PUBLISH= DAILY, (Strt7liA.YindtrgPTlD,) ity„ ;Gum W. FORNEY. • • • OFTIOIC NO. 411.011LESTNIIT BISEET .PltlEB56 fiStift.Pi2dliiitil td ilia &Old i. tiiibigintiists out of tin) City Doiziois Finn ANNOLr . Peon rjoLLAILS 70±t .6:0132. THEN!, DOLT,ARO roa &x Monrus—iirinrianly in ad vance for the time ordered. TAI-WEEIUY PRESS. Mailed to on!nrOribers out of the City et Timis Dot.- LAM Aniqnx; in advance. SHIPLEY, HAtARI), & •liUTCHINSON, 10.112 ORESTROt UOMMISSIO.N" MERCHANTS FOR TRH RALF: OF Pi-iILADELPHIA-MADE 4400D5. iNRl4tn _ _ WASHINGTON MILLS, roDAIDDLY DAY MUD MILLS verki. pepople4aild Pniited TABLE CQVER,i3, WON Bkii.VEitB , CLOTHE, A 1.1 SKIRTS DpEal,rips, and Double and Twietod COATINGS. 84 SACKINGS, and Heavy ZEPHYR CLOTHS. Twilled and Plain FLANNELS and OPERA PLAN NELS, • Printed FELT CARPETINGS, For file by PROTHINGLIAM WELLS, 34 South FRONT Street. and 35 LETITIA Street GROCERIES. NEW FRUIT. Mick, tAtEit. ANJ skEDLEts RAI.BIIIII, titißitAkat, diTitOff, ({RAINig/. AL HER' b. ROBERT'S, FYNE oßdp.pitxts. „.„ nda Comer ELEVENTH and VINE Eltreati, FAMILY FLOUR, MADE FROM gROIOE WRITE wan', 0. H. MATTSON. N. W.aor. /AGE and TENTH attests. sell SEWING MACHINES. WHEELER & WILbON. Prices Reduced, N0v.15, 1860. SEWING MAPHINES. 648 OREt3TNUT STREET -13ROORD FLOOR not-Sra HARRIS' BOUDOIR SEWING MACHINE. No. I—FOR FAMILY ÜBE. Ito. I—A: NEW MAOHINE, FOR QUILTING AND . HEAVY WORK. Both sew from twoeiloole without the trouble of re- Mlgalinr, and rune Vritil little or no noise . For male M No. 720 ARON Street, Philadelphia, and 80. T 3 BALTIMORE Bt.. Baltimore, Md. ia1.2.8m LOOKING GLASSES. LOOKING -GLASSES, POATBAIT AND PIOTDRN lINABDNi 111.af‘ic 14.16 OIL PAMTNION, sc, kg. JAIEB 8. EAGLE & BOK, INIPOASERS, _MARESS_, WHOLE SALE IND RETAILDEALERS. SARLES , GALLERIES, 116 crEnsminrw irrlllaßli. WATCHES, JEWELRY, &c. MOM BEST GOLD JEWELRY-THE 1 BEST GOLD JEW I: NICK.. ANOTHER. ANOTHER - - LARGE CONSIGNMENT S. O F F R GOLD AND PLATED GOODOM A HROKEN-UP A BROKEN-UP A BROKEN - -UP N SFACTUR l A a R BROKEN-UP A. No Galvanized, Gilt or Gift Jewelry sold in our Estab lishment. IT IS IT IR IT IS IT IR ALL GENUINE 60110 AND ELATED GOODS. DEAN tr.: CO.'S DEAN & CO.'S DbAN & CO.'S DEAN & CO.'S ORIGINAL $1 STORE. N 0.338 CHESTNUT Street, third store below Fourth, • • "affair' CALL AND pCK:11( ASP ti9KETIMIN NEW t geilty,AT eiiikg oii. — *Tow •Iv:pirre. or JEw AY CHAINS, &o. ALL FOX 81 BACH. A large and splendid assortment of Jewelry to be sold Vincent/oyard to cost. YOUR CHOICE FOR 81 F.aCR. The following list oompriscs some of the articles sold at this establishment for $1 each. it borne impossible to enninente them ell in circular form. Call and examine t°r lsi cn i e r ris tv enld Splendid Cameo Sets, Genor s a ti l Retail gall . dri. do. Lava do.:—:.10 to 20 E, do. do. Carbunolelote..—. Bto 30 !Adios' Enameled and Coral do.--- 7to SO Ido. do. and Cartuloole do-- to 30 do. do and Rubs do-- to iM Gold cluster Grape letting Beta do.—.-1 to So do. do. Vase do. do-1 to 30 do. do. let let do. do--- to 12 dm Black Mosaio do, d 0......... to 13 - do. Gold - scone Mosaic do. d 0.......... to 12 .it.. e Do slice Seta - to 12 .„ • • Do. Ribbon Twists, with brillianie de...—. 6to 15 Do. Bouquet Sete: new style do. do-- Bto 50 Dn. Enamelled clusterdo. do.lo to 50 Over 360 other &derma Myles Ladies ' Jewelry; Me dation', sit patterns, and sixes; Lockets of every desenptien ; old Peni,ll karat. with Silver Extension Holder ; Gel Pencils Gold Thimbles, Plated Silver Were, dßieve BuVone,' Studs. &0,, &e.; Coral, Lava, Cameo. sad Band Bracelets ; Omits' Vest Chains. war ranted t wear for ten years without (Manning color, wiUstand the and, They are usua l sold by jewellers as solid gold chains, A.ll made M Paris. You mss take your choice for 81 each. Ladies' and Gents' Guard Challis, *leach, usually sold by jewellers at from 3111 to 150 each; Ladies' and Childrens Neck Chain., bambini patterns ; Armlets, brilliant, enamelled, and ruby, settings; Clones, plain and enamelled, for .n.A. retail prices from 85 to 810 each. Every style and variety of Jewelry and desirable goods for 81 each This sale, at the above prices, will continue long enough to sell off' oar immense Moak. which was pur chased at a groat 115011E00 from manufacturers who have failed. Call add see the best stock of goode.in Philadelphia. Terme cash. • Take oat choice for 81 each. . No sales to exceed one dozen of any one kind of goods at the shove Prices, miles" at our option DEAN & CO., • No. 333 CHESTNUT Street , Philadelphia. 'Co those who order goods by mail, roust send 15 cents etto nti pay powage on a single article ; on two arti cles: mtg. and 9 cents on each additional article. te3l.lm*, PINE WATCH REPAIRINC. I PERSONS HAVING FINE WATOLIES ghat have hitherto given no satisfaction to the wearene ere invited to bring them to our store, where ell detests can be remedied by thoroughly skilful and sedentiao workmen, end the watch warranted to me entire satisfaction. Mantel Clocks, Magical Bove, carefully put In eon:Vete erder. , FARR fIRoTHER, - fieporters of Watches. Musical Sexes. Clooks. Sgo.. .411,11 m - • 3U4 CHESTNUT k treat, below Fourth. BREAD. pour AND ()UEAP BREAD, MANUFACTURED BY THE ' MEC3BANICIAL BAKERY. SAN BA OISTAINSD AT THE NOLLOWINS . , PLACES: sizonianom, BAKERY, 3.. v W . cf i le t r s of Broad and C.5L'CLAHH............-,—Poplar street, below Tenth. it, B. corner Sixth and Coates street. SATE° k. SON,— - NO North Fifth street. JOHN G. HONEY— —.No. BIN Vine street. T. P. SMITH..— No. North Fifth street. 8. 800 Y —B. E. corner Fifth and erltlettW. MATHEWS. koaaAeenth and Locust streets. D. KNIGHT. Ir .. -..... —Broad street, below WIG tiiiORHB GARVIN—L.4,IHO Linnbard street. 0.-0017JUITFEY,-...-... --N. W. corner Sixteenth WM COGRTNEY-,...4.-.Nr. d litl ne s s oltrkwelfta S. X. WANAHAILEX —F sheet. Street, above Ri VPB LENTZ— CornHou a th t Fourth end Johnston f=L. HOLLAND.— S..ce enthan fIAVINNAGDLEP---Nt id gi 1413 . Eleventh Stree t below S. 8. —lt. r ° l l 3lo " North n 'HEWES.— r d " . r oomer of Seventh F. MORRIS..._ —ll7 W. Vri s i t e r : e l tr enth and E. D. ' A r il% Front street. SHUSTEII--_ --S. W. corner Broad and . a ra ng r =oLthi—......cornßOlavauh istreet B. S. BOWN----N:t corner Nin th and Federal streets. J. MoINTYJI.E...-;-----Twos tes. enty.second street, at. C ALEX. FULLERTON. Cr a ler of Fifth and Chris- MIA E. ReIdBLED 7 .- ! —No. &Coates street D. F. & T. W. WOLF ---.6as Girard avenue. Wit. MCCRACKEN.....r tio7 Hamilton street. R. E. y ikt ri.ger of t Twelfth an autrus con j, d f r l e hl . rteenth I'OPPEB and PArrlll; street. " eavtiBEB.F.ELLum—,_s,r comer and c J. L. 11:. e t. e ., store no C. H. West Philadelaia,Nl th at. =Ye e nt rdr"4 N. L. YARN ELL,-----I JOEN BAXEDT-,..--Trp e v a it and Pine Grose: OEO. D. TOWNEEDVD.—. West Chester, Penn* --Atlantic City, N. J. M. NORTON. 11. F. /1113111.Fatt Columbia, Pa. —*Florence, N. J. ARTIE & QUAYLE'S ANAL STATIONERY. TOY , AND FANCY GOODS Al .I' 0 .1? U 111, 10ao WALNUT STD,e,ET, ntcow "E"NrIdARELrIitA, VOL. 4.---NO. 141. NEW PUBLICATIONS. THE CONSTITUTION & oP +AR , tINIT111) STATES. Just published. in neat pamphlet term. Single copies 9 cents ; 82 per hundred. The Trade malted by RO & TOUsEY, Wholesale Agents, No.• 1:11 NASSAU Street, Of by the Pubishers, FRAN(Ib- HART ez ie.4-et, ICS till diURTLADO Street. New fork. 6. G. EVANS' * Ity4 39 CFI P.:STNITTitt;Tei_ ,BUY YOUR BOGKR AT EVANS'. Altßooke are sold au cheap mat any other store, and sou have the advantage of renewing a handsome Olt with each Book. You eon get 1.4.1:117 AND FRESH'COPIBB of alt the Standard 'Books in every deem tment of Lite rature, together with ^ • • ,ALL THI; NvW BOOKS .ita noon •ari •unutiehed, and a Gift worth from One to One Hundred foliate with gash: Determined to maintain the high reputation ntrradtt bestowed upon our enterprise, toe shall present to our customers a superior quality and greater assorttnent.o Gifts than heretofore, and guaranteed to give seass faeS ion. . . REMEMBER. That ever/ Purchaser of a B<Ok. to the amount of 81 or upwards, will reofflVO a handsome Present, whereby they hay.) FOR vantag P RlCE taining TWO GIFTS THE OF ONE. And in many installer!, the value reamed will be a hundred fold the amount invested. TO THE PROOF. Call in, and one purchase will assure eon that the bed place in the city to buy Holidarßooke. is at GFORGE G. EXAM' GrFT• BOOK ENTABLISkt hIENT. No. 439 CHEB MUT Street, I•hlladelphia. Ptmnsars rutting the city are reepeotfully invited to mill and examine Ole large collection of Hooke. deli tt _ _ _ . IWI. LTNIIAY .#o IiLARIS'i!ON'4I L. PIitBICIAN'S irISITINU LtBT Fart Ikt. ,: . . Pnee for 25 ritiehta, c10th,neittb1e.,............—.. 60 1 . ,i , teatherwith tu5k5,......—. 76 for 50 Patients, cloth., f1exib1e...,...--....--• 76 A • leather p ith tuoks.--.. 00 for 100 Patients,/ vol., tucks ----......"....: 00 00 " 1 2 v 015.,. tu0k5,..—............ 200 L . • INTERLEAVED EDITION. Prise for .2.5 Patients.?ree k le. bound in c10th ..... .. .. 75 " 26 tucks with poekets....l 00 it 00 .. oloth.-- " 60 ~. tune with Pockets— • a 2 5 ALSO. . . .. DIARIES of all kinds, It v . a . rious bindings. for 1861. BLANK. BOOKS of all kinds on hand or made promptly to order. LINDSAY & BLAKISTON, Publishere. mei 03 SOUTH BIRTH St., above Chestnut. BOCK BUYERS.—Gentlemen: I have taken the Basement Of the Philadelphia Bank, 419 CHESTNUT Street, where I will continue to buy and sell (as 1 have heretofore done at the Custom house Avenue Book-stand) old and new Law end Mis oellaneous Books. I have for gale upwarde of 100 old black-letter Books printed prior to the year bcie. Alto, a coil crErmmue on the New Teetatuent, I vole., 4to, printed In le4B. Prim ex). I will oleo deal in Engravings and Autographs. Fames at a distance Wishing to s el l Books, desoribe their names, dawn. a. ses. oonditiona t and vYIOBS. Pgrarallitt Lava of eenneyl vania, and old Books upon America wanted. an6-4m JOHN CAMPBELL. HOLIDAY PRESENTS. HOLIDAY PRESENTS FOR GENTLE -11-1. MEN.