Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-06-08

| NN WV ANNtSiOu VI 50 hWluly SO uOlu6nIOuS a
question, sipy Fsbouldz zseekssomeu- -pimuen OF rs-
tirement, and there pray that Almighty wis.
dom would enable me to dispose Of that issue,
too great for the feebleness of man. ;
Mr.. STANTUN.. There is no gentleman ution
that side of the House who occupies, and who
deServedly occupies, a more prominent, dis
, iir'5aished, and leading position, than the gen-
tleman from Virginia. His integrity and his
sincerity are unquestioned upon either side OF
the House; and yet the gentleman from Viz.
ginia does not feel prepared to say now that be
is not in favor Of a secession or dissolution, ia
the event Of the election of a Republican PFes-
idcnt. But let that pass
Mr.. Chairman, my own settled conviction
is, that the only mode by which thIa Uaion
can be perpetuated, and our institutions maid
tanned, is BY the election Of Republican
President. l have no beIief'that if Repub.
lican President be constitutionally elected,
there win be any difficulty about his admins
tering the Government.
MF. HCGHEs. | desire to ask the gentle
lnan, when The leading member of the Repub-
lican party announces the proposition that
slavery must be abolished, sEd that you andT
must do it, must he not mean the abolition of
slavery in the States? And wish TO know
from him whether the election of a President
announcing such sentiment as that, elected
by a sectional vote, elected By large popular
majority at the North, would not be au az.
gressive act, through the ballot-box, upon the
South, and whether he supposes the South,
| would submit to- such an act Of aggressioni
Mr.. STANTON. 1 regret that my friend
from Maryland had not read the speech from
j 10
with extracts. If he had read the speech, he
would have found that the expression in refer
ence to a6olfshing slavery, and that ~you and
| must do it," was explained by the fargher
declaration, that it must not be done by any
! physical foFee--inust not be done by any IN
terterencc with The affairs Of the ,slaveholdiag
St;stesbut by the moral force and powersof
truth disseminated among the slaveholding a.
we'll as the free States, which would ultimate
y bril- & about the abolition Of slavery. "a
Mr.. HCGHEs. But the phrase was, T" You
aud | must d. it,
Mr.. SrAXroS. Yes accompanied with that
explanation as to the mode of doing it.
Nr. HuGHEs. by getting hold of the pow.
CT of the Government.
Mr.. STANTON. Not at all: but the mode Of
doing it Was by enlighteninx the minds Of nag
living south OF Masua and uixsous line.
MIR. HuGnEs. Perhaps by changing the
character Of the Supreme Court. aaa
Mr.. STANTON. / am decidedly Of the opiu-
ion that the character Of that court might be
essentially improped by change. 15
Mr.. HrdnEs. DJ you advocate q reorgani-
zation Of that Court2
Mr. SrAxroS. AIN in favor Of a reorgani-
zation 0i that oouFt. ~
/ said, Mr.. Chairman that believed that
was the only way to psrpetuate this Uuion.--
believe it will be found, before the Republi-
party has been in power six months, that
its purposes are purely uatfonal; that it has no
aggressive purpose; that it will protect allsec-
lions Of til, Confederacy in the enjoyment Of
their equal, constitutional rights and the
country will tIcu become satisfied that all this
cry of mad dog" raised agaist the Republi-
can party, is a deusion.
Now, sir, for eight long weeks, gentlemen
here made speeches, and incorporated into
them the rawlings of Wendell Phillips and
Lloyd Garrison, and every extravagant fanatic
in the whole free States of the Confederacy,
and disseminated them broadcast, by tens Of
thousands, through the saveholding States,
the opinions aud principles Of the Republi-
eau party. 81 .sW
Mr. BARR. I ask tie gentleman il your
party has not done the same thing with the
speeches made on side? re
MIR. STANTON We have not circulated
anything except the speeches made by gentle.
men Oil this floor. | have circulated the
speech Of the distinguished gentleman from
Georgia, Mr.. CRAwFoRD,l and various
speeches Of that sort. Gentlemen have right
10 circulate speeches nude On this floor; but
speeches made by Philips, lectures delivered
by Garrison and extracts from the Lberator,
have been incorporated by gentlemen- on the
other side lii their speeches, and have been dis
seiliuatcd through the South as the opinions
of the Republican party; and the great mass
of the people oil the South entertain the opin-
ion that these are correct expositions Of the
purposes Of the Republican party. You may
madden them and ipfuriate them, by the dis
senination of that idea, but when Repnbli-
can President has been six months in power,
then it will be demonstrated that that Was =
lelusiou, and that the Republican party is
seeking for nothing that has not been recognize
cd in the first Sky years OF the administration
If the Government as purely and strictly ua-
tional. l undertake. to say to youi sir, that
the Republican party to-day holds no .princi-
pie, advocates no policy, that has not beeurGc-
oyniStd by every political party, in it's turn.
from tile organization Of the Government to
the present day Not one You cannot name
to me Il principle recognised by the Republic
an party, incorporated iuto its platform, avow-
cd by any authorized exponent Of its opinions,
that cannot show you in the principles aid
platforms of every political party, and in the
speeches of every public man who has been on
the Stage of action during the last sixty yearss
since the organization Of the Government, un@
til the last ten or fifteen years
Gentlemen do not really controvert that fact.
They say: at is very true, there was strange
set of men on the stage Of action at the time
of the Revolution. They did not comprehend
The slavery question very well. They did en-
tertain some anti-slavery notions, which we do
not approve. They did not comprehend it.
They did not investigate it. We, on the con-
trary, have gone over this whole question:
We have examined it thoroughly, and have
made up our minds that they we're in error"
Suppose for the purpose Of arsament, that
that be so. With the opinions which the
founders of the Government entertained, they
framed Constitution; they put q practical
construction ON it, as Presidents, Senators,
Representatives in Congress, and Judges Of
the Courts. What / claim is, that, whether
their opinions are sound or unsound, they are
opinions incorporated in the Constitution
Ii they were in error in that particular, If they
find that different set OF political principles
are the true political philosophy of the timess
that does not change the Constitution. The
men who made the Constitution differed wi tn
you. You propose thorough and complete
revolution of the whole Government. You
,ronosa In rcvarse the princples of the found