The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1861-02-13

diSunIOn, aud not compromise or cOncIlla-
ton. The Democratic party would not
/ agree to their terms, and they seeded from
the Charleston and Baltimore Conventions.
Is it likely we will yield what our northern
| Democratic friends could not yield? Can
you expect that this Black Republican
party" as you please to call it, will yield
to you what your northern Democratic as
/ sociates dare not? 1t is utterly idle to talk
about any such terms of concession.
4 Mr.. Stevenson-Will the gentleman allow
me to ask him question
| Mr.. Sherman-I cannot yield.
! Mr.. Stevenson-I just want to ask the
| gentleman whether, if he can be assured
the cotton states will accept it, he will yield
to the Crittendeu proposition? (Cries of
orderly
! Mr.. Sherman cannot yield the floor.
! ask you again, Mr.. Chairman, what terms
will satisfy South Carolina, Florida, Missis-
| sippi, and Alabama? l have no doubt
| Georgia is much more conservative State,
IS well as a much more powerful State
Would you, gentlemen, accept any terms we
could give you?
/ Mr.. HILL do not desire to interrupt
the gentleman, but I wish to make this one
remark.
Mr.. Sherman.-T really cannot yield the
floor further.
Mr.. HILL propose simply to ask ques-
| ton.
The Chairman.--The gentleman from Ohio
| declines to yield, and the gentleman from
Georgia is out of order.
Mr.. Sherman.-There is no gentleman on
1 this floor to whom | would sooner yield
than to the gentleman from Georgia; but
am under obligations not to allow myself to
| be interrupted.
Mr.. Hill.-The gentleman asked ques-
ton, and desire to answer it if / can get
the opportunity.
Mr.. Sherman.-The gentleman will have
an opportunity.
Mr.. Vallandigham.-The Interruptions
are objected to by dozen gentlemen, and
hope my colleague will proceed.
Mr.. Sherman.-I say again to the gentle
man from Georgia that hold the floor by
unanimous consent, upon the terms that
should not yield. l say again, Mr.. Chair
man, that do not believe any terms which
our people could yield and preserve their
! own selfrespect would satisfy South Caro-
! lima, Florida or some of the other Southern
States, because they are bent upon disunion.
We know that gentlemen who represent
ed South Carolina on this floor, ifthe news
papers correctly report them, declared in
! the Charleston Convention, held recently,
that they had brooded over this matter for
long years, and that they only sought an
! opportunity, an occasion--or, if | may use
| the word a pretext for the secession of the
State of South Carolina aud the disruption
of the Union. Some stated that they had
| brooded over disunion and prayed for its
consummation since boyhood. We know,
sir, that the seeds of this revolution we're
sowed in the time of Andrew Jackson and
II. o.
the doctrines upon which this revolution is
going forward were initiated, and from that
time the young men of South Carolina have
been educated in the school of disunion.-
They have cherished those doctrines in their
innermost hearts. All the concessions we
might make, all the compromises we could
agree to, all the offerings of peace we could
make for the salvation of this Union, would
not be able to secure that desired end, ifSouth
Carolina could prevent it,
Again: We might on this side properly
say we have done nothing to impair any
constitutional right. We propose to do
nothing to infringe yours. We have sue
ceeded in constitutional way in electing a
President of the United States. All we ask
is that he may be inaugurated in peace, and
may develop his policy in the usual manner.
We can add that this is the demand of all
our people, not only of those who voted for
Mr.. Lincoln, but of every loyal citizen.
You tell US your people are excited and
alarmed, that they apprehend an over
whelming anti-slavery clement is about to
be inaugurated in power that will, directly
or indirectly, affect the constitutional rights
of your States.
Perhaps you will confess, what you
know to be true, that for political purposes,
in the struggle of partisans for ascendency,
both parties in the South have united to
fire the Southern mind against the hated
Black Republicans Of. the North. Speeches
have been distorted; single sentences have
beeu torn from their context and made to
: deceive and mislead Garrison, Wendell
Phillips, Seward, Lincoln, and latterly
Douglas, have been mixed in a hated con-
glomerate, and used to excite your people
. A philosophic opinion of Mr.. Seward has
, been construed as the statement of a settled
purpose to overthrow slavery in the States,
2 = although in the very paragraph itself all
idea of interference by the people of the
Free States with slavery in the Slave States
) is expressly excluded. 1t is but a year since
you infamed your constituents because some
of your fellow members recommended,
l without reading, book written by one OF
your own citizens, containing obnoxious
l opinions about slavery. Nearly all of you
give birth, vitality, and victory, to the Re-
: publican party, by adopting policy you
5 now join in condemning. Some of you
broke down the only political organization
that could compete with u.s. and thus give
!, Us an easy victory. You have all contribu.
ted, more or less, in perverting the public
mind as to our principles and purposes
4 And tell you, gentlemen, that when yOU
call the Republican party an Abolition par
J. ty in the sense in which you use the worC
e abolition when you quote from Garrison
. Wendell Phillips, and from like extreme
men, and circulate their opinions all owe
r the South, telling the people of your States
II that the people of the North have been ed
a ucated in these sentiments, profess them
e and are going to put down Slavery in tn,
States, you do great injustice to the intel
S ligence and the safety of your people.
: (To BE CONTINUED.)