Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1858-03-05
EXTRACTS FROM
LATE CONGRESSIONAL DEBATES
SENATOR WILSON ON sEcTIoNALIsM AND
KANSAS FRAUDS.


than old wine. | was led to suppose, from
the declarations of the Senator, that we
were to have nothing old, stale, or thread
bare in his speech; that We were to have
something original, fresh, racy, brilliant
something that was to thrill the Senate,
charm the galleries, electrity the nation, and
carry the Senator name all over the country
to receive the admiration and applause OF
the people. | have listened to his speech,
to his declarations, to his assertions, to his
iteration of old errors oft refuted in this Cham
Der and in the other. There is one declara-
tion, however, which seems to me TO have
som ething of originality about it, He told
US that he did not expect to make any con-
verts on this side Of the Chamber. This
avowal of his expectations brings to my mind
a couplet of Pope's, that we should
In every yvore regard the writer's end
For compass more than they intend
After listening to the Senator's long and la
bored speech, am sure we shall admit that
he has not, in this case, compassed more than
expect to win any converts on this side of
the Chamber to his principles or to his sem
timents by logic SO often refuted, or by the
iteration of palpable historical facts.
The Senator assured US that he approved
of the Presidents message, but that he did
not expect US on this side of the Chamber
to approve it. | did expect him to approve
it, and am not disappointed; for the mes
sage is complete and absolute public sur
render by the President of the United States
to the principles, the doctrines, the policy
and the sentiments of the slaveholding prop
agandists OF this country-of men who are
now, and have been during the past, pursu-
ing policy looking to the ultimate triumph
OF the slayeholding interest in this country,
or the dissolution of this Republic and the
establishment of a southern confederacy bas-
ed on military principles.
The Senator supposed that we would not
indorse these doctrines because we were sec
tionalIsis-we were the sectional Republican
party! Sir, what principle have we avowed
that is not incorporated into the Declaration
of Independence, the Constitution Of the
{! United States, and the grand old ordinance
/ of 1887, which received the sanction of the
trainers OF the Constitution, and the great
national men of the Rapublicl What poll
cy have we avowed that has not received the
of great men OF this country, Ncrth aud
South! tsay to-day that We have not avow-
ed principle, declared policy, or pronounc-
ed sentiment, here or in the country, that
has not received the sanction Of the might.
| lest men of the Republic from l775 up to
within the last few years. We have declar.
| ed everywhere that freedom is national; that
| the doctrines of human rights underhe our
free democratic Institutions; that all our in
s.tutons grow out of the absolute recogni.
ton Of the equal rights of all men. We
have maintained that in the Territories un
der the national authority, under the protec
ton of the national flag, freedom and free
institutions for all men go where the flag o
the Republic goes. We have acknowledged
that the system Of slavery is nothing but
municipal institution, founded on State law
and limited to State lines. This was thu
doctrine of all the fathers OF the Republic
of all the great statesmen who have associ
ated their names with the liberty, honor, ant
renown of the Republic.
These are national doctrines. Standin:
upon these ideas, we huVe not assumed t
control the slaveholding States of this Union
we have recognized State rights, but we hay
c!amed authority to save the Territories G
this Republic forever to free men an
free insons.tituti Do you call section
al. If it was secti onal, Washington
Jefferson, Madison, and hIunroe--all tn
great men of the past were sectionalists.-
This charge of sec;ionalism comes with an j
grace especially from the Senator from Mi:
sissippl Eight years ago, in the other House
when California had framed a constitutio
that had received the sanction of her Who'll
people, and organized her State governmer
and came here and asked for admission, tn
: Senator from Mississippi took the floor. an
resisted her admission, because 1t would dis
tur5 the equilibrium between the free an
) slave States of this Union!
Senators talk about the dangers of til
country. Great God What are our dar
rers The danger is that there is such
power, local, sectional power, that can col
troll this Government, can ride over justic
ride over wronged people, consummate gla
ING and outrageous frauds, and override ar
$ trample down the will of u brave and fir,
2 people. That is the danger. The time h
! come when the freemen of this country loo
y ing to liberty, to popular right, to justice.
n all sections of the country, should overthro
| this power and trample il under their feet 20
r ever The time has come when the peop
I sh ould rise up in the majesty of conscio
IL power, and hurl from Office and places of i
d fluence the men who thus bow to this tyra
y ny.
e Senators are anxious about the Union.
l. The Senator from Delaware Mr.. BAYAR
II to-day thought it was in peril. Well, sir
ave no alarm about it. l am in the Unir
fe nv State is in the Union; we intend to st
in it. If anybody wants TO go out, there
a! Mexico, and Central America, and the V
e. ley Of the Amazon, all open to emigratc
v let them start. | shall do nothing to Ike
them in the Union. But all this contint
he now in the Union is American soil, ant
eo part of my country; and my vote and my
s. fluence, now and forever, will be given
no keep it part of my country.
oy l will call the Senator'S attention to c
We of his old speeches; and commend him
oe the study of old speeches, especially his o
We old speeches. like my old speeches
we cause always intend they shall be so sol
10 in principle, correct in sentiment, and
we curate in fact, that can refer to them "
safety. In the speech before me, the Sc
tor from Mississippi, when he opposed
admission of California on the grounds
'us now states, opposed it also avowedly on
ground that it would destroy the balance