The Daily Spy

CONGRESSIONAL PROCEEDINGS.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.

SENATE. Mr. Calhoun addressed the Senate, relative to Wilmot's Proviso, predicting most fearful consequences to the Union should its principles be carried out, and offered a series of Resolutions:

First. That the Territories were the common property of all the States.

Second. That Congress, as the Agents of the States, had no right to deprive any State of its full and equal right to territory acquired or to be acquired.

Third. That laws preventing citizens emigrating with their property into any territories would violate the Constitution and tend to a Dissolution of the Union.

Fourth. That the imposition of any condition upon a new State other than its Constitution, which shall be republican, conflicts with the cardinal principles of our system.

Mr. Calhoun wished that the resolutions should be printed. He said it was high time for the South to know where they stood.

Mr. Benton said he could not consent to neglect the business of the country for such a string of abstractions, whose author had hoped that Missouri would support them, but he (Benton) should not permit the business of the nation to suffer by throwing firebrands into Congress.

The Navy appropriation Bill was passed.

The Three Million Bill coming up, Senator Houston declared that in annexing Texas, we assumed her war with Mexico, and were at war the very moment annexation took place.

HOUSE. The Joint Resolution passed granting the Brass Cannon taken at Pensacola by Gen. Jackson, to the 'Jackson Monument Association,' for a statue of Jackson.

Private bills were taken up and many passed including that for the relief of the heirs of Paul Jones.

The WILMOT PROVISO.—The proviso, interdicting absolutely the existence of Slavery in any territory to be acquired from Mexico, has been engrafted, in the House of Representatives, on the Three Million bill. With this evidence both of the power and intentions of the representatives of the non-slaveholding States to monopolize all such territory as may be obtained by conquest or purchase, from Mexico, will Southern men consent to the annexation of an acre of her soil. For one, we say we'll none of it—and such, we undertake to say, will be the unanimous sentiment of the Southern people.

Richmond Whig.