunity todebate. If & the Union,” surrounded by thirty-three stars. A smaller exhibited, di from the other in cockade was also it deserves a nation’s execration. Sir, to my mind, the caw there shall be no factious opposition, he would tituti U.S, A. Dutton medal. The wos? distressing portent of these mest unhappy times i Ve no objection. c earn i y (ong a ppb nara As not yet been society feel when fear and hate shall bi sion of the national mimi? ice heed, for its golden wealth will become the prize the nation that can command the most iron. { war aa we now do. experience of other nations, that disinte Kun incvitably continues until even the { erumbies into many part Lot the miner in Californ: ho chvions and absolute prevalenco of military temper | Mr. Simwwas What do we see? An im- uncils of the nation, I would have p: said he was {willing, after consultation | deci , but it & aasimilate his friends, to sa for that he would not tsinesaeercarasks Maar eran », \mder the complete ascendancy of an | Submita motion to make the Army bill a special order Mr. Hassler desires us to state that he is not a son of dian will again lurk around r come back into vur densor n , the post roa? and th ‘aice not one furlong farther into the w With standing armice consuming the substa ad, and our navy and or ‘rom the oogan, who wil even kuow ‘by nam outofthe ruin of the Union w mocessity for as many treaties as w jucur liabilitios tor war as often It is the multiplication of tre want of confederation that makes war the eocioty in Western Europe and in It ie unio that, notwithstanding our world-wi ultimately aris ceforred; and yet under existing ci iefar the diffleulties | ining Territories would b: ovtained by sumilar laws providing for their organization, if sueb organization wore otherwise practicable. State, ander Um Wyan ight fo be, aud if tho organ‘e laws 0! al the otier Teriitories could be repealed, 1 cc ald vote to atom and admission of tw elude thea, re soldier; and the country, in | until after three be her history, ruled by che Nay- | sessions every gent! \d gd sense of the ad- | ©: led to ‘n the solution of its (ration no louger apy political disfientties, but the sword cast into the balance | s«tisfnetor £ sectional coi. Lie! to a saleontent pe tions of war to control and gubjact them to an Instead of measures o? conciliation 1 will not descend so low as to a eracies would nobie spectacle. an obnoxious g ‘bate, and by running into night | Commodore Hassler, ag mentioned in our report of ihe eman would have an opportunity to | first meeting, but isa ison of F. R. Hasler, late » his views. SI y ‘Coast arrangement or understanding scemed generally Sereeeeks Sete marveg. The Navy Appropriation bill was then passed. THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE ON COERCION » @, the government despatches men Adjourned. AND THE THREATENED ATTACK ON vorkrent. ‘Though THE DISUNION PROGRAMME. | WASHINGTON. no foreign foot treads the soi! of America with hostile (From the National Intelligencer, Jan. 11.) On the 9th inst. the following resolution was intro- ‘ons ot them wheneve ‘pose, troops are distributed and concentrated as iy to ‘The subjoined communication, disclosing the designs of duced in the Virginia Senate:— anient States; bu: I do not find that ave r: uld bo vonstrtationall, the ulterior embarrasemer repol imminent invasion. ing in the harbor . Mr, Suixrwix hope? Lhe gentlemen would conflae his | threatening a permanent dissolution of tho Uuion, comes Resolved, by the General Assewbly of Virginia, That 8 a and merchants p deseo it asa harbin e 0, or zueman wonid such a wmoasnre. those who have uadertaken to lead the movement now 1@ House. tous from a distinguished citizen of the South, who for- | committes be ted, consi two members betray go | renrly repre ev ig 3 State with great distinction in tho | the Senate and three of the Lewy cs = whose {conclude at once, | popular branch of Congress. Temporarily: sojourning in | dtity it shall be to represent res; to the Pr wident gidly to the disevssion of the | this city, bo bas become authentically informed of the | Of the United States that, in the it of this Gene- to say that, al- | facts recited in the subjoined letter, which he commani- ; Ts! Assembly, any additional «isp! ilitary power ip lace a sigual is ran up, which 6 «tar or a peline the strangor (hat thus steal ewer contemptnonsly given 1 nt course, onmely Loretgn foot treads the soil of host.c purpose, yot Groups are distributed aad coucen- | which he makes himeelf responsible. Nothing but assu- | @0d that the evacuation of Fort Sumter {9 the firat step rated as if to re: ist an imminen América with | cater to us under a sense of duty, and for the accuracy of | ‘he South will joopard the tranquillity of the foreign invasion. Forts | raaces coming