Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1856-12-18
DEBATE I'M THE SENATE,
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cd to be changed and Subvertcd in these mod
ern times Sir, it was no cause for diSSolu-
ton of the Union in 1889 it was none in lS
20 1t Is none to-day and in my judgment II
would lead to no snch consequences.
But it is said that four of the northern States
united to keep out of power this party, and
among them the State of Illinois is named
Sir, the State OF Illinois indorSes no such sen
tments as those avowed by the Senator from
Virginia. You could, not get the friends Of
Mr.. buchanan i'll Illinois to discuss the cues
tiOn Of the expansion of slavery. They said
that Kansas would be free state ; that it was
a libel on them when We charged that the eff
feet, the purpose the object of the repeal of
the Missouri compromise was to open Kansas
to slavery They said. Slavery will not go
there Kansas will he free State :" and they
discussed other questions, and were very far
from discussing this question of the expansion
of slavery. The great party which it is said
has triumphed was not willing to put itself on
that issue but we find it at Cincinnati over
turning and casting aside all the veterans who
had done service in the Kansas Nebraska fight,
and taking up another gentleman, simply be-
cause he had not been mixed up with it-a
gentleman who had been abroad, who had
nothing to do with the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise and the opening of Kansas to sla
very He was nominated for that reason =
and ii is as apparent as the MONDAY sun, that
if he had been identified with that measure he
could not have been elected Take the State
of Illinois. which Mr. Buchanan has carried
but not by a majority vote; he is in minor
ty in that State of nearly thirty thousand
Thrty-Seven thousand votes were cast in that
State for Mr.. Fillmore The speakers in his
favor denounced the repeal of the Missouri
compromise, denounced the extension of sa-
very into Kansas, as openly, as strongly, and
as boldly as did any supporter Of Colonel Ere
mont but they insisted that Mr.. Fillmore was
the better man for the Presidency. They cast
their votes for him under that impression.
But how was it when man was brought up
identified with the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, and the opening of Kansas to slavery?
How was it when Colonel Richardson came
before the people of Illinois as the nominee of
the Buchanan party for GOvernor-a man who
had taken an active part in the repeal of the
Missouri compfomise-and there came up in
opposition to him a gentleman who was oppos-
ed to the KansasNebrask bill ? The respec-
tive conventions which nominated these gentle
men passed resolutions Oh this subject The
one nominating Colonel Richardson indorSed
the Nebraska bill the other nominating Col
Bissel denounced and condemned it. Who is
elected Colonel Bissell triumphantly, and
the whole Republican State ticket I; and that
too, Notwithstanding the fact that there was
Fillmore ticket voted for
Do yon claim Illinois as indorsng the repeal
of the Missouri compromise and sustaining the
administration of Franklin Pierce If he had
been the candidate, or any man identified with
him in his policy he would have been beaten
as badly as was the man in the instance where
there were but two persons in Illinois running
for State Office, that Of State Treasurer 1t
so happened that we had but two candidates
for that Office. One was Mr. Moore, honest
John Moore" as he has been called, the old
treasurer popular man, and dtServedly so,
but identified with the party which approved
the repeal of the Missouri compromise, Against
him the Republican candidate was Mr.. Miller,
who was elected by more than twenty-one
thousand majority. Here where there were
but two candidates running Won see what was
the public sentiment of that State on this is
sue Although its electoral vote is cast for
Mr. Buchanan, it is cast by large minority
of the voters of the State So it is on the
congressional ticket a majority of thousands
is given for the Republican candidates. !
protest that the State of Illinois never has in
dorsed and never will indorse the spread of
slavery over free Territories. The only diff
Guilty which we had was in getting the people
to decide upon that issue. The trouble was
that we could not bring up the opposite party
to the advocacy of those doctrines which are
proclaimed here in the Senate. If we had been
able to do so, and could we have had the bene-
fit in the State of Illinois during the canvass
of the speech which the Senator from Virginia
has delivered here to-day, I think that even
the electoral vote of Illinois (though so cast
now by a minority of its voters) would not
have been cast for Mr.. Buchanan.
shall take another time when have had
further opportunity to examine this message
Of the President, to comment further upon it.
On the present occasion | will not longer de-
tain the Senate. My object in rising was
chiefly to protest against the baselesS asSump-
tions" in this message, and the (as think
nnwarranted assumptions made by Senators
here when they undertake to attribute to the
great Republican party, which sustained Col.
Fremont any hostility to the rights of any of
the States of this Union, or to the institution
of slavery in any of the States
On motion of Mr.. WILSON, the Senate
adjourned.
TRAPrING MIcE-The number of mice may
be very materially reduced by trapping them.