The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-03-18
THE NATIONAL ERA WASHINGTON D. c., MARCH 49, 1852.

mined that they would no longer coalesce with
the Wings upon any pretence whatever.
Should the Wings and the Democrats have CO.
alescedl In other parts of the country | see
the effect of Wing and Democratic coalescence.
With little more of it, you will have Wing
majority in the Senate | find gentlemen rising
up here, gentlemen from the Southern States
coming here, and publicly announcing that
they came determined to vote with either party
that will go furthest in certain direction
gentlemen whom supposed to be Wings, and
to hold Wing principles, but who have no OBJ
lection to turn Democrats all at once, as a
black lobster turns red by boiling; that is, the
! Wings will turn sound, consistent Democrats
If the Democratic party will eat more Southern
dirt than the Wing party will That is the
| proposition and it is made unblushingly here ;
and the people who make it come here and ask
the two great parties to put up their principles
for sale, to be knocked down to the highest
bidder. And they have the impudence to talk
to the people of Massachusetts about an I'M
principled coalition.
| | should like to see the want of principle
shown in our coalition, shown by some of those
! gentlemen who come here and say they are
willing to join either party-either party, pro-
vlded 1T is a party of profound and thorough
misunderstanding all inhabited regions
north Of Mason and Dixon's line; provided it
is party not having a national idea in the
head of any man belonging to it; provided it is
Il party that believes the Constitution of the
| United States was created to perpetuate and
secure the blessings of slavery to ourselves and
our posterity, and for no other purpose pro-
vided 1t is party of one idea-they do not
care whether it is Democratic or Wing. they
will go for it. That is the kind of doctrine ad-
vanced upon this floor. And then the men
who advance it turn round and berate the men
/ of Massachusetts, and call the creation of
| Government an infamous coalition. Of that
do not complain so much as that Il native son
of Massachusetts, should endorse all these mis-
cradle ISLANDERS. 1t is of that complain The
coalition, say, in Massachusetts, must needs
be Of Wings and Free-Soiers, Wings and DEM
ocrats or Democrats and Free-Soilers Now l.
as a Democrat had no idea of coalescing
with the Wings. had fought them all my
life long. The gentleman from Florida Mr..
Cabell does not see any distinction between
the two parties. have seen dstinction-a
broad gulf--a gulf like that between Dives and
Lazarus, ann -. g. 'H,' over it in a single
J beapa, } imposed that there was p15-,l IA
tar 'dn5 oo,tofl. tzl1this ~, ;....e .os4s .,..
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I be relieved. ] wish TO be suffered stu 10 sup
pose that there is little principle in the world,
instead of thinking that all parties and aggre-
cations are rogues. think there was prin-
! ciple at the bottom of the division between
Democrats and Wings; and could not, as a
Democrat coalesce with the Wings. You then
ask, How did the Democrats coalesce with the
| Free-Soiers! Was not there broad distnc-
ton between them? will show gentlemen
how broad for it is best that these things
should be understood You will have to under
stand them by and by and what is the benefit
of talking nonsense in hours together, when We
can get at the plain facts if we choose to do so !;
and when, having got at the plain facts, we can
! Judge better how to conduct ourselves than by
the impositions palmed off here day after day,
in order to influence the country. | will show
gentlemen how far the Democratic party and
the Free Soil party were from each other at
the time the coalition was formed. The gen.
teman knows very WELL although the House
may not, that the coalition was formed in the
fall of the year lSi9, and not for the first time
in the fall of 1850 1t was formed in the fall
of lS49. and attempted to take the power out
of the hands of the Wings but did not succeed
1t came very near success, but it did not sue
cetu. III loOO liity Uldut IL ScCUHu ITlhI, anu
succeeded. In 1851 they made third trial
and succeeded again Three times has this
coalition been in operation; the first time
failure and the last two times successful. Now,
before the coalition was made, of course those
Democrats who came the nearest to the pecu-
liar opinions of the Free Sellers had no diff
Guilty, and felt no repugnance. The repugnance
must have been on the part of those who were
t1oat E,an N.,,l II I 30
show where they stood. hold in my hand the
resolutions reported by the Hon. Benjamin F.
Hallett, September 18th, ls49, the week the
coalition was formed; and gentlemen will see
how far Mr.. Hallett and those who thought
with him had to 90 before they could act with
out repugnance with the Free-Sol party The
following is one of the resolutions reported by
Mr. Hallett:
ReS0tred, That we are opposed to slavery in
any form and color, and an fdror Of Freedom
| AND FREE SOIL wherever man kues through
ont Gods heritage"
That is one Of the resolutions; here is
another:
| Resolved, That we are opposed to the ex-
tension of slavery to free Territories, and in
| favor of the exercise Of all constitutional and
necessary means to restrict it to the limits
within which it does or may exist by the local
| laws of the Stateo
| Now, gentlemen will ask me- what is the vote
upon these resolutions of Mr. Hallett It was
very full Democratic Convention and the vote in
favor of these resolutions was unanimous one.
on the 18th of September, 1919 Gentlemen
who write one kind of resolutions for the news
| papers, unanimously adopted circulating them
throughout the State of Massachusetts,, in q
printed form, for effect and who will write
another kind OF doctrine in private letters to
members upon this floor, must submit to have
their two systems compared. | say here what
| | have said in Massachusetts. Print them in
parallel columns and you will find no differ
ence. If the gentlemen wish TO make the
North all hypocrites; if they wish every man
at the North who entertains sentiments that
are not perfectly palatable in high Southern
latitude should fasify his own record, and pre-.
tend to love that which in his heart he abhOrs
if gentlemen desire that, why, there is way
to make some men do that, but there is nc
way to make all men do so The thing is i'm
possible. | think too well, not only of the people
of the frccmen of Massachusetts, but think
thank God, am able to say, too well of tn.
freemen of the United States-I think too wei
of human nature all over the world-to believ,
that a universal system of hypocrisy upon thu
subject of slavery or any other subject, is pos
sible now or will be at any future day. Yo'
may succeed in making
Mr.. CABELL. VIII the gentleman permit mi
to ask him single question
Mr.. RANToUL. | have not time. The gentle
man can speak after me for an hour.
Mr.. CABELL. | only wish to ask the gentle
man if the person of whom he is speaking i
the same one who is chairman of the Demo
cratic committee
Mr.. RANToUL 1t is the same man-what j
called Mt the North Hunker Democrat
Laughter. Now, sir ! was saying, and can
not go over the matter that had intended T.
pass over, that this issue of slavery is a grea
| national issue 10 be met with national cOnsti