The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-07-06

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rise to correct me- be did not wish TO appear
take ground against his southern friends
Mr. BELL Il said, because chose to do it when could
| Mr. BADGER Precisely Then the senator chose to
do when he could explain his How consistent
would have been for to put note to my speech and
excepted the honorable senator from Tennessee out Of the
unanm of the other southern whg senator's unless he
had also appended there the explanation Of his rea-
think therefore, the senator's complaint that
subject is entirely without foundation.
All ! have further to say the subject is, that
having in making this statement sincerely believed that
speaking Just much the sentiments Of the senator
from Tennessee was speaking my own, have idea
whether mistaken not about the presence Of the
from Tennessee have no idea how because the
from Tennessee thereafter the conclusion
which, as understand him he had formed then,
vote against this bll retroactive effect be given 10
his subsequent determination to,impose blame for
statement made in good faith upon me- who could not
know what the ultimate conclusion which the senator
would arrive might be- and who being Of The
doubts and difficulties he then had led TO conclude
both from his In the Senate aud what had pasoed
ut that meetng TINT he, like the Df uk had uAde
his mind go for the bill But sir leave IL 70 the
Judgment Of the Senate whether under the circumstance
had not the fullest authorityi do not the fullest
authority in the that the in fact present
ut the time the request made hut the fullest authority
under the circumstances in which placed--for
nouncing that united in support Of this
measure.
EXTRACTS FROM THE SPEECH OF SENATOR BEN
0f JAMIN. Hisa sa g'A
felt any inclination enter into statement
discussion Of the which my based until
yesterday morning listened TO the honorubie senator
from Tennessee Mr. BELL with deep grief and pain. You
have heard the discussion which has taken place to-day
and which have failed excite the most unpleasant
sensations in your mind sir well in that Of
senator this foor The senator from Tennessee told u.s.
according to his statement of tho fact that almost up
to the moment at which he delivered his speech against the
bill his mind in doubt that he had not determined
whether he would support or oppose it that was with
the greatest possible reluctance he withdrew himself from
that band of southern brethren with whom he had
fought SO long and noby. Now, Mr. President, after
the utterance Of sentiments like those and after having
accomplished duty which, according to his represen
tation painful to him, thought for one, that
that senator would have been satisfied with the oppo-
sion he had already made to the bill but when yester
day morning he in his place and Aunted the advo
Gates Of the BILL and with air of sreerng and triumph
porting the BILL and what great principle saw in upon
which cOuldba votes in opposition to anisnd
ment which had before sustained, must confess lis
tened to him with deep pain The senator seemed to sub
ect every advocate of the bill TO separate special inter
rogatory He called first upon one SENATOR then upon
another and then upon third to disclose TO the Senae
the grounds upon which he going to vote against
this amendment and the great constitutional principle
which he found in the BILL which be carried for
ward and carried through to the sacrifice Of every other
principle is not at all to be wondered at sir that In
the hurry of the moment and the excitement caused BY in
teogaores Of that kind the to the senator from
Tennessee may have been full satisfactory
The friends OF the bill would desire and 1t because the
response not quite full to satisfy mind hatl
desire say what the principles which with my fee
bic intellect and junior member Of this Senate have
been able to eysccrate from the b and which seemed to
have escaped the pracsed acuteess and superior
ability of the senator from Tennessee. G
Now, Mr. President when look at this bill for the pur
pose OF evsccratng its principles find them standing out
such bold relief that he who dere cannot avoid
pcrceivng them. find, first the obliteraton Of geo.
graphical line by which the two sections of the c0nfed
rary have for upwards Of thirty years been separated
from each other That line purely arbitrary No
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ideal line has been drawn and the South has been told by
the North 'hus far shalt thou 20, and furher thus
far will the different sections of this confee1acy blend to-
geher and further they blend is an ideal line,
Sir Ii one was going to say principles but there is
principle in it, II is such line eloquenty al
luded to by the from Virginia the other dayaline
which, though IDEAL efectualy separates the sections
of the confederacy ii 1t wall of adamant When
gentlemen from the South approach their friends from the
North, reaching this line they repulsed. When
they endeavor to unite with their northern brethren In
those bonds OF aternal affection and cordial sentiment
which ought actuae every member Of the condcracy
II is as though wall OF ice intervcned between
them to chill their warmest and most brotherly emo
tions Sir this geographical line is OF the very
points against which warned by the Father OF our
Country when he made his Farewell Address to the people
of the United States and retired those shades from which
he again emerged into public life His warning voice
to his counrymen against n who, by word or deed,
should advocate establish maintain nything like geo
graphical divisions of the of tho conederacy D
vide upon anything esetake any principle you please
take lax strict construction OF the constitution take
internal improvements be for them against them take
protective tariffs advocate oppose them but geograph
ica lines eschew the who supports them hs traitor
10 the best interests Of his country That understand
H. the warning voice Of the Father OF his Country IN
his Farewell Address Here them Find great princ-
pie which of itself would recommend this bill my
est support ut all times and upon all occasions.