from such an intelligent, reliable source j fo the restoration of union end harmony. are garrisoned with t intention of srbjugating | could induce us to accept the autheaticity of those start- » of the obscure republics of North Americ. Lastly, public iberiy, our own pec The resolution laid over nuder the ruies, and on the fol- Even in ths District | ling statements, which so deeply concern not only tho | lowing day was taken up for gction, aud the following Indeed every trealy we confederacies or mm get,and give vslating to inaugurate a xe republican py presence of a Commis Walls of Kome, bat it was for h Tor a tine, and hen vease to } of antique liber |; sionor General wituin 8 é 'y subject to vot on every law, aud for or against every ganic national law ought to welfare bat the honor of the Southern people. To them | SUbatitute was offered: wo subrait, without present comment, the programme to Whereas, in the present relations of the federal govorn- which they arc ex] to yieid their inuplicit adherion, | Ment to the severai states thet have by ordinance w tt- without any scruples cf couseience as without any regard | drawn their connection from thy United Suites, it will be iple with all its maxims of republican | to their own safety, impracticable to exectite such laws a8 may come in con- liberty to Danish those principles from the councils of a Wasarnarow, Jan. 9. 1961. flict with the positions these states have assumed, with- moat detestable and wicked odministration. (Ironieat Toharge that on last Saturday night a caucus was held in | Out coing violence to the genius of onr institutions and \ republican now—as Thave heretofore been a other purties existing in my day—I neve alweys done, the prine- ‘administers oF executes, ud j jes, constantly apprebending asso ulte with, formidable only to each 10 all beside, how long will it be 5 vie safety, they will surrender all ( estimable and unequalled liberty, and accept t) able espionage of military despot resident, What is the cause for ond ternal sacrifice of so much safet; portion t the numb Our disputes wi gon, the boundary of Maine, the patriet Canada and the island of San Juan—the v« between Texas and avo William Walker into ail these were ¢: hold and coerieh, as 1b ple tha: this government existe in its preseot formouly by the consent of the governed, and that it is a8 necesear; as it fe wise, to resort to the people for cevieions of tlie aud dauzers of the Slate delogaced by it te Ner omght the anggestion to « 41 aay form is @ machine; tie ie U the mii«lofman has ever invented, jaughter from the republican self within the limits of debate, be! om this oceasion avail myself of t warning to the peoplo of Virginia, thet the government ig making every warlike preparation to the tyrapny of f sionand force. J would ‘mplore eration of #afety and bonor, to pr tost that is rapidl th Great Britain a Confining my- > opportunity to give organty law wh War Was preventer « npertur bability of the federal government. s fewer causes of war, whether Just or .njust, than su.alier copfederacies would, but it ability to accommodate them by the 3, the use of more the digy ay, if need one’ knows how placavle we are in controversies with Great Britain, France ; and yet how exact se with New, Granada, + greatucss, happl- Fave foreign nations combined, and ‘ug in rage upon us? No, So far from re ig not £ nation on earth wh: an istorested, admiring friend. Even the Loudon Zimes, by no means partial to us, sayst— It is quite poaible that the lie may be solved by tts overthrow in a few daya in folly, selfishnece and short sightedness, Hag the federal government become tyraunical or op- pressive, oF even rigorous or unsound f tion lost its spirit, and all at once collay surprise. Goverpme: most complex one tht or the hand of man has over framed, ought to be expected that it will, at least es often as once in a century, require seme modiiications to adapt it to of society and alternations of empire. Lhold myself ready now , us always hereto. fore, to vote for any properly guarded be deemed necesury to prevent muttal invasions of Slates by citizens of Other States, aud punish those who shall aid and abet thom. government not only g.v Porfect nz it i= charge my duties always has a great exercise of more coolness api o yar.ous and more liberal means, De, of greater force. farious and tyranous warfai of Va., said that it would be unjast le of Virginia to permit the in- of his colleague to } did on (erms of equality with im. blem of @ demor 2 himself and 1 ammatory reply, standing as he He appealed to him to eed opp.) of Va., (hastily risin tho Chair to enforce’ th J we have been ip var raguay and Sen Juan eaident, no one will dispute , that’ the commoi into'a lifeless let- e rules of order on Cena | ay endangering the public