Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1861-01-31
THURSDAY, JANUARY 81, 1861.

though 1t might be reluctantly. lie refer
red to the acquisition of Louisiana and
Florida 4 few years ago. In 1919, before
he lived even, the clamor was so great that
the federal government had to purchase
that territory, because the peninsula must
be in the hands of a foreign power. 1t
cost five millions originally. and fifty mil.
lions more we spent to suppress hostilites,
and millions more to build Notifications to
guard our commerce. Alter all, Florida.
with not half as many people therein as
were in his district-which can't muster
enough men to destroy her alhgators-as-
sumes to separate from her sisters. She
walks out Of the Union, not only with our
Notifications and public lands-that is not
the worst-she leaves no prestige of the
unity of the States. Why Florida can
not protect herself from alligators without
the federal government. Laughter Flor
ida was purchased at the instance of South
ern men. The south demanded and OBJ
tanned Texas, and in this connection he
paid an eloquent tribute to General Hous-
ton, who was now stigmatized by some as
traitor and untrue to the south. The
south in 1898 got the fugitive slave law,
and in 1850 obtained a more stringent one,
which, the Executive says, has been en-
forced In 1920 the Missouri Comprom-
ise bill passed. Distinguished statesmen,
such as Pinckney, hailed this as a great
southern triumph. In 1854, it was said
that this compromise was stigma and stain
on the south, and it was removed, and po-
pular sovereignty was inauguratcd What
has the south ever asked that she has not
got! 1t was but recently she asked that
slavery shall be protected. 1t was not for
him to say that this proposition was most
unmistakably defeated by them. No
member of Congress ever introduced bill
to protect slavery in the territories. Yet,
it is proposed to dissolve the Union because
! three millions of the people said, by their
verdict, non intervention is all you shall ev-
er have.
Mr.. Lincoln was not elected fully on the
Republican platform-thcre was a conelom-
Grafton Of various interests, including the
tariff measure. When respectful state
ment OF southern grievances shall be made
out, he had no doubt the people of the
that fair-minded men should ask.
-Hr. laHandighant, of Ohio, asked. if
the gentleman's statement Of the case be-
tween the slaveholding and non slavehold-
ing States be true, ought the people of the
free States to humiliate themselves by pro-
posing any constitutional amendment or
additional legislation.
-N". Ettcridge, Of Tennessee, replied by
saying that so persistent have been the
misapprehensioas or misrepresentation Of
northern men, high in position, as to what
would be the Republican policy, that the
people of the south are willing to believe
lie that they may he damned Laugh
ter.
N. laHan3igdam, Of Ohio, further
asked whether that was good reason that
they should yield what selfrespect may
forbid
Mr.. Ethcrtdgo said it was known that
the people of the south are like a tempest.
They were insane and, in the language of
Scripture, he would answer them as he
would fool" according to his folly."-
III the people Of one section ale misled, in
the name of Heaven, would it be Just to
say that those of the other section should
not do what is right to disabuse their minds?
In the course Of his remarks he read an ar
ticle from the Montgomery Mail, in which
the editor says that the policy of the Re-
pubhcanS Is to turn the negroes loose, and
compel them to intermarry with the poor
whites, etc. Was it not true that Mr..
Rhett had alleged that Mr. Hamlin was a
muIatto! And did not Memminger an
nounce, on the pdne hills, to persons of
high and low degree, including 'philoso-
pliers" and short boys" that Mr. Hamlin
was really mulatto?
Mr.. FdHandighans inquired whether
anything in the Crittenden proposition, or
the resolution OF the border State commit
tee, or the recommendations contained in
the report OF the committee of thirty three,
is calculated to remove such delusion as
vas spoken Of in the minds of the southern
people.
Nr. Etteridge replied that men are stand
ing in thesouth, to-day, surrounded by tenn
pest-by fire which feeds itself, and is
all-devouring. 1t is we'll known that
throughout the south, where the disunion
sentiment predominates, there exists
reign Of terror. While the Conventions
are in session in Charleston, Montgomery,
and charlottesville men are deliberating
on the fate of an empire-the military are
being drilled
Nr. Leahe, of Virginia, wanted to know
where the gentleman stood-by the north or
south.
Mr. Etteridge. l speak on the side
which has but few representatives I am
speaking tor my country. [Applause.]
After alluding to the fearful condition
Of affairs in the South, and the alarm
which the military movements occasion, he
said he would vote for anv nrnnnsitinn that