Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-02-02

feelings and motives that led our ancestors
to the Declaration of Independence, and
the Union which sprang from it. They
are animated by the sacred associations of
that Hall, and they know that that Union
can exist only so long as North and South
and all sections respect their respective re-
served rights. We of the North insist that
we are not to be made a particeps crins-
inis in these transactions. We insist that
it is false and dunwarranted charge. Yes,
sir; it is libel, it is unjust, and it is cal
umny, to hold to the whole body Of. tie
northern people responsible for the acts of
the leader of band of madmen. Was
the whole South. Mr.. Clerk, held response
Bile when the Legislature ofSouth Caroli-
ma passed an ordinance deliberately nullify-
ing the laws of the United States?. Did
we identify the whole South with thep
pie of South Carolina, or with the nulIify-
ing party idpSouth Carolina, which was in
favor of arnedaeSstance to the laws offhe
United Sta No, sir; wesbeard from
the loyal States of North Carolina, Ten
nessee, and others, indignant protestatious
against the South being incriniuated in
the action of South Carolina.
When the President ofsthe United
States, a native of Tennessee, issued his
celebrated proclamation against tbe nullify-
ing resolutions Of South Carolina, he met
with response, not from the North alone,
but from the East aud West, and all the
loyal men of the South. And the seces-=
sion recommendations of the Nashville
convention of 'ls5o.fell powerless upon the
hearts Of the loyal people of the South.
We never believed that the whole people of
the South were sripe for these sesfional
schemes af aggrandizement and separation
of the Union. Nor do4 believe that any
considerable portion Of them now, through
the agency of secretsocieties, can be weld
ed together to form deliberate plan for
ibe establishment of southern slavehold-
Hg confederacy, and asdissolution of the
Union for that purpose <You might as
we'll expect the people of the North to
identify the whole people of the South
with thu re-opening Of the slave trade
You might as well expect us. to believe
that everybody there is in favor Of there
vival of that accursed traffic, because GER
tain leading public meuand presses advo-
cate it.. On the conirasys wosknow that
one, at least, of the members of the pres
ent Cabinet, and that some Of fbe chief
statesmen of the South earrayed against
it, and we know that all truly humane and
Christian meu there abhor this Infamous
scheme. We have no fears upon that sub
ject.
Then why, gentlemen of the South,
why when we refuse to inyo8seyou in these
general ehssse4- aadeedious- suspicious as
an entire people, do you persist in this war
of elimination 4 Misrepresentation aSainst
the North, when you cannot really believe
in your hearts that the whole people Of
that part of the country entertain uncon-
stitutieual designs against the South =.
No, sir; for one / am for the Union; am
for peace; am for law /; and never until the
last moment shallsI despair of making
this glorious Union, and the Constitution
dependent upon it perpetual. I hope VIC
may be able to live together like q band Of,
brothers; but, sir, we never can, 50 long as
gentlemen come into this Hall and insist
upon a course of Misrepresentation, and
upon involving innocent people 10 the scts
of criminal few. * =.
In the name of my constituents.of Phil,
adelphia, at least, aud of the psltlot State {