tranquillity; therefore, ounolude T must Tiwas tbh ond thece tbentred in eect tc aaeatas to hottoe tho polation’ be sp Resolved, by the General Assembly of Viry That. power of the South, aud, 10 oyn:rol all fe pg politicaland mliitary oper ‘or ihe present, they tele- | We respectfully recommend to the Congreas nhject them to Pon rmplchen ety pepe. of seta forts, i and | States to or suspend all laws const! ports of . ‘advie-d the ¢ cia of compst | Eacaercananget at: cimatiefamdate | foc, aon aa, ad Bass, ta Gn te pare for the con- | Seer née the Convensione of the cee ta miniee he sorern” | exercise of all powers vested in him calculated to pa ‘meni here, ihe Conventions of the fare to re- | xe ~ Sooper’, yself, Iwill dis- | tain ‘heir representations in the Senate ana the House. Peace and quiet of the country in ite present excited y “y appropriation ‘They alec advised, ordered, or directed the seeembling of 8 condition. or an army and navy to be employe! inthis most me- | Convention of delegates frofy the seceding States at Mont | ‘The vote being taken on substituting the latter for the February. course original reeolution, it was carried by a vote of to Gclagaies ores wien a wiiliece | cleven, and the preamble aud resolution were ordered te without sit member ernment smiles more beni than ever, Th Vitthly—Notwithetaniing the argnmonts of the gallant om. from lel for the organine Oregon (General one), I remain of the opinion that physical bonds, such as highways, railroads, rivers and canals, are vastly more powerful for holding c'vil communities together than any mere covenants, though written om parchment or engraved upon tron. Teraain, therefore, constant to my Possible, the construction of two Pacific railways, one of around the mouths of the r the towns on the Missouri and the lakes, with the harbors on our western coasts, If, 1m the expression of these views, I have not pore) What is desired or expected by ‘many others, Will do me the justice to believe that 1 as as far from Daving sugpestet what in mauy reepects would have been in harmony with cherished convictions of my own. I learned early from Jefiorson that in political aiaire we cannot always do what sooms to us absolutely best, ‘Those with whom we muat necessarily act, entertaining different er apd the right of cacrying them ‘© must be content to lend when we can, and to follow whon we cannot lead; amt if we cannot at any time de for ovr country oll the good that we would wish, we must be satisfled with doug for her all the Tiaving submitted iny own cpininns t mains only Ww cheerfuie lend to the government my best support in tonergetic eliorts it shall make to Y and to saainta'n advising, only, tht it y ble the wimoet moderation, forbearn: And now, Sir. Presiiout, what 1 know that we of the States. is the safety of they remain united, the federal government combines ai the materisis and all the forces of the soveral on one general harmonizes and assimilates them ope system; watches for them with a single eye, which it turns in all directions, and moves all der Ube control of one executive bead. A nation 40 coa- etituted is safe against assault or cven insult. War pro. duces always 9 speedy exhaustion of money and a severe treasuries and credits of small eonfederacies would often prove inadequate. Thove of the | have thos far kept out of which must arise between the confede- ‘They would be small and inconsider- ing on cech other, and, therefore, ac- philosophy, natural evemios. ates whieh each mut meke with foreign Powers, and the causes of war which they would give by violating them, each of the confederacies must treaties with all the other them frequent interests rosuiting ishment of different policies of revenue, tures and mavigation, of immigra- Each would st) from V ia. and works to-day mor stitution is even the chesen tion of the newly rising. coufoderacice. The occasion is the election of « President of the United States who unacceptable to a portion of the peo) aceurately. There way no movement of disunion before the ballots which oxpreseed that union began as soon as the result was announced. (ication it assigned was that Abraham Liucotn had elected, while the success of either one of the other three candidates would have been acquiesord in, the election illegal? No, it is unimpeachable. Is the candidate personally offensive? No; he is a man of un- blemished virtue and amiable manners. went or extraordinary transaction? No; olaerwise desi form of choice is renewed Does any one even propose to change of Pa,—t.t's have fair play. not receive bc any black . Prvor—If the Hovse will accord the courtesy to Mr. Canwerr—We wilt can in this House. T state the cave yirpose Ww secure, it s oe were ome, Which shall conuest the strain opon eredit. Union aro alwi view the relat racer o able nations