The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-08-19
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On the Goth Of December, in the House
[Cong. Globe, page SILL Mr.. McAallin Of
Va, said:
'Let me tell that member Mr.. Giddings
and this House and the country, that should
this country ever arrive at that unfortunate
state Of affairs that the Government should
pass into the hands of the North--of such q
: Northern fanatical character over the way,
! and that that Government should RESTORE
THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE, or repeal
the fugitive slave law, then in such case
would have to indorse the declaration
Of the honorable gentleman from Kentucky,
Mr.. Campbell;l that 10 to say, that THIS
UNION MUST AND WILL BE DIS
SOLVED. One Of the greatest
misfortunes of the country, Mr.. Clerk, is the
fact that our Northern brethren mistake the
character of the South. They suppose that
the Southern disunionists are confined to the
Calhoun wing of the Democratic party.
This, sir. is the GREATEST ERROR that
the people Of the North have ever fallen into.
| And tell you, sir, and want the country to
know i'll want the gentlemen from the
| free States, our Republicans, our Seward
Republicans, our Abolitionists, or whatever
you restore the Missouri Compromise, OR
repeal the fugitive slave law, THIS UNION
WILL BE DISSOLVED
Mr.. McMullin then proceeded to say that
he made these declarations " in the hearing
of the whole Southern delegation-Whig,
Democrat and Southern American !" and
be then added the following words:
81 HOPE THAT II ANY GENTLEMAN DEEMS
DO NOT PROPERLY REPRESENT THE STATE OF
PUBLIC FEELING IN THE SourH, HE WILL COR
RECT NE.''
Neither on that day, or any succeeding
day, did any Southern member rise to dis
claim the sentiments imputed to the South by
Mr.. McMullin, although thus expressly called
upon by him to do 40, II he had misstated
| Southern views.
Mr.. McMullin has been four times elected
to Congress from Virginia. He did during
the month of April, in an elaborate
printed address to his constituents, reiterate
the above views.
In the House, ON the oath of December,
Gov. Smith OF Virginia and others, renewed
the lamentations which had been made on
previous days, over the expression imputed
to Mr.. Banks, that under certain circum-
stances he would "let the Union slide"
At length Mr.. Brooks Of South Carolina
arose and said: [Cong. Globe, page III
''The gentleman from Massachusetts has
announced to the world, that in certain con-
tingences, he is willing to let the Union
slide" Now, sir, let his contingencies be
reversed, and am also willing to ''let the
Union slide, '--ny, sir, to AID IN MAKING
i III SLIDE. | hesitate not to saw.
that if his construction Of the constitutional
power Of Congress over the Territories shall
prevail in this country, for one heartily
ndorse the sentiment.
| In the House, on the 23rd of December,
Mr.. Seward of Georgia, offered a resolve in
relation to the organization Of tho House,
lCong Globe, page 95,l affirming in sub
stance, that all in favor Of the doctrine Of
non-interyention in the Territories, ought to
unite on q common candidate for the Speak
ership. lie insisted that it was vital, that
Congress should not interfere with slavery
in the Territories. Among other things, he
said
g Ii the question is to be settled by Con-
gress, and decided against the South by
maj GRITTY from the North, the Government
will be endangered and THE UNION CAN
NOT BE PEkPETUATED."
In the House, on the 4th Of January, Mr..
Boyce of South Carolina, tCong. Globe,
page lab, said:
81 have thought, and still think, and
have expressed tho opinion, and | still ex-
press the opinion, that there are circum-
stances which are hurrying us ALMOST lR-
RESlSTlBLY TO A DISRUPTION.
have seen 1t the North the formation of
great party, based upon the single idea of
OF hostility to the institutions Of the South.
The only question with me, then, as to the
continuance Of tho Union, is, whether that
party will take possession of the North II
they do, in my opinion TIE UNION is AT
AN END. What is that party
pledged to? The great Boosting idea Of
that party is, that freedom is national and
slavery is sectional. That party, then, are
obliged, II they come into power, as is re-
commended in the resolutions Of tho State
OF Maine presented to the Senate yesterday,
to abolish slavery in tho District OF Colum-
bia, and to prohibit it in all the Territories,
arsenals and dock yards in the United States.
Well. then, it seems to me that if that party
comes into power pledged to those measures,
We shall be in the midst of chaos and snAr-
chy and revolution"
MIR. Boyce, it will be observed, does not
charge the 'great party" being formed at
the North, with any design TO interfere with
slavery in the States. He treats his oppo-
nents fairly, and only imputes to them the
sentiment and purpose which they actually
cherish; viz : that freedom ought to be and
shall be national and slavery sectional.
Rather than submit to the enforcement of
such sentiment and such purpose, the
South, according to Mr.. Boyce,will bring on
"CHA0S AND ANARCHY AND REVO-
LUTION.n
Mr.. Boyce then proceeds to get out another
event, in his judgmcn, likely to happen, and
which also, in his Judgment will dissolve
the Union; viz: that the North will avail it.
self OF its numerical strength to ge, posses
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