—NEW STYLE Gentlemen's 'WRAP PERS SCARFS SCARF•TIES TIES. MUFFLERS, Brantot DEREb BOOMS, edam, GLOVES, &0., suitable and useful holiday presents. at J, yV. SCOTT'S, _ _ 131.4 9iiEsTri UT Street. delB A tow doors below the Continental Hotel." FURS I FURS GEORGIE F. 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A4- _____ . =,---;:_•--.2.1_,-_,) • 4, .5• ..'el' 4 0 --i - • • ' •-,. i'o7l4w•rz; , -tZ . ,4 ,,, ,_ _-----4-' - _.- __ 4 "r•llt,/ ..• , I P z ..P . ... - ,r. ___,-•_...-__...-- ~......... - C .: N.... 1 -----,--,_A---'--...,,--,,.--,--,---.__. -........ [.. FURS. TERMS JOB PRINTING. PATER BOOKS, CIRCULAR% - BILL READS HANDBILLS. LABELS SIERCHLNTS, MANUFACTURERS, MBOHANICS, HANKS 01 vit,g6,, 14013bAY, JANUARY 14, 1801 Official Responsibility In an ordinance lately published by the Em peror NAPOLEON, be informed the French people that ,it wal his purpose to give them something like a Constittition; Hitherto, his SoVereign will has been the inbstitnte. The main features of his programine, evi dently drawn up in imitation of the English system, are three in the first, he proposes to permit the pub notion, of all Legislative, discussions—in the Moniteur ;. which is the official Gazette. This is not English. In England, the Government takes no care for the publication of the Par liamentary debates, leaving that to be done, and well done, by the competitive capital, enterprise, and talent of the daily newspapers. But, if NAPOLEON confine the privilege of publication to the Government gazette, it will be said, not without just grounds, that there is no guarantee for the publication being faithful and full. It will be suspected that passages in speeches, if not speeches in full, will be garbled or ouppresgod. The second privilege is that the !Liberty of the Press shall be allowed. But, on discuising thin proposition, it appears that M. do Pzusta rri, the new Prime Minister of Pranee, really has not a correct notion of the lilx4ty or the Press,, as it is enjoyed in England and the united States. Ho understands it as the right to publish facts and opinions—provided that they meet with the entire approbation of the French authorities. He would allow the news papers to publish anything that he approves of. Clearly, then, this privilege is as shadowy and unreal as the other. Without fair freedom of discussion, the liberty of the press becomes an " Unliubidantal pageant faded." Lastly, it is proposed that the Ministers of State—actually the heads of the great depart ments of the French Government—shall have seats in the Legislature, ex officio, in order to propose, discuss, vindicate, and, when neces sary, alter their measures, but not to have the power of voting, though they May have the same privilege of speech whiCh ordinary nahna hers possess. This is an important suggestion, worthy of consideration. In England, with very rare exceptions, the members of the Government have seats in the Legislature. Some, as poets of Parliament, in the House of Lords, by hereglitery right: others, by the exercise of the popular fran chise, in the Douse of doriimons. All publid measures are brought forward, iri Parliament, by the Ministry—each head of a department plainly stating the principles and provisions of the measure, if within his peculiar jurisdiction. Thus, Mr. GLADSTONE, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, initiates measures of Finance— his great field-day being that on which ho brings forward what is called The Budget, or general statement of the pecuniary ways and . means of the national Revenue. Thus, also, to Lord Joan Russann would properly belong the opening of 'measures connected with Vo relga Relations; to Sir. CHARLES WOOD, all details relating to India; to the Duke of Soil- EasEr, whatever bears upon Naval affairs; to Mr. VILLIERS, all legislative propositions in relation to the Poor, and soon. W here the principal of a Department sits in the Lords, a jriniorofficial in the Commons replies to in quiries and takes charge of measures in that house, and vice versa,. In simplest words, then, the English practice is that the political Members of the Adininistration shall Mt lb Parliament, to explain what they intend doing, and to defend what they may have done. Thus, within a general responsibility oh the Government, there is a personal responsibility on the head of each public department. More; over, each and all of the Ministers vote upon their own measures, which is wrong. In this country, as every person knows, nd member of the Government, not even any' oflico-holder Whatever, can have a seat either in the r edam or the Heine of Representatives. This has many advantages—but coupled With the drawback that the members of the Go- Vernlnent thereby' encapp, that cross-question ing, and aVold that responsibility to which hey aro subjected in England. • NAPOLEOD'a plan appearii to be a conaprO- Millo between the two systems, English and American. He desires to have the members of the Government tonStantlY in the tegiald ture, to pl'ep . aro, propolao, explain, and doleful public measures, as is done in England; but he will not let them vote. The advantage of this deprivation will be seen when we state that, on a division upon a party question in the English Utilise of bonidion's, front seventy to one hundred members holding office under the Crain vote in favor of the Minii3try, We can imagine, without any very great ef fort of fancy, how different would be the pre sent condition of our public affairs, it the members of Mr. BUOIIANAN'I Cabinet—nay, if Mr. BIJOIIANAD himself, like Lord PALitcasTox in the Ilona° of Commons—had seats in our National Legislatnre, with the full English la. thud° of having to propose and explain then own measnres,. aye* their principled, and de fend their conduct. In such a position, there could be no shuffling, no weakness, no treason. Mr. Conn, our late Finance Minister, would speedily have been checked in his monetary mismanagment. Mr. FLOYD would have had to answer for his complicity with Southern treason. Mr. Buena:cue himself would have to state what his purpose was—provided, in deed, that he had acted, in this crisis, with any definite purpose or principle at all. Financial Condition of the Country. Nothing could better illustrate the sound financial condition of the country and the ge neral prosperity which prevailed before the commencement of the present troubles than the comparatively small number of failures Which haim occiirred since 1867. In a statement made on the first instant, in the annual circular of the Mercantile Agency of Dun, BOYD, & Co., of New York, the following aggregates aro presented: Yottre. Ao. of Ftolures. Lisbi{iti! s, 4 D3T 4291.750, 1858 »..4,4/25 "so A laito Proportion of the failures of 1860 doubtless occurred during the months of No vember and December, whenwithere was anun expected and unusually severe stringency in the money market. It these difficulties bad not occurred, the liabilities of the delinquent establishments would, probably, hate beeh•• even less than in 1853; And, hot Withstanding the panic, the number of firms failing was lower in 1880 than in any previous year since 1856. There was never more real, intrinsic wealth in oar country than at the present moment. Balloting for Senator. A correspondent from liarriebarg says : I notice, in your report of the ballotings for United Mates Senator, that tho Hon. James Pollock is reported ae having received but eoven votes on the first bal lot. The report, without Immo explanatton, is calculated to injure the standing, and create a wrong impression of the popularity, of ono of tho beat and purest atateamen within this Common wealth. For reasons entirely satiefaistory to the friends of Governor Pollook, his name was withdrawn, by the gentleman who nominated him, before the first ballot was taken, consequently be was not a can. dilate before the Republican caucus. Notwith standing this, a few of his ardent friends and ad mirers still persisted in voting for him. Had his name not been withdrawn, his vote upon the first ballot would hays equalled that of any other gen tleman before the caucus. A MEMBER OF TOR Otucue. Z. RPM' ZNALANDBR OP CAPTAIN CNON't3 A correspondent of the Neu , Zealander writes : " The native chief, Job Cepa Hokiango, died bore last Sunday. He was on board Captain Cook's veaaal at Mercury Bay, and was then about twelves or fourteen years of age. I have not a copy of Cook's Voyages to refer to, or I could tell his ego. You will find that at tho time ho was on board there was a disturbance—some natives were fired on for some petty theft Job was on board at the time, but not engaged in the theft. I believe that it was on Cook's first voyage that this took place; If so, Job must be 102 or 104 yore of age; if on tho eeoond voyage, he must be either 100 or 08 ; if on the last, he must bo 97 or 95." PHILADELPHIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1861. ECH OF SENATOR SEWARD the U. S. Senate, on Saturday. gr. President, Congress adjourned last summer afaid naspioes a national abundance, content. inept, tranquillity, and happiness it waft reas sembled this winter in the presence of derange ment of business and disturbance of public as well as private credit. and in the face of seditious sem hinaJions to overthrow the Union. The alarm is appalling; for Union is not more the body than liberty is the soul of the nation. The American °Mien has been accustomed to believe the Repub lic itnwortsl. lie ehrinha from the sight of con vulsions indicative of its sudden death. The re port of our condition has gone over the seas, and we who have BO long and wills muoh complacency studied the endless