Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1860-01-19
FROM WASHINGTON.
Failure ofte Disunion- American Fusion-A Bomb
Sholl from Stokes Of Tennessee-Disunion DemOe-
rdcg-Futare InteHtions Of the Americans.

raeg-Futare Intentions Of The Americans.
Especial Correspondence of the Press s. Tribune
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, 1850.
The failure of the negotiations between the Dis
unionists and the Americans TO unite .hc latter
Hamilton is ascribed to the speech made by Stokes
of Tennessee OH Saturday afternoon. 1t was the
most damaging talk We have had from that side since
the eloquent speech of Nelson from the same State.
Stokes wants no fusion with the Democratic party
it can possibly be avoided He regards that party
as = sectional, dsunion organization, whose great
principle is rule or ruin and he so told them very
plainly. His speech produced much evaporation
among the fre-ca who tried to put him down,
and showered upon him a storm of questions and
Interruptions at rude and nsoent but he car
ricd himself through the ordeal with much coolness
and fought them at close quarters with the bayonet
The telegraph gives you very imperfect idea of
the spirit and substance of his speech He begun
his remarks by observing that he and his A
mercan associates had been impertuned to Join the
National Democratic party but he doubted the
nationality of that party and had excellent authori-
ty for asserting that there such PARTY in rr
istence He read from the States that there was no
longer such party; and from the Constifufion the
organ Of the Administration, endorsing that scnti
ment, and declaring that the party had become so
demoralizcd and weakened that it was no longer
able TO make headway against the Republicans
He read an extract from the Charleston Mercury.
the representative paper of Southern Democratic
sentiment, which declared that "the party exists
only in the South, and is no longer national party.
but has become a sectional organization; that the
Democratic party Was 4 Southern party and moth
ing else, with some Northern allies who acted with
it to some extent for the sake Of The sDoils" Mr.
Stokes thought it was absurd and insulting for the
sectional fragments ofa once great National party
to call on the National Americans TO come to
4l,of, fl,o
stripped and torn into acrimonious fragments
better that the party should be dissolved into
its original elements, and pass away. 1t had full
flied its mission and outlived its usefulness and
should now be buried out Of sight. He claimed
that his was the only truly conservative. Union
loving party in the country, liberal in its views
standing between the North and South as peace
makers, ano requiring no sacrifice from either. If
the Americans listened to the appeals of the
Southern Democrats to come over and help them,
the inevitable result would be to array the South A.
gainst the North in solid phalanx, which in turn
would drive the Northern Democrats, in self-de-
fence. into the Republican ranks and thus bring a.
bout the very state of things his party so mucl,
dreaded and deprccated-two great sectional parties
boundcd'by geographical lines. No American on
the floor had uttered disunion sentiment; but he
had heard more talk OF since he came 10 Washing
ton than he had ever heard before in all his life
time and il all came from the Democratic side that
no Republican had spoken a disloyal word; that
these reasonable uttcrances all proceeded from the
side that unbushingly calls itself CONSERVATIVE"
and National. lie couli have no aifiliation with n
party that tolerated such atrocious ideas No poll
tician could stand five mnutesin Tennessee and adj
vocatc secession. Dissolve the Union, What for:
Because a man, an American citizen, is elected
President in constitutional manner, without the
commission of any tyrannical, overt act? Was that
an adequate eau g for so awful an alternative rs
IiS-olpfi0r Il of the Ifnsop7 Inv
Son to harbor such an incendisry thought. And
was his prtrio:c party to be asked to fellowship
with an organization that contemplated or threat
encd such thng7
Singleton and lamar Of Miss wanted TO know ir
Fred Douglass WAS elected BY the Republicans VOID
the gentlemen from Tennessee submit to his in
auguration? Stokes replied that Fred Douglass was
not citizen ofthe United States according to the
Dred Scott decision, and consequently could not oc
cupy the Presidential chair. Several fire caters
insisted upon direct answer, claiming that the Re-
publicans ght override or reverse the decision of
the Supreme Court. Stokcsrcplicd that lie could
conceive oil no contingency when some white men
on the Republican side could not be found who
would he willing TO accept the Office OF President in
preference to "a negro. Laughter. But he wo'd
not dissolve the Union in case of the election of the
worst Black Republican in the United States, and,
furthermore he would never no never, dissolve the
Union for anything, he cared NOT ,rhof, fApplausc
He was for staying in the Union at all hazards and
10 the last crfrtnity. If they had difficulties, if
gloom and darkness hung over them. he asked what
would be their condtionifthe Union was dissolved?
The institution of slavery was surrounded, on one
side by water and the other by the free States
Theyhad the fugitive Slave Law in force, and the
North was between them and Canada. Ifthc Union
were dissolved the slave would be free and bevond
reclamation the moment he crossed the line of Ma
son and Dixon. thousand slaves would escape
where one reaches Canada now, and in few years
there would not be slave left in the border States
But the running away OF their slaves would not be
the worst OF their troubles. Dissolution Of the
Union could confer no safety, reposc, or benefit
Of any kind, on the South, unless il would be
to open the African Slave Trade, thing which
all patriots would ,seporc, and which in the end
would overwhclm tho South in ruin
His remarks on this subject produced profound
sensation. The American members gathered a.
round him. ard the scowled upon him with
malignant visagcs. Many Of them sprang to their
feet, muttering that they would not tolerate such
language They sought to break him down by loud
and nsoent interruptions, but he carried himself
through the ordeal with dignty and frmncss He cx-
tortcd from them in the midst of this scene very
damaging concession, going to show the ultra and
sectional character of this shorn Democracy Said
he,if youare desrous TO harmonze with us and elect
some man who is not Republican,, Why did you
not vote for Gov Gilmer, of North Carolina n \
STAKEHOLDER, upright, honorable. impartial man
Twice 1t VAS in your rover to have elected him. !,
Now mark the answer. Kein, Avery, English, !
Millson, Lamar, Valandigham, Rust. Barkstale, !
Singleton and Others replied that they would vote
for TO man who had received Republican support, I
as Gilmer had--l4 Republicans having voted for I
him. Kisses from the Amcricans.I Well, gen
tlcmen, let me suppose a case," remarked Stokes:
Suppose IA Republicans would vote for Bocock
under protest for the purpose of organizing the (.
House, low many many Democrats would deem
that sufficient cause for withdrawing their votes
from him7" A score of Democrats replied that
they uouh! They would not allow the Republi-
cans to vote for even Boccck. (Sensation.Ia
THAT is just what wanted to find OUT" said
Stokes "You are an ultra, sectional party, and no
Southern conservative man can honorably or con-
sistently act with you'' Applause.]
He referred to the ''iirepressiblcs divisions of
the Democracy on the slavery question, and cspeci
ally in regard to the dogma ofsquatter sovereignty
The doctrine pnt forth By the Douglas school had
been most bitterly denounced by the Southern Dem
ocraticpress. In his State Mr. Douglas and his fol-
lovers were declared to be thea the Rspubli .