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CONGRESS, U. S. 



CONGRESS, THE U. S. The second session 

 of the thirty-sixth Congress commenced at 

 Washington on Monday, December 3, I860.* 



In the Senate the difficulties of the country 

 attracted immediate attention. 



Mr. Clingman, of North Carolina, on making 

 the usual motion for printing the President's 

 message, (for Message see Public Documents,) 

 said : 



" As to the general tone of the message, Mr. 

 President, everybody will say that it is emi- 

 nently patriotic, and I agree with a great deal 

 that is in it ; but I think it falls short of stating 

 the case that is now before the country. It is 

 not, for example, merely that a dangerous man 

 has been elected to the Presidency of the 

 United States. We know that under our com- 

 plicated system that might very well occur by 



* The members of the Senate were as follows. From the 

 State of 



Maine. Hannibal Hamlln and William Pitt Fessenden. 



New Hampshire. John P. Hale and Daniel Clark. 



Vermont, Solomon Foote and Jacob Collamer. 



Massachusetts. Henry Wilson and Charles Sumner. 



Rhode Island. Jas. F. Simmons and Henry B. Anthony. 



Connecticut. Lafayette S. Foster and James Dixon. 



New York. William H. Seward and Preston King. 



New Jersey. John R. Thomson $nd John C. Ten Eyck. 



Pennsylvania. Simon Cameron and William Bigler. 



Delaware. James A. Bayard and Willard Saulsbury. 



Maryland. James A. Pearce and Anthony Kennedy. 



Virginia. Robert M. T. Hunter and James M. Mason. 



North Carolina. Thomas Brags: and Thos. L. Clingman. 



Georgia. Robert Toombs and Alfred Iverson. 



Alabama. Benjamin Fitzpatrick and C. C. Clay, jr. 



Mississippi. Albert G. Brown and Jefferson Davis. 



Tennessee. Alfred O. P. Nicholson and Andrew Johnson. 



Kentucky. John J. Crittenden and Lazarus W. Powell. 



Missouri. James S. Green and Trusten Polk. 



Ohio. Benjamin F. Wade and George E. Pugh. 



Indiana. Jesse D. Bright and Graham N. Fitch. 



Illinois. Stephen A. Douglas and Lyman Trumbull. 



Michigan. Zachariah Chandler and Kinsley S. Bingham. 



Florida. David L. Yulee and S. R. Mallory. 



Texas. John Hemphill and Louis T. Wigfall. 



Wisconsin. Charles Durkee and James R. Doolittle. 



Iowa. James W. Grimes and James Harlan. 



Minnesota. Henry M. Rice and Morton S. Wilkinson. 



California. Milton S. Latham and William M. Gwin. 



Oregon. Joseph Lane. 



Louisiana. 3 '. P. Benjamin and John Slidell. 



Arkansas. R. W. Johnson and William K. Sebastian. 



South Carolina. James Chesnut, jr., and James H. Ham- 

 mond had tendered their resignation to the Governor of that 

 State on the 9th of November, 1860. 



The members of the House of Representatives were as 

 follows : 



Maine. Daniel E. Somes, John J. Perry, Ezra B. French, 

 Stephen Coburn, Freeman H. Morse, Israel Washburn, jr., 

 Stephen C. Foster. 



Neio Hampshire. Gilman Marston, Mason W. Tappan, 

 Thomas M. Edwards. 



Vermont. E. P. Walton, Justin S. Morrill, Homer E. 

 Royce. 



Massachusetts. Thomas D. Eliot, James Bufflnton, Chas. 

 F. Adams, Alexander H. Rice, Anson Burlingame, John B. 

 Alley, Charles R. Train, Eli Thayer, Charles Delano. 



Rhode Island. Christopher Robinson, Wm. D. Brayton. 



Connecticut. Dwight Loomis, John Woodruff, Alfred A. 

 Burnhatn, Orris S. Ferry. 



New York. Luther C. Carter, James Humphreys, Daniel 

 E. Sickles, William B. Manlay, .John Cochrane, George 

 Briggs. Horace F. Clark, John B. Haskin, William S. Ken- 

 yon, Charles L. Beale, John H. Reynolds. James B. McKean, 

 George W. Palmer, Francis E. Spinner, Edwin R. Reynolds, 

 James H. Graham, Roscoe Conkling, R. Holland Duell, M. 