agitations of society in the Old World, believing ourselves exempt from such dis turbances, now, in our turn, stem to bo falling into ,p momentous and disastrous revolution. I know how diffisult itis to decide ' amid so many and so various counsels, whet ought to he, and even what eau bo done. Certainly, however, it is time for every Senator to declare himself. I, therefore, following the example of the noble Senator from Tennessee, (Mr. Johnson,) avow my adherence to the Union in its integrity, and with all its parts, with my friends, with my party, with my state, with my country, or without either, as they may determine, in every event, whether of peace or of war, with every consequence of honor or dishonor, of life or death. Although I lament the occasion, I hail with cheerfulness the duty of lifting up my voice among distracted debates, for my whole country and its inestimable Union Ilitherto the exhibitions of spirit and resolution here, ail eisewbbre, have been chiefly made on the side of disunion Ido not regret this .Daunion is so unexpected and Unnatural thdt it must plainly reveal iteeti before its presence can be realized. I like best, also, the courage that rises slowly under the pressure of severe provocation. If it be a Christian duty to forgive to the stranger even seventy times seven offences, it is the highest patriotism to endure without complaint the pas sionate waywardness of political brethren, s 0 long as there is hope that they may come to a better mind. I think it easy to pronounce what measures or conduct will not save the Union. I agree with the honorable Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Clitigman) that mere oulogiums will. not save it. Yet,' I think that as prayer brings as nearer to Goa, though it cannot move Him toward us, so there is healing and saving virtue in every word of devotion-to the Union that is spoken, and in every sigh that its danger brings forth. I know, at least, that, like virtue, It dertves strength from every irreverent ant that is committed and every blasphemous phrase that is uttered against it. Tho Union cannot be saved by mutual criminn lions concerning our respective share of responsi- bility for the present Ovila. lio whose conscience acqutts him frill naturally be slow to amuse others whose co-operation he needs. History only Mtn adjust the great account. A oontinuttneo of the debate on the constitutional poWer of Congress ol'or the subject of slavery in the Territories will not save the Union. Tho opin ions of parties and sections on that question haft, become dogmatical, and it is this oireumetanoe that has produced the existing alienation. A truce, at least during the debate on the Union, is essential to reconciliation. The Union.oannot be saved by proving that seces sion a illegal or uncoliatittalonal. Persons bent on that fearful step wilt not stand long ehoUgh on forins allow to be dislodged; and loyal anon adfidt need such narrow ground - to stand upon. 1 fear that little More will be gained from ,dis oussing the right of the Federal dovernment to coerce seceding States into obedience. If dis union is to go on, this question will give place to the more ptaotioal ono, whether many seceding States have a right to coerce the remaining meta. bars to acquiesce in a dissolution. 1 dread, ae in my innermost soul I abhor, civil war. I do not know what the Union would be worth it saved by the use of the sword Teti for all this, I do not agree with those Who, With a de sire to avert that great calatnity, advise a conven tional or unopposed separation, with a view to what they calla reeenstrnetion. It is enough for me, first, that in this plan, destruction #,oett before reconstruction ; and secondly, that the strength of the vase in which the hopes of the nation are held consists chiefly in its remaining unbroken. Congressional compromises aro not likely to save the Union. I know, incised, that ,tradition favors this form of remedy. Bdt it is essential to lie sue ocis, in any snob that there be found a prepond6 rating mass of citizens, en far neutral on the issue which separates parties that they can intervene, strike down clashing weapons, end compel an ac commodation. Moderate concessions aro not cue- Minority asked by a force with its guns in battery nor are liberal concessions apt to be given by an opposing forms not less confident of its oWn right and its own strength I think; also. that there is a profaning conviction that legislative compro mises which sacrifice honestly cherished principles, wails they anticipate future exigencies, even if they do not assume mitre constitutional powers, are less sure to avert imminent, evils than they are certain to produce ultirnatoly even greater dangers. Indeed, Mr. President, I think it will be wise to discard two prevalent ideas or prejudices—namely, first, that the Union is to bo saved by somebody in putter:llBr ; and, secondly, that it is to bo eared - /g -oing cunning and maim-Aro combats of pacification If I remember rightly, I raid something like this here so long ego as 1850, and afterwards in 1854. The present danger discloses itself in this form : Discontented citizens have obtained political power in °attain States, and they aro using this authority to overthrow the' Federal doverntnent, They de lude thenagePres with the belief ,that tho State power they hive acquired tumbles them to dis charge themselves of allegiance to the whole Re publie The honorable Senator from Illinois (Mr. Douglas) says wo. have a right to coerce a State, but we cannot, The President soya that'll° State ban a right to secede, but we haven° constitutional power to make war against a State, ~ Tho dilemma results from an assumption that thoses who, in sash a ease, act against tho Federal dovernniont, ant lawfully as a State; although manifestly they have perverted thO power of the State to an unoonatitutional purpose ,A class of politicians in New England set up this theory and attempted to practice upon it in our war with Great Britain Mr. Jefferson did not hesitate to say that States must be kept within their constitutional sphere by impulsion, if they _Gannet be kept there by attraction Secession was then held .to be In admissible in the face of a publio enemy But if it is untenable in ono case, it is necessarily so in all others I fully admit the originality, the sovereignty, the independence of the Soveral stntes within their sphere But I hold the Federal Go vernment to be equally original, sovereign, and independent within Its sphetd And the Government of the State 000 no More absolve the people residing within its limits from allegiance to the Union, than the dovernment of the Union can absolve min from allegiance to the htute. The Constitution of the United States, and the lima made in pnrsuanCe theteof, 'are the au preine law of the land, paramount to all legisla tion of the States, whether made under the Con stitution, or even by their organic conventions. The Union can be dissolved, not by secession, with or without armed force, but only by the voluntary consent- of the people of the United States, eel. looted in the manner proscribed by the Constitu tion of the United States Congress, in the present case, ought not to bo impassive. It ought, if it can, to redress any real grievances of the offended !Antos, and then it ought to supply the President with alt the means necessary to maintain the Union in the full exhibi tion and discreet exercise of its authority. Beyond this, with the proper nativity on the part of the Executive, the responsibility of saving the Union belongs to the people, and they are abundantly competent to discharge it. I propose, therefore, with great deference, to address myself to the country upon the momen tous subject, asking a hearing, not less from the people within what aro called the eooeding, than from those who reside within the enticing Stetep. , Union it fin old, fixed, settled habit of the Ame rican people, resulting from convictions of its no comity, anetherefore not likely to be Hastily dis carded The early States, while existing no colo nies, were combined, though imperfectly, through a common alleglantie to the British crown. When that allegiance °eased, no one. tide Ito pretainpthouis as to stppose eitstehce compatible with disuitioh; find, therefore, on the same day that they declared themselves independent, they pro claimed themselves also confederated States. Ex perience in war end in peace, from 1776 until 1787, only convinced them of the necessity of converting that loose Confederacy' into a more perfect and a perpetual Union. They acted with a coolness very different from the intempernto conduot of those who now on one side threaten, tirol (twee who on the other rashly defy disunion. They considered the contintionee Cf ebb Union as a subject compre henang nothing less than the safety and welfare of all the parts of which the country was composed, end the fate of an empire in many respects the most interesting in the world. I enter upon the, subject of continuing the Union now, deeply ire pressed with the same generous and loyal convic tion. How could it be otherwise, when, instead of only thirteen, the country is now composed of thir ty-three parts; and the empire embraces, instead of only four millions, no loss than thirty millions of inhabitants. The founders of tho Constitution, moreover, re garded the Union as no mere national or Ameri can interest. On the contrary, they confessed, with deep sensibility, that it seemed to them to have been reserved for the people of this country to decide whether societies of men are really capa ble of establishing good government upon reflection and choice, or whether they aro forever destined to depend for their political constitutions on acci dent and force. They feared, therefore, that their failure to continue and perfect