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failed. and when convinced Of settled purpose OF
hostility to our domestic Institutions -
lie would ask the Senator, why post with such
rapid and indecent haste TO the ful6lnent Of his
ayowed purpose? What present emergency press
ed with such insupportable force on us at this mo-
ment that we must precipitate at this time disco
lution of the Unioni Was it be would respectful
by inquire thatthe Senator and those thinking with
him feared that the occasion would pass by Was
it because of apprehension that guarantees and
settlement of the question might ensue9 lie
would not charge this motive, but those more CEN
serious might. ~.
live take refuge in dsunion now, would it bring
any remedy for present ills that we suffer in regard
to slave property? The State of South Carolina,
and cotton States generally, had sustained COM
paratively small loss by the escape OF fugitive slaves
The border States the greatest sufferers They
had not demanded secession for that or any other
existing cause, He would ask if dissolution ofthe
Union would remedy the evil with respect to fugi-
tive slaves? Would not long line of hostile from
tier after passing which, like the Canadas, where
no rccamations could be had, greatly multiply the
number of slaves escapingg With respect to this,
causes of disputes which it would occasion, would
forever be the polite of war between States
once united and afterwards hostile.
He for one however would say to our confederate
States of the North that this outrage and injustice
occasioned by the notification of both the laws and
Der of those States, should and must cease He
would take occasion to say that, while this gross
outrage had been perpetrated by many of the States
it was due to truth it was due historic justice to
say that so far the federal government was con-
cerned the laws its statute books were far more
favorable than at any time before this. 1t was the
action Of part of the States and not the federal
government, that we had cause to complain OF. The
Kansas Nebraska bill had repealed the Missouri
strction the constitutionaty of which had been ac-
quiesced in by Mr.. Monroe when President, Mr..
Calhoun and Mr. Crawford being then members of
his cabinet and is therefore, so far as statutatory
enactments can avail anything a great advance in
that respect He regretted that Mr.. Monroe, with
all the weight which his revolutionary services
would have given his acts, had not vetoed the Mis-
souri, restriction and thus perhaps have placed this
fruitful source of discord forever at rest.
Mr.. B. would also add, that the decisions of the
Supreme Court of the United States had gone far
beyond any previous decisions of that tribunal in
asserting rights and equality in the Union. He
would go further and say notwithstanding the great
cause Of complaint we had that under govern
ment that had existed had African slavery, and
those holding slaves so fourshed and the lat
ter reached such high distinction, under the gov
eminent of the United States. The productive
wealth and resources of the slave States had been
astonishingly multiplied forming the basis of most
extensive commerce with the entire civilized world.
The first men in the Republic, in peace and war,
had belonged to the slave States The statesmen of
the South had by the voice of their countrymen
North and South controlled the administrations and
policy Of the federal for threeourths of
the period Of its existence They had contributed
as much and more, to win its independence than
any other section. The federal Constitution was
indebted for its construction to- Southern states
| men than any others
Mr.. B. would ask, was this magnificent inherit
ance so rich in renown, so rich IN the blessings
which it had hitherto conferred, unequalled in its
almost fabulous progress, now without further eff
fort for redress Of our wrongs 10 be cast away
loathsome thing of no value? Was the "Itium
fuh" to be its epitaph as thing that was? Was
this noble structure, splendid vision that has
charmed US and an admiring world for while, so
soon to pass away without further effort to recon-
struct it and place it on more permanent basis
Forbid it spirit Of patriotism! Forbid it, spirit of
| the revolution!
| Senator's said Mr.. Brown are you prepared to OBJ
literate and expunge from the brilliant pages Of our
country's history the fame of our Incompatible
| Washington Peerless in all ancient or modern
| times-a Warren revered wherever herosm dwells,
| Greene the idol next to Washington of the South
| Are you prepared to cast dark shade over the
names of Jefferson, Adams, Hancock and Madison,
| and other iuStrous statesmen of that epoch and
that which succeeded it, and thus aid in doing "a
deed whereat vaor weeps?' II so, the heroic en-
durance and sacrifices of Washington and the SOL
dicrs who followed him without pay and without
! clothes-who tracked the snow with bleeding feet
in the dark periods of the revolution, will have been
in vain. History will record that the great expert
ment of self government has failed. History will
record that Washington and his compatriots of the
revolution had fought for mere delusion and that
the Declaration of Independence, by Jefferson,
| splendid deusion, from which the world had been
awakened by the sad reality that man was incapable
of self government. The fields of Saratoga of Eutaw
Guilford, and Yorktown, would pass under the same
| disastrous twilight and dim eclipsen
Let the name, Submissionist attach to those who
! would abandon ingloriously these sacred inherit
ances these sacred names and historic recollections
to the tender mercies Of the Abolitonists and not
| to those who would yet awhile defend them under
the Constitution and IN the Union He was here
reminded of the gross calumnies which Mr.. Seward,
of New York. in his late eectioneerng tour through
! the West had uttered against the slayeholding
States when he charged their inferorty in the high
! qualities Of men.
! Look, said Mr. B.. over the list of statesmen and
warriors of countrys history, and justice will
/ award to the South more than pre-eminence. He
| had uttered another calumny, equally unfOunded
! when he spoke of the feebleness of slaveholding
States for defence and the inability of foreign
tons to invade ree'States What was the fact? The
State of Massachusetts, during the war Of 1872 had
portion of her soil occupied, in Maine that State
then being portion of her territory, at two points,
| Belfast and Castine, by British troops for near a
year, without any effort to expel them. No other
State in this Union had suffered this indgnity. In
| others there had been temporary incursions while
at New Orleans the most splendid victory known in
this or any other country had been won by South
militia. He said this in no spirit depreciation
of the North, the achievements of the North,
pecally sea- enriched some Of the brightest pages
Of our history. he could not repress the indgna-
| ton which he felt in aluding to Mr.. Seward. He
regarded him as the impersonation of some of the
worst passions of our nature. He was the cool and
deliberate incendary who kndling his torch in the
vengeance of the furies had applied it to the temple
of our liberties Judging him by the sentiments
which he had uttered, he alien in feeling to
his country, loyal in heart any subject in Eng
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