The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1859-12-14
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question being on the motion OF Dit. dlck-
man, of Penn, 10 amend Fridays journal
by inserting that he had offered resolution
to adopt the plurality rule, in the vote for
SpeakerShil /. p
Mr.. Sickles. of New York, said he would
not trespass on the time of the House, did
he not believe it an imperative duty to pro-
; test against much which had been said on
this floor in the course Of the discussion, as
TO the sentiment of the North. @ ~ EfEL -
The gentleman ftom Pennsylvania (A1rI
Hickman) had assumed that the irrepressi-
BILE conflict is not in the future, but is Il
f c., and present in his hall.
Mr.. Sickles said the Northern sentiment
is otherwise-there being in the North mil
lions of hearts devoted, not only to the
Union, but to the Constitution. They would
never rehnquish their allegiance to it, or
be unmindful of the duty of performing
the obligations with which that allegiance
is Inseparably connected, and without which
their love for the Constitution and the
Union would be hypocrisy and delusion.
This view of the Northern sentiment is
as unfounded in point of fact as the charges
he makes in the name of the North as we'll
as the reason for this feeling, are unjustiii
| able. In the course of his reply TO Mr..
Hicknan's charge that the South has vie
idIeu covenants, anu
he referred to the history of the adoption of
the Constitution and kindred subjects, TO
show that there has been no violation OF
good faith by the South. He desired the
evil and the antidote to 90 forth together.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania could
not sustain himself in his first charge that
the clause in the Constitution was con-
cession to freedom on the part Of the South.
When he (Sckles) had proved that clause,
originally refuted by eleven Of the States
was enlarged and sustained on motion OF
gentlemen from the North, there was no
instance when the Southern courts had
failed to take cognisance or punish those
engaged in the slave trade expeditions.
With this view they sometimes fitted out
vessels built expressly for this purpose,
and the proceeds of the traffic distributed
in the North and East, and in all probabili-
ty, at the Sou Ia. The late District AttOr-
ney of New York (Mr. Mckeon) gave as
his opinion that more expeditions were fitted
out and sustained 10y Northern capital than
from any other part of the Union. As to
the charge that the South had broken the
Missouri Compromise, he argued that it
could not be called IA compromise 1t was
AN experiment, and had ceased 10 have val
idity in the quarter where alone it could be
sustained when the violent and excited feel
ing produced by the repeal of the Missouri
RESTRICTIONS shall have ceased, the North
will, us heretofore, regard the principles of
the Kansas-N eLraska bill as cOngenial to
their convictions, and which the best
hopes of the patriot rests, and as entirely
fair to all portions of the coniederacy. He
maintained that there had been no violation
of the compromises of 1850. The gentle
man from Pennsylvania had said the great
question 10 be presented in the next Presi-
Dental election was, shall slavery be allowed
to 90 into the Territories ? The gentleman
had not shown any reason or justification
! for that issue. In view of such a contingency
| in our affairs, as existed two or three years
ago, with reference to Kansas, we are to
understand it was to be brought forward as
an abstract not as an existing question;
but the North does not desire to enter the
! Presidential election on any such question !;
when the people at the North witness the
inevitable result of the doctrine of the ire
pressible conflict, and the acts of fanatics
aud traitors invading peaceful homes and
! tresides, and creating alarm and death
| When they find such are the consequences
of giving an aseendancy to a sectional party,
| they viii sweep it out of existence as sum
marily as they would drive any one enemy
from their own door. lie considered we are
in the presence of the most serious danger
that ever menaced the confederacy, and
therefore as Il faithful sentinel it was his
duty to admonish the North. lie believed,
with the whole knowledge of the facts, they
| would give patriotic response. lie alluded
to the meetings recently held III New Y ork
to sympathise with the doctrines profe sed
and practiced by John Brown. and denied
that the religious sentiment of the people
| countenanced them. He did not believe there
were any communities in the North which
would permit any assemblages within then
borders to proclaim their purposes, to carry
death to the tiresides of any portion of this
country.
Clark, of New York, said he had reason
to believe it would have been acceptable tC
Judge Douglas, if to the latter.
Adrian said if he had gone into Demo
cratic caucus the result would have been