New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-01-07

they woud have TO Aopeai 70 the stern arbItrament
of arms not because thei' would desre to make war
npon the North but bee use being atenated from
the North, the North wound not allow her to do
1t peaceably. They did not fear the vauuted su-
periory Of the North, and he would SIMPLY make the
suggestion that If the eighteen mnG GnS Oh Northern
ened, II they did carry fire and sword throughout
all the land If they did deluge the whole land with
blood, burn down every hamlet ana destroy All
their erops they would then find that the WAT nad
only begun. The British overran the SON Oh ms
State, but they did not hold it. No power on EARN
could hold in subsection by standing armies any Por
ton OF the Anglo-Saxon people. The thing was sim'
ply an sbsurdity. Would they keep standing army
and garrisons al every point Did they suppose that
any portion Of the American people could DC heio III
sublection as Austria held Lombardy and Veneta
lie put it to any man of common sense whether IL was
possible to whip the Southern States INTO submission,
to use the courteous phrase of The Nco York Courier
and Enquirer. His colleague, Mr. Bonham, had en-
deayored demonstrate the absurdy OF the thing as
a matter of dollars and cents, but without any sucn
calculation did not every man zee that 1t was not
practicable Ii the attempt made to subdue the
South would result in a calamitous so ter
rble that the parallel of ii yet botted the pages
ofhistory. 1t would be war OF extermination unless
terms Of peace were very soon proposed DID
they believe the South would even stay whipped If 1t
could ever be donc7 Was that characteristic OF tho
AngIo-Saxon race But he believed the South was
imprcgDable and had apprehension az to the result
of any armed invasion of her territory. Some gentle
men seemed to think the talk OF dlsumon 30 prepos-
ferrous that they dismissed il with smile, but were
revolutions and changes OF forms OF Government 10
free Government unprecedented and Impossible!
Revolutions only rise among sensible and civilized
races, and there was nothing to make them imposs-
BILE in this country. Why should sensible, patriotic
men treat this great question Of disunion and
revolution with levity? He found it was in conse-
quence Of a growing disposition in this country to
overlook the true ends and purposes OF Government:
He was accustomed to investigate first principles and
was not Satisfied with empty names and party ralylng
81 in NJ a
ment to alay agitation or give confidence to the
people, than would the bleating Of dumb animals
When any Government, no matter how admirable
its formation, how perfect its theory how glorious
and endearipg its associations failed to fulfill its
great mission its legitimate ends and purposes free
and intelligent people would submit no longer to its
rule. That characteristic OF our race, for we
all came from pretty nearly the same stock he con-
tended that the South had indisputable right
to change their form of government, and were
responsible alone to the public opinion of nations and
the impartial Judgment of history. He repeated that
this was an eminently appropriate time to take the
sense of the people of the country II they could not
organize the House, let them at least elect tenn
porary Speaker, and make those appropriations ne
cessary to save the credit OF the Government linen
let them resign their seats az members OF this booy
and appeal TO Their constituents on the great ques-
tons Of the day. He made that proposition in perfect
good faith. If they looked merely to personal con.
Venence and personal interest they would lind
plenty of objections and no one would subject the
country TO the excitement and expense OF general
election, unless some great object was TO be accom-
plished but if they were all to resign and go home,
he believed the new Congress which would be re-
turned would be able to organize the very first hour
it assembled Was the condition of the country such
as to call for this extraordinary remedy lncredu-
ous gentlemen, who could not believe there was any
danger who would not hear the distant moaning
of the tempest nor the trees of the distant noun
tain peaks struggle in the gale, who sneer at the talk OF
Disunon end talk pleasantly abont hanging traitors
might not suppose there was sucn necessity oul .ne
tfuaiO Of
South believed that this country Is IN more DANGER
now than been for generation, and were SIN
eerely DESTROYS of composing the sectional strife
which has 30 long rent and distracted the nation.
The South desired peace and security; they were
weary Of incessant agitation. The North SAID the
South the agator-the old story OF the wolf ana
the lamb The South did not interfere in the home at
fairs of the North delivered noleetures attacking their
social usages customs, and institutions, stirred up no
heart burnings, made no appeals to the passions OF
their aboring classes in times OF pressure ana want
sent no incendiaTy letters emssaries TO rouse the
poor men against the bloated aristoorts The South
desired only TO live in amity and fraternal love-, and
il would stand recorded for ever on the brightest
pages of American history, that the truest men
10 the Constitution which our fathers framed and
established with their lfe-blo0d were the great
Southern statesmen. But Northern men, who be-
lieved that the institutions of the South, upon which
its very existence depends, SINFUL moral and
notca evil and and a social ulcer, unwilling TO
allow them 20 attend to their own disease That was
what the South complained Of. They said to the
North "We do not want your doc,rinesi lei US
alone" All they asked was to be let alone; and yet
Slavery aggression the key note OF almost all the
Abolition TRADES. The South was willing to 60
before the world the impartial record OF history
and take the Judgment OF the nations OF the earth
In conclusion be again urged his proposition, believ
ing il would either tend to compose existing difncu-
ties by showing the South that there is sufficient con-
servatism at the North to protect all her rights in the
FUTURE or that would put solemn record the TACT
that in this great crisis, when the American people
were solemnly appealed to to say whether not they
viii save this Union of forefathers, brethren
Of the North deliberately declared that the Union was
not worth saving. Whenever that decision was made
the coure of the South would be plain and abe could
face the world in arms. Justice and honor would be
unto her and he believed the God OF battles would also
be on her side.
day spoke of the five Anti Lecompton Democrats on
this floor who had cast their votes for Speaker for
one of their own number. The gentleman from Penn
| svyana Mr.. Hickman asked what he meant by five
| Anti Lecompton Democrats. In this he showed ex
IRENE sensitiyeness and seemed TO think he Adran
intended to insDuate that he lHickman) was not an
| ANTI ecompton Democrat lie censured no man for
his VOTE Every man ought to vote according to the
dictates of his Judgment, ard az he believes he
can best carry out the principles on which ne was
elected. He should have been glad If Mr.. Hickman
had not 80 soon gone over to the Republicans, for an
| Anti-Lecompton Democrat might have been elected
| A sufficient number Of votes can be gwen TO an
| Anti-Lecompton Democrat, for MIR. Clark OF
New York, Mr.. Davis of Indiana, or any other
Tie House could then be organized at He was
elects as an AntLecompton Democrat against an Ad
niinistIation, Lecompton Democrat. The Americans
| and Republicans made no nomination. They chose to
support him in preference to his competitor, and he
should always feel grateful TO his political opponents
for the support they gave him in 1853. He differed
from Mr.. Buchanan Territorial policy, but that was
no evidence he not a Democrat. lie conceived il
was evidence that he was Democrat because he
was opposed to the Administration The editor Of The
l IL i NJ. III