Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1859-12-15

uy SCH ny answering SUCH quCstlOuH IL 10
apparent TO any man of common sense that
that would be its effect.
Mr.. Wade said lie had looked the book
through carefully, and found nothing but ar,
guments against slavery. Unless such argu-
ments were unlawful he saw nothing in the
book but what was right and proper Has it
come to this that in free America there must
be censorship of the press instituted that
man cannot give currency to arguments
which he thinks are properly addressed to
whole classes of the free populatioe of the
country? If arguments against slavery can
not safely be made, that constitutes the great
est objection to the spread of the institution he
ever heard of. If we have among us, and are
seeking to spread broadcast over the land an
institution so delicate i'll its structure that a
free people cannot have the intelligence con-
corning it which they crave, it was an infer
ence more fatal to the institution than any he
had heard Of before.
He proceeded to allude to the muttering
thunder of disunion, meeting his ears from the
south in case a Republican Presidents elected.
He felt no alarm from that cause. The Union
will not be easily dissolved. Gentlemen talk
about 1t in very business like way, as though
1t was magazine to be blown up whenever
they choose to apply the match. This fabric
has been more than eighty years in building,
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He then spoke of the navigable rivers, lines
OF roads, and other interests interlacing the
north and the south There never was so
great and glorious a country. We are mar.
rled forever, for better or for worse We can
make our condition very uncomfortable, but
there will be no divorce between us. There
is no way in which it can be effected, least of
all in the contingency mentioned. If you wait
till Republican president is elected, you will
have waited day too late. Why don't you
do it now, when you have the government
in your own hands He would be but
sorry Republican, who, if elected by
majority of the American people, should
fail to vindicate his right to the Presiden-
tial chair. He will dot. No man at the north
is to be inundated by the threats of dissolu-
ton which are thrown into his teeth daily. If
the Republican candidate shall be constitution
ally elected to preside over the people for the
next four years, preside he will. Who will
prevent it?
Mr.. Brown of Mississippi here read several
extracts from Mr.. Helpers book showing its
obnoxious character.
Mr.. Wade would not defend the sentiments
there expressed. he saw no harm in laying
them before the country for its consideration.
Mr.. Brown went on reading :-"This is the
outline of our scheme for the abolition Of slave
ry i'll the southern states" Yet we were daily
told that the Republicans do not intend to in
tertere with slavery in the states. Mr.. Seward
endorsed and approved this work, and of course
he approves these obnoxious sentiments.
Mr.. Wade said Gov. Letcher had endorsed
pamphlet containing the same kind of
language as Helpers book, only on the other
side.
MIR. Hunter made statement explaining
Mr.. LetcherS relation to the Ruffner pamphlet
Mr.. wilson said he never saw any one who
approved of all the sentiments in Helpers
book. The endorsers of it did not sign after
the book was made, but beforehand in order
to have it made.
Mr.. Mason had no objection that the people
OF the north should read Helpers book if they
saw tit, but they had no business to circulate it
at the south. AS far as he had examined it
was the most vile and false compendium of
SANDER he ever saw. 1t appeals to non-slave-
holders, seeking to foment diScord. In Vir-
ginia shareholders and non-slaveholders think
alike. At Harpers Ferry not one in ten who
turned out to resist invasion were savehold-
ers. lie denounced the Republican party, and
said it was born OF know nottingham
Mr.. Chandler said the Republican party was
born in Michigan, July g. 1854. The people
were proud of it. 1t had its origin in the out
rageous and infamous repeal OF the Missouri
lican party" at its birth.
Mr., BigIer made Speech denouncing north
ern sympathy for Brown, and intimated that
the south was not bIameless He read from
the Kansas Herald of Freedom to show how
bad old Brown was
Finally the vote was taken and TrumbulPs
amendm MT, extending the enquiry to the seiz-
ure of the arsenal at Liberty, Mo-, was reject
eaed-YEAs q nays 81, as follows =
Yeas. Anthony, Bingham, Cameron, Chan
der, Clark, Coamer, Dixon, Doolittle, Dur
kee, Fessenden, Foot, Foster, Grimes, Hall,
Hamlin, Harlan, King, Simmons, Sumner,
Trumbull, Wade, Wilson
NAYS. Bayard, Bigler, Bragg, Bright,
Brown, Chestnut, Clay CIingman, Crittenden,
Davis, Fitch, Green, Haun, HemphiIl, Hunter,
Iyerson, johnson of Tennessee, Kennedy,
Lane, Mallory, Mason, Nicholson, Pearce,
Powell, Pugh, Rice, Salisbury, Sebastian,
Slidell, Thompson, Toombs, Yulee.
MIR. Mason's resolution was adopted unani-
mously, tifty-fve senators voting.
Mr.. Mason moved that the committee con-
sist of five, and be appointed by the chair.
Agreed to. An executive session was then
held, and the Senate adjourned
HOUSE.
Mr.. McRae resumed his remarks, saying
that he came now to the question of fixing on
the Republican party the responsibility of the
delay in organizing the House. 1t was shown
that MIR. Sherman had put his name to paper
recommending the circulation of book nm-
lcal to the interests of the south. If, as this
gentleman said, he did not know the contents
of that book, he knew at least its character,
and that it was designed to affect southern
slavery adversely. Was it strange that south
ern gentlemen should be sensitive on the sub
Ject, considerngthat the sentiments in Helpers
DOCK were calculated to produce revolution
and bloodshed in the SOUTH The party which
by their anti-Slavery course gave rise to the
resolution of Mr.. Clark of Missouri should be
held responsible before the country for its in
PRODUCTION. Helpers book was a mere Incl
dent to the fact of the great increase Of anti
slavery sentiments which naturally lead to such
results as those at Harper's Ferry. He held
the Republicans criminally responsible for the
agitation in the public mind of the north. Their
conduct involved the safety of the property of
one section of the Union, and of those who
hold It, Anti-slavery is the soul and life of
Republicans in those states where they have
an existence. He denied, in reference to a re-
mark made by Mr.. Curtis, that the democratic
party is pro-slavery party, and therefore it
gave no necessity for an opposition party. The
antl-slavery party were aggressive in their
character, while the democratic party stood on
the defensive. What the Republicans mean
by protection of the rights of all the states, he
understood to be the destruction of southern
rights, 1t is part of their platform that Con-
gress is sovereign over the question of slavery
in the territories, and if they had had legisla
tive control of government would they not
consider it competent to exclude slavery from
the territories by act of Congress. Under
that claim they would also abolish slavery in
the District of Columbia, and in the national