The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-07-24

tion, he omits to tell the country that Seces-
sion and Disunion had New England origin,
and began in Massachusetts, in 1904, at the
time of the Louisiana purchase; were revived
by the Hartford Convention in 1914, aud cul-
minated, during the war with Great Britain, in
sending Commissioners to Washington to settle
tho terms for apeaceful separation of New Eng
land from the other States Of the Union. He
forgets to remind the country that the present
Revolution began forty years ago in the vehs-
ment, persistent, offensive, most irritating ana
unprovcked agitation Of the slavery question
in the North and West, from the time of the
Missouri controversy, with some short inter-
walls, down to the present hour. v.
Mr.. FALLASDIGHAA thus proceeds: ga:
But, sir. the President ignores totally tbs
violent and long continued Genunctation of
slavery and shareholders, and especially
since 1885 Il appeal TO Jaekson's message Tor
the date ana proof-unal at last pohtlcai
an Ii slavery organization was formed In the
North and v est, which continued to gain
strength year tter year, till at ieng ia II mad
oblained cont. d OF every free Sllta in the
Union, and '4eeted himself, through Tree
state votes aicEs, to the Presidency of the
United states. de chooses TO pass over the
iact that the party 20 which he thus owes his
place anu his present power OF mischief, Is
wholly and totally II sectional Organization
| and as SUCH condemned by Washington, by
| Jefferson, by Jackson, Webster and Cray, anu
oy All lne fuundeIs and preservers of the Re
| puohc, and utterly inconsistent with The
principles or the peace, the stability or the
| existence even, OF cur Federal sys tenn. Sir,
| there never was an hour, from the oIsaniza-
| Iiun OF This sectional party, when il was not
predicted by the " isest Neil and truest patrl-
| ots, ano W hen IL ought not TO have been known
4 hV IAYV n fat tIDa m "a ~
| ltMUst sooner or Ia Ter precipitate reVoiu-
| ton and tie dissolution OF The Union.
| The President toT2ets already that, on the
| til OF Marcl, he declared that the platform
| oi that party Yves "a law onto him." by
| Which he meant 10 be governed in his Admin
| istratIGn yet that platform announced that
whe: ca. thers were TWO separate and distiacE
| KINDS OF AbOr ana forms CT lITtiZitlon III TWO
| uiEeIent sections OF the Union, yet that the
| en- tire national domain, belonging in cemuion
| to-&u The States, should be taken, posses SGD
| ai, nc.d by one secIon alone, consecrated TO
| chat siGd of labor and form or civilization
| alone which prevailed III that section winch,
| ~ mere numerical suptIloiity, mad chosen
! tie President, and nsw >has, and Ior some
| years past has hac, q majority iii the Senate,
| 40 IRON the beginning OF the Government II
| u3c ;.lso III the House. He orniLs TO tell tic
/ couutcy and the world-tor he speaks and We
| al s:.eak ROW, TO the world and 10 pJxterity-
that ne himself and his Prime Minister, tho
| ,ecreIary CT State, declared three years ago,
| and hi.ys maintained ever since, that theirs
WAS 'ilrepressible contact" between lns
| TWO sections OF tois Union that the L Union
| could NOT endure part slave snd part free
ana that the W hole power and i'll uonce OF tho
| FeGeral Government must henceioTth bs pat
| forth 70 ciIcumscIibe and hem in slavery
| Within Its existing limits.
