The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1861-03-08
CONGRESSIONAL.
WAsntNGroS, Feb. 81.
SENATE.


EvrNNG SrsIox.-The Crttcndeu
resolutions were taken up.
Mr.. Wilson spoke at length against
the resolutions,
Mr.. Wilson alluded to the secession
movement, charaetcriEing Il us a treason
able conspiracy, which hud IL risc 80
years ago in the nullifcOtion plot He
then proceeded to argue that the naser-
tions that the North hated the South
were not true. The citizens of Mass.
achusetts and the whole North, have Cv-
er treated the South with Kindness and
courtesy, New England, and especially
Massachusetts,, had been singled oht for
lreproach. Massachusetts clinps 10 the
teachings Of Webster and Adams. She
reads in all history that slavery has has
tened the decay aud fall Of nations, and
finds in the puges Of Pluto, Socrates,
burke, Fox, Humboldt, Washington, JEFF
ierson, and othcr testimonies, which dee
pens her conviction against slavery DOM
inOtion and expansion. llo referred TO
the speech Of the Senator from L9uisi-
ana, (Bcnjamin,) who, under tho soorch-
ing arguments Of the Senator from Orc
gon, tBakcr) lost his temper and made an
assault on Massachusetts. Gov. An
drcws never said that the invasion Of
~ -i.-i- '-.-- -'ata, go - .-s At
with Il, ns the Senator from Louisiana
charged. There was no truth IN the ac-
cusatUn that Massachusetts, sent Scna-
tors here TO insult the South. He ullu-
dcd to the threats that unless the North
change IFS sentiments, tho Union cannot
remain, and oontcnded that the senti.
ments of the North were those of tho
Declaration of Independence, and the
founders Of the Republic. The vcneru-
bic Senator from Kentucky comes for
ward as a pacilicr with a compromise -
lie accorded TO the Senator IRON Ken
tncky purity Of motive aud patriotic in-
tents, but said the plan for running the
line Of 30 80 min. was not a compro-
mise, but an unqualified concession, a
chsat and delusion. The leaders Of
slavery through puganism had fixed their
hungry eyes on Cuba, Mexico and Cen
ral America, aud had fought their battles
on this question. They were ignomin-
iously boatenby the people aud then re-
bellcd
The Senator from Kentucky, (Mr
Crittcndcn) proposes also TO make the
rulo applicable TO nll the territory hcreaf-
ter 10 be acquired. The frccmcn of the
North who fought the battle of Novcm-
Der, will never accept this. Crittenden
also proposes to insert in the Constitu-
ton a provision that Congress shall not
abolish slavery in the District Of Colum-
bin' while It exists in Virginia and Mary.
land Why should the nation bind itself
TO await the pleasure Of YirginaI Such
n proposition is an indignity and an in
suit to the pc ople Of the United States.
The Senator from Kentucky, seconded
10y the Senator from Illinois, proposes
that the elective franchise shall not be-
exercised by any persons Of the African
race Why is such a proposition made
now This class Of men had exercised
the rights Of citizenship in Massnchu-
setts for eighty yeurs; and the ancestors
O. t'cse men fought with heroic cour a
in the Revolution ter liberty und iudef
pcndcnce. Mon Of the North could new
or put the propositions Of the Senator oil
Kentucky in tho Constitutions They
would fear If they did the raproachos Of
inputed reason and violated conscience,
that their names should be enrolled among |
those whodad betrayed the cause q the
people, and that they would be consigned
TO the moral Indignation Of history. Ad- |
jOurncd.