Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1859-12-23
NO. 3S'
Harper-s Ferry in the Senate.


the investigation to the robbery at Libert,
K near Kansas, were nnder consideration.
e Mr.. Simmons of r. L., was in favor of til
amendment. He denied that there was syn
= pathy for Brown in the North, and spoke q
his crime as one of ''utter detestation," an
/ without lone redeeming quality" nd.
/. Mr.. Mallory, of Fla, said that the resou
. tion had been shorn of all moral effect by tn
, covert opposition it had received. He refer
red to Helpers book in severe terms, and sal,
with much bitterness that two Of the Repub
lican candidates for Speaker were among it
, indorser.
> Mr.. Iverson of Ca, referred to the action
of the Massachusetts, Senate as an indication
of The sympathy for Brown. Eight Senators
voted to adjourn over on the day of the execu
tion and eleven voted agaist it, while twenty
lodged. If the House elected Republican
Speaker he should advise the Southern mem
bers to wdhdraw and take measures 10 form q
saew Republic.
Mr.. Fessenden of Me-, entered his protest
against the mode adopted here of Judging
public opinion. Senators must know some
thing Of the North if they think to discover
public sentiment in such way. 1t is the trade
tof Democratic Rewspapers to msrepresent
their OWE people. 1t was insulting to charge
Republicans with completely.
MIR. Brown of Miss, wanted to know if it
was usual for notorious maefactOTs. robbers and
traitors to have sympathy expressed for them
by the leading journals Of the North Suppose
an expedition had been fitted out in Virginia
or Carolina to capture the Armory in Spring
field, and hold it with the avowed object of
planting slavery in Massachusetts, would they
be likely to have demonstrations of sympathy
in the South like those lately occurring in the
North? If it is not true that sympathy is
generally felt for Brown, let the Republicans
call meetings and disavow it.
Mr. Chandler of Mich, thought that there
should be no discrimination between traitors
whether they were Northern Abolitionists or
Southern Governors. Let all traitors hang
Threats have been made for thirty years that
in certain events this Union would be dissolv-
ed. 1t is no small matter to dissolve the Un-
ion. 1t means bloody revolution, or it means
halter. 1t means successful Overturning Of
this government, or it means the fate of John
Brown. Alolitionists. as a class, are non-re-
sistants. Where did John Brown receive his
cation cannot be charged upon the Republi-
can party. II any political party was respon-
sibie for the action of Brown, it is the Demo
cratic party alone. The Senator asks what
would be the feeling if the attack had been
made on the Arsenal at Springfield instead Of
Harpers Ferry. Why, sir, had twenty-five
men-not Captains but Virginia Generals
undertaken to seize the Armory at Springfield
| the women alone would have bound them
in thirty minutes, and had no man been there
to assist they would not have asked for an In
| vestigating Committee, or expected any par
ticular sympathy. The Senator from Virginia
wants to know where the money came FROM
| Why, in Canada there 10000 fugitive slaves
and 20 cert head would have been sufficient
without charging it on the Republican party.
AS to the statements in the Democratic papers,
F! filed with Government advertisements, it is a
villainous press, hired to do dirty work, and it
| does it faithfully. rE
Mr.. Doolittle of Wis, said that Harpers
Ferry was born in Kansas, but the Republi-
cans were against all lawless violence, wheth-
er from Canada into Virginia, from the Unit
ed States into Cuba, from the South in Nicar-
aqua. or from Missouri into Kansas They
would arrest and hang the traitors as sure as
there was God in Heaven.
Mr.. Chestnut of s. O., made an appeal to
the North to preserve the Union, and spoke OF
the South as "poor and down-trodden!"
Mr.. Pugh appealed to Mr.. Trumbull to
withdraw the amendment. He thought 1t
would be generous and honorable to do so.
Mr.. TrumbulI could not consent to with
draw it after what had been said. The avow-
ed object of the resolution was to learn the
public sentiment of the North. He wanted,
also, to learn the public sentiment OF the South
which was equally important. He believed sin
cereiy that the outbreak at Harpcr's Ferry
arose from the teaching and acts of the Dem
ocratic party; by upholding and never rebuk-
ing the sacking of the Armory and Arsenal in
Missouri, but rewarding the perpetrators oi
that act with Federal Office; also, by sending
Government troops into Kansas to arrest men
on trumpcd-up charges of treason. Without
concluding, he gave way quarter before hive
O'clock when the Senate adjourned.
+, Mr. Wade of Ohio said that at first it was
not his purpose to speak on the resolution
lie made up his mind when the resolution wa
introduced, that he should vote for 1t, not OF
l. account of any particular benefit he suppese'
+ would result from it, for he thought 1t woul'
II have the effect Of increasing in Virginia tn
u excitement, which already seems to be sutti
GENTLY strong there at least for all practlca
purposes, bat over this resolution the Who'll
v subject of controversy between the Northerl
c and Southern States, on the slavery questio
5 has been discussed and illusions had been mad
: to him personally in such terms as to rende
{ it essential that he should reply.
He had no desire to get up frequently t
e speak on this most hacknied subject. He ha
i not been very forward in thrusting himself bt
d fore the Senate, but when measures of grea
S. importance had been pressed, he had been con
: PEELED to give his views, 1t was said by tn
le mover of this resolution, Mr.. Mason,) tb;
d one great object of II was to elicit the state
Is Northern feeling respecting the invasion Q
~ Harper's Ferry.
c. MIR. Mason desired to correct the Senate
+ That association had been once or twice ascrl
H. ed to him in the course of the debate, but
IS was a msapprehension; what he said was th
e- he wished to ascertain from what source Brow
OF derived the funds and counsel which led to u
IT invasion He had reason to believe 1t can
is chiefly from the New England States.
&c MIR. Wade continued For the basest
"a purposes the great party to which he Nj
rs Wadel belonged had been charged with col
al plicity In this affair; but he treated the char
with scorn and contempt. 1t had been so
tirely overstrained that it now fell ON his e'
without giving him single emotion. But
- knew what the effect of such a charge won
ew be in that part of the country where jeoiou
er exists with regard to the acts and motives
of Northern men.
M Mr.. Wade said he regarded John Brown
mn sane. and asked Senators to discriminate
of tween the man and his acts. IL the State
= Virginia feels deeply agrieved at this incurs