Litchfield enquirer., 1858-04-01
A South Side View.
SPEECH OF GOV. HAMMOND.


 Extracts from Speech delivered in the Uni ted States Senate on Thursday, March 4, by j.. Il. Hammond, of South Carolina
 THE SEPARATE SOUTHERN REPUBLIC.
 Now, sir, as 1 an disposed to see this ques- tion settled as soon as possible and am per- fectly willing to have final and conclusive set tIement now, instantly, and after what the Senator from New York has said, 1 think it not unimportant that should attempt to bring the North and South face to face, and see what resources each of us might have in the contingency of separate organizations. If we never acquire another foot of territory for the South, look at her. Eight hundred and fifty thousand square miles; as large as Great Britain, FraAce, Austria, Prussia and Spain Is not that territory enough to make an empire that shall rhle the world ? With the finest seil. tiie most delightful climate, whose produc- tionsS aoae of those great countries can pro- uuce I've have 5000 miles of continental shore iinc, aiid So indentcd with bays and crowded witi lsfands that, wben their shore lines are added, We have l2,00G miles of shore line Through ties heart of our country runs the sfssL Ais aissrit very properly called the fatnef q Wat4fs F@itaWhose bosom are poured So, ooO inilc$of tributary streams and beyond WE have the Ssese.t praire wastes, to protect sas iat- sstsas yta hGm i'll such tefrl- tory as tslas Tea talk oi putting up wall of fire arogla 85o, poo ser1rg miles so situa- ted How absurd
 But, sir, n taals teirtory lies the great val ley of the Mississlsp now the real, and soon to be the acknowledged seat of the empire of the world. Tue sway of that valley will be as great as ever the Nile knew in the earlier ages of mankind. We own the most of that valley. ! The most valuable part of it belongs to us and although those who have settled above Us are now opposed to us, another gen. ration will tell different tale. They are ours by the laws of nature slarc lubor aeiA go orer erery foot of this grcat valey aohere lt aeM De foand proJftadle to wse at, and those who do not use it, are soon to be united with us by such ties as wilt make us one and inseparable. The iron horse will soon be clattering over the sunny plains of the South to bear the pro- ducts of it's upper tributaries to our Atlantic ports, as it now clatters over the ice-bound North. There is the great Mississippi, bond of union made by natures law. Sae will for ever vindicate her right to the Union. On this fine territory we have a population four times as large as that with which these colonies sep arated from the mother country, and might say thousand fold as strong. Our popula- tiou is now 60 per cent. greater than that of the whole United States when we entered into the second war of independence. It is twice as large as the whole population of the United States was ten years after the conclusion of that war, aud our exports are three times as great as those of tue whole United States then. Upon oar muster rolls we have mil ion of men. In defensive war, upon an emer- gency, every one of them would be available. At any time the South can raise, equip, main- tain in the field larger army than any power of the earth can send against her, and an army of soldiers-men brought up ou horseback, with guns in their hands.
 THE NORTH POOR AND WEAK.
 If we take the North, even when the two large States of Kansas and Minnesota shall be admitted, her territory will be one hundred thousand square miles short of ours. do not speak of California and Oregon; there is no antagonism between the South and those coun- tries, and never will be. The population of the North is fifty per cent. greater than ours. have nothing to say in Encouragement either of the soil of the North, or the people of the North, who are brave, intelligent, energetic race, full of intellect, but they produce no great staple that the South does not produce but we produce two or three, and those are the very greatest, that she can never produce. As to her men, however high they may be, they have never proved themselves to be supe- riof to those of the South, either in tue field or in tho Senate.
 SLAVERY MAKES THE SOUTH STRONG.
 But, sir, the greatest strength of the South arises from the harmony of her political and social institutions. This harmony gives her a frame of society, the best in the world, an ex- tentsof political freedom, combined with entire