Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-03-02

"No other over act can so imperatively |
demand resistance on our part as the simple I
election of their candidate. Thor org,lni- |
cation is one Of avowed hostility. and they /
come against us as enemies.
Referring TO the distinguished Senator
from New York (Mr. SewarI,) he declares
that
The objections are not personal merely
to this Senator, but apply to any member
Of the party elected by il. 1t has, in fact,
been suggested that, rs a matter of pru-
dence, for the first election they should
choose a Southern FIRE. So,er. Would
the colonies have submitted more willingly
to Benedict Arnold than to Lord Cornwall.
lis ?"
But the Senator seems to be in favor of
the secession of the States, but not of
the secession of TIE members of Congress.
He says:
! 81 may say, however, that do not think
there will be any secession of Southern
members of Congress from this Capitol.
1t has always struck me that this is point
not to be voluntarily surrendered to the pub
lie enemy"
The Senator from North Carolina evil
IDENTIFY INDUCES in the pleasing illusion that
"the public enemy" as he is pleased to
characterize his fellow countrymen, will
abandon the Capitol, if 'ihe Southern menu
Der of Congress" remain in the Capitol.
: "If lives should be lost here exclaims
the Senator, sit would seem poetically just
that this should occur!" If after this dec
laraton of seeming valor, the Republicans,
in the event of their success in November,
do not fee from the Capitol with as
much haste as did the 'chivalry"o Of this re-
gion in the late war with England, l am
quite sure the Senator from North Caroli-
ma, who is "struck" with the original idea
"that this is a point uot to be voluntarily
surrendered TO the public enemy" will be
disappointed in his expectations. But the
Senator goes on TO express his emotions of
!, contempt for men Of the non-resistant
school. II cannot fnd,' says the Senator,
swords enough to express my adherence
and detestation of such creatures as Garr-
son and Wendell Phillips, who stimulate
others to deeds of blood, and, at the same
time, are so cowardy that they avoid all
danger themselves" This expression of
, "abhorrcnce and detestation" for such non-
combatants such "cowardly creatures" is, /
| ,nt, al 10 nJrnp,sh This
, side of the Chamber that the Senator is
, terribly in earnest when he makes procla-
nation of his wishes in these words:
'As from this Capitol so much has gone
forth TO infame the public mind, if our
countrymen are to be involved in bloody
struggle, trust in God that the first fruits
Of the collision may be reaped here"
WHAT ALL THIS MEANS.
This language. Mr. President, admits of
but one Interpretation. Gentlemen from
the South, who are in favor Of a dissolution
of the Union, do not intend in so doing, to
secede from this Capitol, nor surrender it
to those who may remain within the Union.
, Having declared that, if lives are to be
; sacrificed, it will be poetically just that they
should be sacrificed here on this floor; and
that, as so much has gone forth from this
Capitol to infame the public mind, it is but
proper that the first fruits of the struggle
should be reaped here, the Senator gives
us, therefore, distinctly TO understand that
there may be physical collison-"a
: bloody struggle" that the scene of this
E conflict is to be in the legislative halls of
this Capitol. To simply say, in reply TO
t this threat, that northern Senators cannot
thus be intimidated, is too tame and com.
mon-place to meet the exigency. Therefore,
! take it upon me TO inform the Senator
/ from North Carolina that the people of the
, free States have sent their representatives
, here not to fight, but to legislate; not to
mingle in personal combats, hut to delibe-
rate for the good of the whole country not
10 shed the blood of their fellow-members,
but to maintain the supremacy of the Con-
stitution and uphold the Nation--and this
they will endeavor to do here, in the legis-
lative halls of the Capitol, at all events and
at every hazard.
7 In the performance of their duties they
will not invade the rights of others, nor
permit any infringement of their own.
; They will invite no collision, they will COM
mence 70 attack; but they will discharge
all their obligations TO their constituents
and maintain the government and institu-
tions of their country in the face of all con-
ceivaJle consequences. Whoever thinks
otherwise has not studied either the histo-
ry of the people of the free States, or the
character of the men dwelling in that sec-
ton of the Union, or the philosophy of the
exigency which the Senator from North
Carolina seems TO invoke. The freemen of
the North have not been accustomed to
vaunt their courage in words; they have
preferred 10 illustrate it by deeds. They
are not fighting men by profession, nor ac-
customed to street broils, nor contests on
the "feld of homer" falsely so called, nor
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