New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-12-11


ly IIorate Greeley or pofsbly by tie gentleman from
Massachusetts, lMr. Thaytr though i think perhaps
at member is little too much iinttnred with the
doctrine Of Squatter Sovereignty TO s'ut the tines
But, TeTo6, there IL not solitary Representative
eat oftle Rocky Mountains; and that ,Uighiy host,
nun bciirg l,6lOtCO, which for 70 many years bas
stood or n vast breakwater AGAINST the winds and
waves Cf The storms Of fecCnalsm, and upOr whose
constituent element at least this country must much
dcrerd, row in the midst Of the great events
Which are throngng thick upon US, for all
holc Of preservation and of restoration herea Ger
Sir, il any man here inslne enough TO imagine fCf
moment that in the midst Of these scenes the great
NcrIcIn and great Western Democracy, so essential an
element and by far the most numerous element Of the
gIont Democratic party, which for so MANY years has
nOulCC. q policy and controlled the deanies OF ihls
Ecpulic-lat party which has given TO the country
some Of tie greatest and pIOudest of her sOns-that
TaIy which placed upon the statute books of the
most important acts Of legislation, which have endured
through all Tethai such section OF snch party IL
TO lie thus literally ignored, nsulted and thrust aside
of value tell you YOU mistake the character Of the
men YOU have TO deal with. We are in "A minority
now, indeed, at the ballot-box. We bow quietly 20
the popular VIII thus expressed. We are defeated, bnt
not CONQUERED; and lie is fool in the history OF this
world who thinks that in the mds OF the stirring and
revolutionary events which n, sixteen bund-
red thousand men, born free and now the equals of
their brctlrcT-ncn whose every pulse throbs with
tie eririt Of Tibcrty-will tamely submit to be de-
graded infeioriy and reduced 60 political servi
tuGc? Never, never while there il but one man to
strike n blow at the oppressor. Sir, we love
this Union ard more than that obey the COnJtitu-
tion We aie here gallant little band Of less than
;hirtv men, 20 represent "a million and half OF free
men. We here to maintain the Constitution which
makes Tie Union, and to exact and TO yield that equal
itv If rights which makes the Constitution worth pre-
serving That if mission. We ready, SIR, to
do al TO suffer all in tits cause Of thank God,
country. by vote, orpedge or act OF ours,
lere elsewhere, shall anything he done TO imriir, or
dele overthrow ills, tie grandesi temple OF human
eItV
woehp at DE very foot Of the altar, and not,
wants ard interiors in the outercO Of the sanctuary
Sir, let tell you that II this great poty Of recon-
citation and restoration Is TO 20 on, is to this very
amy of conservative men that You to
lOOE, at least for It's cOnslmmation. tell the
gentleman from Olio Mr.. Corwin) the Chairman
Of tlis committee that if he would do anything eiec-
tuay public sentiment in our common State,
il If TO The two hundred thousand men not IN his own
Iary together with such Others as hc may be able 30
carry over with him. that he is TO trust by the vndi
cation of such measures for any reconciliation and
adjustment which bis committee may propose, and
tbs House and the Senate may adopt. And II Is IN
every Free State Of this Union. And vet, Sir, that
powerful minority reckoned by Millions including
he country extending from the Atlantic TO the
Rocky Mounta ina made up of men ywhose right hand
this Government is 10 be defended, maintained aud re-
stored is vOceess upon this committee as the sands
uTon tie fea-shore. Can any good result from 1t 50
coniituted2 Ought any man 10 be compelled 20 serve
upon such Committee! speak now for the moment
az "A Western man. ! thank the gentleman from Flor
ida cordially for The kindly sentiments to which he has
given uiteranee. Sir, all the Northwest have
deeper jueTest in tie preservation OF this Government
az i is in is present form than any Oherscci0n. Look
at the map. Hemmed in, isolated, cut off from the
.eabOaid upon every side, thousand miles and more
from the mouth of the Mississippi, whose free nayi-a
