Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-12-07
VOL. 6.---N0. 15.


of as the Democratic candidate for Speaker Oh
the House. says :-ssWhen in your platform
you forward and say that Your 1pstitu-
tionS alone are entitled to the protection Oh
the government, and that ours are to be dis
c0Wnfenanced aud restricted by ais action, then
you lay down sectional platform and array
yourselves into a sectional party. You put us
beyond the pale of the Constitution, and you
force us to fight you by every fair and honor
able means and ace shall do IT,
Judge Butler, late United States Senator
from South Carolina, said :-s.l have such con-
fidencc in the good sense of the people of this
country that believe Republican institutions
might survive the present Union. Realty al IS
broken already. trould rather ii should be DIS
solred to-norro,c-I wish my words measured
in preference TO living in a Union without the
protection of Constitution which gives me an
equality. should tell my people so to-mor-
row.
A II. Stephens, of Georgia, said We have
got the great principle, established IN 1901,
carried out in the Kansas-Nebraska bill, that
Congress, after removing all distractions, IS
not to intervene against u.s. and
say if Congress ever again exercises the power
to exclude the South from an equal participa-
tion in the common Territories, /, as South
ern man, am for resisting IT,"
Mr.. Jones, United States Senator from Ten
nessee :-ssIt not to enjoy our rights
under the Constitution, tell us SO ; and if we
may, and let as separate peacea6ty and decenfLy.
= tell you IN erery hand there tciH be knife,
and there 1ciH be TO The knife, and the knife
TO The kiH."
The Hon. John Letcher, a member of the
last Congress, and now Governor elect of Vir-
ginia, said :-ssIf you (the Republicans should
have the power here and undertake to pass
measures to carry out the principles which you
profess, you would find that we had spirit E.
nough to separate from yoW, and make the eff
fort, at least, to take care OF ourselves"
Mr. M n
gress from Georgia, says :-ssIf the slavehold-
ing States should ever be so regardless of
their rights, and their power, as co-equal
States. as to be willing to submit to this pro-
posed restriction, they could not do it. They
ought not to submit to it upon principle, If they
| could and could not If they IrouLd." +"
ssIt is in view of these things, sir, that the
people of Georgia have assem- bled in conyen-
tion and solemaly resOlred, that if Congress
shall pass law excluding them from the COM
mon property, lcith their Stare property they
will disrupt the ties that bind them TO the Union'
| Mr.. Smith of Tennessee :-ssUnless the
South can unite and defend these men of the
I N orth who stand by the guarantees of the
Constitution for the rights of the States, the
| Union is gone"
Mr.. Bowie of Maryland :-:sBut let this Con-
gresS attempt to strike down the constitution
al rights OF the South, then you and |, and all
of us wiH strike, though bloody treason flourish
| over uS.'
Mr.. Clay, a United State Senator from Al
ALBANIA, said Il trust sir, that whenever
Black Republicanism shall take possession of
the Government, and weigh in its balance, and
| against its avarice and ambition the honor and
the rights of the South, she will not stop to
| impetrate justice, or pause to expostulate, but
will boldly thrOW her Strord intO the scale, and
! assert her natural privileges IN SeEf-defence."
/ 1t will be seen from the above extracts that
we have not quoted from obscure or irrespon-
| sibe members of the party, but from its cho-
sen epresentatives-those upon whom it de-
! lights to beStow its honors and emoluments.
| These men were all ardent and enthusiastic
supporters Of Mr.. Buchanan and stand forth
! as the duly accredited opponents of modern
! Democracy. These declarations were not
made in corner but in the counsels of the
nation nor will it do to say that they are
coupled with contingencies which relieve their
! authors from the charge of disloyalty. Not
wthstanding all their prating about the sse-
! quality of the States" and the constitutional
/ rights of the South" their language means
just this: that, if the policy of our revolution
/ ary fathers, which prevailed from the organi-
ZatiOn of the Government down to the year
1854, be re-instated, there is a settled determi-
nation on the part of the South-the only
| ishes-to destroy the Union. Yet the organs
of the forlorn hope at the North, have the
I effrontery to read lectures to Republicans upon
the subject of disunion. To those who think
they can make anything by this mode of war
fare, we have only to say, ssLay on Macduff."