New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-29
SENATOR DooLITTLE On THE CRISIS.
THE ISSUE.

great Union Prayer Meeting for the country was
held by the people of Racine Wisconsin, and tie VI
ciniy in the Fira Baptist Church ON Sunday week at
which the Hon. JANIS K. DooLITILE, |. 5. Senator
from thai State, sToke as follows:
FRIIsp. NEpMBoRs AND FELLow-CITIzENs: The
extraordinary state OF our beloved country my only
gpoopy Tor responding TO your invitation TO speak upon
that subject in this place and upon tLs holy SabDatl
DAY. We are in the beginning Of a ne" efisls IN
American aiairf-a great cIis, the end ol which G"d
only knows We stand 10 u presence 81 great events
We are, indeed enacng a history aud, for oil time
We are about TO settle the great problem OF man ca
pIity for self government aud TO settle II forever III
Is not therefore party question, al all, uIon wAleh
sneak TODAY Ii lies dee Ter, far deeper. IL lie no less
than whether the Union and the Constitution can DC
maintained; whether We bow have, or nave ever mao
a government, under which any man shollo deSne 70
live ar for which he should 10 die; whether the
will of the reope cOnstituiion-lly e1lred su4ll rule
In short Whether Presidents shab be chosen by tho
pes,fui ballot or he forced upon u by the bloody
tayonet. That's the qRs'ion; HA1' uf'yh ''A', re-
oi, e 10 say Wisconsin speaks bat one voice today
From town and hamlet, from native and foreign born,
from old aud young from Republican and Democrat
there comes bu, Response, the Corh1raibon ana
the Union must be maintained; lAoe7y ara Union
.hall he one and insefaIabie, now aud forever
x.b,terpr stands in The WAY n tbeir Prc1rNa-
ton by Gods help, We will ttmple IN peers.
Before ouch ssno, all cre party utns finn oul on
sight Mere pohuca! ues re hlnceIrd h-e uAN ~ 'ne
q
for or AGAINST the Union andthe Constitution and upon
that there If and there be no neutrality. lie thai
il not for them il Against them. hilhou Ferlessht'
certainly without intending 10 tEesars uIon TIE itei,
ingr Of any one NAV be permitted 70 guy, WHAT an
must now concede that Cor THAI, 10 ihirds Of The
last wear OF BnciJuan's Administration, yaccil.iion
aId iheoilitv to no harsber ieTn Ttedeu o. inc
White Houfe Traitors fli IN Caoib1 Iouhtll aye
traitors, compared with whom BUTT 1ih ArA." VIZ
mai riots and sainie Treason open fnoutted, dthah
and unrebuked s.aiked he STREETS Of tn Federal aI
ital. infested every Department. and u urlet IN Ln
prage not unsuiiea 70 fsndemoniun, bci,hed out us
insolcnt rawlings 10 bcsh Houes OF CongfeSf' on'
forts and arsenas were LETT uppro eed III utter dsEe
gard of The prophetic warnings ard earnest Temon'
STRANGE Of Gen. Scott. Large quantities 81 a-ns ara
ammunition were sent South on purpose 10 De seneu
by rehels The army was posted beyond re''ehi Inc
AMY in Texa placed in command oil traitor e'ety
shin Of war nspdy for service, except the bVoh-
lyn was gent TO distant seas and even INC GAL
liant Anderson, when Ient up III fort Sumtei
was held powerless while traitors were binding nm
fast, and with the aims stolen IRON the govern
uspt pirding him al around with batteries to destroy
him That compelled him 10 evacnate. u, my fellow
citizens no language give uttsranoe 10 those emo
tions which swell every true hn.n#l heaH AZ the
evacuation OF that fortress at The taonG dowp Oh ihe
Stars and Stripes which oaied over 1t, and suffering
il 10 90 into the sson Of tros. But, great ar
is thai calamity il has done still greater good. IL
has opened at last 70 The eyes, and brought nome 70
the hearts Of the American people, OF all rrcs, III al
houn tTea,on which, Cor years, has been plotting me
overthrow OF the best Government upon earth, ana
with il the las. hope OF Constitutional Liberty Tor man
kind let not deceive Ourselves. 1hlf thlng Is mo-
the growth Of day or year. II Il tie Hndied ano
persistent work OF many years. IL leaders, now throw
o all dsgues and declare that for more than thirty
wears ihey have been steadily 81 this work. The
tariff was its pretext in 1880. Then, thank COD,
there was man al the helm. zen jackson WAS mere
10 pu; down by coercion lie placed in due time reg
ment in Castle Pinckney. Though qneed by him hen,
ii was only for time lie saw, with proPhets eye,
that il would still live. "lts pretext, then, sad re,
"was the tariff question s next preteNt VIII DC the
Slavery question" Calhoun found that he could never
unite the south for disunion upon the tariff question,
for Louisiana would have tsriH uron sugar and
therefore true 10 hs fell puprose 6ul changing ms pre-
text, he ssud, 1--WE must force the issue upon the
Slavery question" For That purpose, and n force
that issue lie gave utence in the Senate to that new
idea which underlies The Southern revolution which
we now witness, and which threatens TO rend ana
destroy everything in lie way, even the Government
i;selC That new idea ir that Slavery Is the comnon
law ofthe Cons.ituticnthe natural and best relation
Of Capital and Labortbe most safe and stable basis
for free institutions in the world This Calhonnhm,
entering into and taking possession OF his follower,
inspired them with the widest tana'ieis. ClniIns
Slavery 10 be positive good il became OF necessary,
aggressive. 1t demanded at once a reversal OF the
teachings of the Southern pulpit and they were ie-
versed. Ii demanded n reversal Of the teach
ings of their public schools and II WIS done rever
cal OF the doctrines Of the press and OF the creeds OF
poitca parties and il was done. Cpon the same de-
and il has reversed the decions Of their Courts; The
acts and resolutions of the Legislative bodies. IL az
ms of no question II toerates other opinion. u
reigns supreme despotic and inoerant as the Spanish
Inguis,on in the seeding States, and controls The
leading politicians in all the Slave States, Not content
however with controlling State action and all doncs
t;c II also demanded the control Of every department
ofthe Federal Government, of Congress, Of the Pres
dent, and Of the Supreme Court IL demanded of Con
gress the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and
was repealed. II demanded the invasion and sub,Sa-
ton of Kansas by five thousand men in arms and IL
was done. II demanded the enforcement Of the BLOODY