The daily union., 1854-02-19

transactions these the people have reserved IEht 10
review the acts OF their representatives. and right 10
demand reconsideration; that there is in legislative
practice form OF RE ENACTMENT, as we'll as an act OF
repeal and that there IN our political system provs-
ion not only for abrosaioa but Tor RESTORATION also
Senators from the savehoding States You are poll
heans as well statesmen. Let me remind you there.
fore. that political movements IN This country. as 10 all
others have their times OF action and reaction. The
pendulum moved up the side OF freedom IN ls4o, and
swung back again in lS44 on ihe side OF slavery ira
vered the dial in s4s and touched even The marx OF The
Wmot proyso, and returned again IN 1852, reaching
even the height of The Baltimore platform, Judge Tor
yourselves whether il is yet ascending, and whether II
will attain the height OF the abrogaton OF the Missouri
Compromise That is the mark you fixing Tor IT, For
myself, | may claim TO know something OF the North |
see in the changes OF the times only the vibrations OF
the needle. trembling on lis PIVOT know that IN due
time il will settle and when 1t shall have settled will
point. point forever TO the constant polar
star that sheds down freedom broadly wherever pours
forth It's mild, but invigoralng light.
Mr.. President, have nothing TO do, here else
where, with personal or party motives. But come TO
consider the motive which is publicly assigned for this
transaction. u is desire TO secure permanent peace
and harmony on the subject of slavery, by removing all
occasion for its future agitation in the federal legislature
Was there not peace already herel Was there not har
mony perfect is ever possible in The country, when
this moved in the Senate month ago?
Were not, and not the whole nalion graphing
with that one great common, universal interest, the
opening OF communication between two ocean IRON
tiers; and already reckoning upon the quick
busy subugaon Of Nature throughout the interior OF
the continent 10 the OF man, and dwelling, with
almost rapturous enthusiasm on the prospective enlarge
ment OF in the East, and OF political
sway throughout the world! Aud what have
here but the oblivion OF death covering the very memory
OF those great enterprises, and prospects, and hopesf
Senators from the savehoding States You want
peace Think well, beHeech you, before you yield the
price now demanded, Tor peace and rest IRON
slavery agitation France has got peace from republican
agitation by similar sacrifice. So has Poland so has
Hungary; and so, al last has Ireland. Is the peace
which either Of those nations enjoys worth the price
il cost peace Obtained at such cost ever lasting
peace
Senators from the slsveholding States You, TOO.
suppose that you securing peace well victory
1885, that il error unnecessary error to suppose
that because you exclude slavery from these halls to-day
that will not revisit them To- You buried the
Wlmot provso here then, and celebrated its
with pomp and revelry. And here il is again to-day
stalking through these halls, clad in complete steel
before: Even those whom you denounce as iachonsts
the North would let rest you yourselves must evoke
ii from its grave The reason is obvious. Say what
you will, do wAa, you will here, the interests of the
-saveholding States and of the savehoding States
remain just the same and they will remain just The
sane unli you shall cherish and defend slave.
ry or shall cease to honor and love freedom You
will not 10 cherish slavery Do you any signs
that becoming indifferent 10 freedom On the
contrary. that old, traditional, hereditary sentiment of
the North profound and universal than
it ever was before The slavery agitation you depre.
much is eternal struggle between coRsetva-
tsm and progress, between truth and error, between
right and wrong You may sooner by act OF Congress,
compel the to suppress It's npheavings and the round
mind to cease 's inqarngs, and the human heart TO
desist from its ihrobbings.
Suppose, them moment, tha, this agitatno must go
on hereafter heretofore. Then, hereafter hereto
tore, will be need, both sldes of moderation,
and to moderation there will be need OF mediation
Hitherto you have secured moderation by OF
promises by rendering which the great mediator, now
more divided the people of The North But then, those
in The North who did not sympaihze with you your
complaints of aggression froal that quarter, well
those did, agreed that If compromises should be
effected they would be chvalrously kept your part
cheeruy admit that they have been so kept until now.
But hereafter, when having taken advantage-which in
the North will be called frsuduent-o The las, OF those
compromises, TO become, as you will be called The ag-
gressors, by breaking the other will be alleged.
in violation OF pbghted faith and honor, while the
slavery agitation rising higher than ever before, and
while your ancient friends, and those whom you persist
in regarding enemies shall have been driven to-
gether by common and universal sense OF your injus
tce, what new mode of restoring peace and harmony
will you then proposel What statesman will there be
in the South then who bear the flag OF truce What
statesman in the North who can mediate the acceptance
OF your new proposals
H. however, err in all this, lei us suppose that you
succeed in suppressng political agitation Of slavery in
national affairs. Nevertheless, agitation OF slavery must
form; tor all the world around you is
gagged it. II is, then, high time for you consider
where you may expect 10 meet IT next | much mistake
If, in that case, you do not meet IT there where We
who once were slayeholdng States, as you now are,
have met, and happily for us, succumbed before it
namely, in the legislative halls, in the churches and
schools, and at the hreslde within the States themselves
holding State must wresle, and by which IL must be
overcome. Even n, By of this measure 1t should
the come TO that point, and although sure
that you will mol overcome freedom, bot that freedom
will overcome you, yet do not look then for dis
sstrous or unhappy results. The institutions OF our
county NO framed tina, the inevitable conflict OF opn
ION slavery every other subject cannot be other
wise than peaceful in lis and beuetcent 10 It's
mnation.
Nor shall | "bae one lot OF heart or hope" in main
tanning just equilibrium OF the -sayehoding States
II this Ill starred measure shall be adopted The
non. saveholdng States teeming with increase OF
iTeemen, educated vigorous, enlightened, enerprsing
lreemen-such ireemen neither England Rome,
nor Athens, never reared. Half million OF free
men IRON Europe annually augment that increase and
ten years hence half million twenty years hence,
million OF freemen from Asia will augment Il still more
You may obstrucl and so turn those peaceful armies
away from Nebraska. So long you shall leave them
hill prairie, by river side in the mountain
Businesses, they will dispose of themselves peacefully
and lawfully in the places you shall have left open 10
them; and there they viii erect States upon tree
SOIL be forever maintained and defended by free arms,
and sggrandzed by free labor. American slavery,
know, has large and eve.owng spring, but cannot
pour forth iis backened tide in volumes like that have
described II you wise, these tides OF reemen and
slaves will meet, for they will not voluntarily
comminge: but II, nevertheless through your er
roneous policy their repulsve be directed
against each other, that they needs must meet then
is easy see, in that which of them will over
come the resistance OF the other and which OF them.
thus overpowered, will roll back 10 drown the
which sent II forlb.
"Man proposes, and God disposes" You may eris.
late, and abrogate and abnegale you will bat there
superior Power that oveTrules all your actions and
all your refusas 10 act and fondly hope and trust
overrues them 10 the advancement OF the greatness and