Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05

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and the South came from the brain of Mr.
John c. Calhoun, There is nothing ma
tional in it. 1t is a sectional idea, proclaim.
ed in support of sectional interest, and g
sectional institution. A balance between
/ the North and the South. A balance be-
tween the seventeen millions of nothern
/ freemen and the seven millions of southern
| freemen! A balance between the majority
and the minority of,the country! The whole
doctrine is anti-defiocratic, is local, is Sec
! tionai in all its aspects, and should be secuted
| from this Chamber, and from this country, as
at war with our republican institutions and
our republican IDEAS But, sir, about the old
speech of the Senator from Mississippi, and
commend him to the reading of his old
speeches.
Mr.. Wilson here sguotes from a speech
made in the House-of Representatives By
Mr.. Brown. during the pending of the bill to
admit California, in which he opposed that
measure because it would give the Free
. State preponderance in the Senate.
Now the Senator says that and those
who act with me are sectionalists. | have
referred to our principles and our policy. and
l appeal 10 the Senators on the other side
of this Chamber to say if the Senators on
this side, from the time they came here to
this hour, have not. in all our Legislation con-
nected with the affairs of this country, look
ed over the broad land and given our votes
tor your interests. for the interests of the
South las much as we have given them for tie
isterests cf the North. Senators know it.
The records of the country prove it; and they
contain, too, their confessions and admissions
that it Is so
But the Senator from Mississippi says our
policy tends to build up two great interests in
the country; that we are to have united
North and a united South, and that is to
lead to a disolutop of the Union. The
Senator makes professions of devotion to
the Union. In che very speech from
which have beforeauoted, the Senator says
that:
"Our people hava been calculating the
; value of the Union | tell
you candidly we have calculated the value OF
the Union. Love for the Union will not
keep US 10 the Union.'"
The whole tone, temper, and sentiment
look not to the support of the Union as our
fathers made it, but to the triumph of Sec
tional southern policy, to the expansion oi
slavery, or to the ultimate overthrow of the
Government of this country.
think there will soon be general union
in the North, as there is now in the South.
We are fast coming to it; and let me tell the
Senators on the Administration side of this
Chamber, that if they consummate, if they
support-whether they succeed or fail-ihe
bringing of Kansas into the Union under the
Lecompten Constitution, with knowledge
OF all these monstrous frauds scattered over
the land, comprehended by the whole coun-
! try. they will do more to unite all honest,
liberty loving. Godsfearing men in the North
than has been accomplished by any act ever
| adopted by this Government. Your Kan
sas Nebraska policy of 1854 shivercd to
atoms that great Wing party which had bat
tied, sometimes successfully. for power here
under the lead Of some of the most accom-.
plished statesmen of the country. Another
! party sprang up--the American party. 1t
paused, it faltered, and it went down un-
der the general judgement of the people o.
the free States. The Republican party rose
in one year from few thousand men, ant
gave at the last presidential election ONT
million three hundred and forty thousant
votes Ii came much nearer than you wish
ed taking the control of this Government
OF this country.
The opinions they entertain, the policy
they avow, the sentiments which swell thei
bosoms, are deepening and spreading all owe
the land. Those opinions and sentiment
will unite the northern people. They viii
spread over the slave line, as they have don
for they have gone into Missouri; they hav'
brought into the other House one of the a
blest and most accomplished members of tina
body from the southern State of Missouri
Sir, they are to pass over southern lines
These sentiments ure not 10 be hemmed i
by lines of latitude or longitude. They wi
yet be adopted by fair minded and honorab
everywhere, who love their country, VIII
love justice and liberty; and whenever any
body raises the flag of slavery and disunio
{ in the South, he will find leaping from til
ranks OF the people, thousands of patriot
: men who will stand by this Government an
, defend it. i
Now, are not Senators prepared to adoE
the amendment | have proposed, or the rest
| luton proposed by the Senator from lllino
and examine these charges before they hurr
this State into the Uuion against the nan
fest hostility of the people!
: At the 4th of January election, DelawaI
t Caossing gave, it is said, forty-three votes
: These votes had not got in when Governt
/ Denver, and Mr.. Deitzler. and Mr.. Babcocl
counted the votes. 1t now turns out tha
the returns have come in from that Crossin
were forty three votes were given, aud the
2 have returned three hundred and seventy
: nine majority for the slave ticket, and thi
a ticke. is elected by that vote, being eigi
: representatives from Leavenworth distri'
J, and three councillors, making change of 81
: in the council and sixteen in the Hous
d changing the whole political complexion
e the State.
S The frauds in Kansas are patent to th
: whole country; nobody doubts them. The
o is not an intelligent man in America wi
" doubts them. When these charges haN
:. gone over this county, why is it that ii
e President OF the United States, against Il
is protest OF some of the abiest and best me
l. of his party, i'll this body and in the 9th
l. House; against the voice of the press of h
party in the Northwest;s against the intel
- gence that comes flushing over the wires a
u by mail, by presses, and by letters from
| quarters of the Union, sends in this messa
4; misrepresenting, nsstating the affairs
ly Kansas, and pressing its prompt admission
re Why is it that Senaors--honorable men
j. men who ought to seorn to do mean thu
n; also press il! Why is it that this Is pres
sp ed, is to be hurried through, and this {
Mt consummated, when we know that, on the 4
u of January, twelve ofthirteen thousand m
n of that Territory voted against this consti
to ton, and there were only six thousand sev
hundred votes cast for it on December 81