The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1858-05-05


SpEECF or HOn. u, p. WALTON
Or vEHwoSr
h ne H,tse RI Hs.r,sojodr,s, Aarch 81 1858.
The House being in the Committee Of
the Whole on the State of tho Union
Mr.. WALTON said:
Mr.. Chairman Revolutionary was
an epthet applied, a few hours ago, to the
Republicans on this floor by an honorable
member from Georgia, Mr. Trippe, if ]
did not misunderstood the application of
the word. ] will take it, and bear it, and
honor II. It was the honorable title of
the patriots of old it is embalmed in the
hearts Of the people, and bound, in your
day and mine, to a swift resurrection in
power We oro revolutionary, as they
were, against t1ranny and wrong, for lib
erty and right But it is counter revo-
luton that we have inaugurated; it is
against that other revolution, of which the
whole history Of Kansas and this Lccomp-
ton constitution pre the Illustration and
example; it is to roll over that other rev.
oluticn. and to roll back the governments
Of the nation and the States to the prin-
cipes and policy of our revolutionary
fathers.
We are in the midst Of an attempted
revolution; and we have present proof of
its mighty import, in the fact that as its
! certain resut-whcther we roll it onward
or roll it back the dissolution of the
Union has been cravely predicted, Or pas.
sionately threatened, as suited the purpose
or the temper Of the man and the hour
That contingency. I think, Is beyond our
control. Higher than Congress and the
combined powers of the Federal Govern
ment, higher than State governments or
conventions, than nullifcation or seces-
sion, is the power Of the people. will
not anticipate their will. Higher even
than that Of the people, is the power Of
Him who " fashioneth their hearts alike"
In His domain, earths grandest empires
are rs dust and the eras Of their history
--thcir founding, climax, fall-a the
footprints Of the Almighty in lis eternal
round. We may not antelate our fate.
1t were enough TO say, that peers in
privileges, responsibilities, and rights,
must spurn intimidation ut against the
power of Christians faith and pstri-
OTIS hope, these threats Of angry men are
| lighter than their breath. I will smile ut
them-sorrowfully smile;
s. 10 orc~, who, v,, .sir r .b7,, bov, ,cons,
D. whrt Won win li~hon9r shall he hunor
.r SasS'u' yon arg lo%ei y ~ ~ mn
Wio. ,rr~I cnr,,cci. h VS. a haq,v park,
And -'ra.lh. cod o'an."
The danger Of to day, it s'ers 10 me,
is lot in dissolution, but rather in that
revolution whose end is despotism. Thence
may come another ISSUE | threaten moth.
ing; | predict nothing; but if another
sue comes, fear It will be only this :
despotism a0d Union; or disunion as
the sole, sad remedy for dcspotism. l snb-
nit, therefore, that TO day our great duty
is to take care That by 10 blindness or
perver-i'y Of curs. shall we doom the peo-
pie to such a c'o'ce as that.
The attempted revolution, Of which l
come here to speak, is revolution in the
law Of the land and as to slavery, in the
powers Of Congress and the States, in the
rights Of the people, and in the Cons'itu'
ton itself tt is = revolution wrought
through 4 new Interpretation Of the con-
stitution ~ the Supreme Court, with the
connivanco Of the President and his par.
ty, aud in defiance of the entire history
of the government, of legislative acts u
dicial admIiralions, aud the universal az
quiescence OF the States and the people
for two thirds Of century. In short
sir, it is my conviction that the judicory
and the Executive have been guilty o
UsrRPATIoN. l have no weight of char
actor, of learning, or experience, to Civ,
emphasis to such words as these; but il
my poor judgment, they can be proved by
the record, and slst1ined by the Consti
tntion ,s evoor..ied hv the most iodns
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, true II ls' that us carry as Inward VI