Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1861-03-07
|afairs If tbe Gatinll.

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Extracts from the Speech Of Hon
Louis 7. WigfaII, U. 5. Senator
from Texas, Feb. I, 1861, in Re
/ ply 10 Senator johnson, Of Ten
EeSsee.
iuE CHARGES JOHNSON. WITH HAVING
ADVOCATED COERCION
He denies that on the l9th ol
December he advocated coercion
as to the States. 1t is very strange
Sir, knowing the courtesy oi the
Senator from Oregon, il he was
| misrepresenied, and if be dad not
desire time to write, revise. add to,
and strike oui from what be SAID,
rI,at when his speech was fresh IN
he memory of every Senator uP-.
On this floor. he did not rise and
then correct the misrepresentation.
Six weeks have elapsed. ! can
saw for myself that | have never
READ ~ hat he published. ] suppose
there are but few S nators who
have. know only the impressions,
the strong impressions, which v re
made upon my mind at the :ime'
md those were, that he was in lavor
# coercion- wal to the knife and the
knife to the h,lt. 1t was charged
unon him. He acqniesced IN the
charge: and il is now too late Tor
him to attempt to object to the con-
,.lusions which were drawn an q
charged at the time his speech was
delivered.
Things have occurred in his own
State--so say the newspapers-which
have caused him to take second
thought. 1t is said that he has been
shot, hanged. burned from one era
of the State of Tennessee to the 9TH
er 10 effigy. He must before many
weeks return 10 that Slate. What
will be done with him IN propraa
persona is a matter that may more
concern him than it does me. lie
was understood, / am sure, by the
entire Black Republican party. GEL
tainly by their press, to have taken
that position. A leading paper ad-
vocating he doctrine took that
speech as reported by the letter
writer's, published it in its editorials
columns, aud kept it stereotyped as
containing the docllines efthe party.
| allude to tbe paper edited by Col
ouel James Watson Webb, OF the
regular army formerly. daughter }
HE SCORES JOHNSON FOR HIS REMARKS ON
SENATOR BENJAMIN.
The S nator from Louisians, (Mr.
BENZ i,min.) few days ago, bid Us
farewell in tones so touching that l
supposed any nan North or South
! who had heart, could not iail to
feel, Twelve seats here are vacant,
never. never again to be hlled. :
The Union is disrupted. These Seh.
a,ors bade long and last farewell
to this body; and to some OF US they
expressed the cope that before long
we should meet in other fiel.is, ard
under more favorable circumstances
| All seemed to feel except the Sena
tor liom Tennessee. lie alone
looke d upon il as farce tha! WIS tt
be played off, in which the mourner'
we're to be c.llled out, aud before tht
curtain was raised, aud the perform
ance was begun, those who were t
shed tears were advised of the prop
.r time. That is the impression tha
1.-THE aciual disruption of this Union
which be processes to love SO dearly
fproduces upon his mind.
He talked Of devotion to the,Un
lion. Anlihe Constitution, anu ther
lis no man who DOW lives who ha
done more than no has 10 prodnc
his very stale of things Th'
policy Which be has foT years pas
been advocating, of a homestead slll
alone. il it had ever been adopte'
aud Carried out to the iull exteEl
would have cansec a disruption Q
the Uoion: and yet he processes I
lbe a Union map. The Senator ma.
not be statesman; but ne under
stands. as well ss any man living. ho'
to take advantage Of The prejudice
OF The popuiace, and with what sale
lily mrn may, Il. be wears the liver
Of heaven. p riorm acts Which mes pcs
! who are entitled 10 that uniiofm az
mot in the habit Of PERFORMING.