The Hillsdale standard. [volume] (Hillsdale, Mich.) 1851-1909, 1860-04-03

Onlon, q people, SIR, W 10 have 1 thInx,
manifested that devotion by as much lber-
ality and unsefshness, by yielding up
what no other State in this Urion has
yielded, sererate and Independent nation
ality, in order to participate in this Con
fedeiacy which wo all profess 50 much to
love; and yet that same ST ,tc that samo
people, are now solemnly resolving that it
is better that tho wheels Of Government
should be arrested where they are TO day,
and no organization ever effected, than
that the candidate Of the Republican par.
~ shall be elected and placed il the
Speakers Chair.
What gives special Significance am! i'm.
ponancc to this extract, Mr.. Chairman, is
the fact that tho gentleman who uttered it
was for some days il candidate for S peak
er Of this House, aud received, with per.
haps sing l. exception, the united vote Of
all members on this floor in regular stand.
ing in the Democratic party. Northern
northwestern Democrats who opposed tho
election Of Mr.. Shcrman-an anti slavery,
Union loving man---with bitterness un.
paraIelcd in our history, with the utmost
alacrity wheeled into line with d!srniouists
of the South, aud cast t!a,, ?otes for one
who, as il impatient of delay, declares "the
Uaion il being dissolved now"
Can be, Mr.. Chairman, that this is
sound Democracy' Is this doctrine pala.
table to the Democrats OF Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin? Wheth.
er it be or not, let it be ever remembered,
their Representatives on this floor unitedly
cast their votes for tho member who utter
cd it.
| might, sir, adiuco additional proof Of
the truth Of the proposition that the Dem
ocratlc is disunion party, by reference to
elaborate speeches made recently in the
other end Of the Capitol. But ! will not
pause for that. A. single fact will show
that the same spirit Of disunion tho same
disregard Of the Constitution, the same
wild and reckless ianatcism, find favor
thcre, and in the Executive mansion as
well as here.
Cur Democratic President recently nom.
mated, aud IA democratic Senate confirmed
Hon. Charles J. Faulkner as minister TO
France. This was deliberate act on the
part Of the Senate, and very significant
act in the present posture ofpolitical AZ
fairs. Mr.. Faulkner's position was well
known; and that pa.i.ioH WIS most en-
phaticaly iudorsed By the Executive when
he nominated him, and BY the democratic
side of the Senate when it voted solid for
his confirmation. At democratic meet
ing, held not long since in Virginia, over
which Mr.. Faulkner pr resided, he said:
"Whcn that noble and gallant son Of
Virginia, Henry a. Wise. declared, as was
said he did in October, 1856. that if Ere.
mont should ba elected, lie WOULD SEIZE
THE NATIONAL ARSENAL AT HARrER's FER
ny. how few would at that time, have jus.
liicd So bold and decided measure: II
Is the fortune Of some great and gifted
minds 10 SEQ fa:' ir advance o' their cotcm.
poraries. Should WILLIAM II. Seward
bo el, ctei in 1860, whcro is the man now
in our midst who would not call for the
Impeachment Of a Governor Of Virginia
who would silently eullnr that arnory to
pass under the coulro! Of such an cXeru,'}3
head -
All. Mr.. Chairman, il i, tho men hold.
iD- those reasonable saatimants, the men
who threaten to tear the Constitution in
pieces" anI "disrupt every ;ie !hat biuds
this Confedemcy together" that aio tho
pets and fagollcs ot modern demociacy.-
These arc the men that rule lLe party aud
the nation at home, aud are seut to mis-
represent Us abroad. Aud sii, how that