Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1848-08-10

negan, IN the Senate, on Monday. This
touching appeal to the patriotism OF all the
genuine friends Of the republic cannot fail Of
meeting an appropriate response:
On Saturday last, Mr.. President, I
gave notice to the Senate that would,
to-day, introduce bill providing 70, the
organization of territorial governments
IN Oregon, California, and New Mex
leo. In connection with some of my
friends, have given to this subject all
the attention in my power, under feel
ing of the deepest anxiety; and have
become satisfied that, after the ordeal
through which the question has already
passed-after the searching investlga-
ton to which it was subjected by tie
select committee appointed by the Sc
nate-a committee so remarkable, so
pre- eminent, might well say, for in
1ellect, for wisdom, and for patriotism
it is in vain for any individual to at
tempt its ad jusment.-l believe that
when the proposition which emanated
from that committee, representing every
section in the Union, and representing
the two great parties ofthe country, has
failed, there is no hope left to US of
final adjustment of the question at this
time. regret it deeply. From various
quarters of the country, appeals to me
have been made, with various motives;
and it has been urged upon me that it
is most expedient to leave this question
open, because that course would pro
mote the prospects of the election of
favorite candidate for the Presidency
my favorite, sir. Perish the prospects
of any living man, be he who he may,
and mine own first, sooner than leave
open, from such considerations as those,
question so momentous, so agitating
and exciting! No, sir; cannot look
at the subject in that light. can look
at it only with view to the best inte-
rests of my country. | believe the
question should be settled, and settled
promptly too.
think, sir, that the events of the pre-
sent day are full of ad nonition to us,
and ! fear that the admonition is not
sufficiently'hecded. When Christen-
dom looks at the debates which have
taken place here, and at the other end
of the Capitol, they will believe us to
be on the verge Of disunion and civil
war. At the very same moment that
we are standing out before Europe as
the bright exemplar, Illuminating and
arousing mankind to a consciousness of
the value of rational and regulated Ii
berty, we present this humiIating spec
tacle ofinternal dissension Why, sir,
1t was but the other day, as have been
Informed, through the correspondence
of one of our diplomatic agents, that in
the great German Parliament, assembled
for the purpose ofuniting in one grand
confederacy the Germanic States, on an
alluslon being made to the United Sta
ties of America, that august assemblage,
composed Of men cold and phlegmatlc
as you have been ever taught to regard
them, rose simultaneously in token Of
respect, and burst forth into loud and
long -protracted shouts, at the bare men-
ton of our name! Yet, here we are.
IN relation to question which should
excite no feeling, which involves no in
terest upon one side, and only serves to
assaIl an interest upon the other. send
ing forth to the world a picture that
borders upon the horrors of that which
has recently startled men in France.
Gentlemen talk of disunion as coollv as
we talk about our ordinary appropria-
ton bills Disunion! 1t is moral trea-
son to breathe the word Disunion!
AS was well said the other dav by
the venerable senator from Kentucky, |
whose whole life has been one conf |
nued career Of patriotism, how can you
dismember us, when Kentucky stretch
eS her arms across the Ohio, to Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois? You can never
dlsmemher us! We will hold the Union
together with hooks ofsteel. We can
not separate! Vet, we may 60 and ia
miliarize the public mind with the
thought of dlsunlon and civil war I'M
til you do indeed light up the torch of
the lncendiary. Alas! it has become
already familiar as household word"
All this may go on. till at last we be-
hold the cleaning sword of brother ar
rayed against brother, and our streams
and rivers running red with blood but
you can never, on this or any other
question, dismember the Union.
have said, sir, that hold 1t moral trea-
son to talk of disunion or civil war here!-
What talk of disunion at this hour, when.
from the central heaven, beams all over
Chrisendom the star of our republic-not
the less brilliant. because, like the FREELY, its
light is mellow and mild-when our prin-
ciples are scattered broadcast throughout
the European world-when the German
Parliament offers its enthusiastic homage at