Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-09-18
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here Is clearly shown a conspiracy
OF all the opposition members Of the
Senate and House Of Representatives,
with many others, tosdvfeat an act
passed by Congress in accordance
With the forms of the Constitution.
my levy money to resist the laws
OF the United States, and in reason
and morals are as much responsible
Tor consequences as if they had s1ev-
led war; Yes now they come
shedding guilty tears ever @bleeding
kansas, covered though they be
with the crimes of treason, murder,
and civil war. Many of you who
hold seats on this floor in connection
with such men as Sumner, Seward,
Hale, and Wilson, have not only
given "aidapi comfort" but you are
the real authors Of this bloody drama
of treason and revolution that now
disturbs our peace and stains our
history; on your head rests the guilt
Of every drop of blood that has been
she'd, and every lie that has been
lost in that unfortunate struggle
.Posterty viii write the dark sentence
against you, Of cow4rdly conspirators
and law breakers. who dared not "no-
bly, face the horrid front Of war;
!. but, standing FAR away from the
bloody conflict, in hope Of political
aggrandizement,y ou eoolly urged your
doIuded victims on to battle aud tc
death. Your treason is not less dis
timely marked; your agencies no less
corrupt aud Infamous; your attempts
against the peace and SAFETY of tbC
nation are no less impudent and dan
gerous, than Catiline's to the Roman
republic; aad yet you still live t.
disgrace the country you have trie'
to ruin. And now here before tn
world, in the names of the Doyle
and the Wilkinsons, once citizens 0
my own State, whose innocent bleo'
now cries from the plains of Kansa
for vengeance, l denounce you a
guilty mlrderers. such as | have de
scribed, and against whom the weep
ing widow and her helpless orphal
should implore the wrath of an in
suited nation.
What better evidence could yo
furnishthe world of your revolutionar.
designs, than this attempt to transfe
the government of Kansas to you
guilty agents, who, under your trait
erous advice, have made war upo
the government which Congress es
tablished? IF you had entertalne
an honest purpose to settle this cues
ton fairly, without an appeal to tn
God OF battles, why did you not brin
in bill securing the freedom Of til
ballot-box by every possible restrit
ton, and provide for the assemblin
of convention to form State col
stitution, for admission into the Unio
with or without slavery, as the
should determine? You know that
this was done, whatever might be tn
result, the southern people woul
submit without a marmur; but it sui
ed your purpose better to endorse th
treason you had created, and excit
sectional hatred and party strife t
their widest deeds by artfuhy uttel
ing your war cries, Restoration {
the Missouri COMPROMISED" an
more slave States or slave Terrific
ries shall be allowed to the Unionp'
To prove the hypocrisy and insir
cerity of this loud lament over th
repeal Of the Missouri compromis'
it is only necessary to advert to
few facts. When did northern me
become so much in love with ths
measure, and what was it that stirre
the deep fountains Of their affections
Il was not thus in 1870, nor was
in 1S48, when every northern ma
in the House but four, voted down
proposition to extend this compromi:
to the Pacific. Nor was it in 1856
when southern Representatives unal
imously, for nearly fifty times, pr
posed and humbly begged their mort
ern brethren to extend this line az
thereby forever quiet the strife tn
threatened our national safety
Northern men were then swift
trampIing this noto darling measu
under their feet, against the .vot
and wishes Of Southern men, regar
less of the dangers that then hes
the Union; for it did seem that Il
heavy footsteps Of an angry god
war might almost be heard tramplii
down your Capitol and Constitute