711


Jajsvary^  1886.]


UniUd  Siaiet  and  Ikvnoe.
[Sen.
nactioa — ^these  wi]d  disturbers,  whose  schemeB
wUl  inyolve  this  coontry  and  the  world  in  con-
ftision  and  calamity.  This  is  the  child  of  agita-
tion—-of  that  agitation  which  drives  onr  very
women  from  the  decencies  and  duties  of  their


sex.
The  question  of  postponement  till  Monday-
was  then  determinea  in  the  affirmative.
Monday,  January  11.
The  honorable  A.  Cuthbkbt,  from  Georgia,
appeared  and  took  his  seat

Cain  Quarterly  Meeting  Memorial.
After  the  reception  of  sundry  executive  com-
munications and  memorials,

Mr.  Buchanan  said  he  was  now  about  to
present  the  memorial  of  the  Oidn  quarterly
meetinff  of  the  religious  society  of  Friends  in
Pennsylvania^  requesting  Oongress  to  abolish
slavery  and  toe  slave  trade  in  the  District  of
Columbia.  On  this  subject  he  had  expressed
bis  opinions  to  the  Senate  on  Thursday  last,
and  he  had  no  disposition  to  repeat  them  at
present  He  would  say,  however,  that,  on  a
review  of  these  questions,  he  was  perfectly
satiafied  with  them.  All  he  should  now  say
was,  that  the  memorial  which  he  was  about  to
present  was  perfectly  respectftd  in  its  language.
Indeed,  it  could  not  possibly  be  otherwise,  con-
sidering the  respectable  source  firom  which  it
emanated.
It  would  become  his  duty  to  make  some
motion  in  regard  to  this  memorial.  On  Thurs-
day last  he  had  suggested  that,  in  his  Judgment,
the  best  course  to  pursue  was  to  refer  these
memorials  to  a  select  committee,  or  to  the  Com-
mittee for  the  District  of  Columbia.  He  still
thought  so;  but  he  now  found  that  insur-
mountable obstacles  presented  themselves  to
such  a  reference.
