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The Daily Dispatch: December 12, 1860., [Electronic resource], Congressional debate, Monday. (search)
Congressional debate, Monday. the debate in the Senate — views of the Northwestern Democrats of the House — the port of New York, &c., &c. The debates in Congress, Monday, were more than usually interesting. In the Senate there was, perhaps, a slight show to conservatism: The two Senators from Connecticut, Messrs. Foster and Dixon, both rather extreme Republicans, expressed their determination to let "party slide" in preference to endangering the Union. Whatever the South might demand within the limits of the Constitution they were prepared to grant, and they would also meet the question free from all party feeling. They repudiated the assertion that the people of the North hated the people of the South, and did not believe that the people of the South entertained such enmity to the North as had been represented. Preston King, in reply to some questions from Mr. Benjamin, declared that he had no fears of a dissolution of the Union. The present exciteme