The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-01-25
Extract f.,GSsl fe speech Of , 0sau
Hsic41 aElsan.

JOHN HICKMAN, of pennsylvania, in re-
ply to the charge Of corruption and trea-
son to the Democratic party. We give a
few extracts. Mr.. Hackman gives the
following very truthful definition of
Democrat =
have been in the House long enough
to learn many things which | never could
have learned at home, and think it has
perfected my education upon one point:
have learned that man may support
every measure of a Democratic Admins
tration, and yet if he shall vote against
single interest of Slavery, he ceases ipSo
tacio to be Democrat; but if he vote
| against every measure of tue Administra-
| ton, and will sustain the interests of
Slavery, he is ipSo .fdcto a good Demo
crat. I put that as Gods naked truth be-
! fore this House and before the country,
and intend to stand upon it as solemn
conviction.
He thus speaks Of tho politics of tho
country, and the position of the Demo
cratic party
The whole politics ofthe country are
involved in the negro question. Shall
Slavery travel into the Territories, or
shall it not? that is the question:
There is no olher question, and there will
lie no other Gu ion in the Presidential
contest Of 1869; and if l am constrained
to choose between the party which insists
that Slavery shall travel everywhere,
against right, and that party which says
it shall not % anywhere, even when it
has right, cannot help it. That is all.
[ stand upon the principle of the Kan
sas-Nebraska bill. I believe it is suffi-
cent for US. 1t is anyhow the bond be-
tween the North and the South, and
will try it q little further, aud | am with
the men who arc for that principle. l
know how it VIII result. 1t will result
exactly whore tho Republicans desire it
should end ; it will end in the exclusion
of Slavery from ali Territories of tho
United States. If there is any man who
is committed to the principles of the Kan
sas Nebraska bill, who does not answer
dat question in that way when il is pro-
pounded to him, all | have to say is, that
he is either wIlfuIly blind OF slightly dis
honest.
Sir, | have never uttered Il political
sentiu Ont in my life, that | can romem-
Der, that would not utter here, in the
| hearing of the South-not one. | have
always stood by tho Democratic party,
when ! believed it 10 g right | adhere to
| the principles of the Democratic party
and / have always opposed that party
when believe 1t to be wrong, and IN
tend to do so forever. There shall not
be any misunderstanding between any
gentlemen upoG tie Democratic side Of
The House and. myself | feel perfectly
certain that the party has been bankrupt
| ed by this Administration Of James Buch-
anan. Iknow it. | kncw it; for when
ever the Democratic party can 10 longer
control Northern masses, then that party
is bankrupt; and that is the condition Of
| thai party today. There is not North
| ern State, not one, as there is scarcs " a
Northern county, that can be carried mp
| on the doctrine upon which Mr. Buch-
anan this day bases his Administration. l
want the party to put itself exactly right
at Charleston and, fit will not put itself
right, | want it to put itself plainly wrong.
do not want the people, either of the
North or of the South, to be deceived by
any platform which can be interpreted in
one way in one section and another wav
n another. IF it is the sentimentsof the
Democratic party that Slavery shall trav-
81 with the column of our advancing civil
ization, | say, put it SO before the people,
express it plainly. and receive the North
crn verdict upon it.
Er. Hickman alludes to the subject of
d;.sun;on as fol)ws:-
/ should have said something about
Union meetings at the North, but my
friend from New YORK Mr. HAsKIN1 has
rendered that entirely unnecessary. I
sav this, which will cover everything l
sh' IL d have said at greater length: that |
there is no sentiment now in the North |
which can plant itself upon Southern pol
icy, ns / understand it, and live; for the
reason that it would be governed bv sell
fish considerations. And if this cond-
ton Of things existing between the North
and the South shall lead to a dissolution
Of this Union, which no one would de-
plorc more than should, all can say is,
the North, under those circumstances, will
endeavor to take care of themselves. |
have never seen . Northern man, in lat
ter times, that was much scared. I
know many men have been alarmed, in
times past, at the cries of dissolution: but
| have never We. seen Northern man
who expressed any alarm as to the re-
suits ola dissolution of the Union. |
will state what my convictim is on the
subject. do not know, however, that I
thoroughly I'm lerstand what it meant by
dissolution of the Union. If it means
a dividing line of sentiment between the
North and the South, and virtual non-in-
tercourse, why we have reached that dis
olntiOn airCa.Iv. for Nortbar, ,,,a, oo~