the Union would be a misfortune to the nations. How much more, sir, would its overthrow now he a calamity to man kind ! Some form of government is indispensable here I no elsewhere. Whatever form we have, every in dividual citizen and every State must code to it some natural rights, to invest the Government with the requisite power. The simple question, therefore, for us now to decide, while laying aside all pique, passion, and prejudice, is: whether it conduces more to the interest of the people of this country to remain for the general purposes of peace and war, commerce, inland and foreign, postal communication at home and abroad, the oars and disposition of the public domain, colonization, the organization and admission of new States, and, generally, the enlargement of empire, one nation under our present Constitution, than it would be to divide themselves into separate confederacies or States. Our country remains now as it was in 1787 composed not of detached and distant territories, but of one whole, well connected end fertile region lying within the temperate zone, with climates and soils hardly more various than those of France, or of Italy. This slight diversity quickens find are. ',titles manufacture and commerce. Our rivers and valleys, as improved by art, furnish us a system of highways unequalled in the %odd. The different forms of labor, if slavery were not perverted to purposes of political ambition, need not Oonstitute on element of strife in the Confederacy Notwithsitinding recent vehement expressions and nostailestations of intolerance in some quarters, produced by intense partisan ex.:Bement, we are, in fact, a homogeneous people, chiefly of ono stook, with accessions well assimilated. Wo have, prao- ; tionlly. only one language, ono religion, one ; IMA of government, and manners and customs common to all ,Why; then, wo not remain henceforth as hitherto, onb iettylel The first object of every human society is oefaty or security, for which, if need be, they will, and they Rust, sacrifice every other. This security is of twokinds : one, exemption from foreign aggres sion aid influence; the culler, exemption from do mesa° tyranny m/ sedt ion Fordgn 11'803 come from either violations of treaties or domestic violence The Union has,. thus' for, proved itself an almost perfect shield against such cram The United States, continually enlarging their diplomatic acquaintance, have now treaties with France, the Netherlands, Great Bri tain, Sweden Prussia, Spain, Russia, Denfratrk, Mexico, Brazil, Austria, 'lackey, Chili, Siam, Muscat Venezuela, Peru, Greece, Sardinia, Peon dor, &never, Portugal, New Granada, Besse easel, Wurtemburg, t2hina, Bavaria, Pixony, Nassau. Switzerland, Mecklenburg Sottererin, Guatettala, the ilawatan Islands, Ban Sal vador, Borneo, Costa Rica, Peru, Bremen, the Argentine Confederation Lao-Chop, Japan, Brunsuick, Per, Baden, lielgluin, and Porn guay ..Nevertholocs, the United States, within their attire existence, havo had flagrant wars with only hair States, two of which were inaignifloant Powers on the coast of Barbary, and have bad direct hostilities, amounting to reprisals, against only two or three more; end they aro now at ponce with the whole world If the Union should be di vided Into only two confederacies, each of them would nerd to make as ninny treaties as we have now; ard, of course, would be liable to give as many claims of war nit we de now. But wo know, from the sad eeperlenee of other notions, that diF,- Integration, once begun, inevitably continues 110111 even the greatest empire crumbles into many ports. Each ocanderation that shall ultimately arise out of the ruins of the Union will haVb necessity for as many treaties as we now have, and will incur lia bilities for war as often us we now do by breaking them Ii is the multiplication of treaties and the want of confederation that make war the normal condition of society in western Europe and in Spa nish Anitill'a. It, is onion that, notwithstanding our world-wide intetcourse, makes ponce the habit of the American people. I will not descend so low as to ask winifiet new confederacies would he able or willing to bear the grievous expense of maintaining the diplomatic relations which cannot be dispensed with except by withdrawing from foreign commerce. Our Federal Government is better able to avoid giving just causes of war than several confedera-. cies, bOO9llBO it eon conform the action of all the States to compacts. It can have only ono con struction, nod only one tribunal to pronounce that coustroetion, of every treaty Local and tempo• nary intetesta and passions, or personal cupidity and ambition, can drive smell confederacies or States more easily than a great Ropublio into in disoreet violations of treaties. The United States being a great and formidable Power, can always secure favorable and satisfac tory treatiea Indeed, every treaty we hove,was voluntarily made Small confederacies or ates !IVA take sueh treaties as they can got and give whoteVer treaties are oetaotod. A humiliating or even an unsatisfactory treaty, id to Annie cause of foreign war. Tho ohtpter of wars resulting from Unjustifiable causes would, iu ease of division, emptily itself in proportion to the number of new confederacies and their irritability. Our disputes with Great Britain about Orson, the boundary of Maine, the patriot InsarreCtlon In Canada, end the Island of San Juan; the bordet strifes lastweon 'texas and Melt , leo, the iMursiond of the lath William Walker into MeXico and Central America; al} thede wbfe crises ita which war Was prevented only by the impartneb ability of the 'Federal Government. This Government not only gives fcWor causes of war, Whether just or unjust, than smeller confede racies wrld, bat it also has a greater ability to accommodate them by the exercise of more cool• ness and courage, the use of more various and more liberal mems, and the display, if need be, of greater' farce, livery one knows how placable we ourselves art In oontrovereies With Great Bri tain, France, arattapain ; and yet host exacting wo hate been in cur intercourse with Mier Urtmadtt, Paraguay, apd Sun Juan de icaragna. Mr..Preeldeut; no one still dispute our forefa thers' maxim, that the cm:dwarf safety of all is the safety of nob of the States. While they reritaiti united, the Federal Government combines all the materials and all the forces of the several States; organizes their defences on one general principle ; !ferment:4.4 and assimilatca them with one system ; Watches for thrui with a alright, eye, .which it turns in all directions, and moves all :ignite under the Control of ono executive head. A nation so consti tuted is safe nastiest assault or even insult War produces always a speedy exhaustion of Money, and a severe strain upon credit. 'the treasuries and Crays of email confederacies would Minn proie inadequntb. Thos', of the Union are always ample. „ I hive thus far Wont out of view the relations which must arise betaes:a the confederacies them delves. 't bey would he email and inconsiderable natiorid helderine, on each other, and, iherefore, according to all pulitioal phifosople, natural one mite. In addition to the many treaties whiola otiOn must make with foreign Powers, and the causes of war which they would give by violating them, each of the avidederacies must also maintain treat- Reel - with all the others, and eo be liable to give them _if equent affeinia. They would necessarily have different intetes.s reanittig faun, their estab lishmont of different policies of revMittoi of ml rang,' manufactures and navigation, of immigra tion, and perhaps the stave trade. Each would stipulate with foreign nations for advantages pecu liar to itself and haulm, to its rivals If, itdosd, it, wore necessary that the Union should be brofiefi up, it would bit in the, last de• gree important that the new confederacies to he termed should he as nearly /Is possible equal in strength 0)71(i power, that mutual fear and mutual respect might inspire them with caution against mutual offence. But such equality could not long be maintained ; one co: federacy would rise in the smile of political importance, and the others would view it these. forward with envy and apprehension. Jealousies would bring on frequent and retaliatory wars, and all these ware, from the ,peculiar ear cumstatems of the confederacies, would have the nature and character at atoll tier. Cissolution, therefore, is, for the people of this couniQ, raar ritual civil war. To mitigate it, and obtain oo outline] rest what else could they accept but the system of adjusting the balance of power which bee obtained in Europe, in which the few strong na tions dictate the very terms on which the others shall be content to live? Whon this hateful eye -teM /3110111(1 foil It last, foreign nations Would inter vene, now in favor of one, and then in aid of an other; and thug our country, having expelled all Etnopean Powers from the continent, would re hire Into nn aggregated form of its colonial ex perience, and, like Italy, Turkey. India, and Ohn e, become the theatre of transatlantic inter vention and rapaolty. however„wo grant to the new nonfederdoies an exemption tram complications aiming each other and with foreign States, still there is too mnoh reason to believe that not one of them could long maintain a republican form of government. Vol. venal suffrage and the absence of a standing army aro essential to the republican system. The world has yet to see a single self-sustaining State of that kind, or even any confederation of such States, except our own Canada lemon on Great Britain not unwillingly, wad Switzerland is guaran tied by interacted monarchical States Our own experiment has thus far been successful; because, by the continual addition of new States, the in fluence of snob of