Republican vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1857, 1856-08-30


shrieks for freedom than vet had been heard
They would have been heard all over tn,
country 1t was necessary 10 pursue tina
course in order to protect the free-State par
ty in that Territory and save them from TIKI
hands Of those they had 50 greatly outraged
Had the army been withdrawn, the result
would have been that we should have had ;
sectional fight long before this day. The
South would have sent Weh aud money tt
the assistance of their friends and the wal
would have been waged between the two
sections of the Union; and Kansas wottld
have been the battle ground at first, but the
war would have extended until beth sections
were iHolved-inextricably involved. Dc
you desire to scatter the seeds of revolution
and anarchy broadcast over he countrv ?
Is it your desire tc array seeAi6il against sec
ton, brother against brother father against
son, III hostile strife? A very large num-
Der of the people of the West, were born
and reared in the slave States, and many Of
their friends and relatives yet live in Vir-
ginia and other parts Of the South.
| again ask, what is your purpose? VIII
you continue to encourage these RESTLESS
spirits i'll Kansas to throw off the restraints
/ of law and to condemn the established au-
thority ofthe government? VIII you con-
tinue to countenance their efforts to over
throw the laws--to tranfrie social and rolit-
ical order under foot--to Stimulate their
passions and to inilalne their prejudices p
VIII such course be likely to restore peace
between the North and South, aud to res
tore that fratornal feeling and affection
which GU ht at all times to exist between
the people of these States? You can con-
troll them if you will; you can check the tu-
mutt, calm the storm, and put an end to the
reign of sectional strife. II you viii not do
it, then | appeal to 'sthe prudence ofthc
country, oadtde sober ,eisc1om Of tie people, y
to relieve us from the perils ard dangers
that threaten the overthrow of our system Of
/ free government.
/ Gentlemen on the other side of the House
tell us that supplies will never be voted un-
til affairs in Kansas are arranged to their
satisfaction What is necessary to be done
to satisfy them? From the intimations
which have from time to time been thrown
out by the leaders in this House it is not
difficult to determine. They demand that
all the territorial laws shall be abrogated or
suspended uuth Congress shall have passed
upon the validity of the Legislative assembly
of Kansas that persons regularly aud le-
gally indicted for crimes OF the gravest
character against th9 laws shall be diseharg.
I'd from custody; tat territorial officers whe
ia the faithful discharge Of their public du-
ties, have rendered themselves obnoxious te
the doa'oant majority here shall be remov.
cd AID their places supplied by the supple
to6Ns # The reyoiutionists. These are THEN
modest demands, and if they IRE not com
piled with, tie regular, the usual appropri-
atoms are 10 be denied, aud the wheels of
government are TO cease their steady and
their motto. Tie Executive and the Senate
must yield to their demands or they will
press forward their revolutionary projects to
the great hazard OF the country, its prosper
ity, aud tie best interests of the people.
/ If this is TO be your rule of action-if you
have determined to withhold all the appro-
priations necessary 20 keep the government
i'll motion-if the whole revenue is to be
collected and locked up, and not a dollar tc
be paid Quit is well enough for the PEG.
pie to enquire, what will be the effects upon
the commercial, financial, and business re.
llations of this great nation? What will be
its effects upon lie trade, upon the COM
meree, and upon the mechanical interests o.
/ the cities Of New York, Boston, Philadel
phia, and Baltimore? They must be disas
trious to the last degree. Universal distress
and pecuniary embarrassment, in all thos,
localities, is unavoidable. All who are con
neeted with them must sooner or later shar,
in the ruin in which they viii be overwhelm
ed. The circle must continue to enlarge itsel
until it shall embrace within its balefl,l in
/ fluenee all Of the great business interests O
the people Of the thirty-oue States that maxi
up this Union of ours Inc passions of tn
people are iniamed, their preiudices ar
stimulated to the highest pitch ofexcitemen
AID everywhere around US sectional storm
RACES wildly, and tlreatans, in its fury, l.
engulph the ship of State. If, in this cri
teal condition of things in both sections o
the Union, you, by yoar reckless actor
here, shall bring bankruptcy and pecuniar,
ruin upon the country, may not the mos
uhda'iated patriot well tremble for the con
sequences
j believe that the Union is in immincn
danger
''This hours the very crisis of our fate"
# the Union shall be destroyed upGn. 7-o'
will rest the responsibility; and let me adj
monish you in the eloquent language of IN,
4 gifted predecessor, (now no more, that, Il
you allow It 10 be oyerthrown, you will &c
it again when the sun shall go back upon tn
dial of 1haz'-
"when earth's cities have no sound or tread,
When ships are drifting with the dead
10 shores where all is dumb"