| And now, sir, how comes 1t that the Presi-
| dent has forgotten to remind us, aiso, that
| when Inc party thus committed TO the priMci-
| PIE OF deadly hate and hostility to the Save
| inslitu tIUns of the South, and the meE who
| aad proclaimed the docJrine OF the irreprsssi
| bic conflict, and who, III the dilemma or alter
| native of this conflict, were resolved that
| " the cotton and rice fields OF South Carolina,
| and the sugar plan tons of Louisiana,
| should ultimately be titled by free lahor,
mad obtained power and place IL the common
| Government OF the ; .ates, the South, except
one STATE chose irst 10 0sIIia nd solemn cons II
tutionai guarantees for protection againat the
| dbuse OF Ina tremendous power and patronage
| and influence OF the Federal Government Tor
| the purpose Of securing the great snd Of The
| sectional conflict before resDrLlng TO secession
or revolution II all Did he not know-how
| could IL be igncraut-that, at tas last session
| OF Congress, every substantive proposition
| for adjustment and compromise, except thsl
| offered by the gentleman trcm Illinois, (-nr
| kellogg, land we all know how that was re
| ceiyef--came from the South Stop mo-
| ment, and let us see.
| The Committee of Thirty three was moved
| for il this House by = gentleman from Viz
| giria, the second DAY Of the session, and re
| ceiyed the vote Of every Southern Rapressn-
| tative present, except only the members from
| South Carolina, who declined 10 vote. In
| the Senate, the Committee Of Thirteen was
| NO reG for by a Senator from Ken lucky, (Mr.
| Powell and received the silent acqU;escence
| Of every Southern Senator present. The
Criticaden propo sitions, TOO, were moved
| also by another Senator from Kentucky tMr
| CTttenden.l
The Border State propositions also were
| projected by gentleman from Maryland, not
| now member Of this House, and presen ted
| by AHent,CmSu from TenuasSee. And All
| these propositions coming thus from the
| South, were severaIig and repeatedly rejected
| oy the almost united yota Of the kenuaicaa
oarty in the Senate and the House. The Cris-
| tenden propositions, for which Dir. Davis,
President OF the Confederate States, and 4dr
| roombs, his Secretary Of State, both declared
| in the Senate that they wOp1d be satlsnet,
and for which every Southern Sesator and
| Representative voted, never, Oh sny one coca
sion, received one solitary vote rom the Re
| publican party in either Iouse.
| The Adams or Corwin anendm Ii SO called
| reported from the COMMITTEES OF Thirty thrse,
and the substantive amendment proposed
| from the Republican side, was but bare
| promise that Congress should never be au.
| thOr1zed to do what sane man ever be
| Iieved Congress would undertake to do
| abolish slavery in the States where it exists
| and yet even this proposition, moderate as II
| was, and for which every Southern member
| present voted, except one, was carried through
| this House by but one majority, after long
| and tedious delay and with the utmost diff
| CuILy-si1!y- utS ltet'lDiIcdn MEMBERS ud VfuS
voted against it and fought against it to the
| very last.
And not this only, but, as part of the
| history Of thu last session, let me remind Gu
that bills were introduced into this House
| proposing TO abolish and close up certain
| Southern ports OF entry: to authorize the
| President to blockade the Southern coast; and
| 10 call out the militia and accept the services
| OF volunteers, not for three months merely
but withour any limit as to either numbers CT
time tor the very purpose of enforcing the
lava, collecting the revenue aud protecting
the public property; and were pressed We
| hemently and earnestly in this House prior to
| the oTrfcGk u the Presidsnt in This c,ty, aod
We're then, though seven States had seceded
and set up Government of their own, voted
| down, postponed, thrust aside, or III fome
other way disposed OF, sometimes by large
| lnajori'ies in the House, till at last Congress
adjourned without any action at all.
No man can read this calm, dspassion-
ate statement of the gallant and high
souled representative of free State, without
seeing at a glance and with the cenrness Of
noouday upon whose heads rests the respon-
sibility Of this war and all its misery and
blood. Ii any sense Of God or of Judg-
ment to come is left in the bosoms of the
wicked usurpers at Washington, well may
they trenb!e at the doom of righteous justice
which, sooner or later, must descend upon
their heads. As for the South, her hsnds are
clean; her robe is spotlessI she has drawn
the sword only in defence OF all that make.
life worth having, and to the ssrerest scruti
ny of eternal justice can eheerfully consigr
her conduct aud her cause.
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Hanging Seceders,
General Pore, of Illinois, threatens the hal