Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-03-02
TIE DISUNION FOLLY.
sPEEC OF
HON. HENRY WILSON
IN THE UNITED STATES SENATE JAN. %, 1850.

CONCLUDED.
THE COMING CANVASS AND ITS ISSUES.
We are entering, Mr.. President upon
another presidential election another great
struggle for supremacy in the national
councils between the opposing forces of
slavery extension and slavery restriction.
The nation once more presents to mankind
"the interesting spectacle of justice in con-
fict with avarice ard oppression" This
conflict is stirring the country TO its pro-
foundest depths. Conscious of their wan
ing power, the advocates Of slavery exten-
sion are again haughtily menacing the dis
solution of the Union in the event of their
defeat by the people. Again, in State Leg
islatures, and in these Chambers, disloyal
and revolutionary threats are made to in
timidate the people.
FURTHER CHANCES AT THE RECORDS.
Sir, the Senator from Georgia (Mr.
Iverson) before the meeting of Congress
boasted before the people of his State, that
"the proud and enviable condition of the
poor men in the South, compared to the de-
graded WHITE SLAVES OF THE NORTH, is
owing to the existence of African slavery
in the South !" and he emphatically de-
clared that ''slare,y must be maimtatned-
IN the Union if possible out Of It if nee
essa,y; peaceably If ace may, forcibly II zoe
must" And the Senator drew this fatter-
ing view of southern confederation:
.In a confederated government of their
own the southern States would enjoy sources
of wealth, prosperity and power, unsur-
passed by any nation on earth. No neu-
trality laws would restrain our adventur-
Gus sons. Our expanding policy would
spread far beyond our present limits. Cen
tral America would join her destiny to ours,
and Cuba, now withheld from us by the
voice and votes of Abolition enemies"
Coming into this Chamber, the horora-
able Senator early sought occasion to say:
"Sir, will tell you what | would do, if
| had the control of the southern members
of this House and the other, when you
elect john Sherman. If / had control of
the public sentiment, the very moment that
you elect John Sherman, thus giving to the
South the example of insult as well as in
Jury, | would walk, every one of US, out of
the Halls of this Capitol, and consult our
constituents and l would never enter
again until / was bade TO do so by those
who had the right to control me. Sir, 90
further than that. l would counsel my
constituents instantly TO dissolve all polti-
cal ties with party and people who thus
trample on our rights. This is what /
would do"
In a carefully prepared and very elabo-
rate speech recently delivered, the Senator
from Georgia said:
"Sr, there is but one path of safety to
the South; but one mode of preserving
her institution of domestic slavery; and
that is confederacy of States having no
incongruous and opposing elements-a con-
federacy of slave States alone. with homo
genous language, laws interests and institut
tions. Under such confederated republic,
with a constitution which should shut out
the approach and entrance of all incongru-
Gus and conflicting elements, which should
protect the institution from change, and
keen the whole nation ever bound TO its
preservation by an Interchangeable funda-
mental law, the fifteen slave States, with
their power of expansion, would present to
the world the most free, prosperous, and
happy nation on the face of the wide earth.
Sir, with these views, and with the firm
conviction which l have entertained for
MANY wears. and which recent events
have only seemed to confirm, that the sir
repressible conflict between the two sec
tions must and will 90 on, and with accu-
mulaied speed, and must end in the Union
with the total extinction of African Slavery
In the southern States, that | have an
nounced my determination to approve and
urge the southern States TO dissolve the
Union upon the election of Black Re
publican TO the Presidency of the United
States, by sectional Northern party, and
upon platform of opposition and hostility
to southern slavery"
The senator from Mississippi, (Mr.
Brownl in the speech to his constituents,
from which have already quoted, and in
which he avows his desire 20 acquire ter
ritorv in Central America and Mexico, "tO
plant slavery in,' says;
Whether we can obtain territory
while the Union lasts, do not know
fear we cannot. But would make an hon
est effort. and if we failed, 1 would go out
of the Union and try it there. | speak
pIainly-I would make refusal to acquire
territory, because it was to be slave terri
tory, cause for disunion, just as l would
make the refusal to admit new State, be