Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-05-28
Delaware, May %, 1853.

One of the results of the passage Of the
English project through Congress, was the
release of the ultra fire eaters from an I'M
pleasant dilemma in which they had placed
themselves by taking the stand that if Kan
sas was not admitted into the Union under
the L~ecompton Constitution the States they
of three States-Geergia. Alabama and
Texas-hsd SO declared, and those Repre-
seniing them il both branches Of Congress.
with a few exceptions. had avowed their in
tention TO sustain their States in the position
they had assumed. But when the action of
the HOUSE, seemed to indicate the certain de-
feat of the measure, they found that they
would not be sustained by the great mass OF
their constftuents-that the unfuriing of the
black flag of disunion, to which they were
pledged in the event of the rejection of Lee
compton, would inevitably consign them 10
| political oblivion-and hence the eagerness
they evinced to have the English scheme a.
dopted, which afforded them a chance of es-
cape from their untenable position, and which
was concocted byone of their number (Ste-
pbens, of Georgia,) for that express pur-
pose.
During the debate which preceded the
passage of the English bill in the House (by
means of the support it received by the avow-
i Z-..F 80 la,.I f,oa- f-,u, Ol,inN
FIR. HuMPHREY MARSHALL gallant and
patriotic Representative from Kentucky, thus
Gpitched into'' the Southern disanionists and
their Northern aiders and abettors
81 knew that the Gulf States had made
platforms upon which, it was said, they
would feel bound to secede from the Union.
| am told TO go forward. lest they do secede.
Now. sir. who is so bold, in this assembly. as
to rise and say that he is a disunionist! Not
one. Who Is there in this assembly, who
will rise in his place and say that he will go
10 the Southern States with the black flag
| of disurion urffurIed for that people to fol-
low! THERE'S the silence of the grave. Sc
cessien. disunionl Why, sir, 's'tis the eye
of childhood that fears the painted DEVIL
= y The Democrats are not content with
the proposition that the doctrine of popular
sovereignty shall be carried forward, and that
the people of Kansas may have a State free
or slave, as they prefer. They now proceed
one step beyond that. l read from a paper
of Tuesday April 9th, the Richmond South.
] will read a single sentence, to let yoa see
the manner in which the progress Of this
controversy is regarded, and the point which
we have reached:
ain the meantime, If the Senate bill pess,
Kansas may come into the Union as a slave
! State, or she cannos come at all! That's the
ISSUE"
You who represent the South, l ask you
in the most solemn earnestness. If that is the
issue upon which you propose to go to the
country I ask you ifthat is the issue upon
which yeu are prepared to precipitate the
South. eR esd
= But you. are understood in the country
by this@biH to have made up the issue, as
understand it that she shall come here as a
slave State, or she is not to come ct ALL
Does it not result from that proposition that
you are attempting 10 ~inaugurnte in this
country an aggressive pro-slayery party--a
party THAT does not stand upor. the constitp-
tional rights of the people Of all sections,
bot a Southern pFo-sfavey partg which PRO-
/ poses to aaHnt It's baRhers intHE face Of the
other sections, and say 10 them that they
must bow down TO your juegernautf THE
people ofKentuckg are not ready togo that
faF.ssssS A@ asE 8@i s44 SIS IS ~