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outstanding the claim OF the 'ssole organ of the
Democratic party" at the other end of the street
lie thought that Mr.. Brodhead would get con
iirmed by the Senate. if he should ever be nomi
mated for chargeship. He could not respect
man who, without good reason, changed his posi-
ton; he had more esteem for a fair. out-speaking
man, even If he were wrong in his sentiments.
Mr.. McCLERNAND submitted to the gentleman
whether MIR. Brodhead ever, any occasion,
voted for the proviso.
Mr.. WILMOT. He did not
MIR. McCLERNAND. But often voted against il.
Mr.. WILMOT When the proviso was offered,
Mr. Broadhead was at home. Pennsylvania was
favor of it, except Messrs Ingersoll and Brodhead,
who were absent
Mr. MoCLERNAND. merely speak as to the
record.
MIR. WILMoT. He did not refer to the pro-
viso offered as an amendment to the Two Million
bill.
Mr.. STEPHENS, of Georgia. would ask the
gentleman whether it is net within his knowledge
that Mr.. Brodhead voted for the Missouri compro-
mise to be extended over the territories?
Mr.. WILMOT said that he had not referred to
the votes OF his late colleague and had predicated
his remarks upon speeches made in this hall He
had endeavored to show that the progress in this
detection gradual, and went from one step to
another. On the two million bill the proviso was
declared to be imperative; then the Missouri
promise advocated and finally the slavery pro-
hbiton was unconstitutional 1t was under this
profession of friendship to support it at time,
that the South demanded they should be led off.
They told their allies that they could wear the
cloak no longer. The Presidential election was
coming on. The South, with characteristic arro-
gance, said that they would support man for the
Presidency who gave the least countenance TO this
principle. Compared with this, every other party
consideration sunk into insignifcance. gentle
man from the Northwest had given to this princi-
Pile his unequiyocal endorsement. He said that no
man ought TO recede from it. But the South were
memorable. They told him that his ambition should
| not be gratifed, and that they would support
man who held such an opinion. They demanded
that the oracle should speak, and they put words
in his mouth and dictated the Nicholson letter. II
was the first time that any northern man assumed
the ground that the proviso was unconstitutional.
IA voice: .'Mr Dallas said SO previousy''l Ifso,
il had escaped his recollection.
We hear much about the 'aggressons Of the
North" but he charged that the South seduce
northern men beyond their strength. They are led
up into high mountain, and shown the power and
glory of the world beneath, and they fall down and
worship them. This is aggression of the deepest
dye Slavery is an arstocracy. There is not to be
found the face of the globe one more formidable.
II is the power in the hands of few, TO be welded
to the detriment of the many. The public opinion
of the South was entirely controlled by the slave
holders. Their influence makes up southern opin-
ion. This is exhibited in the of the press, the
great lever that moves the world. The press Of the
South is the mere organ Of the slavehoding insti
tuition. man there no more dares to question its
supremacy than the press under the sole power of
despotism The freedom of the press, guaranteed in
the Constitution is dead letter 30 far concerns
slavery. full and searching dl5CusSon on slavery
cannot be had in the South. II discuss all other
subjects but that. Slavery is made exception
because it is the bulwark of southern arstocracy
One of the characteristics of arisocracy is an
forgiving temper. This has been strongly exem-
plified in the history of this country. When has
statesman of the North stood up and made manly
resistance, without mourning proscriptive wrath?
Are these things ever to be Must We be forever
struck down, and children prescribed in
| the land of their birth? Such man could sooner
pass through the ordeals of the dark ages than
| through the Senate. The South must be content
l to share political power with the freemen of the
North on equal terms They must not undertake
| TO prescribe the North for their opinions. The
North do not subscribe TO the claim of the inestima
bic blessing Of slavery. II the South do, the coun-
/ try will be too hot for them. There is a spirit
| which will not be defeated.
The men are now born who going to wrest
this Government from aristocratic control. The
Democracy, the true masses of the country, will do
| it. The business ia theirs The South, as it ap-
pears from their presses do not like the term eDe
| mocracy." II is to them harsh one. The Gov
ernment is to be wrested from the control of these
men. 1t is the appropriate mission of the genuine
Democracy to do the work. Democracy is the
principle of eternal justice; it contends for justice
and right; 1t resists wrong and oppression il seeks
| the release of men from every species of tyranny;
is the friend of the helpless millions who toll and
| sweat from the cradle to the grave. Democracy is
faithful to the high aim, and seeks the pro-
gress OF slavery, and this spirit is met by the De-
mocracy of the North.
L r.. ScfsfiOnSl dfmOCracy-
Mr.. WILMOT. It is not sectional. He hoped
| .,c Democracy OF the South of the same kind.
He stood now where he always stood. He stood
against the demands OF the unjust capitalists of the
| North, and God forbid that he should ever help to
build up the capitalists of the Souh-for all arsto-
| cracies are tyrannica. He the friend of party
organization, and one of its most constant support
ers but the organization he followed must be based
\ upon principle. He would not organize for any
unpatriotic purpose; he would not organize 10 ex-
| tend slavery over territory now free A gentle
man having made an observation, Mr.. w. said:l
/ He did not charge that any one had. The South
seeks to crush freedom in the organization Of the
Democratic party. She seduces by her policy,
corrupts by her patronage, and tries TO succeed by
| party organization. He would follow no organiza-
ton based on the extension Of slavery. He would
go into no fortress when he told at the TIRES
hold that they would vote for who is in ia
yor of freedom, and yet tell him that he must vote
for men on the other side. He did not think that
| he could 60 into IL at all II he could, he would
not vote for man who barriers away his principles.
| The South must pay her own men. She could not
do it, and ask him to sanction il by his vote.
Some gentlemen lull their consciences by pro
Tossing to believe that slavery cannot po into the
Territories. The South say that the assumption is
false, and that slavery can and will go there; and
yet in the face Of this, Northern stand up and
say it cannot. Will any man from the South de-
clare that il is not the intention TO carry slavery
| there? They declare that they have the right 70
| extend slavery. His colleague had said so.
Mr.. ROSS denied having made such an assertion.
Mr.. WILMoT. If the South say they will carry
slavery thither how could his colleague (Mr Ross)
contend that there is no danger Of il going there'
II seemed TO him. when the right 10 carry II there
was conceded, every thing else was conceded The
Democracy Of Pennsylvania will never endorse this
i doctrine.
| Mr.. ROSS said that the Legislature of Pennsyl-
yania had indefinitely postponed the wilmot pro-
| yiso.
| Mr.. wILMoT replied that il did foolish thing,
and he regretted 10 see a great State driven from
/ that ground. Pennsylvania, through the legisla-
ture, passed resolution in favor OF IL but by re-
fusing TO take il up again, they did not say that
the South have the right 10 carry their slaves the
/ Territories.
| The hour to which the gentleman was limited
/ expired, after he had made a few additional re.
1 marks, when
| Mr.. WINTHROP obtained the floor.
| The CHAIRMAN said that the California mes
| sage having been taken up by general consent, to
| enable the gentleman 10 deliver his remarks the
bill now before them that providing for taking
| the census, and that the gentleman from Msssa-
1 chusetts would be entitled TO the floor when the
| consideration Of the message resumed.
| Mr.. WMTHnoP's object was thus attained.