Arkansas true Democrat., 1861-08-08

semble Congress, and throw himself upon the wisdom and patriotism of the represen- tatives of the States and of the people, in- stead of usurping powers which the consti- tuition has expressly conferred upon us? Ay, sir, and powers which Congress had but little while before repeatedly and em phatically refused to exercise, or to permit him to exercise. But 1 shall recur to this point again.
 Sir, the President, in this message, has undertaken also to give us a summary of the causes which have led to this present revolution. He has made out case-he might, in my judgment, have made out a much stronger case-against the secession ists and disunionists of the South. All this, sir, is very we'll as far as 1t goes. But the President does not go back far enough, nor in the right direction. He forgets the still stronger case against the abolitionists and disunionists of the North and Vest He omits to tell us that secessionists and disunionists had New England origin, and began in Massachusetts in 1854, at the time of the Louisiana purchase; were re- vived by the Hartford convention Tn 1914, and eliminated, during the war with Great Britain, in sending commissioners to Wash lington to settle the terms for peaceable separation of New England from the other States of the Union. He forgets to remind Us and the country, that this present revo- luton began forty years ago in the vehe- meat, persistent, offensive, most irritating andunprovoked agitation of the slavery question in the North and West, from the time of the Missouri controversy, with som short intervals, down to the present houl Sir, if his statement of the case be the whole truth and wholly correct, then the dpocratic party and every member of it, and athe whig party, too, and its prede- cessors, have been guilty for sixty years of an uniut, unconstitutional and most wick
 ed polio. in administering the affairs of the governmnt.
 But, si the President ignores totally the violent an long continued denunciation of slavery aL shareholders, and especially since 1S35--I appeal to Jackson's message i for the date nd proof--until at last a poli-
 tical nti.slaery organization was formed
 in the Northand West, which continued
 to gain strepth year after year. till at
 length it haddestroyed and usurped the
 place of the wig party, and finally obtain
 ed control of esry free State in the Union,
 and elected hnself, through free State
 votes alone, to th Presidency of the United
 States He choses to pass over the fact
 that the party ttwhich he thus owes his
 place and his presnt power of mischief, Is
 wholly and totally sectional organization;
 and as such condelned by Washington,
 by Jefferson, by Jakson, by Webster and
 Clay, and by all tl founders and preser-
 vers of the republic,and utterly inconsis-
 tent with the princies or the peace, the
 stability, or the exishce even. of our fed
 eral system. Sir, the never was an hour,
 from the organizationf this sectional par
 tv, when 1t was not pr}icted by the wisest
 and truest patriots, anowhen it ought not
 to have been known b. every intelligent
 man in the country, that must sooner or
 later precipitate a revol,ion and the dis
 solution of the Union. he President for
 gets already that, on the th of March, he
 declares that the platfoh of that party
 was ." law unto him." by hich he meant
 to be governed in his administration; and
 vet that platform announce that whereas
 there were two separate amdistinct kinds
 of labor and forms of civilizion in the two
 different sections of the Unit, yet that the
 entire national domain, beltging in com
 mon to all the States, should taken, pos
 sessed. and held by one sectn alone, and
 consecrated to that kind of Eor and form
 of civilization alone whichprevailed in
 that section which by mere numerical su-
 periority, had chosen the lesident, and
 now has, and for some yearsast has had, majority in the Senate, atrom the be- ginning of the government ihad also in
 the House. He omits, too, tell the coun- , try and the world-for he spks, and we ali speak now to the world al to posteri- t ty-that he himself and his prie minister,
 the secretary of state, declarethree years , ago, and have maintained evelsince, that , there was an irrepressible nfict' be- Etween the two sections of this nion that Ethe Union could not endure pa slave and 5 part free; and that the whole peer and in 3 huence of the federal governent must t henceforth be put forth to circufcribe and t hem in slavery within its exis,g limits. 3 And now, sir, how comes. that the ) President has forgotten to remi us, also, that when the party thus commed to the 3 principle of deadly hate and stility to the slave institution of the Sou and the f men who had proclaimed the tctrine of | tho ;rronrooc;h1a conflict and Vb in the dilemma or alternative of this colict, were = resolved that "the cotton and II fields of e South Carolina, and the sugar pntations of Louisiana, ultimately be tilleby free e labor," had obtained power andlace Tn : the common government of the Stes, the South, except one State, chose ii to de- : mand solemn constitutional guaraees for } the protection against the abuse ohe tre- l mendous power and patronage and auence : of the federal government, for thelrpoSe Q of securing the great end of the aional : conflict, before resorting to secession re- e volution at all? Did he not knoNhow could he be ignorant-that at thest ses- e sion of Congress, every substantlYeropo- : sition for adjustment and comprom, ex. : cept that offered by the gentleman Inn H. a linois, MT. Kellog and we all kn. how - that was received-came from the auth? : Stop moment and let us see.
 e The committee of thirty-three wanov- ed for in this house by gentlemanrom Virginia the second day of the sessio and l received the vote of every southernpre
 oontot;va nresent. except only the mdbers