 Lindley Lee, Charles B. Hoard, Charles B. Sedgwick, Mar- 

 tin Butterfleld. Emory B. Pottle, Alfred Wells, William 

 Irvine, Alfred Ely, Augustus Frank, Elbridge G. Spaulding, 

 Reuben E. Fenton. 



accident, and he be powerless ; but I assert 

 that the President elect has been elected because 

 he was known to be a dangerous man. He avows 

 the principle that is known as the " irrepres- 

 sible conflict." He declares that it is the pur- 

 pose of the North to make war upon my section 

 until its social system has been destroyed, and 

 for that he was taken up and elected. That 

 declaration of war is dangerous, because it has 

 been indorsed by a majority of the votes of the 

 free States in the late election. It is this great, 

 remarkable, and dangerous fact that has filled 

 my section with alarm and dread for the future. 

 " The President says that he may be powerless 

 by reason of the opposition in Congress now ; 

 but that is only a temporary relief. Every- 

 body knows that the majority which has borne 

 him into the chair can control all the depart- 



New Jersey. John T. Nixon, John L. N. Stratton, Gar- 

 nett B. Adrain, Jetur R. Riggs. 



Pennsylvania Thomas R. Florence, Edward Joy Morris, 

 John P. VCrree, John Wood, John Hickman, Henry C. 

 Longnecker, Thaddeus Stevens, John W. Killinger, James 

 H. Campbell, Galusha A. Grow. Jacob K. MeKenty, James 

 T. Hale, Benjamin F. Junkin, Edward McPherson, Samuel 

 S. Blair, John Covode, James K. Moorhead, Robert Mc- 

 Knight, William Stewart, Chapin Hall, Elijah Babbitt. 



Delaware. William G. Whiteley. 



Maryland. James A. Stewart, J. Morrison Harris, H. 



"Winter Davis, Jacob M. Kunkel, George W. Hughes, 



Webster. 



Virginia. John S. Millson, Daniel C. De Jarnette, "Roger 

 A. Pryor, Thomas S. Bocoek, William Smith, Alexander R. 

 Boteler, John T. Harris, Albert G. Jenkins, Henry A. Ed- 

 mundson, Elbert S. Martin. 



North Carolina. William N. H. Smith, Thomas Ruffin, 

 Warren Winslow, Lawrence O'B. Branch, John A. Gilmer, 

 James M. Leach, Burton Craige. 



South Carolina. John McQueen, Lawrence M. KeStt, 

 Milledge L. Bonham, John D. Ashmore, William "W. Boyce. 



Georgia. Peter E. Love, Thomas Hardeman, Lucius J. 

 Gartrell, John W. H. Underwood, James Jackson, Joshua 

 Hill, John J. Jones. 



Alabama. James L. Pugh, David Clopton, Sydenham 

 Moore, George S. Houston, Williamson R. W. Cobb, J&bez 

 L. M. Curry. 



Mississippi. Otho R. Singleton. 



Louisiana. John E. Bouligny. 



Ohio. George H. Pendleton, John A. Gurley, Clement 

 L. Vallandigham, William Allen, James M. Ashley, William 

 Howard, Thomas Corwin, Benjamin Stanton, John Carey, 

 Carey A. Trimble, Charles D. Martin, Samuel S. Cox, John 

 Sherman, Harrison G. Blake, William Helmick, Cydnor B. 

 Tompkins, Thomas C. Theaker, Sidney Edgerton, Edward 

 Wade, John Hutchins, John A. Bingham. 



Kentucky. Henry C. Burnett, Samuel O. Peytoa, Fran- 

 cis M. Bristow, William C. Anderson, Green Adams, Laban 

 T. Moore, John W. Stevenson, John Y. Brown. 



Tennessee. Thomas A. R. Nelson, Horace Maynard, 

 William B. Stokes, Robert Hatton, James H. Thomas, 

 James M. Quarles, Emerson Etheridge, William T. Avery. 



Indiana. William E. Niblack, William H. English, W. 

 McKee Dunn, William S. Holman, David Kilgore, Albert 

 G. Porter, John G. Davis, Schuyler Colfax, Charles Case, 

 John U. Pettit. 



Illinois. Elihn B. Washburne, Owen Lovejoy, Isaac N. 

 Morris, John A. McClernand, James C. Robinson, Philip B. 

 Fouke, John A. Logan. 



Missouri. Thomas L. Anderson, John B. Clark, James 

 Craig, J. R. Barrett, Samuel H. Woodson, John S. Phelps, 

 John W. Noell. 



Arkansas. Albert Rust. 



Michigan. William A. Howard, Francis W. Kellogg, 

 DeWitt C. Leach. 



Florida. George S. Hawkins. 



Iowa. Samuel R. Curtis, William Vnndever. 



Wisconsin, John F. Potter, Cadwalader C. Washburn, 

 Charles H. Larrabee. 



California. John C. Burch. 



Minnesota. Cyrus Aldrich, William Windorn. 



Oregon. Lansing Stout. 



Washington. Isaac I. Stevens. 



New Mexico. Miguel A. Otero. 



Kansaa. Marcus J. Parrott, Martin F. Conway. 



