The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1859-12-23
Judge Larrabee IN Congress.

oN6O AoAX dOSO 80 O~NS o~S'
By despatch from Washington, dated
the 18th inst, We learn that Judge LARA
bee, the Member Of Congress from this
District, made a speech in the House of
Representatives on that day. The follow
ing is the telegraphic account, which of
course, is meaore one, but we have no
doubt that our Member made an able
speech, and spoke the sentiments of his
constituents of the 'gallant Third =
House OF REPRESENTATIVES, u osh
ingfon Dec. l7H.-Mr. Larrabee sent to
the Clerks table copy of the Milwaukee
Free Democrat, from which the latter read
the proceedings of meeting purporting
to be held by German adopted citizens, in
which sympathy is expressed for John
Brown, holding him as noble hearted and
resolute, and fit to be held up by the
friends and champions of freedom for the
imitator of mankind; also saying that adj
opted citizens are hostile to tyranny of ev-
cry kind
Mr. Larrabee remarked that if any of
his colleagues did not recognize that pa
per as Republican, let them say so. At
his request an editorial was read in the
same paper in spirit with the proceedings
of the meeting. He was satisfied that the
Senator from Wisconsin, Mr.. Doolittle,
was mistaken when he said that there WAS
no newspaper in that State which support.
ed and sustained John Browns invasion
of Va. He thought, however, that at
that time the fact to which he had just re
ferred had not been brought to Mr.. Doc
Titles attention.
Mr.. Larrabee needed not to be informed
as he had been, by the leading German
citizens of Wisconsin, that such were not
their opinions. He had been in their
midst for fourteen years and could say
that more intelligent, loyal and patriotic
men were not living on the soil of the Uni
ted States. They were hostile to fanata
cism and to the sentiments Of war and dis
union on the part of the North. lie felt
it to be his duty to hurl back the accuse
tons against part of the people he had the
honor to represent. He was surprised to
hear gentlemen charge the present Admin
istration with corruption and extravagance
he thought the President was entitled to
all praise.
We all agree that the Republican party
organized at the North is purely section
al party. This is the very state Of things
which Washington warned us against in
his farewell address. A great party could
not be built on a geographical line.
He thought Mr.. Stewards remarks re
specting the irrepressible conflict orig
mated in his ambition to reach the Presi-
dental chair, thinking an appeal to sec
sectional passions and preiudices the best
way to reach it. lie never had any doubt
but that the raid of John Brown was the
legitimate teachings of the extreme sec
ton of the Republican party North-the
teachings of the Tribune Wendell Phillips
and others
He had heretofore thought dissolution
of the Union impossible, but now ventur-
ed to say that if Northern men persist in
their course and the South reach against
the North, the dissolution Of the Union
may not be a question of time, but may
occur between now ana the first Of May.
Mr.. Larrabee reviewed Mr.. Stewards ir-
repressibe conflict doctrine He never
heard, on this floor or on the stump, Re
publicans denouncing abolition sentiments.
1t appeared to him that the conflict was
not between different kindsof labor,b be-
tween different races of men. He did not
believe in the unity Of the human race. If
the slaves were free. what could be done
with them? The North don't want them.