Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-03-02

NO. 9.
much for the people of the FREQ States. As
to their representatives In this Capitol |
will say, that il, while in the discharge OF
their duties here they are assaulted with
deadly intent, | give the Senator from
North Carolina due notice, here, to-day,
that those assaults will be repealed and re-
talaed by sons who will not dishonor faith
ers that fought at Bunker's Hill and con-
quercd at Saratoga, that tramplrd the soil
OF Chippewa and Lundy's Lane to bloody
mire, and vindcaed sailors rights aud ma
tional honor on the high seas in the second
war of independence. Reluctant to enter
into such contest, yet once in, they will
be qnite as reluctant to leave it, Though
they may not be the first to 20 into the
struggle, they viii be the last to abandon
it in dishonor. Though they will not pro-
woke nor commence the conflict, they will
do their best TO conquer when the strife
begins. So much their constituents will
demand of them when the "bloody strug-
gle" the Senator contemplates is forced
upon them and they viii not be disap-
pointed when the exigeucy comcs. l say
no more l await the issue, and bide my
time.
THE sPEAKERsHIP STRUGGLE.
Mr.. President, during the protracted and
excited contest in the other end of tho Cap
itol, the leaders of the Democracy have
avowed the rankest dsunion sentiments ;
and these avowals of disIoyalty to the
Union have been often rapturously applaud
ed on the Democratic side of the Chamber,
and in the galleries, crowded, as they have
often been, by government officials, or gov
ernment contractors or dependents. Sir, il
the Union-loving, liberty loving, patriotic
men of the country could have heard these
menaces Of disunion; could have witnessed
the applauding throngs in the galleries, and
the applauding Democracy on the floor /;
and could have witnessed the Democratic
smiles, the Democratic mods, and the Dem
ocratic congratulations, they would visit
upon the actors in this farce, and upon their
compeers here and at home, the stern re-
buke and withering scorn of an indignant
people.
MORE DIsUNIoN.
| Early in the session, Mr. Nelson of
Tennessee, a distinguished member of the
southern Opposition, rebuked the disunion
sentiments which had been so profusely
scattered through the debates by the Sc
cessionists and he asowed his devotion to
the Union in tones of thrilling eloquence.
! His patriotic and national sentiments re-
ceived the enthusiastic applause of the
southern Opposition and the Republicans
| The patriotic sentiments of the eloquent
Tennesseean, reminding US of the days,
before the advent into these Halls of The
secession disciples of Calhoun, when the
followers of Clay and of jackson, too, had
made the Chambers echo with sentiments
of devotion to the Union, seemed to CRATE
haTshly upon Democratic ears. Mr.. Pry-
or of Virginia, who, in 1856, as one of the
editors of the Richmond Enquirer, echoed
the disunion sentiments of Governor Wise,
rose and propounded to Mr.. Nelson this
question:
"Would you be willing William ii. Sew
should take possession of the Army, the
Navy, and all the powers of the Govern
ment-I mean all the constitutional powers
of the President of the United States |?
Would he allow William H. Seward to
take possession of those powers, or would
he resist it even to the extent of going out
of the Union ?"
Sir, this question clearly implied that
Mr.. Pryor would resist. even TO the extent
of going out of the Union, the inauguration
of William III. Seward. But that was
carry III shS SSSsioi. ous- Wise, Wnoy IL
Faulkner is TO be relied upon "sees far in
advance of his cotemporaries," had not Then
avowed his resolution TO fight in the Union
and to stay in the Union. The Enquirer,
the family organ which is engaged in warm
ing the people Of the South not to "precip-
itate disunion, but to prepare for IT," has
made the wonderful discovery that @the
election of Black Republican advocate of
the eirrepsessible conflict" will be the with
drawal of the States supporting such cleo
tion, from the Union AS Governor Wise
has resolved to fight in the Union, and rs
his family organ has declared that he elec-
ton of Republican is withdrawal of
the States supporting his election from the
Union, Mr. Pryor will not now resist the
Inauguration of William II. Seward, ito
the extent Of going out of the Union" but
cling to this "vireinia abstraction" and as
sumo that the States voting for Mr.. Sow.
ard are out of the Union.
Mr.. Curry Of Alabama, in a speech
which is by far the most comprehensive
and philosophical presentation of the issues
yet made on the slavery side, in the House,
ea;1.