the members of the Union is constantly rostralued and recluse.? No 0130, of course, eon foretell the way and manner of travel ; but history indicates, with unfitting tiertehity, the end which the several confederacies would reach. Licentiousness would render life intolerable; and they would sooner or later purchase tranquillity and domestic safety by the surrender of liberty. and yield themselves up to the protection of mili tary despotism Indulge me, sir, in one or two details tinder this Mad. First. It is only sixty dap nine this iiistinitin movement began ; already those who aro mimed in it have canvassed with portentous freedom the possible combinations of the States when dis severed, and the feasible alliances of those recom binations with Pitropoon nations; alliances as unnatural, and which would prove ultimately as pestilential to society hers as that of the Time lane with the Spaniards, who promised them re venge upon their ancient enemies, the Aztecs. Secondly. The disunion movement arises partly out of a dispute over the common domain of-the United States Heretofore the Union has confined this controversy within the bounds of political de bate, by reforringlt, with all other national ones, to the arbitratnent of the ballot-bor. Does any one suppose that disunion would transfer the whole do main to either party, or that any other umpire than war would, after dissolution, be invoked umpire than This movement arises, in another view, out of the relation of African slaves to the do mestic population of the country. Freedom is to them, as to all mankind, the chief object of desire. Hitherto, under the operation of the Union, they have practically remained ignorant of the contro versy, especially of its bearing on themselves Can we hope that flagrant civil war shall rage among ourselves in their very presence, and yet that they will remain stupid and idle spectators? Does history furnish us any satisfaotory instruction upon the horrors of civil war among a people so brave, as skilled ;n sirens, so earnest in conviation, and so intent in purpose, as we aro? Is it a more chimera which suggests an aggravation of thoso horrors beyond endurance when, on either side, there shell occur tho intervention of an uprising ferocious African slave population of four, or six, perhaps twenty millions? Tho opinions of mankind change, and with them the policies of nations. Ono hundred years ago all the commercial European States were engaged in transferring negro slaves from Africa to this hemi sphere. To day all those States aro firmly sot in hostility to the extension and even to the practice of slavery. Opposition to it takes two forms: one European, which is simple, direct abolition, efieoted, if need be, by compulsion; the other, American, which seeks to arrest the African slave trade, and resist the entrance of domestic slavery into Territories where it is yet unknown, while it loaves tho disposition of existing slavery to the considerate action of the States by which it is re tained. It is the Union that restricts the opposition to slavery in this country within these limits If dissolution prevail, whet guarantee shell there be against the fall development here of the fearful and uncompromising hostility to slavery which elsowhero . pervades the world, and of which the recent invasion of Virginia was an illuetra tion ? Mr President, I have designedly dwelt so long on the probable effects of disunion upon the safety of the American people as to 'sal o me little time to consider the other evils which must follow in its train But practically, the lots of safety involves every other form of public calamity. When once the guardian angel has token flight, everything is lost. Dissolution would not only arrest, but extingulkh the greatness of our country. Even if Implicate confederacies could exist and endure, they could severally preserve no share of the common pres• of the Union. If the constellation is to be broken up, tho stars, whether nattered widely apart en grouped id smaller clusters, will thence forth shed forth feeble, glimmering, and lurid lights Nor will great achievements he possible for the new confederacies Dissolution would sig nalize its triumph by acts of wantonness which would shock and astound the world. It would provincialize Mount Vernon and give this Capitol ever to desolation at the very moment when the dense is rising over our heads that was to beorown. ed with the statue of Liberty. After this there would remain for disunion no sot of stupendous infancy to be committed. No pot.y confederacy that shall follow the 'United .Sta tea can prolong, or even renew, the mejestio d re un. of national- progress Perhaps it is to ho ar rested because its sublimity is incapable of contin uance. Lot it be so, if we have indeed become degenerate After ashington, and the inflexible Adams, Henry and the peerless Hamilton, Jeffer son and the us ajestio Clay, Webster, and the acute Colliertn, Jackson, the modest Taylor, and Scott (who rises in greatness under the burden of years), and Franklin, and Fulton, and Whitney, and Morse, hays all parlor:bed their parts, let the cur tain fall. While listening to these debates, 1 have Some times forgotten myself in marking their contrasted effects upon the page who customarily stands on the dais before me, and the venerable secretary who site behind him. The youth exhibits intense batpleated emotion in the excitement, while at every irreverent mad that is uttered against the Union the eyes of the aged Mall are suffused with tears. Let him weep no more. Rather rejoice, for yours hat boon a lot of rare foltoity. tote have soon and been a part of all the greatness of your country, the towering national greatness of all the world. Weep only you, and weep with all the bitterness of anguish, who are just stepping on the threshold of lifa ; for that greatness perishes prematurely, and exists not for you, nor for ma, nor for any thatshall coats after us. Tho public prosperity ! how could it survive the storm? Its elements are industry in the culture of every fruit; .mining of all the metals; com merce at home and on every sea; material int revement that knows no obstacle, and has no end; inveOtion that ranges Throughout the domain of na ture ; Increase of knowledge as broad as the human mind can explore; perfeetion of art as high as human genius can reach ; and social refinement working for the renovation of the world. How- could our successors prosecute these noble objects in the midst of brutalizing civil conffiot? What guarantees will capital invested for snob purposes units that will outweigh the premium offered by political and Military ambition? What leisure will the citizen find for study, or invention, or art, under the reign of conscription; nay, ra in terest in them will society feel when war and hate shall have taken possession of the national mind? Lot the miner in California take heed; for its golden wealth will become the prize of the nation that can command the moot iron Let the bor derer take care; for the Indian will again lurk around his dwelling. Lot the pioneer come book into our denser settlements; for the railroad, the post-road, and the telegraph advance not ono fur long further into the wilderness. With standing armies consuming the substance of our people on the land, and our navy and postal steamers with drawn from the ocean, who will protect or respect, or who will even know by name our petty,con federneleal The American Man-of-war is a noble spectacle. I have seen it enter an ancient port in the Medi. tart:moan. All the world wondered at it, and talked bf it. Salvo a of artillery, from forts and shipping in the harbor, saluted its flag. Princes and princesses, and merchants paid it homage, and all the people blessed it as a harbinger of hope for their own ultimate freedom I imagine nett the same noble vessel again entering the same haven, The flag of thirty-three stars and thirteen stripes has been hauled down, and in its place a signal is run up, which flatlets the devise of a lone star or a palmetto tree. Men ask, Who is the stranger that thria Steals into our waters 1 " The answer contemptuously given is, ." She comes from ono of the obscure republics of North America. Let her rwdon." Lastly, public, liberty, our own peculiar libartj , i must languish for itrtme, and then cease to live. And anon a liberty I free LA:oiement every where through our own land and throng:l*i, the world; froo speech, free press, free suffrage, the itatidoM of every subject to vote on every law, and for or ageing every agent who expounds, administers, or eeemites Unstable and jealous oonfederacies, con stantly appithending assaults without and treason Within, formidable only to each other, and con. teroptlble to all beside : how tong will it be before, on the plea of public safety, they will surrender all this inestimable and unequalled liberty, and ac cept the hateful and intolerable espionage of mili tary despotism? Aud now, Mr. President, what ds the cause for this sudden and eternal sacrifice of so much safety, grqatnese; happiness and froodom ? Nave foreign notions combined, and are they coming in rage upon us? No. So fa: from being enemies, there is not a nation on earth that is hot all Interested, admiring friend. Even the London Times, by no means partial to ue, says: ,4 It is quite possible that the problem of a demo relmblio may bo solved by its overthrow, in a few days, ifi d spirit of folly, selfishness, and short-sighti deem" Nos Ihe Federal Government become t)Pdtintpol or oppressive, or even rigorous or unsound? Hoe the Constitution Wit its spirit, and all at once col lapsed intd a lifeless letter? No ; the Federal Government smiles more benignantly, add works today more beneficently than ever. The Consti tution Is even the chosen model for the organia.