borderi cording to all polities addition to the many | Is an election of President an unfr we never had a chief m such election, aud views, have the by universal @ ion, is the one crowring franchise oi cam . To save it they would defy Ie it apprehended that the new President will usurp Whue he i of all men the most aio maintain despotic powers? No. upambitions, be is, by the partial success of his election, subjected to such restraints that he int a minister or even of mining, mam’ tion, and perhaps the » # with foreign uations for advantages peculiar to itsel If, indeed, it were necessary that broken up, it would be in the last degre importaut that the ew confederacies to be formed shoud be 2s noariy as possible equal in strength and power, that ruta! fear and mutual respect spire them with caution each equality could not long racy would rige in the scale of political {roportance, and t suenceforward wish dealousies wou ay that I shall cannot, without their consent, negotiate a (reaty, or can hardly draw @ mi arsenal to defend his own person. What, then, is the It is that the disunionists did not accept as conclusive the arguments which wore urged date in the canvass. Th: Were their own arguments against him more q ‘Of course they were Doos the conativution, in injurious to its rival the Union should ot from the public ground of discontent? of the country ? of alarms, and unavoidable in geaeons of temper! alrendy haye disorder, ond violence has | not to What «stent it tay go. stitution and in the Union sbide: ainet rautual offer © in the midet e maintained; one confet the succareful « satisfactory to his not; they cou ty colleague to kpoak, aud allow reply " marving wie cttent ‘ ni ae shen e: ve. eet, ir. GaRNerr—I will ayres to withdraw my objection on other of the United Staten heriion cling ie pie coualior Pre: | within the Tisita of ¥ to invade the District A Vowx-—1et that bo the understanding. tm A Omg ht of Columbia on or before 4th day of March next, panned bo cede ne oe ay eae arta earn ae Errenen i | fhe uote ‘lage tothe propery of tee Done 6 wade. the i Mr. Pryor appealed to Mr, Garnett to withdraw his Ea Gage, Cire, Jamul tees of fey,” sts ithin aid Durer te perpen o obmtveting Mr. Hm, (opp. of Ark, insisted oo the otjection. | Rave eerstedan herongh & mlltary and civ eaprtiom os | any gnc seizure or invasion would tend to destroy whe ‘or should be permitted to however, | “Ytis'..ot vimeut to foresee the form of eh ee eat Suny and te produce tumult, anarchy indiman) woul pot insiet on his point of order. | convention thud hui thrown age ‘at ery | 2nd bloodshed, and would be in derogation of the dignity opp.) of Ga., objected to any such under. | wil! a and ig peo- | ahd sovercign power of Virginia, who alone nas the 0 Was actuated by nothing but kind feeling, ne Ue ag “e ‘mili- to decide, through her regularly constituted au- His purposo was to juterpose against inflammatory debate, | 17 principles,” or It eannot endur who usurp what may be the proper mode of obtaining There were men on the other side willing to accept the | ™%" may be too ‘lar. Nothing may be Terees for any i she LK] be it therefore He could stand up for cousery able to arres! the aciton of revolutionary tribunals whose de. | Tesolved, by Assembly, against extremes everywhere. qomere Iy In “secret reset 1. That any such lawless and unauthorized conduct on BN ald wlan Petre "tn eae’ app he ane Se % 1 : oO cety ate, ee oc HORLEY Zt | "rant Sana tas ar ml 5 quorum here, Members are AS firm lig tho Intell 3 Governor be, and he is hereb; itr, Gatnads aobl ho hed Yotwoen tweed: three farman ny wr tay cit ih owt art frm te parpese of a : ef te “ettizas to engnes on sand amendments to o‘lor. ) ON J Washington correspondence of yesterday's Baltimore | Sov euch lawlcas ext fo, mga the pee ire Hovee wae here called to order to procure a quo- | "Tho lenders of the Southern movement are consulting | "ith which be is invested to proven! the etog cred ~ rato effect. Mr. Gaxerv: and Mr. Huxowin ineffectually eocght to | Santalerucy under s proviional gntemmment Tee tei oul af ede wir, aiiayfald, Beforo thd motion was ut, he won | 12 mMKOS om hay. Coamacae th tole of Obamas at i ri ey te fremkip what hap-enseot eae te q wid Jeierson Davis nder-in-Chief of the army A mooting was heli in the Bupreme Court (generat ng the bill, Ho | defence. Mr. Hunter posseeses in a more eminent de- | torm) room yesterday, to express the sympathy mts of logiti- | cree the philosophical characteristics of Jeil*rson than , Eps a ane Peta atory ware cange my faith ia circumstances of th ture and charactor ¢ ia, for the people of this require or imply that oniine hinself riety within the wisdom aud virtue of the American people remains Coolness, calmness aud reso.ution are They have boon temporarily H41 have