Delaware State journal and statesman., 1861-01-29

advance that in whatever he might say he would avoid
no responsibility Of that sort lie would speak openly
and frankly. seeking neither avoid censufe elicit
eonmendatiun In whatever he said lie would be guided
he hoped by strict regard to truth and only utter such
sentiments SIS sanctioned by his own judgment, aud
approved by his own heart Rsd far he alluded to
FACTS would advance nothing but what strengihened
by truth. Il jury Of twelve honest 10 wrll
and truly Try the issues Joined between the two seeuue
"A jary which belonged 10 political purity having
such jury found 10 the pending Issues he would
submit tho whole case To them without word argu-
ment and he would have, he felt convinced, prompt
aud unanimous verdict all the questions Hut uniOr
tunatey they would not dsinterested jury that
louse anu, more unfortunately, the people themselves
were SHY enough totrst thpr cause and 10 appeal TO
the Justice OF this tribunal for the saiem mt VI this
question Of the gavest imp0rtanre'o thsn
poser,ly hoping that they would give fepose to dis
taced people For ho last six woek the eyes every
man, woman au child Ia tho country had been resting
upon ths body III hope that somelling would he done
hut Il The pc pie could only them an they were-if
they could mark their deliberations they had beou
ana what mule ho there was Vt redress settlement
at their hnndthe knowledge thus acquired would
at 'nee been used TO arrest the Tide q revolution and
would have bosn surc ssfuy directed to the salvation uf
IN country Ths lnteeis Of thirty millions OF people
were involved in this quarrel; aud here they had 49,
MEMBERS Of whom hid reached their places on this
door by acrideui but among whom there not man
who did not represent an equal II not superior body oil
statesmen among his constituents aud set thuy were told
In this ptepiue age, that hey could not would not
Interfere to stay this tide II revolution aud that there
fore, there was no hope Tor tn tree people Had il come
to this that I'll se gentlemen whom he saw around him
could not msr the question In spirit Of pttrioiismi II
their constituents could hen bscre they had thrown
oh their Sownsof morning, fresh from the inspirations
drawn from perusal of The Mem Iork Hiald aud TnE
IRauSR and see them anerward into hail. with
ttiiening Of the backbone ready to compromise moth
ingcould they be With all their hopes and ear
eonld their constituents them they would scorn
hazard OF intrusng In such hands their glorious aud
priceless treasures Of liberty and peace They told
that they. ofsooth, held tile delnies Of the country
their hands Az we'll might 800 hackmen VI New-iotk
CITY in Convention assemled, Say that they he'd the
desttn'h Of the country in the hands They
10 support tile Constitution, aud yet they upheld
wih au unusual confidence or torn with jeaousies The
iatlefs OF the Republic knew that Wicked ud
corrupt ana ihai YVES the reason they were sworn TO OBJ
serve and uphold tho principles Ut the Constitution
Even the father cl bis Country compelled to swear
support the Consultation which he had helped raise,
aud me reason that had induced the authors Of the Ton
sttuton 10 make shof the term ot office that people
who elected men to rule thom might have an oppor
tuniy o removing them aud elecug better In their
places Aud WAS saii now that ii they did not decide
tue isles which distracted the country the country
To ruin, and public barty would BE- uye-thr own lie
protested against such an Idea lie demanded delay for
the men, women aud children Of The country. Iu their
he demanded an adjournment Of this quarrel fum
JEALOUS and maddened politicians fthey did NOT adjourn
the quarrel to the people that noor II could lie
might follow. What right had they assume that they
alone could settle the question OF psace Not that alone
but the question involving The existence al lie oyarn
ment They had not the right to assume IL aud, there
fore he there announced In his place, that Il the
houss o. Congress should sl TO come 70 proper settle
ment the question: before he should thom Oyerturn
The tempeot liberty and crush out the last hopes II the
people and bury them beneath the ruins, he would
move an Adjournment Of the quarrel from them to the
people Of tile country But he would address them on
the assumption that they honest Jury, and that
aud deal with II by III, iht Of auth rlty Revolution
was threatening to subTr the institutions Of tile country
- revolution tbs most unauthorized the most unjusd-
able and unpardenabe that the world had looked
"A revolution Of the most fearful consequences 20 the
nnolp country ana yet they calmly looked on st the
impending ruin the preripat0rs threatened He would
meet tho issue raised by these preciptators fairly
frankly and SHOW the madness and folly Of attempting
suhyert this Government under which the people Of both
sections had derived many blessings, It was remark
able fact that this rev. luion not carried with
ference 70 anything In the past but was solely carried
win isenee to some dangers to be unprecedented u the
future lie would make ,ne eNeeptlon--the Personal
ihrfly bills which existed In Of the Northern statea;
and Ia dealing with them he would challenge any man
who was In favor OF disunon to what he said
There Personal Liberty bill That was one cause
Of complaint There was opposition To the execution Of
theFngitive Slavelaw That was another They charged
that II Intended to exclude African slavery from e
Territories, That another That the respective sor.
tios were not homoSeneou aud hated another an
hsi ZONE If the Northern States were for negro equality
Those chfges constituted all The allegations in the hi vi
In ctme which they had hlod, As to the nrs lie CON
fessei that Persona Liberty Hills 1id rxst vihmr -
tenuston aud without excess But It was die IN truth
TO ray that these obnoxious bills would be swept
all the statute books Of the Free states That was Tie
only change That could he sustained The balance III,
allegations r made uut Welu AL with ToorUnco 10 thin
which never happened, aud wii,h never could lav,
and had their rprestn atives not stayed al home AMI
now as to the Personal Liberty bills The only chtrgs on
which they had TO r9y. II wa assured that the IL g.