- tion of the newly rising confederacies. The occasion is the election of a President of the Trailed states, who is unacceptable to a portion of tfm WON, state the case accurately. There was no moveinefit Of dbuolon before tho ballots which expressed that choice i'rele east. Disunion began as soon as the result was arineurukti The justification it assigned was that Abraham Lincoln had bean elected, while the success of either one of three other candidates would have been ac quiesced in Was the election illegal? No; it is' unimpeaohablo. Ia the isanoldete personally offen• eive? No; ho is a man of unblemititied 'Virtue and amiable manners. Is an election of President an unfrequemt or extraordinary transaction? No; we never had a Chief Magistrate otherwise desig nated than by such election, and that form of choke it renewed every four years. Does any one Olen propose to change the mode of appointing it Chief Magittrate? No ; election by universal suffrage, as modified by .he Constiltu emu. is, the ono franchise of the Ameridan people. To savd !t t!loy would defy the world. Is it appre hended that the ne :7 President will usurp despotic powers? No; while be is of all Lin the Moat un ambitious, he is, by the partial success of tisss who opposed his election, subjected to each re. straints that he cannot, without their consent, ap point a suinbiter or even a police agent, negotiate a treaty, or prdottre the passage of a law, and can hard ly draw a musket from Gm Oblio arsenals to do• fond his own person. What, then, is the ground of discontent? It is that the Disunioniets do not accept as conclusive the arguments which were urged in behalf of the Eucoo2sful candidate in the canvass. This is all. W" , re their own Arguments against him more setts foolery. te the other I No;that is impossible. What le the constitutional reinedY for this inevita ble dlesatisfaCtiori. Renewed debate and Wreak rehearing in a subsequent eleetiop. 'lave the now unsuccessful majority perverted Power to Purposes of oppression ? No; they have never before held power. Alas! )sow prone we arc to undervalue privileges and blessings. flow gladly. how proudly, would the people of any nation in Europe accept, on such terms as wo enjoy it, the boon of electing a Chief Magistrate every four years, by free, equal, and universal aut., Crags ! How thankfully would they east abide all their own systems of government, and accept this Republio of ours, with all its shortcomings and its disappointments, maintain it with their arms, and cherish it in their hearts ! Is it not the very boon for Which they supplicate God without ceasing, and even wage war, with intermissions only resulting from exnaustion ? Now strange are the times in which we live ! The coming spring seation, on one side of the Atlantic, will open on a general conflict, waged to obtain, through whatever indiscretion, just each a R o filtehl es ours; and on this side of the Atlantic, within the same parallels of latitude, it will, open ph fraternal war, waged in a moment of frewiled tbsabriteitt, to overthrow and annihilate the sense instittitiong Do mon, indeed, bye only for themselves—to 55. +wig° thuir Pthn wrongs, or to gratify their own ambition ? Blither, do not men lite lost of all for themselves and for their fellow-men 'l Have the American people, then, become all of a sudden un natural, no well ns unpatriotic,? And will they disinherit their children of the precious estate held only in trust for them, and deprive the world Of the best hopes it has enjoyed since the human race be gan its slow and painful, yet needful and wisely appointed progress? , might Mose my plea for the American Union ; but it is necessary, if ,not to exhaust the argument, at least to exhibit the whole oars. The Disunienists, consciously unable to stand on their mere disappointment in the recent election, have attempted to enlarge their ground. More than thirty years there has existed a considerable— though not heretofore a formidable—man of citi zens in certain States situate near or around the delta of the Mississippi, who believe that the Union is less conducive to the welfare and great ness of those States than a smaller Confederacy, embracing only slave States, would be. This class has availed itself of the diecontento result ing from tho election to put into operation the machinery of diesolution long ego prepared and waiting only for occasion. In other States there is a soreness bsoeuso of the want of sympathy in the free States with the efforts of alaveholders for the recapture of fugitives from service. In all the slave States thorn is a restiveness resulting from the resistance which has been eo determinedly made within the lust fen years, in the free Hates, to the extension of slavery in the common torrito ries of the United States. Tho Republican party, which oast its votes for the successful Presidential candidate on the ground of that policy, has boon allowed, practically, no representation, no utter once by speech or through the press, in the slave States ; while Its policy, principles, and sentiments, and even its temper, have been so misrepresented as to excite apprehensions that it denies import- ant constitutional obligations, and aims even at interference with slavery, and its overthrow by State authorities, or Intervention of the Federal Government. Considerable masses oven in the free states, in terested in tho success of those misrepresentations as a means of partisan strategy, have lent their svmpathy to the party claiming to bo aggrieved. While the result of tho election brings the Repub lican party neoessurily into the foreground in re sisting disunion, tho prejudices against them Which I have described have deprived them cf the cooperation of many good and patriotic citi zens. On the complex isaue between the Republi can party and tho Dlsunionists, although it in volves the direst national calamities, the result might be doubtful, for the Republican party is weak in a largo part of the Union. But on a di rest issue, with all who cherish the Union on one side, and all who desire its dissolution by force on the other, the verdict would bo prompt and almost Unanimous. I desire thus to simplify the iesue, and for that purpose to separate front it all collate ral questions, and relieve it of all partisan passions and prejudices. TWO CENTS. I consider the idea of the withdrawal of the Gulf States, and their permanent reorganization, with or without others in a distinot Coufederaoy, as a means of advantage to themselves, so certainly un• wise, and so obviously impossible of execution, when the purpose is understood, that I dismiss it with the discussion I have already inoidentally be, stowed tipon it. The sass is dirtarent, however, in regard to the other subjeots'whieh I have hyought in this con nection before the Senate. Beyond a doubt, Union Is virtually important to the Republican citizens of the United States; but it is just as important to the whole people. Re publicanism and Union are, therefore, not conver tilde terms. Republicanism is subordinate to Union, no every thing else is, and ought to be— Republicanism, Democracy, every other political name and thing; all are subordinate—and they ought to disappear in the presence of the great question of Union. So far as lem concerned, it shall be en; it should be so if the question were sure to be tried as it ought enly to be determined, by the peaceful ordeal of the ballot. It shall be to all the more since there is on one side prepared ness to refer it to the arbitrament of civil war. I have ouch faith in this republican system of ours, that there is no political good which I desire that 1 am nut content to Beek through its peaceful !brills of administration without invoking revolu tionary action. If others shall invoke that form of action to oppose and overthrow Government, they shall not, so far as it depends on meehave the excuse that I obstinately left myself to be misun derstood. In such a. case I can afford to meet pre judice with conciliation, exaction with commission which surrenders no principle, and violence with the right hand of peace Therefore, sir, so far as the abstract question whethet, by the Constitution of the Union States, the bondsman, who is made ouch by the laws of a State, ia still a man, or only property, I answer that, within that State, itiflaws on that subject are supreme; that when he has escaped from that State into another, the Constitution regards him as a bondsman who may not, by any law or regulation of that State, be discharged from his service, bat shall be delivered up on claim to the party to wham his gentle is due While prudence and justice would combine in peroaading you to modi fy the note of Congress on that subject, so as not to oblige private persons to 'moist in their exeontion, and to protect freemen from being, by abuse of the laws, carried into slavery, I agree that all laws of the States, el - tether free States or slave States, which relate to this class of persons, or any others recently eetning from or resident in other States, and which lava contravene the Constitution of the United States, or any law of Congress passed in ooeformity thereto, ought to be repealed. Secondly. Experience in public affairs has con firmed my opinion, that domestic slavery, existing in any State, is wisely left by the Constitution of the 'United States exclusively to the care, manage ment, and diepoßition of that State ; and if it were in my power, I would not alter the Constitution in that respect. If misapprelsenelon of my position needs so strong a remedy, I am willing to vote for an amendment to the Constitution, declaring that it shall not, by any future amendment, be so al tered as to confer on Congress a power to abolish or interfere with slavery in any State Thirdly. While I think that Congress has oxen sive