The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1860-02-15
From the National Intslligencer.
Rcu1;,vEkS az mr.. DoOlitsEe.

Remarks az HEr. D0OlitsIe.
The suliaiued remarks made by DIR.
Senator p"olitt!e If WISCONSIN, wore de-
Ilverci on The occasion Of the late ami
ver<arv OF tn. animg of,he Pilgrims, as
celebrated bv tue New England Society
of the city OF New York, on the 22d of
December last, and here republished,E as
revised by the speaker, because Of the in
accuracy with which they were reported
at the time. aar aa 1913 'f.. s@a
lion. Mr, DooIittIe, United States Sen
ator from Wisconsin, was introduced to
respond to the following sentiment: Z.
Tie Americen Union: 1t sprung
from that independence which the pat
riots Of New England freely shed their
blood to achieve; and while their sons
lave votes to cast, arms to strike, or blood
~ fl w, they will struggle to preserve
that Union, SO rs to secure the blessings
of liberty to themselves aud their chill
dran.
Mr.. Doolttle sail Mr.. President, new
or in nv life has there bnon an hour when
lcoall not respond 10 that sentiment, and
with full heart. [ do so nnlw. | do so
because my name and family are Of Puri-
tan AMI Now Eng,aud origin. | do SO
because ] take pride in the memory and
,ieeds of those pious, brave, and austere
Pilgrims, ofwhom the Old World was
not worthy,who came TO this New World
10 find ''irtclo'n to Worship God" and
al tho same time 10 lay the foundations
of an Empire greater, nobler, AMI | trust,
more enluring than the sun ever before
shome upon. Aul do SO because [ am
HOW OF, anl am PERMITTED to speak for,
the West, whose voice, if not to-tiay, is
yet TO be all powerful upon this question,
and tell You, sir, that the West, when,in
the fullncss of time, 1t shall be filed up
with unto'd miI!ieas OF free, brave, hardy,
energetic, and self-reImnt meu-the pick
ell men Of MI the States and ofaII nations
in Christeniom-wil neither DIS olive
this Union i!or allow it to be dissolved.-
Let me assure the nerves of those timid
mon who sometimes start ard tlemble at
the fear f d!sunion, that the Great West
soon to be the seat of EmpIre-with
one arm through the Mississippi, reaching
the Gulf of Mexico, and the other through
the Great Lakes, reaching the Atlantic
soa-boarl, will bod this Union together
forever in its giant embrace. But more
than ever, now at this juneture in our
affairs, when some real or supposed evil
threatens the Union, am prepared to
respond TO every llue, every word, every
letter Of that sentiment. Let the threat
come from what source they NAV, wheth-
er from men in high place or in lower life,
it make no difference. The people of the
United States feel TO maintain, and they
will maintain, the Union of these States,
and the supremacy of the Constitution
and laws passed in pursuance thereof, at
nj hazards and against all enemies. No
greater Gun exist III tue mind of any llu-
IHan benny than t. suppose that this I'm
ion can be peaceabiy broken up. II
tsik of d,Suilon, therefore, is 10 tall, of
war-blooiy, relentless. civil war-t0
bring in lis train at the s. nth, MI the
surpcraddcd horrors of scryile civil
war.
Strive are bound together by geograph-
ical, commercial. anl POLITICAL necessities.
You cannot cut the Mississippi river
TWAIN. The waters of that river, which
drains all the States in it.; great vail AZ,
will fl NV onward forever uninterrupted 10
the Gulf Of Mexico. The millions who
are to inLalit that valley Will have their
commerce float uninterrupted to that
Gulf. They VII never suffer the outlet
OF that riyer-to ho held by any foreign
Power. Besides, the great mass of the
American people are bound together bv
other ties AMI other Considerations /
would ask any man who for one nloment
dreams of peaceful dissolution of the In
ion where Would YOU draw the line of
separation! On which side of Mount
Vernon shall it fall! know not how
tue people Of this great city may feel, but
] am sure of the great mass of the people
in the coantsy will never consent that the
tnnl1 aud the remains Of Washington
shall rest upon the soil ota foreign juris-
dietion.
There is, however, one question, and
but one question, which has ever endanr-
cred the Union, and that is the negro
question--a question which lies deeper
than the slavery question, and which
must be answered before we can ever ar
rive at a slavery question itself What
shall be done with and for the negroes
who are now free, and who shall hereaf-
ter become free by the voluntary action
of States and uf;nli, idua!s? An. answer
to this question must of necessity preccde
all practical solutions Of the slavery
question. The men of the South declare
slavery to be right, demand its unlimited
expansion, and maintain that the Consti-
tdtion its own force carries it into all
the Territories Of the United States. The
inen of the \ orth denouhce slavery ms in
derogttion of natural right, and maintain
that 1t rests upon local Law aione. They
maintain that the Constitution carries
slavery nowhere, and arc uncompromis.
ingly opposed to its extension into the
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