sona Liberty bills had been struck from The statute
fall the border Free sates-trom Iowa lndana Illinois
Ohio, I.nnsylvania, and New Jersey To be sure they
were still retained 10 Nermopt where he wac assured
ugitiyet had moi been ior iOr yeaiB aad wh
WIS a. inaccessible TO slave IS the kingdom
az I,ns 70 MN q mat moment N!w he v withli
day iido Of three FRYE staeh he had never know
Of saw to have been stolen from hi district aud
tanned; llo had Known OF one escaping and pifslng
through The district Represented by III friend fftm Ken
lucky VINO made Ills way iulo Illinois where hs wa
gre yea py me people ard returned to his Hut
hid the s9aih evrf appealed u the ,orth repsa thsi
Personal Liberty bllsi They hid done such thing
bul lhey SAID that tie North would not execute the
Fugitive 1--we law But whist tho faeti The ressn
Exec tive, In bis Ae Message, ed this language rhA
the Fugitive Slave law had been executed IN eyey con
tested case that had arts n. They knew IL was so -
E'ery attempted rescue had a matter Of publ,
noiorety hut II not soduously made known thai
fugitive slaves arrested every day ia the Pee States
and carried back 10 their masters, But the Harper
Ferry riot accounts Of ssenes Of slsyes was Tia IN
which revolution riots Ia and grows fat upon. But in
was even all truo, would they be diss lyn
the Unonl Would they have law aud order Fnnld ths,
respect the Constitution and live In feeling brotherl o,
OF the Kind Tennessee and Kentucky wer, b.Js $50,
aud they would have to hear the burden Of the battle an
the heat OF TIN day protect tie States ali down ia M
CUT whence slave in escaping would have 10 travel owe
six HUNDRED meF Of slave Territory ef 70 he could Ind
sanctuary In Inc Free States, Peciptate Us will you
No; he would prefer any other khd oil "precipats" L
that Then there was 10 fault 10 Us found with the Fugl
. tive Slave aw. United States Commissioner ar point
carry out that law resident of the present ngdo
stringent human lngsau ~ could make IT, And wouit
yon dissolve the Union Tor that causei He knew tha, III
Northern people we're opposed TO tue slaveIade The,
+ always had leen, and always would b. The Nnrtber1
e hou and educated in the Free States knew nothn,
whatever OF Slavery except what they heard Of il fro
Garrison aud oiher Bnt the strongest ProsAyery mai
South the Yankee who down there and married
= u a.
hntthey could no more hope to make the Northern peop
! irnslAVery than they could hope TO make A hungr
y politician run away from ut Office Laughterl Thes
u phePtAors say 1t Tho Northern people, In tim,
to come intend to abolish Slavery Ia the Satea He ali
not believeo word Of and standing there Ia his place
before that crowded audience be ayowed that there wn
not man 10 the House who desires to abolish Slavery
the sslss or who imngnes they have the right Aemp
H. lCrles from the Republican benches "Notone moi ona
. II there such man he desired 10 sea him. such
would deserve the eAecrttlo Of his colleagues ani
n tue excavation Of every who respected the Conn
l0n and YET that declaration 70 Shosh Slavery was
u by those precpit tors In the teeth OF the most soem
assurances that could b8 given by political party III
asserted that political party that had ever risen in n
country had given such strong and solemn guars hteet
respect Slavery within the States But this fact was sui
pressed by the politicians and newspapers the country
aud the opposite doctrine zeaousy inculeated into III
public mind What had the Republican party done
. That who other party in the country had formalI
done-they had denounced In the aud sronges
NJ terms that such raids as that OF john brown mi M
a gnia were the grayest Of all crimes They would no
take the word VI that party aud to appese them the Rs
publicAns express their readiness to vote Tor an amend
4 mont tho Constitution which would hind them never
interfere with Slavery In the States II would in fact b
T. stitution and man believed for moment il
lion al Il was They declared that the peopis IN th W
- sppeve sections not homogeneous and that that
: hated one another. That might be so, but that would
pass away As they became better known But he red
"a that they did not hate each other than they hsl
the old Whig and Democrats parties hate each otbe
II lier each succeeding political contest But would the,
love another alter they separated Ina
\ WIS the question They were going to separate wer.
u thew Aud whore would be the boundiries The rive
hhls WHICH, II Wa thu WIS NY olrLAii OF the
over the other half the only barrier that oui
separate these hntn sections. II they hated each olEe
now would they he found in ir'erna embrace when
had separated lnu rival and hostile c0pildeyAele, Tey
9 hate each other Not bit Of It, II their constituent
could how the Free soefs Of the North aud the rad
Gals Of the South lived here together they would no
> believe word OF IT, They hate each other No oni,
70 when the 'ns had To give way to the "ouls Augher
- Yes, when the array oieehnlers sen ceatp,
out bag and baggage, and making way their trump
ant suctessor For Bis part II any sacrifice he eout
II make would the country, he would be GLAD to max,
H. But sepsron II they did SEPARATE would breed Ina
n hate which would lead 10 feuds and contests M blood,
=, and protraeted the between the houses q
York and Lancaster Separate break up the
aud lot the central States no preepaied into this yolu
tou against The vii OF the people, and len years Wnud
: Lu Ill Ihn EanLl llnllH i.