anti sovereign authority to legislate on all subjects whatever, in the common Territeriee of the United States; and while I certainly shall never, directly or indirectly, give my vote to establish or sanction slavery in each Territories, or anywhere else in the world, yet the question what oonetins• tional laws shall at any time be passed in regard to the Territories, is, like every other question, to be determined on practical grounds. I voted for enabling acts in the cases of Oregon, Minnesota, and Kansas, without being able to secure in them such provisions as I would have preferred; and yet I 'toted wisely. So, now, I am well satisfied that, under (misting circumstances, a happy and satisfactory solution of the difficulties in the re maining Territories would be obtained by similar laws, providing for their organization, if such organization were otherwise predicable. If, therefore, Kansas were admitted as a State, under the Wyandotte Constitution, as I think she ought to be, and if the organic laws of all the other Territories should.be repealed, I could vote to an tfioriee the organization and admiseion of two new /States which should include them, reserving the right to effect eubdivisions of them whenever ne misery into several conVenlent States; but I do net find that Awls reservations could be constitu tionally Med 4. Without them, the ulterior em barrassments which would result from the hasty in corporation of States of stfeh vast attain and Va rious interests and character wont/ ontereneh all the immediate advantages of such a meanie. But if the measure were practicable, I should prefer to different [courso—namely, when the eccentric movements of secession and disunion shall have ended, lii whatever form that end may come, and the angry excitements of the hour shall have sub sided, tied calmness onoomore shall have resumed its aecußtomed ensty over the publie mind, then, and not until then—unt, two, or three years hence —I should cheerfully advise a convention of the people, to be assembled in pursuance of the Con stitution, to consider and decide whether any and what amendments of the organio national law ought to be shade. A Republican now—as I have heretofore been a member of other parties existing iu my day—l nevertheless hold and cherish, as I have always done, the principle that this Govern rnent exists in its present form only by the consent tlf the governed, and that it is as necessary as it is seise, to resort to the people for revisions of the or ganic law when the troubles and dangers of the State certainly transcend the powers delegated by it to the public authorities. Nor ought the cog geetion to excite surprise Government in any form is a stmehine l this is the most complex one that the mind of man has ever invented, or the hand of man has ever framed. Perfect as it is, it ought to be expected that it will, at least as often as once in a oentury, require some moditioa tion to adapt it to the changes of society and alter nations of empires. e'ourthly. I held myself ready now, as' always heretofore, to vets for any properly guarded laws which shall be deemed necessary to prevent mutual invasions of States by citizens of other States, and punish those who shall aid and abet theta. Fifthly. Notwithstanding the arguments of the gallant Senator from Oregon, (General Lane,) I re- Slain - of the opinion that physical bonds, such as highways, faileeade, rivers and canals, are vastly more powerful for fielding civil communities to gether than any mere covenants, though written on parchment or engraved upon iron. f. remain, there fore, constant to my purpose to secure, if possible, the construction of two Pacifio railways, one of when shall connect the ports around the mouths Of the iffisefeelppl, and the other the towns on the Missouri and the lashes, with the harbors on our western collet. If, in the eipreselon of these views, I have not preilosed What it desired or expected by many others, they will do rue the Italie° to believe that I am as far from having suggested what, in many re spects, would have bean in harmony With therished convictions of my own I learned early from 3cf- Seven that In political affairs we cannot always do whet seethe to ua absolutely beet, Those with whom we mild eetessarily not, entertaining dif ferent views, have the power and the right of car rying them into practice. We must fie content to load whop we can, and to follow when we canno lead ; and if we cannot at any time do for our coun try all the good that wo wish, we must be satisfied with doing for her all the good that we can submitted my own opinions on this great ()rigs, it retooled only to say that cheerfully lend to the flovernitient ttty tint support in what over prudent yet energetic etorte It shall make to preserve the public pesos and to maintain and pre serve the Upton; advisdne only, that it practice, as far as possible, the utmost moderation, forbear ance, and conciliation. And now, Mr. President, what are fhe auspices of the country? I know that we are in the midst of alarths, and gm:novel/at exposed to accidents unavoidable in conge'ns . of tempestuous passions. Wo already have disorder, And , iiolOnne has begun. 1 know not to what extent it may gd. Still my faith in the Constitution and in the Unidn abides, beoause my faith in the wisdom and virtue of the American people remains unshaken Coolness, !Jalinnees, and rest lution are elements of their cha racter. Tfiey have been temporarily displaced; but they aro reappeafittg: peen enough, I trust, for safety, it will be seen that Sedition and vio lence aro only local and temporary, and that loyalty and attention to the Union are the natural sentiments of the whole country. Whatever dan gers there shall be, there will be the determina tion to meet them ; whatever sacrifices, private or public, shall be needful for the Union, they will be made I feel sure that the hour has not come for this great nation to fall. This people, which has been studying to become wiser or better as it has grown older, is not perverse and winked enough to deserve so dreadful and severe punish ment ns dissolution. The Union has net yet PC• oomplished what good for mankind was manifestly designed by Him who appoints the seasons and pre scribes the duties of States and empires No, sir; if it were east down by faction to-day, it would rise again and reappear in all its majestic proportions to morrow. It is the only Government that can stand hero. Woo! woe! to the man that madly lifts his hand against it It shall continue and endure ; and men, in after times, shall dealer's that this generation, which saved the Union from such sudden and unloolsed-for dangers, surpassed in magnanimity oven that one which laid its foun dations in the eternal principles of liberty, justice, and humanity. A GRACEPUL COMPLIMENT TO 6 WIFE.— The following neat and beautiful reply wee made by the late Daniel O'Connell, in response to a toast given in compliment to his wife, who was the ob. jeot of his long and affectionate attachment. It was given at a political meeting. The English language could not furnish anything more touch ingly tender ar d graceful : There are some topics of so sacred and sweet a nature that they may bo comprehended by those who are hapny, but they cannot be possibly de scribed by any human being All that I shall do is to thank you in the name of her who was the disinterested choice of my early youth ; who was the over cheerful companion of my manly years, and who is the sweetest solace of that ' sear•and yellow-leaf age' at which I have arrived. In her name I thank you; and this you may readily believe, for experience, I think, will show to us all that man cannot battle and struggle with the malignant enemies of his country unless his nest at home Is warm and comfortable; unless the honey of human life is commanded by a hand that he loves." TUE 110 T SPRINGS OF ARKANSAS. — Of the Hot Springs, there are some flfty-four distinctly recognizable, besides a considerable number in the bed of the °reek. With one exception, their tem perature ranges from 120 to 148 degrees of F , and their composition is nearly the same Tho excep• lion is a Irani spring (totnperature 100 degrees) discovered a year ago on the bank of the creek, beneath the others It has a strong odor and taste of sulphur, and is believed to have considera ble virtues The quantity of water discharged by the various hot springs is estimated at 350 gallons per tuinnto (one spring affording 60 gallons,) or (say) about 000,000 gallons per eltent. l3nron Moroohetti is at work on a very important oolcesal allegory for Sardinia, representing "Italy Freed." THE WEEKLY PRESS. Tat WrarLY Prins will bs rent to ruteorlbent by , mall (per annul°, in ailvanee,) at Three Coates, " 6.00 Five' 8 00 Ten " " --...19.0 Twenty '• " (te eneaddreee ).9.00 Twenty Copies, or orer (to addteve of each aubeoriberd each 1.996 For a Club of Twenty-one or over, we will lend an extra 00Py to the getter-up of the Club. - Its Pootrasatars aro rearattited to oat as Agents for 7aa Wtraux Pales. CALIFORNIA PRESS. Irimed three Uinta a Month, in time !or the CsUremia Sten:tern, THE REVOLUTION IN THE SOUTH, Seizure of Southern Forte and 'nen&is. NEWSPAPER GOSSIP THE ALABAMA FORTIFICATIONS. SEIZURE OF FORT MORGAN AND THE ARSENAL. We learn from the Mobile Re star that the ex pedition to take possession of the Mount Vernon Arsenal was under the command of Captain D. Deadbetter, late United States engineer. Captain D acted under the direot orders of Governor Moore, as his special aid, with the rank of colonel, which were sent to him by telegraph. The com panies who attended him fiom Mobile were the Washington Light infantry, Captain A. Gracie; Mobile Rifle Company, Captain L. T Woodruff; Gerdes Lafayette, Captain Bebe; German Fe siliers, Lieutenant Emrich. The Register has the following note, written on the 4th, from a Cadet: Arrived sale last night, and landed without any disturbance. Took charge of Fort Morgan about 5 o'clock this morning. Men busy clearing up and fixing for cooking. Capt. Ketcham and his command at work making cartridges. Ready to receive any distinguished strangers the Govern ment may see fit to send on a visit to us. There are about 5,000 shot and shell in the fort. A fresh supply of ammunition, ho., will be here probably before this reaches you. The Alabama and regi mental colors were ran up this morning at morning gun, amidst cheer's from the garrison. 