Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-27
a 1xslnar Case ii the Senate.

The House Of Representatives has been
kept in a state of DISCRIMINATION for five weeks.
because one of the candidates for Speaker
choee to recommend the circulation of Hell
per's book against slavery.
Helper said to his fellow-countrymen of the
South precisely the same thing that the mem
bers of the Virginia Legislature said in 1882.
and among others. Mr.. e. !. Faulkner, whose
name is now before the Senate as nominee for
the French mission. Slavery is wrong, they
said, slavery is eating out the prosperity of the
slave states. aud slavery will ruin us, or We
mast ruin it. Here are the words of Mr..
Faulkner
"SIavery, it is admitted, is an evil. 1t is an
institution which presses heaffly against the
best interests of the State. 1t banishes free
white labor-it extirminatcs the mechanic, The
artisan, the manufacturer. 1t deprives them
of occupation. 1t deprives them of bread. Ii
converts the energyof a community into indo-
lence, its power into imbecility, its efficiency
into weakness. Sir, being thus injurious. havt
we not a right to demand lis cxtirminatinn
Shall society suffer-, that the Shareholder ma,
continue to gather Ills crop of human fish?
Sir, 40 great and overshadowing are thu
evils Of slavery-so sensib'v are they felt by
those who have traced the causes of our ma
tional d@ciine-se p~erceriible is the poisonous
operation of its principles in the varied and
diversified interests of this commonwealth thai
all whose minds are not warped by prejudice
or interest must admit that the disease ha>
now assumed that M ortal tendency as to JUST
fy the application of any remedy which, under
the great law of state necessity, We nigh.
consider advisable"
This is Helpers doctrine to the word; and ii
Mr.. Sherman is TO be ostracised because he ap
proves of it, why is Faulkner to escape con
demnation? Oh it will be replied, Faulkner
has changed his opinions since 1882 which Is
true but he has changed them for the worse ::
and from m anti-siavcry man he has become
a disunionist. He openly breaches the insur-
roctionary schemes which are, by inference and
distortion only, fastened u-on Mr.. Helpers
book. 1t is scarcely two months since in a
pablo speech in Virginia, he commended Mr..
Wise's famous plan for involving the nation il
civil war, in the event that a Republican
President siould be elected. This plan Wis.,
conceived as early as 1886, and MIR. A. D
Banks, a Virginia editor, the friend of Wise
told all the particulars to his brother Demo-
crat, VIM. NJ. Cory, of Ohio. Mr.. Cory
Eavs
|" He tod us the South would have dissolved
the Union if Fremont had been elected Pre-.
ident of tho United States that Gcuernoi
Wise and tie Virginia lealerS Tere ready Il
take tie fcld-merch on Washington, depos~
the federal officers, take the treasury, 0~rctieve<
buildings, grounds. s., de3are the confederation
de facto ouertirotrn, IA! lie d strict to haas
reverted TO Virgiaia, the purpose fer tch;eh sic
hod conveyed 1t hGp;ng ft led. He said the
thing would have been easy. There were So
900 men ready. 10000 cavalry, sets Of accou-
trements, &c, &c"
Wise appears to cherish this pan still, and
Mr.. Faulkner is one of those Virginia lead
ers" who abets him in it he is an avowcd rev
olutiouist, and docs not, for a moment, deserve
the appreciation of the Senate. Our public
affairs are in a desperate state when men who
wilfully advise treason and civil War claim t.
represent US aboad. How may we know tina
Mr.. FaulkneT's object, in seeking the mission
to France, is not to procure the means for car
rying cut his disunion scheme Only a litti
while since, a communication in the Richmond
Enquirer recommended the South to place il
self in the hands of Louis Napoleon, and per
haps this movement is in furtherance of thi
patriotic resolve. At least the Senate ongh
to inquire into the matter, by referring the ir
v~estigation to the same committee which ha
in hand the "IIarper's Ferry afair.-N. ]
Ersning Post.