Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1856-12-25

both Its candidates were from the North Has
the senator from South Carolina forgotten
that his own State, in 1926. set the example
OF that species of sectonalism by voting for
| Finekney and Jefferson, when it should have
voted for Adams and Pinckneys Has he for
gotten that IN 1872, the Federal party sup
| ported De Witt Clinton. of New York, aud
lngersoil of Pennsylvania, both of them from
the free States? Has he forgotten that in
1928, Jackson and Calhoun, both Southern
men, were supported on one side, and Adams
and Rush. both Northern men, on the other /:
Has he forgotten that in 1886, the Wing par .
ty generally supported General Harrison for
the Presidency, and Mr.. Granger of New
York. for the Vice Presidency, both free State
men : Why this charge about sectionalism,
because both of the candidates happened to be
from the Norths Why may not the West
complain if both OF the candidates happen to
be from the Atlantic coast: Our early states
men thought that if division should ever
happen, it would not be between the South
and the North, but between the East and
| West. tell the senator from South Carolina
that we had candidates from the North be-
cause we he'd no men from the South tor eth
er Of those offices who would, however much
they might have agreed with us, venture to
assume our position.
|
to make one remark?
MIR. WIlson-Certainly.
Mr.. Butier.-The proposition which made
was perhaps made hastily. without having
looked at the true historical statement of facts.
My proposition was, that the issue had never
been made between the non slaveholGing and
saveholding States oy the nomination of can
didatcs, until this time. l may have used the
expression that the President and Vice Pres
ident heretofore, and think it is true except
III one instance, have been one from the North
and one from the South. 1 will say to the
Senator from Massachusetts that it is a curious
piece of history, that South Carolina never
voted for one of her sons for the Presidency.
and Massachusetts has voted for three of hers.
They were worthy. Mr.. Webster was wor-
thy; Mr.. John Adams was worthy, and Mr.
John Quincy Adams was worthy. l think
| we could enumerate men in our own State
equally worthy, but they were not nominated.
| My proposition was, that this issue had never
been presented before.
Mr.. Wilson. I want to correct the Senator
from South Carolina in matter of history
In 1896, the Federal candidate for the Presi-
| dency was John Adams, and for Vice Presi.
| dent Thomas Pinckney. South Carolina was
then in Federal hands. There was an intrigue
gotten up i'll the country 10 defeat Mr. Adams,
Carolina played her part in the intrigue, by
voting for Jefferson and Pinckney.
We should rejoice to have found South.
ern man of talent, of character and position
before the country, who would have taken
our platform of principles aud accepted our
nomination for either President or Vice Pres
ident. More than one Southern man of high
character was consulted in regard to our
movement. | will tell the Senator the rea-
son why Southern statesmen did not venture
to assume our position and accept of the NOM
ination. They had no faith in our move
ment, no faith in its power, no faith in the
fidelity to freedom of the people of the North.
l remember the words of one Southern states
man who was consulted in relation 10 this
movement. A few weeks before the close of
the last session, in converslng with Mr.. Clay
ton, he said: You Northern people never
stand by US when we stand by you. When
ever any Southern statesman has undertaken
to stand by the rights of the North, your
people have forsaken him and he has been
borne down." When we prove that we will
stand by Southern men who will stand by
true national principles hen we establish
that character for ourselves in the North then
we shall have Southern men who will stand
on true, broad, and national platform that
comprehends the whole country. including
the North. If nominations were to be now
made believe we could find more than one
Southern man ready 20 stand upon the Phia-
delphia platform, and to accept our nomina-
ton for the Presidency or the Vice Presidency.
The Senator from Virginia CMr. Mason)
claims that the South has constitutional
right to the expansion OF slavery, as a polit.
cal element, into the Territories. He assured
the Senate that he cared nothing about the
distinctions we make between the Garrison
Abolitioniss, the Radical Abolitonsts, and
the Republicans that he held opposition to
the extension of slavery in the Territories to
be a war upon slavery in the States, because
they had constitutional right to the expan-
sion of slavery as a political element. In
1913, the Senator from Virginia. who tells us
that it is a matter of profound indifference
to him and the people of his State whether
we claim the power to abolish slavery in the
States or prohibit it in the Territories voted to
prohibit it in three hundred thousand square
miles of our territory. In l848 this Senator
voted to extend to the Pacific Ocean the Mis-
souri, Compromise, approved the 9th of March.
1920. He voted for this proposition:
" That the eighth section of the Missouri
Compromise act, approved March g. 1920, be
and the same is hereby declared to extend to
the Pacific Ocean and the said eighth Sec
ton, together with the compromise therein eff
fected, is hereby revived and declared to be in
full force and binding for the future organic
alton Of the Territories OF the United States,
in the same sense and with the same un-
derstanding with which it was originally
adopted"
The Senator from Virginia, who voted to
prohibit slavery to the Pacific Ocean, in Utah,
in portion Of New Mexico, and in the larger
portion of California, now comes Into the Sem
ate, and when we propose in 1856 to do what
he voted tor in 1913, he tells us that these
distinctions are matters of indifference to him
and to his State. When we propose to exer-
else now the power he exercised then, he is
ready to stand up to the doctrine of his letter
Of last autumn; he is ready for the perpetual
and eternal separation of these States Let
me inform the Senator from Virginia, that the
one million, three hundred thousand men of
the North who voted for the sacred doctrine
embraced in the ordinance of 1887, will not
be deferred from maintaining their principles
by any threat of the dissolution of the Union,
Our answer to him is in the words of Daniel
| Webster:
"Our opposition to the further extension of
local slavery in this country, or to the increase
of slave representation in Congress, is general
and universal. 1t has no reference to limits
of latitude or points of the compass We shall
oppose all such extension and all such in
crease, in all places, at all times. under all
circumstances, even against all inducements,
against all supposed limitation of great inter
ests, against all combinations against all COM
promises
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