Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1856-12-06
TUESDAY. DECEMBER 9, 1856.

| Mr. Fitzpatrick submitted resolution that
| the message and accompanying documents he
printed aud that fifteen thousand additional cop
| ies be printed for tho use Of the Senate.
Mr.. Adams regard soma parts Of the
sage M 81 much more Importance. While he
made no objection to printing extra copies OF the
mtssnge, he hoped the question as to the accom-.
panying documents would be referred to the
committee on printing.
Mr Mason doubted whether he public mon
ey could be expended in better manner than
in dlfiusing this information among the people Of
| the country.
Mr. Fossenden thought that about one fourth
OF tn" matter in the accompanying documents
might be omitted, us it only interested u limited
number Of persons.
Mr. Fitzpatrick hoped that nothing would be
omitted.
Mr.. Hale could not permit this occasion to pass
without saying that he regarded the message as
very extraordinary and unprecedented one
| The chief Magistrate, IN common with other Cit
| liens, had the right to come before the Senate
| whenever he had anything which his interest or
| duty required him 10 present, but he mu-, come
MS every other citizen did, by petition memo
rial Tn. only other means by which he could
come before Congress was III pursuance of TINT
| provision of the Constitution, which requires him
from time to time to give information on the
stnte It the Union. and recommend to their con
sldern ion such measures us he sha' Judge neces-
| thfy or PNpeulent. DuI ne regarded IL AZ an IA
| buse 81 that privilege for the President to arraign
those citizens Of tho free States who had thought
proper to exercise their constitutional rights Of
/ euiirnge in manner different from that which
! the President preferred. He had desire to
say ANYTHING which might be construed into
want of all due courtesy, kindness and respect
| TO the President. for his present position was
such as To appeal 10 the magnnnlmity rather than
| provoke the hostility Of his opponents. But
while he regarded the message arrngnment
! of vast minority Of the people of eleven States.
charging them with want of fidelity to their CON
! -titut nal obligations, aud hostility to the Union
and the constitution, h" desired To take the pres
ent occasion to deny them IN toto.
Th" President had gone further than that, aud
charged these people in the free States with the
| high "Dence of endeavoring To usurp the power
| of thlS government. That was the langnage.-
I 10 usnrp. according t. photographers, was to
seize 10y force. without right. He had to say
that h" had observed no attempt in any section
of the country, aud last aud least of all in that
section To which the President refers, to seize up.
ON the power of this government, except by tho
regular constitutional di schnrge of their ohliga-
tons mud duties rs citizens. by going to the polls
mud voting according to their convictions Of duty.
No portion of the people North had ever said they
would refuse to submit To the result of the cleo
ton, nhoever night bc the successful candidate.
| lie was therefore unwilling 10 vote to circulate
! throughout the country any such unfounded char
! ges.
So fur ms he knew, there nobody of any
consequence who desired TO interfere with the in
| siltution of slavery in the States.
! Mr.. Brown stated that he had received IA vol
ume written by I.ysander Spooner containing
mn ing nous aud eaborat II, gument in favor of
the abolition of slavery in all the Southern States
by Congress aud endeavoring to rrove that Con
Eres~. not only possessed this power. but that 1t
would be eSpedient for them to exercise il. This
volume WINS accompanied by note asking To re.
view hS opinions on his subject The statement
had been made repeatedly that when the proper
time cHme there would be no division of sent
ipent among the Northern people % To the war
they should make on slavery ia the southern
States.
Tn, New York Tribune had published similar
limitations, and avowals had been made by Mes.
srs. Seward aud Wilson that when the North
should 20 strong enough they would st,v" for
abolition of slavery everywhere i'll Gods heritage
whore ltexsts. Did that not include the South
ern Statesl Wore they outside of Gods herr
tagel tlo thought the president would have been
dcrelio to duty if he had failed to lift up the voice
of warning against shis sectional spirit and he
returned him thanks for The manner in which no
had spoken.
Mr. Hale repeated that he had never met an
individual who advocated the doctrine that Con
gross had power to abolish slavery in the South
ern States. There were, no doubt such persons
but their numbers and influence were very small.
lie had no doubt the language used relative to
the abolition of slavery everywhere contemplated
its abolition by the consent of those States in
which il existed and not through any iDsurrec
ton movements.
Mr.. Seward did not know to which of his
speeches Mr.. Brown alluded. but what he had
said on he subject of slavery had not been said
in a corner. He presumed reference was intend
ed TO speech that he had made in iS4S in Cleve-
land. Ohio, in reproof of the election of Zachary
Taylor. stakeholder, to the office of President
But whether Mr.. Brown referred to that speech
not be would remark that his speeches had
been gathered together and published in three vol
umes by Mr.. Redfeld, of New York; and the Sc
nator could find his opinions expressed there iul
~ So far as he was concerned. he was willing
that these issues imperfectly settled now should
be left open until 1860 for the people to deter
mine.
Mr. Mason said the constant agitation upon
the subject of slavery had brought the people of
the South to the conviction that the preservation
of that in sttution rested with themselves, and
them alone. As of the representatives of the
South be desired to say that he took no further
interest in it, or in any opinion which was enter
tanned AT the North In relation to it, than as he
entertained the firm and decided hope tina; there
was a public sentiment yet remaining at the
North which ready to unite with the South
in the desire to perpetuate the Union. And by
the aid of that public sentiment in the North,
he believed the Union would be preserved,
but further than that, as II statesman or as
one responding for of the Southern States
| where that nsttution prevailed. the public
sentiment az the North was Il matter OF indif-
| ference to the South, whether those who desire
to continue the slavery agitation endeavor TO ex-
ercise their powers in interfering with it where
| ever II listed IN the United States, or endeavor