The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-02-19


mission Oregon does, prepared TO extend her the
hand Of welcome without looking into her constitution
further than TO that IL Is republican Ia FORM upon er
we'll known American models. VA.
When aggression comes IL SHALL then the
end draweth nigh Then il in my day, shall be for re-
sistance, open, bold, and defiant know OF no allie
glance superior 20 that due the heatstones of the home
stead This say TO all. hy no claim 10 any senti-
ment OF nationality not founded upon the patriotism OF
true heart, and know of such patriotism that does
not centre at home. Like the enlrging circle upon the
snface of smooth waters, however, this and wl H
unobstructed. extend to the utmost limits OF common
country. Such is my acknowledgement my SECTIONAL
ism msuch nay patriotism. our fathers Of the South
joined your fathers of the North in resistance common
aggression from their fatherlnnd and II they JUS
titled ia rising to right wrong inflicted by parent
country, how much ought we, should the neces
sity come, to stand justified before enlightened
world, In righting wrong from those we call
brothers, That necessity trust will never come.
What is 10 be our future, do not know. have no
taste for indulgins in speealatons about It. wouli
mot ii could, raise the veil that wisely eonceas it from
Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof is
good precept in everything pertaining to human action
The evil would not anticipate would rather strive
to prevent its coming and one way, in my Judgment
to prevent it is while here in all things 10 do what Is
right and proper to be done under the constitution of
the United States nothing more and nothing less. Our
safety well as the prosperity of all parts OF the eon
try, 80 long this government lasts, lies mainly in
strict conformity to the laws of its existence. Growth
is of these The admission of States Is OF
the objects expressly provided for How they TO
IN WIN Just such CONSTITUTIONS the people IN
each may please to make for themselves il is repub
in form. This is the ground the South has ever
stood upon Let us not abandon it 1t is founded
upon principle planted in the compact of Union itself
and more essential To than all others besides that is
the equality OF the States the reserved rights of the
people Of the respective States BY system each
State, however great the number, has the absolute right
to regulate all its internal affairs she pees, subject
only TO her obligations under the constitution of the
United States. With this limitation the people Of Mas
sachusett have the perfect right TO do they please
upon all matters relating to their internal policy the
people of Ohio have the right to do the the peo
pie of Georgia the of California the same and
| with all the rest
Such is the machinery of theory of self government
by the people This is the great novelty of peculiar
system, involving principle unknown to the aeens
an idea dreamed OF by Aristotle Plato. The
union of several distinct, independent communities upon
this basis Is principle in human governments. 1t
Is now problem in experiment for the people of the
nineteenth century upon this continent to solve AS
behold its workings in the past and at the present while
am not sangune yet hopeful of its successful so
luton The most Joyous feeling of my heart is the
est hope that il WILL for the future peaceful
y prosperousy and brilliantly il has in the past Ii
50, then shall exhibit moral and political spectacle
to the world something like the prophetic vision of Eza
kiel, when he saw number OF distinct beings or living
creatures, each with separate and distinct organism,
having the functions Of life within ITSELF all of exter
nal likeness, and all, at the time nysterously
nected, with common anmatng spirit pervaing the
whole that when the spirit moved they all
moved their appearance and their work being, rs il
were a wheel in the middle of wheel aud whitheIso-
the spirit went ther the others went all
going together and when they went he heard the noise
OF their motion like the noise of great waters the
of the Almighty. Should our experiment succeed, such
/ viii be exhibition machinery of government 80 in.
ricate, complicated with 50 many separate and dis
nc parts many independent States each perfect in
the attributes and functions of Sovereignty, within its
jurisdiction all, nevertheless, united under the
troll of common directing power for external objects and
purposes may natural enough novel, strange, and
nexpeabe to the philosophers and crowned heads Of the
world.
1t is for u.s. and those who shall come after us, to de-
termine whether this grand experimental problem shall
\ he worked out not by qunrlelng amongst ourselves
not by doing injustice to any not by keeping out any
particular class of States but by each State remaining
separate and distinct political organism within i1- n,
bound together for general objects md onnon faj
era head MS it were, q whe"' within wheel Then the
number may De ntlpled without limit; and then in
=, may the nations of the earth look in wonder ut
and when they hear the noise of the wheels
of progress in achievement in development IN ex
pansion, in glory and renown it may well appear 70
them not unlike the noise Of great waters the very voice
Of the Almighty For PepRtt Vor Do IGreat applause
in the galleries aud ON the floor
The SPEAKER, II the applause in the galleries is re-
pcaed the Chair viii order the galleries to be cleared
Many MFMBERs. Ii was upon the floor .s
4 Mr.. STEPHENS of Georgia, One or two other m IT
ters only wish 10 alludo to These relate mainly to
amendments. Itrust that every friend of this bill VIII
/ unite and vote down every amendment II needs no
amendment Oregon has nothing TO do with Kansas, and
should in way be connected with her. To remand
her back the gentleman from Kentucky Mr.. MAR
SHALL proposes to compel her TO regulate suffrage as we
may be disposed to dictate would be but going back TO
the old attempt to impose conditions upon Missouri
There Ii necessity for any census if satisfied
from all the evidence before that there are skty
thousand inhabitants there. Florida admitted with
out census. Texas was admitted, with two members
on this floor, without census. so California.
To friends upon this side of the House. let me say
you cannot vote for the bill assist having it voted
upon it is Put riders. Give MS no side blows
Aid in keeping them off Let the stand or fall
upon its merits III you cannot vote for the bill vote
| against it just as it stands, rs ~
my time is nearly out and cannot go into the
discussion of other branches of the question but may
not make appeal 10 all sides of the House to come up
to do their duty to-day have spoken Of the rapid de
velopment of country and its progress in all its ma
teal resources is il true that the intellectual and moral
development OF country has not kept pace with its
and hearts of those who are to govern it. Is il so that
this Tbtyfh Congress is unequal to the great mission
before 1t Are progressing in everything but mind
| and patriotism Has destiny cast upon heavier load
of duty than able to perform Are unequal
to the task assigned us trust not know it is some
times said in the country that Congress has degenerated
1T IL for this day to show whether IL is true not
For myself do not believe IT, IL may be that the era
da corps may have influence my judgment. Some
thing may he puloned to that But still feel that
address OF much intelligence reflection talent,
integrity virtue and WORTH have met in this
hall not unfit To be the representatives of this
great growing and prosperous coniederacy The only
real fitness for any public station Is to be up to the
/ quiremens OF the occasion, whatever that be- Let
us thon vndioae characters as iii Legislators today
md ihat and have