The daily union., 1856-12-16


that under the constitution the South has right TO
legitimate expansion Of slavery and it is the right to
expand the institution upon which he insists When we
charge that the design TO extend slavery into the
free Territories OF Kansas and Nebraska the President
says IT is baseless assumption The senator from Vir
gina informs US that he insists on the right to the ex
Pansion OF slavery Who right He tells us further
that the people in four of the northern States united in
keeping out OF power that party which would have sever
ed the Union into fragments How would they have sever
cd it into fragments should like to know Did they pro-
to dissolve III Did they propose TO encroach the
rights of the States They declared that the rights of
the States should be preserved How they going to
dissolve the Union Was it in any other way than this
ii has been stated here to-day in the Senate that If Colo
mel Fremont elected the Union must be- and ought to
be, dissolved Because particular is elected Presi-
dent of the United States is that any for dssoving
the Union2
Mr.. MASON Will the senator allow me to interrupt
him for moment
Mr.. TRUMBULL. Certainly
Mr.. MASON. What said was this that IL that party
came into power avowing the purposes which they did
avow, 1t would necessarily result in dissolution of the
Union whether they desired 1t or not 1t was utterly i'm
material who their President; he might have been
man of straw ! alluded to the purposes of the party.
said in the letter TO which of the senators has
alluded and what said substantially in the remarks which
have made in this debate merely that if the party
into power avowing the purposes which they
ed and prepared to execute hem it would necessarily
suit in dissolution of the Union, and then far the
South concerned it should be immediate and eternal
Mr.. TRUMBULL | wish to examine that position 1t
is thsI will endeavor to state it in the language of the
the principles which they avowed it would necessarily
suit in the dissolution OF the Union and that far he
and the South concerned it should be immediate and
eternal Now what principles did avow Is there any
hostile to the South Isay principle upon
this subject about which speaking except those
avowed by Thomas Jefferson himself by Washington and
by Monroe Is it for dissolution of the Union
that particular is elected President? Manfestly
not and the senator from Virginia does not contend for
that
Mr.. RUsK. viii the senator from Illinois allow to
ask him question
Mr.. TRUMBULL. Certainly
Mr. RU6K. He and others have attributed the sentiment
which he is commenting eoquenty TO the south
States desire to ask him he does not know that it
had its origin in the northern States with of the cand
dates for the presidency Did he not first make the dec
aration that the alluded to would dissolve the
Union
Mr.. TRUMBULL l am not the defender of any third
party whose candidate may have made declarations to
the dissolution Of the Union that the great Fremont
party entertain and avow such sentiment
Mr.. RUSK The senator msunderstands me. | do not
ask him to defend Mr.. Fillmore but ask him to make
the charge against the South but against indvd-
ual who CO nmtted the offence.
Mr. HALE and Mr. SEWARD. That is fair.
Mr. TRUMBULL do not who makes the charge
that the election of Colonel Fremont to the presidency
would dissolve the Union. say it is baseless charge
and manestly it could not prevail come from what party
may The senator from Virginia does not put himself
the fact of any particular man being elected but
on the principles avowed To that will pay attention in
moment but wish first to dispose of the clamor which
has been raised in parts of the country that the cleo
tion OF pardculRr man s cause for dissolution OF the
Union.
why sir neither Colonel Fremont nor any other person
be elected President of the United States except the
constitutional mode; and any individual is elected Pres
ident In the mode prescribed by the constitution is that
cause for dissolution of the Union Assuredly not. II
it be- the constitution contains within itself the elements
its destruction The great principle lying at the bot
tom of the institutions of the and of the consu
ton itself s that must acquesce in the decision of the
majority consdtutonaly expressed in the selection Of Off
GERS anu until the person elected does some vo
hnH H.
destructive of the government the fact that he is elected
President in the constu tonal mode affords reason
whatever for the dissolution Of the Union Then, would
there have been any for its dissolution II the repub
lcan party had succeeded with its ayowed sentments7
Now, what were its avowed sentiments the subject
slavery Opposition to its extension; opposition to the
spread Of slavery into the Territories and declaration
the right OF Congress to prohibit slavery in the Territories
Of the United States Is that for the dissolution
the Union know that the senator has said that 1t mat
ters not to him whether the interference is with slavery out
side of the States within the States but think the
cases very different think have right and that
there intention the part of the great body of the
people Of the NORTH to interfere with slavery in the States
but think there Is intention to prevent its extension
outside Of States into free Territories and there very
great difference between these positions
Well sir II the prevalence of these opinions be a
for dissolution Of the Union, which should be imme-
diate aud eternal why, ask not this government
dissolved the year of its formation How did 1t happen
that the very first Congress which met under the
suton of the United States adopted and rearmed that
ordinance excluding slavery from the whole Northwest
Why not the Union then dissolved IF 1t is cause
in 1856 for dissolution Of the Union to exclude slavery
from Kansas and Nebraska, ii not a in 1889
when slavery excluded from the territory COW
cred by the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois Wisconsin
and Michigan Why, ask again. in 1920, when Mr. Mon
President Of the United States not the Union
dissolved Immediately and eternally Slavery then,
by of Congress excluded from the free territory from
which wish to exclude II. If this be for
dssoving the Union now 1t not for dissolu-
ton then How did Mr. Monroe from the State Of Vr-
gnia himself approve bill excluding Ii from that terrific
ry9 Why, sir il is manifest that the public sentiment Of
this country has very much changed II this is for
dissolution Of the Union In former times, these acts
Of Congress excluding slavery from the Northwest and
from the Territories OF Kansas and Nebraska deemed
udicous and proper acts Of legislation voted for by the
South and carried by southern votes, Now we told
that the same legislation is cause for dissolution Of the
Union. This shows how the constitution which fathers
made and understood and have put into operation pro-
posed TO be changed and ubverted in these modern times
Sir il for dissolution Of the Union in 1889
il Is in 1920 II is to-day and in my Judgment
II would lead to such consequences
But Ii s said that four OF the northern States united
keep out Of power this party and among them the State
Of illinois Is named Sir, the State Of Illinois endorses
such sentiments those avowed by the senator from
in Illinois TO discuss the question Of the expansion of
slavery. They sad that Kansas would be free State
that II was libel them when charged that the e
feet the purpose the object Of the repeal Of the Missouri
Compromise was TO open Kansas to slavery They said
slavery will not 60 there Kansas will be free State .
and they discussed other questions and were very far from
discussing this question of the expansion Of slavery The
great party which II s said has triumphed not will
ling to put itself on that issue but find II at Cncn-
natl oveturnng and casting aside all the veterans who
had done service In the Kansas Nebraska fight and taking
up another gentleman simply because he had been
mixed with i-a gentleman who had been abroad who
had nothing do with the repeal of the Missouri Compro-
mise and the opening OF Kansas to slavery. He nom
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