'The fort is "Lain as bad repair as we expected to find it The walls aro in comparatively good - preservation, and with our force could hold out against five times our number. BELZURK OF VIM YOBTB l .I,OI7IBIANA BT °ROSE OP TER GOVERNOR. It was mentioned yesterday that volunteers had left New Orleans to seize the United States forts and 'arsenal. A despatch dated New Orleans ; January 10, giiis the following additional particu lars : All the troops in New Orleans were under arms last night, by order of Governor Moore. Fire companies embarked this morning at two o'clock to seize the animal at Baton Rouge. The Orleans Battalion Artillery and four companies embarked at eleven for Forte Jackson and Bt. Philip forty miles below, on the Mississippi, commanding the approach of New Orleans. The wharf was crowd ed with citizens, who vociferously cheered the de parture of the steamer. Three companies left this afternoon on a steamer to seize Fort Pike, on Lake Pontchartrain. New regiments of troops are being organized. A-rumor prevails that the war steamer Cru sader is coming up the river, and the highest ex citement prevails Texas and Florida will also seize their tortillas. dons. The troops in Tennessee and Mississippi aro arming. Eight hundred thousand dollars in specie arrlsed to-day from New York. ANOTHER PATRIOTIC MAJOR The New Orleans True Delta of last Sunday publishes the. annexed telegraphic despatch from the major in Command of Port Pike. Perhaps the troops which left New Orleans on the 10th to seize that fort may And that they have not gone on a pleasure trip: Four Prim, Saturday, Jan. 5—A. M. J. E. Me-a, NEW ORLEANS: The fort is DOW surrounded with fishing amaoks, turned into armed gun-boats, and filled with armed men, the flag boat of the squadron having hoisted at the peak thePal motto and Pelican flags. A peremptory order has been sent me by the commander of the expedition to surrender at discretion, or an immediate attack would be made. My reply was prompt: That, un til I received orders from headquarters, I would defend the fort while a man remained to apply a match to the guns or spring a mine ; and, as a last resort, that I would blow up the fort, and perish, with the star-spangled banner, in its ruins. Poe tority, I trust, will do my memory justice. B. BOSWORTH. The following, from the Obarleaten Mercury, clearly shows that the Governor of the Rote of Georgia deliberately committed treason agaimia. the United tates Government : - . " COMFORT FOR THE GEORGIA TROOPS —A pri vate letter from a well known citizen of Savannah; states that the troops sent to Fort Pulaski were thoroughly equipped. Tho Governor, previous to rending them, took every Possible precaution to aware their comfort,"and tiie ladies of Savannah wore for several days previous to their departuro busily, engaged in making sacks, which were filled with straw, and sent down to the forte for the sol diers to sleep on." FIRING IN TIIE HAIIBOI7. [From the Charleston 3lerenry.l We received, yesterday, tho following note: Foie? MOIILTRIR, Jan. 4. Should firing, to a limited exttnt, be heard from Fort Moultrie to•morrow morning, about 10 o'clock, it will bo from emptying guns and trying ranges for practice. I mention this to avoid excitement. THE COMPLIMENTS OP VIRGINIA TO GENERAL SCOTT.--liothivg has tended SO moth to exasperate the people of the South in the present disturbances as the course of General Winfield Scott, Who is known to be at the bottom of the contemplated in. vasion of the Southern States. We presume that the Lieutenant General is desirous of paying cff the South for their non-appreciation of hia qualifica tions for the Presidency in 1852 As Gen. Scott is a native of the South, we warn him against pre cipitating civil war; since, should he fall into the hands of the people whom he wishes to 'conquer, he might find that their ideas of treason are slightly different front those he has been .proinnl gating at the Federal capital.—Virginia paper. AW/Se USE Or THIS GUILLOTINE. The President has issued orders to'heads of de partments to remote any one known to advocate accession If this fie carried oat, seversi bluster ing follows around Washington will be decapi tated. The President has determined to make rigorous war on the alders and abettors of treason. AN INCIDENT AT FORT SUMPTER One of the Baltimoreans who recently returned from Fort Sumpter, details an impressive incident that took place there on Major Anderson taking possession. It in known that the American flag brought away from Fort Moultrie was raised at Sumpter precisely at noon on the 27th nit., but the incidents of that "flag raising" have mot been related. It was a scene that will be a memorable reminiscence in the lives of those who witnessed it A short time before noon Msjor Anderson as• gambled the whole of his little force, with the work men employed on the fort, around the Silag• staff The national ensign was attached to the cord, and Ma jor Anderson, holding the end of the lines in his hands knelt reverently down. The officers, nor diens, and mon clustered around, many of them on their knees, all deeply impressed with the solem nity of the scene. The chaplain made an earnest prayer—snob an appeal for support, encourage ment, and mercy as one would make who felt that "man's extremity is God's opportunity." As the earnest, solemn words of the speaker ceased, and the men responded amen, with a fervency that perhaps they had never before experienced, Major Ander- Ben drew the " star•spangled banner " up to the top of the staff, the band broke out with the na tional air of "Bail Columbia," and lend and ex ultant cheers, repeated again and again, were given by the officers, soldiers, and workmen. "If," said the narrator, " South Carolina had at that moment attacked the fort, there would have been no hesitation upon thepart of any within it about defending that flag." SEIZURE OF A GEORGIA ARSENAL The Savannah Republican says :—" A private letter received yesterday, from Bainbridge, informs us of the occupation of the Chattahoochee Arsenal, situated in Gadsden county, Florida, at the junc tion of the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers, by the " Quincy Guards " The Arsenal contains 500,000 rounds of musket cartridges, 300,000 rifle cart• ridges, and 50,000 pounds of gunpowder. There are no arms, except such as ate necessary to defend to property against ordinary contingencies. ALABAMA TO VIRGINIA Gov. !Atelier introduced Messrs. Antun F Hop kins and F. IS. Gilmer, the Alabama commission ers, to the Virginia Legislature, in a brief message, dated January 7 He speaks of the importanoe of the crisis ; says that all the South wants is an equal right with too North in the Territories, tho en forcement of the fugitive-slave law, and that a stop ho put to the agitation of the slavery question. These points he thinks that the North might con cede without compromising oar dignity. He re commends the Legislature to hear the commis sioners calmly, and weigh dispassionately the views which they represent. SEIZURE OF TEE BATON ROUGE ARSENAL The War Department yesterday afternoon re ceived a despatch from Major Haskins ; the officer commanding at Baton Rouge Barracks, dated on the day before, the 10th mat , announcing that the barracks and arsenal there were taken possession don the demand of the Governor of Louisiana, on that day, backed by a superior foroo lie (Ma jor B ) has a company under bit command of about sixty men, but there were no defensive works there whatever.—Washington Star. BLUE LIGHTS IN CAROLINA The Charleston Courier, of Monday, has the lel lowing paragraph: There is, or has been, some illicit oommunisa Lions between thia city and Fort Bumpier. All in terested will look out for blue lights or other irte gular signals. TENNESSEE AND SENATOR JONSSON A. resolution is pending requesting Hon Andrew Johnson to resign his seat en the United States Senate Another was submitted instructing the 'Senators and requesting the Representatives in Congress to oppose every measure looking to the Oeereion of any State that may see proper to secede. WHERE DID HE coME FROM ?—A family residing in Wharton street, below Sixth, were aroused the other night by an unusual racket in the yard, amongst the chickens. Upon examina tion of the cause, a largo and full grown ;" opos sum" was captured with a chicken in his mouth, making off with it. Where did his opossumshipi" hail from ? A WINE MAKER in Bordeaux, France, struok with the fact thnt the maturity of wine de pended on the temperature of the collars in which it was stored, made a series of experiments by regulating the pressure of the atmosphere upon the barrels, which resulted in the production of wino in as many days as it formerly took mcnths. Age, according to this theory, is not necessary for the perfection of wine. SECRET SOCIETIES ARE RIFE IN CIIINA.— The principal of thee° ere the societies of the Triad, of the White Lily, of the Blue Lily, of the Calf's Heed, of the Sun, of the Sparkling Honer, of the Unmixed Sea, of the Yellow Cap, of the Origin of the White Cloud, of the Short Sword, and, lastly, the Society that has no Mother. IL B RIPLEY
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