The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-14


Ina and that has een reiterated elsewhere Now IN con
nexion with the circumstances OF the hour the honorable
senator says that The South would be d'sgraced sh
MIR. BUTLER, dnlerposog) hope the senator viii
be specific understood him to say that the menace hat
Mr. FOOTE / will explain this thing in such way
as not 10 annoy my friend have another occasion
said that certain gentlemen in South Carolina had so de-
nj S Sou.n se hs asoa
the Stale itself that she will perpeirate such an act
the gentleman really meant If he alluded 10 Col Gregg,
desire to say that hal not read the speech Of that gem
teman when he alluded 70 i the other day. 10 the re-
marks o the senator from mississippi on oat occasion
h asS Gss sss. ss e.
conques, there. Now. sir do not hesitate 70 say that
throughout all that speech Of Col Greggs he did more
sstance that might be exhibited in the event OF south
ern coniederacy being formed and when ne spoke q
blockad,ng the mississippi OF going g Caliiornla ana
gency and spoke Of them IN connexion with that con-
fedfracywhic had been pesupposed In no single IN
Stance did he speak Of "wc' as synoDyme with South
Carolina, % N7f AK
Mr. TOOTE. II was immateria do not care
whether be spoke in the OF the whole South or The
single State oil South Carolina. think II would have
been modest in the gentlemen who uttered such sentl.
ments have spoken for their own State only. did
understand the speech referred to IN The manner ~
which the senator does think il would be more rdlca-
lous still have spoken for the whole South and do
not know how Col Gregg had right to speak for any
State but South Carolina
Mr.. BUTLER lie spoke Of certain contingency. !,
Mr. FOOTE, He spoke for some people IN South
Carolina or for the whole South, if The gentleman will
have So and said that in the event OF the adoption OF
certain enactment BY Congress- or our failing % egslae
upon certain questions would be the duty OF the South
upon the mouth of the Mississippi and blockade
all the northwestern States, and march an army and take
Nr. BUTLER That is extravagant. He could not
have said that for South Carolina alone. Laughter
Mr.. FOoTE This gentleman did speak OF selzlng
The PRESIDENT The remarks Of the gentleman do
not apply to the subject before the Senate.
Mr.. FOOTE. The honorable senator from South
Carolina for explanation and gave him the iioor
Now, Sir, connected what the honorable senator from
Louisiana said this morning with the circumstances OF
s is mr. and sd that whn he
here 10 declare thar the South would not submit to this
law could not understand him otherwise than as intend.
ding TO declare on the part q the Sou 70 aI a. eas. q
be eHectual there, determination either TO break
up the Union by secesson 10 resist with armed iofce
il necessary. constitutional enactment o. congress;
and the senator cannot get out Of the Predcament IN
which he has involved himself Either the act oi Con-
gress which he says ought not 70 be submitted to-, IN
other words Will De resisted IN me Unon q Is . oe of
will do for the gentleman 10 undertake 70 say ina
have been mlsquong him. 1t will not do for him to
charge me with what he calls strategy in debate, by
means OF which have endeavored attach meaning to
his words that he did intend to express Happily Tor the
country his words too plain to be Misunderstood
Why sir have quoted the strongest language yet
A friend near me has just furnished with the very
words and informs that he said that IL the slave
holders of the South submitted to such an enactment as
this they would deserve to become slaves themselves
Such is the emphatic language Of the senator Sir with
great respect say that this is the language OF sedton
The PRESIDENT. Order
Mr.. FOOTE. II is not constitutional language then
The PRESIDENT. The senator will confne himself
to the subject before the Senate
Mr.. FOOTE. According TO my judgment It is uncon-
Ia I.,n anfr afCne
II is language well calculated If dliused through the
country ito beget sedon in certain portions OF the con-
federacy, whether intended or not say again ihat
the whole Union have either to submit TO the oiii II
il shall become law, or resist il, and the strong lam
guage used by that senator bear only The ntepre-
tation have liked upon IT, What does the senator say
in reply He calls my speech would be philippe"
did not think OF proncuncing philippe for two reasons
First am not capable OF pronounclng phllpc, being
no Demosthenes; and, secondly, see no Pnilip mere
that could by possibility assail Upon these grounds,
hope il will not be recognised "would.be phiiipc'
though doubt not that the senator from Louisiana, after
all the he has passed through during TINS session.
may have recognised himself as some such magnincent
parsonage as Philip Of Macedon is reported TO have
The PRESIDENT. The Chair is under the necessity
of declaring the senator To be out OF order
Mr.. FO0TE. do not know how else TO under
stand the senator's language and in direct response TO
what the senator said was endeavorng 70 account ior
the only reasonable foundation Tor hs imagining nat my
speech was philippe. /,
Sir, must assuie the honorable senator that be and !
differ very materially n regard 10 one thing deem II an
unreasonable moment to employ such language as we
have heard here | believe II Is well calculated TO do
serious mischief, and certainly cannot do any good.
There occasions aud places when II would De more
appropriate. In the genlemans own country such Ian
guage was formerly used most Numbering yeometnes
fot good and sometimes for bad purposes That sort of
speech which we have heard tns morning would IN my
julgmeat have suited one OF the Mountain orators 10
France in the days OF Danon, Robesperre, and Marat
wish TO inform The gentleman that IN my opnion there
is nothing OF what ne calls crisis at the present hour
which would justify him IN making the declarations he
did, IN uering the language of yacobInsm here or else
where Such language cannot be tolerated here and u
the brabe senator expects to acquire lame oy using
such language he will find himself utterly mistaken
moi lind himself sustained by single parish or neigh
borhood n Louisiana in the OF such language as has
fallen IRON his lips this morning. which would denounce
ncenday language but for my respect ior MN ana ioi
the Senate.
Mr. sOULE. have word to say, in the fret place,
with regard 10 The language put into my only by
The senator from Mississippi, but by his benevolent
lrend who suggested as he says, the very words used
II 30 happens the senator from Mississippi and me-
friend have misunderstood my language and mlsquoed IT.
After having as rapidly could, (for had intended
not 10 much either of the time or the patience
OF the Senate in the remarks which addressed TO them
this morning summed up the effects OF this bill, sa,d
the memory OF my frendsdo you think that the people o.
the South fc long brook and endure s.ich an enormsiy
that ne peopis of fts South tcsu long submit fonT Tha
was what sand and then added, that could not oe'
unless those masters of daues deserved 10 be aares mem
seipcs Let gentlemen quote my language as nave Ut
tered IT, and then do with II whatever tney please Inc
senator who has Just resumed his seat seemed 70 De WI
ling to bring about something else than an oraorca
struggle this chamber II that be his object ne should
know that this is not the place, and he should know