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tion was explained. He also, by implication, charged the Associated Press with hostility to the Democratic party. Mr. Hunter reported back the Invalid Pension and Military Academy Appropriation bills, which passed. Mr. Johnson, of Tenn, addressed the Senate on his resolutions of yesterday. He characterized the personal liberty bills of the North as direct violations of the Constitution, and denied the right of secession, as the Constitution provides a remedy for evils. He said Washington acted under the idea that the government was competent to execute its laws, when he ordered 1,500 men into Pennsylvania to execute the excise laws and put down the "Whiskey Rebellion." He did not believe any State could declare itself out of the Union. The government has the power to carry the mails and hold Courts in South Carolina by force, and if Carolina resisted the collection of the revenue it was treason. If Carolina proclaimed herself independent and made treaties and collected a