Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-02-26
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LATE CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES
SENATOR HAZE ON Dissolution.

tending questions that were presented, with
out inviting the body TO the consideration OF
other questions that might be involved in
other issues and other matters which were
TO come up at another time. had proposed
to act on this superstition il nay aclien upon
this floor. But, sir, the remarks that
have been thrown out by the Senator
from Virginia Dir. M4sos7 seem to my
mind to require brief and passing notice.
The manner of the Senator from Virginia
indicated that they were not the result ef
heated blood that had been stirred up in an
angry and excited debate. but they appeared
to be the deliberate convictions of his UNDER
standing and the announcement OF his SET
tied purpose. In that sense they seem to
demand more weight than they would have
in different view of the subject. II | un-
ders!and the Senator, his position is that he
will NJ: consider the application Of any State
for admission into the Union until the Kan
sas controversy shall be settled. That was
the amount OF Whist ne SAID. do hot give
his very pilraseology, and it is to that an
nouncement that ask the attention Of the
Senate, land hope to call to it the attention
Of the country.
The Senator from Virginia objects TO con-
sidering the application of any State, no
matter how regular may have been her pro-
] ceediug, no matter how literally she may
have pursued every requirement OF the Con
stitutiun and every provision Of the enabling
act, no matter how unexcsPtiona5le may
have been her whole history in her territori-
al state and in the manner in which she pro-
P5sss to emerge from the condition Of ter
rliory 10 that OF Il sovereign State--i should
have said State, for we not to have any
more sovereign Suites in this Union--no
matter how uneXceptionabic it has been,
! here is block thrown in the way over which
| Minnesota and every other State must pass
! before she can gain admission into this Tn
+ :on.
/ Now. sir, the eloquent Senator from Texas
As. Houston said sumething, and the Sen
ator from OHIO, Mr.. PUGE- the ether day.
said something, which | d.d not hear. but
have read since in the papers, lacturing US
for speaking lightly Oh The danger of coils
ion. and OF the dIHger of the union. We'll,
/ sir. 1 am always willing to be ectured, GLAD
when anybody undertakes it, because ii
sltisfes tle. at least, that if there is not any
body here that knows more than | d., there
is issomeboiy who thinks he does. LlushterI
But let me say that there never mas been IA
sentiment avowed on this floor which looks
SO directly, SO seriously to conflict, and one
that may end IN the dissolution and disrup-
! tion of this uaion, as the avowa which has
been made 5y the Senator from Virginia, md
III which / understand him to intin1te the
/ great array upon the other sile Of the Cham
/ bor would act with him; aud that is 70 make
The admission OF Kifssas g0ier the Lsconp-
aEesl ce.isfssqtien TIE s5;ieiisfoile by whleis
diality is 10 be tried, and Witilolt WITCH ae-
ceptauce no other State Can never COME ia
To t:.;s Union. ST., ai1. net here 10 speak
for any party, n5r for anybody, bat tnyse!t
and The State which in par; represent; bat
aa free TO say, and ain b1uni 10 declare,
that 50 far as my action hls anything 10 do
with the voice ol the Government, and the
proceedings OF this body, if that IS the CON
dilioa. it will be long while before your
numerical number Of States " i'll exceed thir-
ty-one. / deem it be contrary to the whole
genius OF our Government, to the principles
OF our Constitution, and thai bond by which
the States are bound together, for any one
STATE, or any set Of States, to say that in Il
certain case, which think a majority of the
people Of this Union believe not to be SO
ci iaracterzed as TO entitle The Territory to
come into the Union, her admission shall be
llGe the sine qu0 ?soG without which II
o.l4r5tate shall ever come into the Union
disc!aim now and Forever the idea o
ti.rea,ening anybody or of speaking lightly
OF the Union, AMI / am willing to sit at the
feet Of anybody who Chooses to lecture me
because | am used to being lectured; but
have thought sometimes that some of these
lectures would do very well if applied t:
somebody else. Laughter. There is al
eloquent and able Senator VINO sits near M
: i aiiuIe to the Senator from L,u;sia na
lIr. BENJAMIN land [ remember that a
the close of a very eloquent and able speeci
; which he N lie Oh this fl 10. not long ago
abounding with the richest figures of rhetor,
) ic and the choicest ornaments of orato-y. III
, closed with this significant figure: that
: certain things did not turn out in certai
way, the South would throw the sword int
: the scale, and settle the weight in that way
remember that but DO not recoilect that all
lecture was ever delivered to the honorabl
Senator for it from that time o this, and q
! not mean TO lecture him now. think
: was 4 beautiful figure; but whether it a
= appropriate to the subject or not. | do nc
e know. ] remember one significant fact thn
5 all these lectures come upon US who s
: upon this side of the Chamber, upon the m
g norify, and a very small minority it is.
5 seems to m that il gentlemen want 10 thro
= out censurc in place where il will have c
it feet, they Should sometimes take some
d the gentlemen on the other side. | thougl
y the honorable Senator from Georgia, NJ
n IVERsoE,l the other day presented as fair
case for good wholesome homily as | h;
er ever seen in the Senate, but nobody ev
J. thought of administering it to him. Whe
S. my friend from Michigan, Mr. Cha NDLER
is however, fired, suppose with the magne
rs ism which the Senator from Georgia thre
re out, got up aud undertook to respond to hi
s. in the sumo style, perhaps not so eloquent
he and presented simply a counter opinion
III the one which had been announced by tt
is Senator from Georgia, he had to take Il lie
lit ture; but the Senator from Georgia we
ut scathless.
'e do not wish to lecture any body; but
a must say that look upon the avowal of t
ds Senator from Virginia, made coolly and
ty liberately as it was, as being something, if
We is to be backed up by the great array whi
IN the honorable Senator intmates, of very
sc rious import. | do not know how we sh
et be able to meet this crisis. | do not KIN
lr- but that you can carry your Lecompton &C
10. stitution through this body. | rather thi
at yeu can; that is my decided opinion. !
10 not know but that you will carry it throu
OF the House of Representatives. | think y
nix would be more likely to do it if you h
his raised the five regiments; for without meG
lar ing any disrespect to the members of Il
House, must say there is SOFT of wegt
that lie rrnnt nmnnnt of nAIrnnnnn Anh