The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-04-10
TRUE DEMOCRACY-HIsTOR yINDi.
Gated.


| Gated.
Speech Of Hon. C. II. Van Wuck, o.
Nea0 York, delivered IN the House O
Representatives., March I, 1860.
The House being in committee of tbt
Whole Of the state Of the Union
Mr.. VAN WYCK said
Mr.. CHAIRMAN For many weeks was
patient listener to eloquent speeches from
the leaders of the so-called Democratic par
ty on the floor of this House.
Why do they charge the Republicans a:
agitators, when they themselves have been
sounding the notes of disunion, and preach.
ing violence, for the only purpose of alarm
ing the timidity Of one and tho weakness
Of another section of common country; OF
arrayiDg faction against faction; first, to
steel the heart against all sentiments of hu-
manity, and then nerve the arm to execute
its unholy impulses; charging treason up
ON the North. and counselling the South to
rebellion and resistance
When you, gentleman, came to this Cap
itOl, the agitation Occasioned by the Har.
per's Ferry riot was subsiding. in the dis
charge Of what you call patriotic duty,
you gathered together the elements Of that
unfortunate strife, and increased the turbu-
lence in the public mind.
The storm wpich gathered for moment
across summer sky, then broke in the
sunshine and dissipated in the rain drops,
you call back, and by the eloquence of
words and the impulse of fear, in the "cham-
bers of your imagery you generate storm
whereby you seek to serc forth hurricane
and tempest to PROSTATE the oaks and TEN.
pies Of Republic in one common ruin. The
torch Of the incendiary had been smothered,
and you seize the blackened fanbeau, rush
forth with the madness and folly of the sui
eide, and essay to light up the flames of
civil war and fratricidal strife
You, gentlemen. and not John Brown,
have unclaimed the whirlwind of angry
passion and bitter invectivc you have un-
barred the thunder and loosened the ligt.
ming shaft, whereby you sought to rend as
under the people of great nation, 80 that
IN your own language on this floor, the
"Union might be wrecked from turret to
foundation s:one," and "the Constitution
torn in tatters." Then form the ruin of
one, and tho dismembered body of the 9TH
er, you might erect confederacy cemen-
ted by the blood. watered by the tears. and
strengthened by the groans of your bond
men. which would fill the measure Of your
avarice and feed the cravings of your am.
bition.
Day after day, with the most vindic-
tive language. have We been arraigned as
guilty of arson, treason, and murder; 80
base was the charge, 30 unjust the imputa.
ton, We met them with our weapons at
rest.
The gentleman from Louisiana, Mr..
Davidson, whose ambition at one time
seemed to be that he might appear IN this
Hall armed with double.barre shot gun,
in his speech on the 22d day of December.
in defiant manner, said:
81 honestly believe that if you we're tried be.
| fore q jury of conscientious men, q jury of men
who believe in God OF all justice and mercy,
and all intelligence, you would be found guilty,
as accessories before the fact, to all the dreadful
deeds of Brown and his associates"
You talk of God, Justice. and mercy
who hold. claiming by Divine authority
four million human beings in hopeless and
irretrievable bondage, and ostracize free
white men who will not sing hosannas te
your traffic in the bodies and souls of men
and stigmatize as murdersrs and felon:
those who will not applaud the cruelty
which tIamples upon all the attributes o.
the mind, the affections of the heart giver
by the Almighty to the children of His OWL
creation
That same gentleman desired to presen
to the consideration of this House one o
John Browns pixies let me urge him t.
extend his cabinet of curiosities and adj
one Of the chains and branding irons Of hi
coA6e gang, tied by the lash with which tn
backs of women and children are scourged
and then. to watch them, well-fed blood
hound, with quick scent, trained to smut
in the air the track of the fleeing fugitive
let him present these symbols, the one Q
Browns folly. and the others Of his ow
high type of civilization.
From the deluge of Democratic speeche.
learn that the alpha and omega Of you
religion and Democracy are the divinit
, and benefits of human servitude. You ar
continually forcing this issue upon u
Said the Democratic Senator Mr.. Bigler
few weeks since, in the Senate Chamber
From the hour first came into political lif
} to the present day, have never gone throug
: political campaign in which the rights of tf
: South we're not an important, if not the leadn
) ISSUE"
The leprosy of slavery is I" in the war
and wool" Of your organization. Whe
the Democratic Convention, in 1856, e1
dorsed the policy Of Franklin Pierce in II
destruction of the Missouri line, and b
: Kansas forays, I became satisfied that i
organization was in the hands of the sla,
power, and that it was hereafter to be ust
' to extend slavery wherever the flag Of Il
Union might float. and forgetful Of its a
cient glories. had made allegiance to slav
ry propagandism the test of good FELLOWSHIP
With many Democrats throughout the U
ion, I could no longer worship the divini
: when the spirit had fed. The system u
der which We had grown to be great al
, happy people, which had been engrafted