ton under the law Of nations we demand aud viii
have at every cost, with nothing less except
our great inland seas where are we TO seek
an outlet for foreign communication Here we
have fifteen hundred miles Of Southern frontier but
- & tt.hl
linia TO Mi fi.sini binding Ms on the east Ohio
if tie istlmus that connects The SOuth with the Brs,
possessions. TIE Rocky Mountains separate us from
Ire Pacific COast-where Is to be our outlet what
are we to do when you shall have broken up and de-
stroyed this Government Sir, we are seven States
now with fourteen Senators and hy-one representa-
tivec, ard q population of nine millions. We have
empire equal, in area to the third OF Europe, and
we do not mean to be the dependency Of, prov
ince ter, Of tie East South, yet an inferior
or secondary power upon this continent; aud II we
cannot succeed in securing maritime border upon
other terms, then we will clcave or way 10 the
sea coast with the sword. nation of WARRIOR
we may be tribe of shepherd. And yet nea ly
One-haf Of the people of that vast emlre, WREN 20
soon is to perform important part in the affairs OF
tbs continent is utterly ignored and excluded from this
Comm iftee Meantime hundred thousand votes
Represented bele upon this floor by sixteen MEMBERS
are eilenccd and disfanclsedln s ARRANGEMENT Slch
il your Committee; and / cannot and will not vote to
comyel any man upon it. Sr, the time Ii Short
the danger is imminent the malady il decp-seaed and
fast extending Whatsoever sto be done must be done
al once and it must he done thoroughly Every remedy
must 20 right straight home TO the seat Of the disease
Let III have no delay, Convention, no miserable tenn
pofiziug eXpedients Otherwise not the secession OF
few States only, but the total and absolute disruption
OF this whole Government is inevitable. Sir, we are
standing here this day acting in the eye OF posery
and Ne have solemn duiled TO the whole country 10
PERFORM and if do not discharge them Instantly and
Alright not poppy mandoragOna, nor all the dr0wsy
firups of the world, will medicine us to that sweet
1. litl arl.4t IL
the Democracy of sixteen States OF this Union, pro-
tes against the arrangement Of this Committee. My
motives may be misinterprei now. De al 80. Lime
will in little lie vindicate them
Mr.. McCLERNAND Dem, H. in rising 10 dpedk,
said he would not, al that time, touch upon the coz
stuCtiou OF the Committee, nor was II his lnenllo b
enter mon the question OF secession. " Snhc t
for the day was tie evil thereof When that que -
cane mp, lie would lie prepared TO dene h views upon
it, iron the question Of recession be would only =,
that when it arose il would open mp tronblo1s aud
fearful future He not one OF those whoth0ugh tit
this Government could lie dissolved by tue consent Oi
any the contracting parties TO II. Bound together az
they were by common language, by common mountains
aud valleys lakes and Iivef, II was only civil War-a
Tremendous civil such The sun nevershone upon,
and such o. never before deuged the earth win blood
or decorated with slaughter, that could do this. There
is more strength IN the Government than people gener-
ally imagine. Granting that tie Government itself was
week il had strength in the loyalty and patriotism OF
the +, OF lie that would mike il euCure fOre'e. lie
uilean from Florida alluded 10 the construction oil
Ills committee, and bad urged upon tue notie OF the
House lie exclusion of the North western and North
crn Democracy from that committee a reason why
he should he excused from serving upon n. lie
thanked lis friend from Florida from bis hed"t
for motives which had prompted him in his generous
Manifestations notwithstanding that he could not agree
with Lin tfat he ought to be excused from serving on
tie Committee and therefore, that lac differed from ms
friend Mr. ValandighGm. The very reason, indeed, "a
signed ly the gentleman from Flondn for claiming 10
he excused war the strongest reason that could be
URGED why be should serve upon II. lie ought to re-
main on il that be- might as Is, in controlling mat
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