Daily American organ., 1856-08-13
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Indeed, sir, the resurrection of the Democrats
party at the North is event not at all anticipate,
there. IL has sunk from view--like water smile,
upon the ground, not to be gathered again. gt. .
A stubborn resolution has been manifested a
the North. Since that great day there has beer
nothing which shows that my honorable friends
ON the Democratic side of the House have ma
Jority in one single State north of Mason and
Dlxohs line. There is not one single fact that
shows that they can carry State north of Ma.
son and Dixon's line on national politics even
by a plurality. 9he account of loss and gain
stands at set-oif. If in PENNSYLVANIA Demo-
Gratis and Wings and Americans have combined
TO elect canal commissioner by a plurality only, in
Maine Democrats and liquor men have united anC
carried local election by plurality In New
Hampshire and Connecticut the Americans have
carried the local elections by puralities. If New
Jersey has given Democratic majority in a local
election, California has come to the Americans by
great majority. r ....4. :
The faithful fondly hoped that some of those
elections indicated change of tide. They forgot
that Falstaff parted just between twelve and
one, cen at turning O the tidep If there be any
compunctions of conscience forcing them to CRY
out God! God! God let them beware of those
Dame Quickleys who, to comfort them, bid them
not think OF God, and hope there is no need TO
trouble themselves with such thoughts yet; for
when the parting Falstaff so cried and was so COM
forted, and had more clothes laid on his feet,
the comforter, Dame Quickly, knew there was but
one way, and when she put her hand into the bed
ana lett ms feet-they were as cold as any stone
and then she 'felt to his knees ard so upward and
upward, and all was as cold as any stone.n
Sir, the fatal hour has come. Even while /
speak, the stricken field of Iowa brings to them
defeat and disaster, crushed hopes and cruel dis
appointment Their feet are already cold in the
North, and as we feel upward and upward and ND.
ward towards their head in the South, all is cold
as any stone. Tis vain to ask for more clothes on
the feet for their passing bell is already tolng
that men may pray for the parting soul. But, sir,
they are not without consolation. There are true
Bardolphs, who, when told of their death, will ex-
claim
Would were with them wheresome'er they
be-eithor in heaven or in he!"
Now, sir, why is all thisp We need no election
statistics for the response. They were the trium-
phant and dominant party at the North ere this
great Hood. Now they do not number more than
fourteen members from the populous North in this
hail. They were the party said to be specially devo.
ted to the interests of the South at the North before
this great flood. None so sound, none 80 unshaken,
none 80 true to defend the South, through thick
and thin, at all hazards, and to the last extremity
as the Demoerats of the North. Where are they
gone? care they asleep, or on a journey, or at
the least" or have they forgotten their duty or
have they become mad, or have they played like
chlidren-- casting vote for my honorable friends
and another for their honorable opponents9 Na
Sir, the American people have been bred IN
American habits. They are not in the habit of
capricious and causeless change And yet there is
change. mean to speak the cause of that change
out loud. 1t is, tie repeal of The Missouri Com
promise, Mc enactment Of tie KanSas-A AeIraska
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denied or defended by my honorable Democratic
friends. Theywere warned by the honorable Sen.
ator from Illinois, who reported that measure, IN
has first report against It, of the dangerous conge-
quences, and they would not heed the warning
In an evil day for his reputation he allowed him.
self to be ovei come by party and personal ambi-
tion and to be deluded by the hopes of party dom
nation. He allowed himself to be dcluded by the
supposition that he could bring to the support Of
that measure the great body of Southern men.
Wings and Democrats, and that the temporary
excitement would only raise the froth upon the
surface, while the depths of the ocean would roll
on in their sluggish sleep Sir he cast the javelin
against the cave of lEous, and all the winds OF
strife have rushed forth across the ocean and cast
up tempest which leaves of the vast fabric of the
Democratic party nothing but scattered and bro
ken fragments, cast on the shores for the wreck
ers to collect, and, as they measure the dmen.
miral 1t was that has gone down in that terrific
sea. .~. '.@&
Sir, is not that the reason 2 | do not ask gen
temen 10 tell me whether it is an ADEQUATE reason
do not ask gentlemen to the North is reasona-
bic in her anger. simply ask gentlemen upon their
candorand konorfthat isnot the reason oftle erist-
ing condition oflhiags There no gentlemen here
whose breast does not echo that it is. And ven
ture little when say there IS scarcely one of my
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tion in whicl, it has placed them, who does not,
from the bottom Of his heart curse the day on
which he was so msled If they adhere still
to the Kansas-N ebraska act, it is from neoes-
sity, and not from choice, that my honorable
friends, finding themselves at the bottom of the
water, have, like Cooper's sailor in the western
lake, seized root to keep themselves there
1t IS from necessity, and not from choice, that
with a milestone round their nccks they march
down to the water for a swimming match with
light men having floats on. ...,...
Why, sir, what are their apoogies--their Gpol-
ogies to the North, their apologies to their Dan. |
ocrattc friends whom they hare slain murdered, |
and sent to the land of ghosts, for whose alb |
sence my friend from Georgia weeps? The Mis-. |
souri, Compromise-say they--was unconsttution-
al But since when9 say the North to them That
does not rest well, gentlemen, in your mouths, for
il was Democratic majority that passed it. It was
the great men of the Democratic party, and more
than all others, the great Marylander, VIM. Pinck-
ney, who proposed and advocated and carried that
great measure of healing in that day. The great
which he addressed to vindicatc the sop-
ereignty Of a State from the binding control OF
conditions imposed by Congress, Is the argument
broken into small fragments suit
able to the strength and stature of those who use
them, and misapped now by gentlemen to disprove
the power OF Congress to pass the very Missouri re-
m a,N, h,o oIr
ted at the very time OF that great argument and in
corporated into the very which is his triumphal
monument to the peace which he conquered and
perpetuated by it. And Mr. Monroe, their PreSi- /