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Extra session U. S. Senate.
--Mr. Hale offered a resolution, which lies over, that the Senate adjourn on Saturday next, at 1 P. M. Mr. Douglas' resolutions were up. Mr. Bayard, of Delaware, said the crisis he had long anticipated had culminated. Seven States have withdrawn from the Union. He intended to offer a proposition, giving the President the power, by the advice and consent of the Senate, to enter into a treaty with the Confederate States, and thus avoid the other alternative, namely, civil war. He explained the elementary principles of government, and defended the relations between the States and Federal Government. Secession was not among the reserved powers of the States, but revolution is a common right.--The present state of affairs was revolution, and in this connection the will of the majority was to be considered the will of the whole. --Insurrection and violence in a State may be put down by law, but you cannot meet the collective act of a collective people except by war or peaceful negotiation. When revolution comes it cannot be met by the law of treason. Allegiance is due to States as well as the Federal Government, and the law of domicile must necessarily govern the case when a State has separated from the Federal Government. After an Executive session, adjourned.
The Daily Dispatch: March 21, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. March 21, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
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