Mr. KELLEY. I do not know but they may have been hoodwinked into it, and may be trying to do it. But if it be so I desire to defeat their purpose by inducing NewEngland energy and enterprise and capital to engage in the coal trade and iron and steel manufacturing of Virginia, so that Louis Napoleon shall not have southern rebels to conspire with against our peace or prorosperity, but northern patriots to resistant balk his machinations. Sir, the Mexican invasion was incited b no claim or interest of grandeur comparable to this. It. had for its pretext an indebtedness of but $750,000 of real indebtedness. Yes, a just claim for less than one million dollars engendered the Mexican invasion; and if we permit the minions of Louis Napoleon to gain control of a line of canal running through the coal and iron regions which extend from the James river to the Ohio, our legislation with regard to many important internal interests will be governed by extraneous influences, as it was for ten years by the influence of the infamous reciprocity treaty which was forced upon us by the men who are engineering this foreign and danger ous project. Sir, I will not nor did I propose to examine the details of the bill. I have responded on behalf of my State, which was alluded to as claiming advantage in this connection. She does not expect to supply the NewEngland manufacturers with bitumine us coal, but her people believe that they better promote the interests of our whole country by promoting those of Virginia and NCarolina than they would by legislating so as to advance those of a few American patriots who have invested their capital in Nova Seotia or any other foreign country. The coal from the mountains of Maryland and Pennsylvania will be excluded from the coast towns of NewEngland by that of the tide water mines of Virginia and NCarolina, and the icople of those States will, in exchange, buy the products of‘ NewEng land. Much as I am tempted I will not detain the House by reading from the admirable book of Mr. Samuel Harries Daddow on Coal, Iron, and Oil, a description of the coals of Virginia and NCarolina. I will, however, say that in gas producing qualities and in cleanness they exceed the best that are produced by our British American provincial countrymen who are begging us to violate all law and all reason to protect their special investment; and I will ask the Clerk to read a short paragraph from an admirable article in today's Chronicle.