The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1858-11-15
Gov. Hamnond,s speech.

Among the agreeable evidences OF re
turn to more patriotic sentiments and loyal
ty to the Union at the South, is the remark
able speech Of Senator Hammond, made at
meeting at Barnwell, S. c., on the 9th of
October Mr. Hammond has been one of
the most ultra Of the disunion party of South
Corolina; but his recent speech is filed with
sound, practical views, and wise counsels.-
From the manifestations of change of
views in such men as Hammond and Jeffer-
"a hope that sectional strife and bitterness
are about to he allayed, and more national
and fraternal feelings restored between the
North and South tt
Senator Hammond says he has always re-
garded the Kansas-Nebraska bill as a delu-
sion for the South. The Missouri COM
promise, which it repealed, was in fact de-
| stroyed when Congress refused to extend the
line through California to the Pacific; and
the right of the people of any Territory to
frame their own organic law it recognized,
was one inherent in our system, and one
which Congress can neither give nor take
away.
The Senator next proceeds to speak of the
Lecompton Constitution, in which he uses
this remarkable language: II confess my
opinion was that the South herself should
kick that Constitution out of Congress. y
| But the Southern members thinking other
| WIS no Int tn, p,,f,, OtaJ
| for Lecompton. -
Having disposed of the past, Gov H.
| then proceeds to speak of the future He
| says that he himself was for many years IA
vorable to a dissolution of the Union as the
best means of remedying the evils under
| which the Suuth labored. But of late years
lie has thought differently He does not
despair of tie South and the North getting
along tremendously and peacefully. Hesays
the Southern States have lost their equality
in the two Houses of Congress, and in his
opinion will never regain it. He sees no
! territory within our reach out of which
slave States can be made. To acquire Cuba
a war involving the whole world would be
inevitable and to make slave States out of
Central America or Mexico he regarded as
out of the question.
The Cove r proceeds 10 speak of tie
triumph which HE ssSouth has won with n
the asst thirty years. The tariff has been
reduced, the vast system Of internal i'm
provemeuts has been broken up and the
Bank Of the United States crushed. From
the foundation of the government, up to
within the last thirty years, Southern men
were themselves divided on the question of
slavery. Thousands efSoutherners thought
it possible that slavery could be got rid of.
There is now no such division; no South
ern statesman thought Of abolishiRg slavery,
and to that extent the South are now unit
ed. He gives it as his opinion that the abo-
lition fanatacism has about reached its cul-
minating point-that the tide has begun to
ebb, never more to how-that if the Repub.
} licans fail to get into office in 1850, they
t will be no longer able to keep up their or
ganization as Il sectional party; and he ex-
presses his opinion that Seward, Chase,
Wade, and Hale, care nothing more fol
, slavery than does Buchanan, Bright, CT
Douglas.
Senator Hammond concludes by saying
that in his opinion the true policy of tht
South, which he believes is destined to for
) ever remain in the minority, is to conciliatt
, those northern men who are disposed to &c
her justice, instead of driving them off by
entertaining suspicion of their fidelity, az
has % often been the case.