Litchfield enquirer., 1858-03-18

They are as follows:
 -" fully half an hour. am dying. God help me. A. B." Number five.
 1T am dy-"
 The following remarks were delivered in Con- gross 40 years ago, by the Hon. James Tallmadge. of New York. We give the extract from this speech that the public may what occasion the North had at that time, for speaking decidedly, and how fear lessly she did speak through her Representatives
 Slavery Forty YearsAgo.
 Sir, the honorable gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Scott, who has just resumed his seat, has told us of the ides of Mareh, and has told us to 6eaoare of tie tate of Cesar and of Rome" Another gentleman, (Mr. Cobb), from Georgia, in addition to other expressions of great warmth, has said, "that if we per sist, the Union will be dissolved j" and with a look fixed on me, has told US, i've had kin dled a fire which all the waters of the eceaE cannot put out, which seas of blood can only extinguish." Sir, language of this sort has no effect on me my purpose is fixed, it is interwoven with my existence, its durability is limited with my life, it is great and glorious cause, setting bounds to slavery the most cruel and deba- sing the world ever witnessed it is the free dom of man it is the cause of unredeemed and unregenerate human beings
 Sir, if a dissolution of the Union must take place, let it be so 1! If civil war, which gen tlemen so much threaten, must come, can orl- ly say, let it come! My hold on life is prob- ably as frail as that of any man who now hears me but, while that hold lasts, it shall be de- voted to the service of my country-to the freedom of man. If.blood is necessary to ex-' tingush any fire which have assisted to kin ale, can assure gentlemen, while regret the necessity shall not forbear to contribu te my mite. Sir, the violence to which gentlemen purpose, nor drive me from my place. have the fortune and the honor to stand here as the representative of freemen, who possess inte1li- gence to know their rights, who have the spir-
 it to maintain them. Whatever might be my own private sentiments on this subject, stand
 ing here as the representative of others, no choice is left to me. I know the will of my constituents, and, regardless of consequences, 1 will avow it as their representative, I will proclaim their hatred to Slavery in every shape as their representative, here will I hold my stand until this floor, with the Constitution of my country which.supports it, shall sink Be heath me-. If am doomed to fall, shall at least have the painful consolation to believe that fall, as fragment, in the ruins of my country.
 Sir, the gentleman from Virginia (Alr. Col ston) has accused my honorable friend from New Hampshire (Mr. Livermore) of "speak ing to the galleries and by his language, en- deavoring to excite servile war ;" and has ended by saying, "he is no better than Ar buthnot or Ambrister, and deserves no better fate" Sir when hear such language utter ed upon this floor, and within this house, am constrained to consider it as nasty and unif- tended language, resulting from the vehemence of debate, and not really intending the per sonal indecorum the expression would seem to indicate. Mr. Coleston asked to explain, and said he had not distinctly understood Mir. T. Mr. Livcrmore called on Mr. C.. to state the expressions he had used. Mr. C. then said he had no explanation to give Mir. Tallmadge said he had none to ask he continued to say he would not believe any gentleman on this floor would commit so great an indecorum against any member, or against the dignity of the House, as to use such expressions, really intending the meaning which the words seemed to import, and which had been uttered against the gentleman from New Hampshire. Mr. Nelson of Virginia in the chair, called to or der, and said no personal remarks would be allowed.] Mir. T. said he rejoiced that the Chair was at length aroused to sense of its duties. The debate had for several days pro gressed with unequal violence, and all was in order. But now, when at length this violence on one side is to be resisted, the Chair discov- cred it is out of order. Irejolce, said MT. T., at the discovery, approve of the admonition, while am proud to say it has no relevancy to me. It is my boast that l never uttered an unfriendly personal remark on. this floor, but wish it distinctly understood that the immuta- ble laws of selfdefenee will justify going to great lengths, and that in the future progress of this debate, the rights of defence would be regarded.
 Congress of the United States-that, in the legislative councils of republican America, the subject of Slavery has become subject of so much feeling, of such delcacy, of such danger, that it cannot safely be discussed? Are mem- bers who venture to express their sentiments on this subject to- be accused of talking to the galleries, with intent to excite seryhe war, and of meriting the fate of Arbuthnot and Ambrister Are we to be told of the disso- lution of the Union, of civil war, and of seas of blood And yet, with such awful threat cnings before us, do gentlemen in the same breath insist upon the encouragement of this evil, upon the extension of this monstrous scourge of the human race ? An evil so fraught with such direfu calamities to us as in- dividuals, and to our nation, and threatening in it's progress to overwhelm the civil and re- ligious institutions of the country with the lib critics of the nation, ought at once to be met and to be met and to be controlled. If it's power, its influence and its impending dangers have already arrived at such point that it is