_Indiana_—Wm. E. Niblack, Wm. H. English, Wm. M’Kee Dunn, Wm. S. Holman, David Kilgore, Albert G. Porter, John G. Davis, James Wilson, Schuyler Colfax, Chas. Case, John U. Pettit. _Illinois_—E. B. Washburne, J. F. Farnsworth, Owen Lovejoy, Wm. Kellogg, I. N. Morris, John A. McClernand, James C. Robinson, P. B. Fouke, John A. Logan. _Arkansas_—Thomas C. Hindman, Albert Rust. _Missouri_—J. R. Barrett, T. L. Anderson, John B. Clark, James Craig, L. H. Woodson, John S. Phelps, John W. Noell. _Michigan_—William A. Howard, Henry Waldron, F. W. Kellogg, De W. C. Leach. _Florida_—George S. Hawkins. _Texas_—John H. Regan, A. J. Hamilton. _Iowa_—S. R. Curtis, Wm. Vandever. _California_—Charles L. Scott, John C. Burch. _Wisconsin_—John F. Porter, C. C. Washburne, C. H. Larrabee. _Minnesota_—Cyrus Aldrich, Wm. Windom. _Oregon_—Lansing Stout. _Kansas_—Martin F. Conway, (sworn Jan. 30th, 1861). MR. LINCOLN’S VIEWS. While the various propositions above given were under consideration, Mr. Lincoln was of course an interested observer from his home in Illinois, where he awaited the legal time for taking his seat as President. His views on the efforts at compromise were sought by the editor of the New York _Tribune_, and expressed as follows: “‘I will suffer death before I will consent or advise my friends to consent to any concession or compromise which looks like buying the privilege of taking possession of the Government to which we have a constitutional right; because, whatever I might think of the merits of the various propositions before Congress, I should regard any concession in the face of menace as the destruction of the government itself, and a consent on all hands that our system shall be brought down to a level with the existing disorganized state of affairs in Mexico. But this thing will hereafter be, as it is now, in the hands of the people; and if they desire to call a convention to remove any grievances complained of, or to give new guarantees for the permanence of vested rights, it is not mine to oppose.’” JUDGE BLACK’S VIEWS. Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, was then Buchanan’s Attorney-General, and as his position has since been made the subject of lengthy controversy, it is pertinent to give the following copious extract from his “Opinion upon the Powers of the President,” in response to an official inquiry from the Executive:— The existing laws put and keep the Federal Government strictly on the defensive. You can use force only to repel an assault on the public property, and aid the courts in the performance of their duty. If the means given you to collect the revenue and execute the other laws be insufficient for that purpose, Congress may extend and make them more effectual to that end.