WASHINGTON, March 4.
SENATE. – Mr. Sumner presented a memorial from merchants and others doing business on the Pacific coast, asking immediate action by Congress to provide for the transportation of the mails between New York, Panama, and Aspinwall, as at present the U. S. have not arrangements for such transportation. Referred.
Mr. Davis presented a petition from the Citizens of Boston, asking Congress to drop the negro question and attend to the business of the country.
Mr. Dixon offered a joint resolution that the vacancy in the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institute by the death of Prof. Tellon, be filled by Henry Barnard of Conn. Laid over.
On Motion of Mr. Harris the bill for the safe keeping and maintenance of U. S. prisoners was taken up and passed.
On motion of Mr. Collamer the bill authorizing the commission for the preservation of the Atlantic fisheries, was taken up. The bill authorizes the President to appoint a commissioner to meet the British and French commissioners, to take measures for the preservation of the fisheries. The bill was passed.
The confiscation bill was then taken up.
Mr. McDougal, of Cal., resumed his speech. He quoted from Justice Story and other writers, showing that there should be no confiscation of any private property. He (McDougal) contended that the provision in the bill relating to the freeing of slaves was unconstitutional. He then quoted from the declarations of the President and Secretary of State to show that an entirely different policy had been declared by the government. The colonization scheme was old and impracticable. He contended that magnanimity was the greatest virtue of victory, and that we should go forward with our common constitution in one hand and peace in the other.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Wednesday Morning, March 5, 1862, p. 1
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