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Scenes in the Federal Congress.the negro question.
A late number of the Baltimore sun furnishes the proceedings of the Northern Congress on the 14th of March, some portion of which we copy:
Senate
On motion of Mr. Trumbull, the joint resolution from the House for affording aid to States undertaking emancipation, was taken up
Mr. Salisbury, of Del, took the floor Rethought this the most extraordinary resolution ever introduced into the American Congress--extraordinary in its character, and especially in its origin.
It was not only extraordinary, but he doubted its patriotism.
It was a contradiction of the avowed purpose of the party in power — a party which, He thanked God, he had never belonged to, and it was certain that he never would.
That party, however, had declared here that it had no intention to interfere with the rights of the States of any section.
Yet here was a measure of unmistakable interference, in violation of that pledge — proposing action in re