The Buchanan County guardian. (Independence, Buchanan County, Iowa) 1858-1864, 1861-03-05

MT. IlafrlS. ne geHtleHlan from Iowa
states that large majority of the Demo
cratic party refused--
Mr.. Vandever. l cannot yield. have
submitted the facts on which base my
judgment. The gentleman may not
come to the same conclusion that came
to. This minority, l say, having sue
ceeded in breaking up the Democratic
convention, and shattering into frag-
ments the Democratic party, now turn
their attention to breaking up the govern
ment BY their most insidious wiles and
misrepresentation, they nave succeeded
in firing the Southern heart with enmity
to the people of the North, and hostility
to the Government. And now what do
they ask Why, only that the majority
shall submit to the minority. If that
policy is to be pursued, they may, with
as much propriety, ask that the joint ac-
ton of the two Houses of Congress, had
the day before yesterday. shall be recon
sidered, and that the name of Abraham
Lincoln, of Illinois, shall be stricken from
the record, and that of John c. Brecken-
ridge, of Kentucky, inserted i'll its place,
as the choice of the American people for
President of the United States for four
years from the 4th of March next. For
myself, | have to say that if the Union
is only to be preserved on such terms, it
can never be preserved by my vote. l
never will consent to have that flag which
floats from the dome above our heads
the stars and stripes-struck to the pitt
full flag of secession minority. Those
with whom | stand, the patriotic, Union
loving men of this country, planted on
the impregnable position of right. will
stand there though they should be but a
handful against a multitude will look
Sumter-like defiance in the face of their
opponents, and die, if need be, with the
last vestige Of the American Union.
Mr.. Maynard. Will the gentleman al
low me to ask him question
Mr.. Aldrich | must object to these
Interruptions, There is but one gentle,
man who has prescriptive right to in
terrupt and ask questions, and that is the
gentleman from Arkansas, Mr.. Hind
man | will permit him to do it,
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Mr.. Hindman. | have few questions
TO PROFOUND to the gentleman.
Mr.. Nandever. Now, Mr.. Speaker, in
respect 10 the propositions made to amend
the Federal Constitution so as TO afford
new guarantees and protection to the pe-
culiar institution of the South, cannot,
as they are made under these circum-
stances, vote for any of them. Sir, un-
der these circumstances, compromise Is
out of the question with me. II at fu
ture time a convention should assemble
upon the application of the States Of this
Union, as prescribed by the Constitution,
in that convention, for my part | would
meet our brethren from the slaveholding
States in a spirit Of mutual forbearance
and Cancellation, and, if possible, forever
quiet this slavery controversy. But al
this particular period of time, when the
public mind is excited, in the last expir
ing agonies of this Congress, the alter
native is presented by a minority, smart
ing under the sting of defeat, OF con
cesslon, or dissolution of the Union,
and hopeless bankruptcy of the nation
al Treasury. Under such constraints,
will not consent TO compromise.
Mr.. 'Maynard-I desire 10 ask the gen
tleman this one question, with his per-
mission whether the statement he has
presented has been one that was quite
fair and candid towards us of the border
States who, during the last summer, have
borne the burden of the conflict against
the men who supported Breckinridge,
and who did more TO overpower him in
the states where he was the. strongest,
than any others | ask him whether il
was necessary, in the statement he has
male for his constituents and the coun.
try, to place us in the condition he has
donee lappeal to his fairness and can.
dor to say whether he has done US jus.
lce.
Mr.. Vandever. say, in reply to the
gentleman from Tennessee. that truth is
no respecter of persons. | have no de
sire to do injustice TO him or his political
friends in the border States, for | an
ready TO say that whatever may be the
judgment of posterity upon the acts ot
those of US who have been participaters
in the scenes of this day, the names o
those who. upon this floor and at home
among their constituents in the slave
holding States, have heroically Tough
the battle of the Union and Constitution
against fanaticism and treason in then
own section-these names, | say, will b,
cherished in grateful remembrance
whether the Union endures or not
Mr.. Maynard-I concur with the gen
lleman. that truth is no respecter of per
sons, but persons ought to be respeetert
of truth and il is for that reason that
put the question, whether the gentleman
from Iowa had done justice 10 us Unior
men OF the South in respect to the prop
osition submitted by the distinguished
Senator from Kentucky?
Mr.. Vandever-l am endeavoring I,
serve the cause OF truth when | shoy
that for good reasons. under the circum
stances now existing, | cannot concur il
the proposition of the Senator from Ken
tueky, which provides for the protection
aud guarantee of slavery in the Terri
tories Of the Union, or in any proposition
which shall, i'm effect, set aside the YER