Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1861-01-22
sPERCH OF HON. 8. S., cox, 4
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Delivered in the House Of Represents
II. Cox,aPlsa for ConciIiation and Nationality.
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tives, January IA, 1861.

Mr.. CoxS Plea for Cancellation ana Nationality.
NJ III N [coNoLUDEDl Jf0 f4|Jf
These men. sir, will welcome any honorable
settlement. For myself, have q preference.
would prefer Judge Douglass proposition even
TO the border State prcja. But will vote for
either, for they answer every reasonable demand |
with respect to the fugitive slave law, slavery
In this District. and on other points. In refer
ence to the Territories, the border prOja pro-
vides:
"ThAt the line Of % deg 20 min. shalbs run through
an the existing territory Of the United Sates hatin all
north Of that liue slavery sha be prohibited and that
south OF that line, neither Congress the Territorial
Legislature shall hereafter law abolishlng pro
hibitng In any interfering with African saV
cry and that when any Territory containing sufficient
population for member Of Congress In any area OF
sixty thousand square miles, shall apply for admission as
State, shall be admitted, with or without slavery, Us
Its constitution may determine" fia-.
But, If this will not answer, let the PROPOSE
ticn of Mr.. Douglas or Mr.. Rice be adopted =
Nay, further, if Il be the only alternative to pre-.
serves this Union, would vote for the propo-
sition of Mr., Crittenden. Much as dislike, in
this age of progress, an irrevocable law, still
would write il in the Constitution, 1t thus only
you can preserve that instrument. 1t provides
for an irrevocable division of the territory. The
President says of IL: d.. ..... .,l...
Tho proposition TO compromise Dy etIhB une NoIh
have exclusive control Of the territory above certain
line, and giving southern institutions profession below
that line, ought to receive universal appreciation In IT.
self indeed may not be entirely satisfactory but when
the alternative Is between reasonable concession on both
Sides and the destruction Of the Union, II Ia an imputa-
ton the patriotism OF Congress to sasert that Its mem
bers will hesitate for moment" .r.
Shall this appeal for compromise be inef'ect-
ual? 1t may be n sacrifice of northern senti-
ment. But, sir, .he conservative men will sac
rifce much for the Union. Sacrifice and com
promise are convertible terms. They are words
Of honorable import. The one gave US Caval-
ry; the other the Constitution Nothing worth
having was ever gained without them. Even
the father compromised with the prodigal son,
despite The meanness of the elder brother -
He saw him afar off, ran to him, and with the
evidences of affection, restored him to his heir
ship and honor Sacrifice for our political sal
walton! Heaven will smile upon it. The dove
of peace will rest upon it.. II the Republicans
will only lend us few of their conservative votes
in this House, we will do our part to make
compromise honorable. If you dislike the
word compromise, and are content with the Off
ces and power it will insure you, very well. You
may bear away the booty, We will carry the
banner! We will not quarrel, nor need we taunt
, each other You may enjoy the honors and
aud patronage of administration; to us will be-
long the laureled crown of the revolution, and
the civic wreath Of the great convention.
. Our southern friends do not know the Repub
= licans as we do. They will be content with the
tricks-and trust allow US the honors. They
will be as harmless in office as most men are.
When General Wilson talks of grinding the
. slave power to powder, he never intends to use
the powder, only to enjoy the power. Laugh
ter When the gentleman from Illinois Mr..
: Loyeoyl would speak to the God of battles be
is only praying to an unknown God. Renewed
!, Laughter When Senator Wade, at Belfast
u Maine, four years ago, proclaimed that there
was no Union, that the pretended Union was
> meretricious; and when no proposed to drive
'islayery back to her own dark dominions, and
c there to let heFrot, and damn all who foster
her." he was only illustrating that Christian
!. sweetness Of temper and fragrance of sentimen,
which now Is offered up as incense on the only
altar he knows, that OF meretricious Union
: whose shew-bread he would eat and whose pre-
! cious emblems he would plunder (! The Joh1
y Brown and Helper characteristics are convenient
y garments among them, TO be eput on TO prose-
= i,te the churches and the old women, and to b,
: put off to placate wide-awakes and old Whigs
,, They do this for office. They do not think o.
its effect upon the South. 1t is trick to be ig
! nored when in office. These defiant men a
. home will become sucking doves in power Il
" is not instinct to fight over provender. lf tht
% at their word too rashly.
.sl Il ia said that the reason why the South op-
u poses the rule of Repnblicanism is, that thei
tenents are misrepresented at the South.
!, | will not now show you what they profess al
= home ,hope they will fully disa vow, under
= the composing sweets OF fat jobs and offices
J their bad acts and worse ayowals when out oi
Office And 10 there not reason for hope2 Pa
II thence! already they are willing to forgo thei
" congressional proysoes against slavery. The!
- have already proposed to drop Intervention b.
. Congress. They are willing to accept New Mex
10 leo as a slave State. Courage, gentlemen! d,
not taunt, applaud, this spirit of conciliation
u The Republican party would enjoy its power
In this il is not peculiar, perhaps. IL ID wa!
men and parties have. IL will remember tina
In retain power, in the matter of personal liber
e ty bills, non-delivery Of criminals, judicial de-
ie cision, and other sggressioDs on the Constitu
vi tion, these wrongs cannot stand. IL Ia as revo
10 lutionary to try TO keep such things as the,
are, as il is to upset the Government because o
i them. There Is nothing go convulsive aud un
natural as the strain to keep wrong in the as
cepdant. Mr.. Lincoln in the White House ma,
: not be the rail splitter oui of u. Abraham, il
y faith, may offer up his "rrepressible" offspring
i iLauebter i He will be conservative, with tota
obliyioRof the radical. The one will, "conhict'
d with the other; and the former will become al
. one thing without the other. | think he vii
" diaappoint the South as much as he will the ab
" olitlon wing of his party. In their SuMNE
speeches and in their abolition platforms, il
Tond seem as If the Republicans would hol
2, this Union together by the running moose Q
40 Johu Brown gibbits; but when they approac
! the august presence Of power, and undertake :
= rule thirty one millions OF people, 40 alread
g demonstrated here, they hold up the fasees .
|, the Republic and wonder why we ever misun
:, derstood or misrepresented their innocency,
~ Their success Is tho result OF passonat
/, appeals. Passion soon subsides This
~ the old and avoWed means Of the anti-sla
!. yery party. Il began In England, as 20
- will see, by the London Times, OF Noyem
~ ber 3D., 1889, when hired orators went owe
70 Britain, under pay Of an anti.sayery propagan
IS diam. 1t was then said that George Thomp
son. who was sent to this country as its apostle
y was "the very lecturer We want, because his lee
ve tares are addressed TO the passions. We are 8
ass satisfied of the goodness of our cause, that W
~ ~ do not want to consult the reason or judgment
~ the people. If they vote for us we do not car,
y whether their votes come through their passion
q or uotj' This brute appeal TO the passions sue
|. ceeded in England, as her ruined West Indle
testify for philanthropy there is great improper
ton to it's distance fIom it's object, Bat here tn
- seuee of brotherly people will reprehend suct
~ appeals. They see the African here 10 bis rels
Lo LLe tion of seryitude. They know what be become
" In The North when free. They know that 1t /
y. impossble to manumit him without injury irrep
~ y, arabic TO white and black, They will not ga O
~ riaoe this Government Of thirty.oue milllol
y" L:I. A.. AZ n yocd IN three and half millioi