The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-02-07

Emperor.
1t has been said that there is eloqueuce
III facts: aud perhaps it would be we'll
for statesmen To look to their logic in an
argument on a question so grave as this.
a contest, | repeat; between twenty mil
lions Of skilled, cultivated and cnhghten-
ed Northern people, constituting within
themselves a first class nation, aud eight
millions of scattered planters, destitute
of mechanical skill, science or accumula
ted wealth, and hampcrcd and crippled
by the presence Of scrvile, haStilc race
four millions strong. | say that such
conflict would soon be over, and at an cx-
pense of money to my section of not more
than the merchants Of the great cities
have suffered during the last six weeks
by your causeless, factious, sectional in.
subordnation.
Nor will your threatened or actual Sc,
cessioo, as a stroke of diplomacy, termin-
ate any more favorably. That seems to
be the policy Of the Senator from Nir.
cnia, as suggested tolav-hreak up
this Government, dissolve it into its orig
dtiu ItCDusiluCt " VII SuCH
plan as will enable the minority to gov
ern.
He would as soon take up glass YES
sci and dash it in pieces, in the vain and
dclusive hope of making from its shatter
ed pieces more perfect whole than that
vessel originally presented, than attempt
to make more perfect government of
tins Federal Government by breaking it
| into atoms and then rcconstructing it
Should you sccede temporarily for the
purpose of reconstructing the Federal
Government on amendments, as suggest
ed from any Senator on that side of the
chamber. embracing as a part of its pro-
visions the Hrcrkinridge PLATFORM, or the
Senatc'S resolutions of the last session
(being almost literal transcript of the
Calhoun resolutions Of 1898, this new
Confederacy will never embrace one of
the free StatcS-not one. Perhaps you
do not desire New England. infer,
from intimatlOns that | have heard out
side Of this chamber, ti,at you would be
willing to have her slough off, and form
new Confcderacy with the middle and
Northwestern States, in which you would
have fifteen slave States thus giving
you the power to dominate over us; or,
as the Senator from Alabama woulu say,
to enable you to rule US.
You could hardly expect, however, in.
dependent Of thi, view of the sub
ject, Pennsylvania to unite in such
confereracy. Her policy and yours
are diametrlcalIy at war; she is in
favor Of the protection Of the industry of
her own people, and you in favor of free
trade. pennsy ylvana seems to appreheud
your policy, from the largencss of the
majority which she cost against your
candidate. it h"'"s a plurality of ninety
thousand over any one else, and Of sixty
'h"u>aud over all others combined.
Can you expect alfiliation with the
people Of the Northwest to flow f'om such
stroke of policy as this? Would it ad
vance their policy securing homestead,
to actual settlers? BY solid vote from
your side OF the chamber, you have de-
ieatcd this policy for the last ten years
Then, the people of the Northwest desire
a connection with the Ocean. They de-
sire access to the Pacific as well as to the
Atlantic your votes have become more
Insurmountable barrier than the iuterye-
ming mountains. Who can expect that
the Northwest would willingly dissolve
its counuctiun with New England?
As offensive as her people may be to
you, they are not SO to us. They have
already, by their capital and their science
overcome the on Iy barriers between us
and the great Atlantic. We are now
within three days journey of Boston, and
of the Atlantic at any point; and We be-
lieve that, in pursuance of this same pol
icy, her capital, which we have not, will
enable us to connect ourselves with the
Pacific States. Her great fleets of msr-
chant ships, starting at the western ter
minus Of our Pacific Railroad, can con
meet us with that human hive that
swarlns on the other side Of the Pacific,
and thus reverse the worlds trade, by
our doors; as it careers onward toward
the Atlantic cities and to the Old World
You may fancy that you can sit enthroned
at the mouth Of the Mississippi river and
cocrcc confederation with the North
west, regardless Of her great interests
Well, sir, there are row in the Northwest,
on the upper waters of the Mississip pp,
about nine million frcemen. 1t requires
little but physical force to give us acccs,
to the Gulf and doubt not that our
people will readily find means to secure
that exit, and to comma~d the terms
which shall again place the mouth of the
Mississippi under the same jurisdiction
which you now propose to leave.
The Improvement Of our rivers and
our harbors. that would give US access to
the Gulf, you of the South oppose. The
construction Of national railways, that
would give US access to the ocean, you
oppose. Til, passage ola homestead bill,
which would enable tho poor men who
migrate to our States, by honest indus
try, to procure for themselves homes, You
oppose In all your steps you are con
trolled by narrow, selfish, clanish, slav-
ish policy.
Southern Senators sometimes talk as if
they supposed that the destinies of this
country were in the hands of politicians
and diplomists alone. and they have oc-
casionally denounced citizens who take
an interest in politics, whose avocations
were different from their own. Yes, sir,
religious people are sometimes denounced
tor dabbling in politics-for taking an
interest in the perpetuity Of this great