the na. Dissolution, therefore, mins debate? I remedy for this 2 conclude within that * ments of thoir Inevitable diesatisfaction any otley statcoman now living. Colonel avis ts a gra- legal profession at the demise of ex-Judge William Kent. daate of West oint, wae distingaishod for gallantry at | Tie mecting wae not as large as many which had boom f wit Ibave 7 Wa vod, sir, that It wan one of the oldost privileges or | Such Viste, aud served as Socr of ar under V're- | held on former similar occasions, though the bench and cisplaced, but they are r cecasional rest, what else trost, for safety, it will be they ‘aosopt Dui the Dalance of power whi which the few strong on which all the oth rebearing in a subsequeui election. co#eful majority perverted power to purpoees of oppres. Have the now suc- atiaméntary body, eapeo iy, ao- vs to,l tradithons OF the Mother Country. aswell a io3 Whon tho government hecere vr e they represented, Up to this we GINTA. wally © popular are to undarralie privileges a How gladly, how proudly, would the o> mtry. Whatever dangers thore shol! bo, thera will tn hem; whatever sacrifices, the determination to inect ae sident Leroe, ari i not second to General Scott im mili- tary Belunce oF courage, the bar wore well represented. Judge Ingraham wag nominsted 8 President, and Judges Bette, Hoffman, Woodrutl, Prady, Daly, ox-Chief Justice Bronson and Mr. baye aowed al! the appropriation bii's to pass wituout TO THE ETITOR OF THB HERALD. Tord, Vice Presidents. Secretaries, Messrs. Wm. Fuller ¢ the questions, which have Hanvan’s Freer, Jan. 0, 1961 ton, Alex. Hamilton, Jr., and J. D. Carter. wor the future of the country, Your issue of (ifs morning contains an extract from Judge INGRARAM explained irman himsel’ must knew that never ia bi : the object of the meeting, ence had the appropriation bilicorthe counter paseod eth | U2 Wheeling Inéliigencer, which, as « citizen of this | and spoke in feeling terms of the deceased. ; so little obstruction, and go Hite coument, and with go | Place, I feel constrained to notice, The facts are these:— The Hon. Jony Van Brrew, after some few feeling re. We have now come to the | Major Stuart came to our town on Friday last, and re- y roposed the following resolustons:— Military and Navy Appropriation bills. The Hous 5; t ry and Navy oy on ~ iy ; ou homestead ported himwelf to the second officer im charge of the armory nat members of the bar of the city of New York this hateful. system igh nations would Intervene, now iu favor of one aud then in aid of another; and thug ovr country, having ex- from the continent form of ite colonial experi- urkey, India and China, become aire of transatlantic intervention and rapacity. wever, we grant to the new confederacice an ex- e wt from compications among of any nation in kurope accept, on enjoy it, the boon of eactin four yeare by free, equal an thankfully would they cast aside all their own aystome of ints republic of oar: debate, and without diese sing @ chief magistrate every | important an infu universal auifinge | 1 feel sno "bat the hour hes vot come for t ‘Lis people, which lias heen study- ing (0 become wiser and better ag ‘it has grown older, is or wicked eteugh ta desorve so dreadtat This Union bar government, and shortootmings and its disap their arms and cherisls it and severe) punishment ar not yet accomplished what rood for mankin’ was mant- festly designed by Him who appoints the scasons and prescribes the duties of States and empires etion todoy ie would ried again {t# majestic proportions to-morrow. ment that can that madly lifte hia band against \t, turd; and men, in after times, sell declare that this generation, whieh saved the Union from such sudden and unlooked for danger nanimity even that one which laid eteraal principles of | boriy just presented m mortals from e town of York praying for the adoption of the compromise moasurcs of Mr. Crite a thoir bearte! is it not the very boon for whieh they enpplicate God without ceasing, and even Wage war, with intermissions only resulting from exhaustion? How strange are the times in which season on one side of the waged to obtain, a system as ore: little fuctious opposition, each other and with bere 2 too ee AS ag maintain a republican Universal raffrage ‘and thea y are essential to the republican et to see a single self-sus. oreven any confederation Canada leans and = Switverland every body kne poses to use the : ba navy _ — War, a* we call tof enforcing the laws, a8 they call it. | peen ordered by the governny ington to trans. We know that they are designed to act againet certain own what pots gms be Now, then, under these circumstances, I would a.bmit to gentlemen opposite whether it is not ip order for us to debato this question, and for us to re- foe to appropriate money to sustain an army