New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-14

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| held, the Republicans succeeded in electing ther
| Mayor by large majority. The South should De
foewaed by these elections 10 prepare for the re-
suit for the Senator from Alabama has said there
are humble Of Southern States pledged TO resist any
as,resions upon theirrghts such as The election OF
Republican President who will be dishonored ana diS-
Iaoed they DO not carry out their expressed ntsn-
lions Now Mr.. Precedent, undertake to sy tnat the
Southern Staes must prepare in the face Of the faets
presented by the Senator from Alabama, because tne
Republican organization looks 10 the conquest oil the
South 1t ia a sectional party. Where are tnere any
Republicans IL the fifteen Southern states oil TINS
Confederacy1 II there any, il Is only IN certain
localities and there il dangerous for them 70
ayOw their sentiments because the people OF those
fifteen States believe the utterance OF such scnt-
ments to he treason; therefore consider Il a. the
inevitable result OF the principles avoWed Dy the
Republican party that the South should prepare
for resistance in the event Of the election
Of a Republican President. How could be carry
on the Government Of any Southern state
Where wonid he get the Federal ofoers the collect
ors the postmasters, the distrc-attorneys and the
marshalsl j believe that, in large majority OF the
Slayehoding States any men who would secePt
commission from Republican President WouId DC
looked upon as public enemies, and could not execute
the duties impOeed upon them In my Juo8lhen., y -
impossible for "a Republican Prerideut 10 sdmlhr'er
this Government over a SiayehOlding state MI TWIN
| further stated that while his love Tor the Chlon
was unchanged, and that it was his earnest .Se
wish that il might be preserved forever, stu, IN the
event of separation, California would be oun9 win
the South He appealed TO the Republicans 70 give up
their opposition for if il founded on hansas az!
fairs they had defeated the South IN their attempt II
any suc6 had ever been made Kansas into the
Union as Slave State and had tIiumphed IN the GER
| tanty that Kansas when admitted into the cnion,
| womb probably he the strongest Slave State IN H.
Mr.. HALE-In nv humble judgment, the position
| Of AFFAIR." represented this morning, presents more
| distinct line than has ever before been present.
| ed. desire TO speak plainly, when cay tnaI Il
| California be true, that we have been labor
| ing under a deusOn, an utter delusion- we
are rot Union of States but subject Provlnces' Our
ueope DO not choose President. You, the representa-
lives of fifteen States h there according to the remarks
made this morning. and proclaim to majority OF the
people of this Union that if they dare TO exercise the
ureroQatye and choose President representing the
views which they entertain, and the supposihon pre-
| surroees thew are the views Of a majority OF the
ueople of these States, or else President repre-
| seutinp them could not be elected, that you
| will net submit to the will Of that majority ana
| will separate from the Union. You thus declare thA'
the Presidential election is an idle mockery deiu7on
| a deception IL is choice OF the People lou
people Of the nOn-slave-hOldng States you are I0t
mart of the sovereign power Of the Confederacy You
occupy to us the South, the position that the
| old French Parliament did to the monarch
| He made the DEGREES, and II was the prerogaIve OF
| the Parliament to register them That was all Iney
called that Parliament the government OF law. Inc
Senator from California speaks to us as II we had Deen
appealed 10. do not consider II So consider At as
declaration Of facts, which, If they exist ought TO ne
| known and cannot be known too soon. IL lhs
| is TO be the remedy that majority OF the
neore Of the United States shall surrender tier CON
victions and forbear in the exercise OF the hghess
| functions with which God las endowed freeman;
am glad TO hear it. He must forbear 10 let his pahot
sneak the sentiments of his understanding or his hea
henceforth. He must stie everything that Is manly
| In him. if, by chance, God has planted anything
of that sort in him. lie must 20 70 Ine pom no,
Fall, and go through the idle ceremony
| of voting for theresu il already foregone eonclu-
sion and if your DEGREES not registered the Union
il dissolved. Sir, il is dissolved now, II mat Is inc
- A.xa AfHfH AS
States having any political rights. We are here, Sir
simply TO regiser-no, SIR, not that, but our people
are 10 come together in the Fall OF 1901 ana register
the solemn DEGREES that shall be made for them oy the
fifteen slayeholding States of this Union II this 10 TO
| be ile case, am glad TO know It. Ii has not been
proclaimed TOO soon. But want to put THIS little
| more in detail for the benefit OF the Senator from
California He SAYS that if there IA an aggression on
Southern rights they will dissolve the Union, and ne
poee on TO say that if the majority of these United states
exercise their rights by eecng man to represent her
views the result will follow 1t Is an lnirlhge-
ment, it seems, for majority OF the people oil the
United States carry out their sentiments Dy eiec.-
| ING President representing their views, ana No,
| alton of those rights to refuse TO be dlctale9
| 80 bv the south I am not here to speak
| for the non-slayehoding States. They are rep
| resented by more able men than myself am the
representative here Of of the smallest states oil
he Union. But will say Tor that state, tnat De
ieve NV people are ready, if this is the issue TO which
| we have come TO meet the emergency. do not
think that an appeal of that sort to them Will be very
likely to induce different course from that hitherto
| pursued. II seems that a tiction-a pleasant ponuci
| fction-has been INDUCED in by some writers, IN
Speaking of us a Confederacy of equal states HOW
idle the idea Of any equality, when we are told before
exercising right guaranteed by the Constitution tnat
if by the exercise Of 1t, AID under the forms ana o
the mode prescribed by the Constitution, we succeed
in eectng representative of views az President,
| then the Government IL at an end 30 be IL! ms
was not new one it had been made before the recent
elections in the Free States and Senators representing
Southern States could learn by examining the returns
| how many of the Northern people were frightened
| by il.
Mr. GWIN replied, alludng to the circumstance
attending the admission Of California. All ne wished
TO say was that there was danger in the present
course and was best 10 pause before parties get
30 much excited against each other that II VIII be In
| possible 10 effect reconciliation
! Mr. WILSON said he thought there was some mis-
take about Mr.. Chases having said he hated savehod
| ers He had known Mr.. Chase long and well, ana ne
was the last man TO use such language; for mHseh'
be repudated the charge that the Republicans OF Mas
| sachusetis hate Shareholders. Yet what are we 70
think of the feelings Of the South toward the North,
| when advertisements appear IN Richmond papers
offering rewards for the heads of Republican members
of Congress These declarations that the Union Is TO
be dis solved If the people of this country choose 10
elect Republican President. received IN the Free
States as they should be received-wth the strongest
condemnation Such declarations here ana ID te mouse
of Representatives have aroused not poor, miserable,
cowafdlv spirit of servity, bu, manly spirit IN men
determined 10 exercise their constitutional rights
and express their opinions publicly and at the ballot
box. Union-sayng meetings are oil no eartaly s,9nh,
canoe. He had nothing 10 say against those pOleaI
eupnchs who gather around such meetings but those
meetings did not weigh feathers weight IN all Massa
chuetts Boston had for the Republicans at the re-
cent election and the Union-saying meeting held there
| was enough TO produce such result NotwihstAnd-
ing these threats the floor Of the Senate the people
of Massachusetts would give fifty thousand majority
| Cor .xboover zhall he nominated AZ tho Republican