, 1861-01-24


il conflict bptween animal forces. Tint time
has pxst. Your struggle for Independence IN
E1SblTed you In d war 81 seyen Or eight yea1x.
rhs world has changed sfncs then. Mind con
sgnators have eaid here that cotton ID king.
No, ,sir !; in this kind uf contest science e king;
andiwarlike elements, are -hIS Fassal1. Why,
sir, yopr vfg with Mexico lated but .years
You sub5ugated her ten million people in
single yeef.: The contest between the Rus
the English and French on the other at the
Crimea, lasted but two summers. A. conflict
between the French and Austrfans more re-.
Gently, where half = million Of CONTESTANTS
were ma1shaled2 on the plains against each
other, was determined in three months. Sinca
were about to be plunged into eea Of blood;
and the ue1t steamer brought the news That
/. pence hid been restored, and "a, NEW empire
founded.' The English and French assajl the
Celestial Empire, with q population OF thfoo
hundred millions and untold wealth and in
. few weeks they dictate peace In Tie palace
OF the vanquished emperor. -.
- 1t hat been said that there Is e1oquence In
facts fand perhaps it would bo well for states
mem to look 10 their logic In m argument On
question 60 grave as this. A contest, ro-
+ peat. between twenty millions Of skilled, cul.
tiyated and enlightened Northern people, con-
'stit1ting within themselves first Class nation,
and tight millions of scattered planters, de5ti-
tute Of mechanical skill, science or accumn-
lated wealth, ahd hampered and crippled By
! the presence Of q servile, hostile race, -four
millions strong. say that snch a conflict
would son 10 over, and ut an expense Of.
.inonty TO- my section Of not more than the
merchants Of the great cities have suffered dur
ing the liant. six weeks by Fyour causeless, fac
!. tlous, sectional insubordt1auon.
NOR will your threatened or actual secession,
as a stroke Of diplomacy, terminate any more
tavorably That seems to be the policy Of tho
+ Senator frsm Virginia, ~ suggested to-iny-
break tp this Government, dissolve it into It's
original elements, and Eeconstrutt it On such
= Plan as will enable the minority to govern.
He wonld as soon take up glass Tcssel and
. dash 1t in pieces, IN the vain and delnsive hope
OF. making from It's shattered pieces more
perfect whola than that vessel originally pre-
sented, Than attempt to make mora perfect
government Of this Federal Government, hy
!. breaking 1t into atoms md then reconsaruct-
ine il s-'@-
Should you 5ece3e Temporarily for the pur.
poke of rcconstructing the Federal Govern
mention amendments, as suggested from any
Senator on that tide of the Chamber, eubrac-
ID. sus q part Of it's provisions the RreckInridge
I. platform. or The Senate resolutions Of the list
Calhoun resolutions of 1889, this new Confed-
arscviTill never c1nbrsco one Of the free States
not! one. Perhaps YOU do not desire New
Rug!and. Infer, from intiulations that I have
heard outside Of this chamber, that you would
be willing to haye her s1oughed off. and form
rsew Confederacy with the middle and uurth-
western States. III which Won would have fif
teen slave States, and We would have twelve
Tree States: til Il giving you the power to dom
;uate over u Or, a he Senator from Alabama
would saw, TO enable ron to rule us.
Yen cotild hardly exnect. however. fni1eren.
dent Of this view Of the subject, PenpsylyanIa
to unite in such confederacy. Her policy
and You're arc diametrically at var; She is h
layor Of the projection of The industry OF her
own people, and Won In favor Of. fire. tradc.'
Pennsylvania seems to have apprehcnded your
which she, cast apaInst your candidate. Il being
pIuralIty Of ninety thousand oyer any one
else. aud Of sixty thousand over al others
combiued.
Can won expect at11liation with the people Of