Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1861-03-06

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= part, of the African race. F..
s. That the United States shall hay
ie power to acquire, from time to time, di.
# tricts of country in Africa or South Amel
o lea, for the colonization, at the expense {
It the Federal Treasury, of such free negroe
e and mulattOes as the several States ma
n wish to have removed from their limit,
c and from the District Of Columbia
y l cannot examine these atrocious propc
e sitiOns in detail A more carefully guar
t ded plan for the perpetuatiOn of slavery i
this country could not well be devised
: Every imaginable security is here prOyi
: ded for. 1t gives constitutional recogni
/ ton of slavery in all territory now owne,
and hereafter to be acquired south of lati
2 tude So 80. 1t proposes an irrepealabl
constitutional slave code for the Territorie
: south of So 80; and the recent Democrat
ic convention in Ohio adopted it, and 9th
: er Democratic conventions in free States
have proposed to adopt the Crittenden plar
of compromise. ...-.. .-
Why did the Democrats object to leg
islative slave code, at Charleston and Bal
timore, if they are so ready to adopt con
J stitutiOnal one? They feared to 60 before
the people on that issue. This is the plan
of compromise which Republicans. day af
ter day, are eloquently appealed to adopt;
and they are charged with criminal parti-
san obstinacy, because they will not adopt
this plan to placate the slave power, now
intent on destroying the Government Mr.
Speaker, | believe the people of the free
States, when they fairly understand these
propositions, will spurn them as an insult.
Now, sir what are the circumstances under
which these amendments to the COnstitu-
ton and other propositions Of compromise
are proposed? Abraham Lincoln and
Hannibal Hamlin have been lawfully cleo
ted President and Vice President upon a
platform opposed to many, if not all of
these propositions of compromise. Other
parties went into the canvass with their
candidates and platforms, and the verdict
of the people was invoked in relation to
them. The verdict has been rendered fair
ly, without fraud, and without cOnnivanee.
in favor of the principle that cur Terrific
ries are forever to remain free. What is
the proposition? Before that verdict is
rendered into q judgement proposition
comes up for a new trial to set it aside.
We find Republican lawyers standing
here to advocate the rights of their clients,
willing to set aside that verdict before it
is rendered into judgement Why must it
be done? Because it is said, if that YER
dict is rendered into judgement, then a GER
tain number of the slaveholding States
will break up this Government. Does not
every one sec, if we grant them what they
desire, it will sap the very foundation of
the Government? 1t will invite similar
rebellion in relation to any interest that
may feel.disturbed by the result of an elec-
tion. There are other interests in this
country, besides those of slavery, which
may feel aggrieved at the result Of an cleo
ton; and if we encourage theidea that the
verdict of the people may be set aside, we
cannot fix where it shall terminate. We
are entitled to our judgement and We in
tend to have it, blythe help of Almighty
God, and the strong arms Of the people Of
all sections.
We are appealed to, sir, as partisans.-
1t is said that We are Indifferent to the
actual condition of the country. My col
league from Ohio [ Mr.. Cox made very
able argument against the right of State
to secede; but ike other northern Demo-
Gratis. he is opposed to secession, but OBJ
jects to coercien in order to prevent it
They are like the man who, when asked
whether lie approved the Maine liquor law,
said that he did, but was very much op-
posed to It's execution. Laughter
Mr.. COX. VIII the gentleman yield to
me? -..., -..-....
Mr.. HUTCHINS. l cannot just now.
Mr.. COX. The gentleman misrepre-
sents me.
Mr.. HUTCHINS. The Democratic
party, Mr.. Speaker. are attempting to
make capital out of this controversy. II
have no d, ubt my colleague from the Co
lumbus district Mr.. Cox] is in favor of
this Union, provided he can preserve it
and destroy the Republican party am
not quite sure he is heartily in favor of it, |
if the Republican party is to remain in
power. Why do / judge him thus? l
find him upon every occasion active and
instant, in season and out of season, in
hunting facts and furnishing northern men
with material to prejudice the already ex-
cited public mind Of the South. He ap- I
pears to have implicit faith in comprom-
ises He said, in his speech the other day, /
that sacrifice and compromise are words 4
of honorable import: the one gave us Cal
vary. the other the Constitution. The
gentleman s rhetoric is well; but in its /
practical application to the subject in con
troversy it is meaningless. Patriotism aud .
gave US the Constitution,
slightly marred by compromise; but let it
stand. The word compromise has been
too much desecrated of late, in our pOliti-
cal history, to be talismanic now to save
the Union.
am not surprised that the gentleman
should use the word sacrifice as connected
with compromise. after his announcement,
that he was willing to vote for the Crit
tenden proposition because it involved a
sacrifice of his political professions.
Before the election be was f + popular
sovereignty, and objected to even legis-
Iative slave code for the Territories; but
now he declares his readiness to vote for
constitutional slave code. 1t is not, here-
ore, strange that he should regard sacri-
ice as better word to use, in connection {
With these propositions. than compromise;
md l think, Mr.. Speaker, that sacrifice. Z
accurately defines most of these PROPOSE
ions which 60 under the nomenclature of
and the question really is,
hall the people of the hee States sacrifice {
,riciples which, in their judgement. are
to the welfare of the Republic. to
,lacate those who are plotting Its over
hrOw? Others may. but l viii NEVER
10 it.
Mr.. Speaker, the Crittenden plan :
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