M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-07-19

and | have in my own experience of the
past, certain strong reasons why |
cannot bring mysclfto the supposltion
that the South, under present circum.
stances, can respond to that move
ment, AM ! will briefly lay them be
fore you.
In 1910 and 1850, when California
was about being admitted into this
Urion, the South rose against her ad
mission, passed resolutions and i'm.
pressed upon the minds of the North,
that if the outrage was perpetrated
she would secede from the Union.-
Many Of us who we're the representa-.
tives of the South in the National
Councils, believing that the South
was in earnesty and considering our.
selves bound to follow in her footsteps,
fought in the battle, not with the
view of creating the contingency con.
templatei, but to defend the rights Of
the South, and oppose the intrOduc-
ton Of California into the council Of
the nation. That at that time was to
the South the great wrong and the
creating Of great danger, because not
only was California coming into the
Union with a Constitution oblterating
the Missouri Compromise, not only
was she coming into the Union with.
out having passed through the ordeal
OF territorial existence, not only was
she coming into the Union organized
by the military forces Of the Federal
Government--but her entrance into
the Union was going to destroy that
power OF numbers which was the last
bulwark Of four protection in the Sen.
ate. In the higher House of Con,
gress we fought against that wrong;
we engaged in the battle to maintain
our rights to the last, but when the
question came to the last, or after the
other, we saw the States OF the South
leceding from their position. Dis
owning every effort we had made to
maintain our rights, and, let me say
it with sorrow, dragging us into the
very gutter for the very devotion we
had shown them. And why did the
South do thisG There is no migrate.
ful breast at the South. 1t could not
be that she was inclined to disown the
services Of those who had stood by
her to the last; but it was because she
considered, and truly considered, that
even an impending wrong was not to
be put in the scale with preservation
of this glorious Confederacl Tgreat
applause, and even in obedience to
their wishes, out Of defense to their
convictions, surrendered.
We considered that we were in du-
ty bound TO abide by your own decis.
ions, and perhaps it may not be i'm
proper for ne here to refer to the con
siderations upon which those decis.
ions were predicated. The only com
penSation which the South could find
in the measures generally known as
the Compromise measures, was the
doctrine of non-intervention then
claimed That was tae only boon Of
lered to us in those days as a compen.
satiou for the great sacrifice which
was asked at ourhands, and the South
accepted the compromise and it be-
came the law of the nation, certainly
of the party, as fer as the question of
Slavery was concerned. | am sur
prsed at the extreme sensitiveness ex
hibited by men Of the South at this
day upon that qdestion Of non-inter.
vention. John Q. Calhoun, when the
famous compromise rendered by Mr..
Clayton, OF Delaware, WAS being dis.
cussed in the United States Senate
John Calhoun considered that the
proffer to place in the hands of our
Federal tribunal the question of the
extent Of power in the Territories was
to the South a sufficient guaranty to
make accessible the compromise ten,
dered, and where Mr.. Calhoun could
stand a Southern race need not fear to
stand. [Applause.]
have said in the very unconnected
remarks that ! have had the honor to
submit to you that secession meant
disunion, and will 60 on now to show
upon what considerations that opin.
ion of mine is predicated. What is
tie question at issuea On the one
hand Northern Abolitionists claim in
tervention for the purpose Of exclud-
ing Slavery from the Territories; on
the other hand, Southern men claim
intervention On the part Of Congress
for the purpose OF protecting Slavery
tbs Territories.
Now, | ask Southern gentlemen
here and elsewhere, are you serious 7
When the battle is thus drawn, when
the lines are thus drawn out, when the
whole strength of the North is COM
bined with the great strength on the
part of the West to exclude Slavery
from the Territories, are you, my
friends of the South, in earnest when