Weekly standard., 1859-12-28
Mr.. Larrabee,s Speech,

sensible speech in the House on Saturday last, in
which he thoroughly exposed the black Repub
cans and put some pointed questions to Southern
Americans. We do not concur with Mr. L. in all
he said but we commend him for his soundness and
fidelity generally as a national Democrat Mr.. Lar
rabee was one of those Northern Democrats who
voted against Lecompton, but unlike Hickman,
Haskin, and other malcontents, now that the ques-
tion is at rest he has returned to his allegiance and
is standing fairly and squarey at his post.
Among other things Mr.. Larrabee said
"Now, Mr. Clerk, it will not be denied by gentle
men upon the other side, that there is large and
controlling element in the republican party which
is in favor of making aggressons upon the rights OF
the people of the South. They will not deny that
there is large and controlling portion of tina: par
ty which is opposed to the execution of the fugtiv,
slave law. They will not deny that there is large
element of that party which will never submit to
the admission of another slave State into the Union.
And, sir, they will not deny that without that ele
ment, that strength. they cannot carry single
Northern State, single congressional district.
And yet how is it when they come here? Has
man got up upon this floor to represent the pecu-
liar views of Horace Greedy? Has anybody got W
to enuncate the opinions of the Wisconsin repub
lican party, or of the republican party of Minneso
ta of Michigan or of Iowa? No, sir; not one. l.
there man upon that side of the House who will
say in his place. that he will never vote for the ad
mission of another slave State into the Union? Is
there man there who will say that he will resist
the fugitive slave law? Not one of them has risen
in his place to say these things Why do they keep
silence? Why is it. when they know the fact that
the South is justly indignant and excited at the
timents of the republican party in the North, that
they allow two or three men, who have hearts and
&I,T
for them? Why do they keep silence, and permit
sentiments to be expressed as theirs, when they do
not entertain them?
There is one other significant fact; and that is,
that you never hear Republican speaker, either
here at the hustings, denouncng abolition senti
ments. l never heard one in my life, and have
seen it in no republican press. Do you denounce
Wendell Phillips? do you denounce the reasonable
utterance of Cheevcf? No, you do not. You ap-
ply them to you own elevation to office; you apply
them to the strengthening of your party and fer
the purpose of placing man of your own kind in
the presidential chair. The country is nothing in
your view The rights of any portion of it under
the constitution are nothing in your view. You
march over them, trampe them down, carry out
but the single idea of mere ambitious projects to at
tain theeontrol of the government Do these men
ever bte the Democratic ticket? Did Chcever ever
vote it? Does an abolitionst ever vote il? Never.
But these gentlemen on the other side--these ma
tional conservative men from Indiana, Illinois, and
Ohio, who have spoken here will act side by side
in the political battles Of the country, with those
men who, they know, are preaching treason to the
country and to the constitution"
How is it that Mr. Larrabee a Northern man who
opposed Lecompton considers that question at rest
and votes for Bocock, while Mr. Gilmer, Southern
man who also opposed Lecompton, refuses to be
satisfied, and prevents, by his amendment, the con.
servatve portion of the House from denouncing the
endorsers of Helpers book?
Turning to Mr.. Gilmer and other Southern Amer.
leans Mr.. Larrabee said:
"Now, gentlemen of the Southern opposition
those of us, few we may be, who are here from the
North, here after having successfully overcome
this abolition idea, this sentiment of aggression up
on your rights under the federal constitution Is it
not the time now for those who are lovers Of the
constitution and the Union to act together? l sub
NIT it to you, mhether: shall go to my home and
hare these republicans charge that achen scent 70,
the rights of the South, under the constitution the
South rejected my efforts and my sacrifces'
And, Mr. Clerk, | want gentlemen of the Demo
thing; and that is, that the Democratic party of the
North in the proportion of two to one, exceeds the
Democratic party of the South.
We do not carry States you will say. But, gen.
temen, the time is near at hand when we will carry
them; and tell you gentlemen of the South, who
believe that there is an al-pervading sentiment at
the North which is determined to drive slavery from
the country, that there is positively such all
pervadng sentiment 1t is confined to that wing Of
the republican party which is represented by Gid
dings, Greey, Cheever and that class of men, and
not by that part of the republican party which is
represented by the gentleman from Ohio-I mean
Mr.. Corwin: and as far as Mr.. Sherman, the candi,
date of the other side for Speaker is concerned he
is now the incrustation of abolition ideas unless he
! gets up on this floor and denounces that doctrine.
1 want to say to you, gentlemen of the South,
that l am not STAKEHOLDER, as you know, and do
not propose to discuss here the merits or dement's
of your institution of slavery. If lived in your
midst as said before, would own slaves, and yet
not deem that was doing moral wrong to any
one But gentlemen, there is necessity, great
necessity, that you and We should bury all past
differences, and unite upon some common platform
| in order that we may overcome those who are op
posed to us. Will you do it? You can do it if you
| will"
BLACK REPUBLICAN CoMMITTEE.-The recent meet
ing of the National Black Republican Committee
to fix the time and place for their convention. was