and navy to be used for auch purposes. order for us t introduce @ it were cast down b fond reappear in It is the only gover The coming spriny Atlantic will open on a general conftict through whate ver indirection, just ave and on this side of the Atlantic, within the same parallels of latitude, it will open on fraternal war moment of frenzied discontent, to overihrow hilate the same institutions. for themselves, to revenge their own wrongs vatify their own ambition’ live least of all for themselves, and chiefly for pos. terity and for their fellow mon? Have the Américan peo- en, become all of a eudden wnnatural, as well as wo ef and will they disinhe precious estate only hel the world of the best hopes it hae man race began its slow and form of government Bence of a «tandiny The world has tuning State of on Great Britain not ie jfuaranteed by own experiment has thus fe continual addit © muirjeaged in mag: Do men indeed tive only foundations tn the 6 fonidations in the of how States, the infla- he Union is constant » Of couree, oan foretell the way and manner of troyel: but histor: ‘with nerying certaint, fedormeies would reach Nife intolerable; and they w chese tranquillity aud do render of liberty, and vicli themselves up to the citizens of Phil rit their childreu of the in trust for them, and deprive ed ince the ha- inful, yet noodful the — American Union; but the end which th Licentionsness would ren. wid sod@er or lator pur f Ohio, presented a petition for the Pacific railway subject THE DEPICIENCY APPROPL\MION Mis. of Va., reported back the House | the government is fast of divi | Bere—-the Super:ntenden: being absent—etating that he had whe eat ir late eapocate, Willam Kents? *™ t in contemplating the character of our decemsed brother we naturally and fondly revert to those ities of his mind and heart which graced hia personal and intercourse; to his ever cheerful temper, his warm affection and genial sympathies, hie frech and playful spirit, and to rare, varied and extensi: i classical neh ri and seg richness, ang fais fa soc ered toemy cohen Souded in oeamniog wt athy aod many tebe om 7S prompliy Jost, to us forever, we should q the Major to arters hie men. dis- us, we omit to testify our fei ni tes abi, ers whe ml | ett RNG roa hare car | a placa of a at WI a sitered an Tunreasouable privitere oe this pact of’ the. | cirgulated all sorte of rumors in to this atin, 1 Lm pe sls. tegring a striet sense of 3 for an army and navy to bo so employed. T contend that | oy 'wane and marched Under tho tar. and_ eigen to re onal ne grant name becoming converted jnto a mili- them % of mili¢ary despotism, or twe details undey thie he: sixt,¥ dayesinco this dieunion movement e engaged in it have ¢ ‘tentougs ;Yeodom the poesible recombina rates when dhWevered, and tho feae\ble alli ances of Uese recombinay.m8 ¥ th PDuropean uations allanese appateral, and wh th would prove ult mately ag peetiien ial 70 society bere, @& that of the Tiaseaians Indulge me, sir, in one navy are about being | Ci¥e the expected troops _and escort y, if not to exhaust the argument, at ‘The disunionists, con- sble to stand on their mere disappointment in (> enlarge their har existed a con- ane of amendmenta, striking in the clause for the suppression of the and inserting $500,000; uleo that fixin, compensation rnd mileage of Sen miscellaneour expenses at $3,006: THE PAULING The” Mr. Doourrtrr, thorizing Commo marke o distinction from the Nicare, the recent lection More than thirty yea F derable—thoogh not heretofore citizens In certain States situate near or around the delta who believe that the Union ia less con ‘are and greatness of those States than a ‘at $13,000 and their submit that ft is but fair and fur! mitted to show this in fair debu Of the Mieaiseipp 6 ft ki dueive to the wel nike withdraw all ters prepared for them. They did not arrive, however, a ized by the ples of gen, | VBtll the following Monday. ten 6 tn aloes sey a, ott nineerg, eam. (ake thie courre, I copy of these resolutions, signed by the offid thia hat we should be per- INDIANA. meeting, be transmitted to them, ak ba aes policed from Ohi (Mr Sherman) even now says thal he wil | ‘The First regiment Of Orgaaised militia of Indiana, | "Mee BT kitting, sys pong om Ohio s e e Five . Sillimas “ ut to debate the Aemy Appropriation bill f | through 1 6meors, has tendered Governor Wg Justice of ‘Sirens jon. It must | Mocofiin, to asmist in quell ile or h we are @ minority on this | othor unlawful outhreake a nged, who promi d them reveny> upom emailer confederacy, enemige the Arter, be. This class hag i thanks,a sword and twenty be ob ions to all that, ‘recing only slave States, woud H aida, uaat woe ati) baye the power to delay the pasnage of Mynilod itself of the discoptenge ro- ' national acy ahould threaten Mentucky.