Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1860-04-14
WHOLE NUMBER 53S.
stlnging speech OF Mr.. van iNysIs, 81 .sl
New York.

Mr.. Van Wyck, the Republicans membef
from the Orange District, New York. Ia
former party times was disciple Of Silas
Wright, and consequently represents the
Republicans of Democratic antecedents.
He possesses fine voice and powers Of
elocution, and is cool, resolute, and fearless.
After having listened in silence for two
months to daily flood of invective and
denuHeiation poured upon the people of-the,
North and their cherised institutions, be en-
braced the first opportunity to repel them,
and turn the tables upon the ire-eaters.
This he did in one Of the spiciest, sharpest.
and most stinging speeches ever delivered
in the House. The attempts to bully and,
bTowbeat him to silence by Davis, Gartrell,
and Others, whose withers were terribly
wrung by Van Wyck's pungent truths,
passed by him as the idle wind He kept
right on, probing deeper aud deeper the
tender spots presented by Southern blus-
tergrs. In replying to the gaseonade Of the
disinion Democrats, that Republican
President should not be naugrsted in the
Capitol, if elected, Mr.. Van Wyek said
How will you prevent it | judge FROM
your military preparations you mean BY
force. Where will you get your ganpouderf
You make none south Of Delaware.
Where will you get your firearms South
of Masons Il Dixon's line you manufacture
none in all your borders. Can you retain
it now by force Ifso, you will do infinite
ly better than you did in 1914. The
English then, without any fear could have
crowned king in your Capitol. They drove
five thousand Of your men from Bladens-
burgh and although you knew the aesigR
of the enemy was to invade and burn. you
retrated, aud stopped not to Ere a gun id
its defense
l impugn not your courage, nor reflect
upon your motives | but hazard the op-
inion that, had the Capitol stood amid the
rocks Of New England, or the rough hills
of the North, five thousand Of her yeomanrY
would have struck, and if necessary, per-
ished in its defence. Since that time, some
of your people have been very soIicitous
about the archives. You know Gov. Wise.
in 1856, had Fremont been elected Presf-
dent, was prepared to march with one
hundred thousand men to the Capitol. and
seiz the archives but some persons very
wickedly suggested that it might be the
Treasury he was after. Impossible who
ever alledged that Southern Democrat was
actuated by mercenary motives I?
This pat historical reminscence stirred
up Pryor, of Virginia, prodigiousIy. The
wicked GOODNESS Of Van Wyck, however,,
was equivalent to-"What do you propose
to do about it ?" and the frenzied fre-eater
did nothing. In another part of his Speech
Van Wyck said:
You charged upon the North an occai
sional outbreak of disorder, for which The
guilty are punished, while your own people
violate the laws of your State aud the nat
ural rights of the white man, condemn him
without trial, and inaict barbous punish
ment without judicial Judgment and sent
ence. Some men of South Carolina arrest
cd free white laborer, mobbed him in the
streets of their city, subjected him to stripes
at the hands of slave all in violation of
the laws of the State. You may boast of
your chivalry, but such men are dastards.
whom it would be base hattery to call cow
ards" The slave trader lands cargo Of
human merchandise from Africa, and your
jures refuse to punish the pirate A few
months ago, woman with sick child was
driven from a village of Georgia, because
she had written to her friends at the North
her impressions about slavery. A whole
community, the Bereans, were exiled from
the soil of Kentucky for no crime they
were only obnoxious in entertaining the
opinions proclaimed 10y Washington and
Jefferson. Are such the men you propose
arming to seize the Capitol and archiVesT
Rest assured braver men than they fed froRI
the British in 1914.
Crawford, of Georgia, and Burnett, Of
Kentucky, tried to interrupt him, but be
went on with his remarks !:
In the history of the country You provok-
ed and melted controversy in which yon
met Northern bravery face TO face on the
plains of Kansas, and YOU quailed before
it and fed. Ask your border rufhan ban
ditti what they think OF Northern couragei
After the ight at 0ssawatomie, where
Brown received bis cognomeH, your men
covered at The very thought Of meeting the
| SLeFu UectDeH VI ouotufuC0 BI
right, in battle array, and they made pre-
cipitate fight, not waiting for the morning
dawn in spite of just such vannts aud boasts
as you daily make on the floor of this House.
Talk no more of Northern courage. Yea
have felt their steel and seen their metal.
| Your knowledge Of history will teach yoh
that the most unconquerable BRAVERY comes
from the cold climates and rough regions Of
northern countries. Again i ask, why do
gentlemen thus talk Mark the first aud
second wars with England
To the charge that the North did not
perform its share 10 achieving the iudepep-
dence Of the colonies, he he made reply !;
Massachusetts has able sons % defend her
reputation but do know she was first 20
light the flames Of the Reyolution and
believe she will be the last to desert the
watch6res of the Union. The eloqneBs
gentleman from Virginia Mr. Boteler, In
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