Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-12-20
Mr.. Push,s Reply to Iverson.


ed to hope well for the country, and the
contiunce of the Union, by the extraordi-
nary speech We have just heard for if these
be the facts and the arguments with which
disunion ~justiies itself, We may well hope
that reasons so feeble will impart feeble
ness to the cause itself. Applause in the
galleries. l shall not follow the Senator
from Georgia in the long and dreary tale
of past Observation-Disclosures in re-
gard to territorial policy; in regard to the
admission of States; in regard 10 the tariff
acts-but l shall come to the present as
s%ertions of facts, wherein. it seems to me,
the Senator has passed beyond the ordiua-
ry limits.
l do not wonder that the good
people of Georgia are misled, when a
Senator who has sat here for five years in
this champer, seems to be so utterly at
fault in speaking of transactions occur
ring every day in one half the country
The Senator told us that the fugitive slave
law was executed by force of arms in the
Northern States. How many times has it
ever been executed by force of arms?
Mr.. Iverson. Many times.
Mr.. Pugh. Never in the State that 1
have the honor in part to represent.
Mr.. Iverson. Was it not in the case of
Burns?
Mr.. Pugh. That is me-. The Senator
said it was only executed by force of arms.
Why, sir, 1 live on the borders of slave
holding and non-slaveholding States, and
l tell him it is executed every day, or near
ly every day. 1t is so common an occur
renee that it does not even collect a mob
of six men to look at it. 1t is in constant
operation.
Then, we are told that there are mobs,
How many? There never was but one
mob in the State which 1 have the honor
10 represent. and that was in the northern
portion of it, and those very men were in
dicted and fined and imprisoned and when
they were brought before five Republican
judges, claiming that their imprisonment
was illegal, those judges remanded them
to prison.
But the Seantor says, that while we have
disorderly persons who are interfering
with the recapture of the slaves, the great
body of the community stand quietly by,
or look on with diversion. Why, sir, any
community may have its laws violated sud-
denly and without notice: but | tell the
Senator that, so far as the North Western
States are concerned, there never has been
an occasion when the great body of the
community stood by and allowed any such
outrage as that-never. Instead of. CIV
ing real grievances to stand upon, it is by
this assertion of things as facts which are
not facts; it is by declaring, as the Senator
from Georgia has done, that the people of
the North have set on foot some dangerous
policy in regard to the institution of slave
ry in the Southern States, that all this vast
cloud of passion and Misrepresentation is
raised in both extremes of the country.
Now, sir, 1 do not believe that ninety
nine hundredths of the men who voted
for Mr.. Lincoln thought anything about
the subject of slavery in the States, or had
any policy IN the subject. They were
opposed to the introduction Of slavery in
to the Territories. They were in favor of
a general division of the offices. and the
plumber. Many of them wanted pro-
lection to iron, and 1 do not know what
all; but most of them were animated by a
thorough hatred of the Democratic party.
But as for any policy in their midst bear
ing upon the institutions of the Southern
States, l believe this day, if the question
were put in shape, that even in New Eng
land, though l cannot speak for her-in
every State of the North-there is a large
majority of the people vino are opposed to
any interference whatever.
Now, sir, passing by the these alleged
outrages, passing BY all this long story of
things twice told-twice narrated-the
Senator seems to glory in the suggestion
that this Union is now to be severed, and
that all that remains is whether the good
people of the District of Columbia will
have their effects administered by the
Northern or Southern branch of the con-
Germ.
Mr.. Douglas followed and sustained Mr.
Pugh. We published extracts from his
speech yesterday. After some talk about
Gov. Dennison, between Powell, of KY,
and Pugh and Wade, JEFF. Davis mad some
thing to say of the Governor OF Ohio, thus:
The Newspapers have brought US, from
time to time, the declarations of men who
are seeking popular favor by declarations
most hostile to the constitutional rights of
the South, in relation to their property in
slaves. The very Governor who had been
drawn into this controversy has been repre-
sented as proelaiming that not one fugitive
should be delivered from his State until the
whole military power of that State had
been exhausted in protecting him.
Mr.. Wade-He has denied that over and
over again.
Mr.. Davis-Then I hope he is not gull
ty. The charge 1 have seen repeated so
often that I took it to be true. | am
glad to know now, that there is doubt as
to its truth. I had, myself, Mr.. President,
a desire, I might almost say and hope,
that Senators representing constituencies
holding opinions which had led certain of
the States to look to their condition, as
one which necessarily impelled them to
seek their safety out of Union, would here
inform US if we were mistaken.
AN INDIGNANT SENATOR WILL NOT SIT
FOR A CONQUERED PRovINCE.-C. c. Clay