New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
CEN WILSON ON DIsUNIoN AND CLING
MAN.

From Our Special Correspondent
WAsIIISGTON, Jan. %, 1860.
Senator Wilson delivered an able, instructive,
bold speech, to-day. He INDICATED tne pos'non Of
the Republican organization as Unlon-Protecbng
as well an liberty loving party, while Dc charged
home upon the Democracy the fact that its leaders
were row threatening and plotting the breaking up
of the Confederacy, IN the event Of falling TO elect
the pext President. This part of his speech was
elaborated with great care, presenting cop ous e.
tracts from the baIangues Of Southern Members Of
Cor gress, in the Capitol and at their homes, from
leading Southern statesman out OF Congress, from
Journals claiming to be toe organs Of opinion IN the
Slave States, and from other Ike sources. These
counts in the indictment, with the accompanying
proofs, were iDterspsrsed with comments adapted
to the exigeDcy of The ease. Mason, Davis, Clay,
IversoD, Brown, Sbdel, and other Senators, from
whom be quoted these dislcyal and revolutionary
sentiments" paid close attention 70 the public
prosecutor who was srraigang them for treason az
The bar of the country; while Douglas snd 200
Lane each of whom affected to be writing letters
were evidently medi'ating upon the effect which
these singing extracts from the speeches OF taefr
lenders would have upon the Northern Democracy,
when read in their hearing next Sdmmer and Fall,
with suitable commentaries upon the text oy thou
sands of orators on tens of thousands of rostrums
in all the Free States.
The reply of Wilson to ClDgman's invocation 70
"bIoody struggle" Oh the floor Of Congress, IN
the event Of the success of the Republicans In 1880
eiff M
across The main aisle from Wilson. The Morn
Carolina Senator, never very robust, looAs un-
usually withered and and woeoegone ths
Winter. His Massachusetts antagonist, always
hale and hearty, never appeared more robust and
vigorous than to-day. And when he Z" served his
defiant "potice" upon the shriveled SouthroD step
ping forward a pace or two, and reminding him
who the people of the North were, and Of their
" bloody struggles" at Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Chip
pewa, LuDdys Lane aud on the deck Of many a
ship in the Second War of Independence, and look
ing full in the face of the man-mlner who had cast
down this glove, told him that when the struggle
he had invoked did come, the Representatives Of
this people would prove worthy of their constituent
ces, and if reluctant TO enter into the fight, would
and though the last to go into the conflict, would
be the last to 90 out of it with dishonOr, and
though Glow to enter the field of combat would
leave it victorious or baptze is with their blood
when Wilson was delivering this passage, with
cool, measured tones, and steady mien, and
firm gesture, his finger pointing straight
at the Carolinian, and telling him, in conclusion,
as he slowly stepped back to his chair, say 10
more; await the issue bide my time" the
CT amber was as silent as the tomb. SOutherners,
on the floor and in the galleries, who, till then, had
been chatting rather noisy, we're riVeted with the
spectacle. Doubtless, visions of Cromwell and his
IroDsides, routing the chivalry at Edgehil; of Pa
riian Miles StaDdish and his men, leaning on their
frelocks, while Brewster preached to the Pilgrims
on Plymouth Mound; of Old Put at Bunker Hill,
and Stark at Bennington; of Negro Nat Turner,
driving Virginia in panic before him, and Round
head John Brown, with seventeen men, filing the
whole South with frenzy of terror, fitted in
shadows before them.
When Gen. Wilson had finished, jeff Davis took
occasion to qualify bis DEuniOu position with al
the Z" ifs of old Touchstone, while CGngmsn STAN
mered out feeble explanation of bis "bloody
" struggle" invocation, thus proving, first, that VIII
sons broadside had hit them between wind and
water, and, second that ambitious Southern states
men dread the effect of their Disunion Trades upon
the Northern Democracy.