The daily true Democrat., 1861-03-16
Speech of Judge Floyd, Delivered on he Sh of Narch on Nr. Eehols'
Resolution.


 MT. PREsIDENT-I rise, for the purpose of giving utterance to the feelings and sen timents of near ten thousand souls, who are freemen--which I have the honor, in part, to orepresent upon this foor-whose political status and rights are as dear to them as that of any people upon the earth.
 They are as chivalrous and as patriotic as any other similar body of people within the State. I have no desire to build up for myself monument of position or glory. Whatever there is of patriotic ardor or lau- dable enthusiasm in a struggling people striking for their rights, their honor and future glory, all belong to the people of Johnson county, and not to your humble speaker. I am only their humble mouth- piece, and am here in my place by their le- gal authority, clothed by them with power to act and demand for them all that IS theirs, and no more; and that is equality of personal rights, as we'll as an qualposition of social and political condition with then fellow citizens of the several counti@wlthln the State; and if not to be had within the Union of the old confederacy, andinot to be had within the present Union, then to take her destiny as country equal under the ample and protecting power of the Con- federate States of America, whose interests and pursuits are homogeneous to ours, and with whom we can live in peace and quiet, and that our whole people may settledown, and that commotion and further trouble may cease, and that all may return to their occupation and have our rights fully pro- tected
 This brings me to further consider of the importance of the question under consld- eration, which is upon the resolutiolof the gentleman from Calhoun county; That is, that we acknowledge the independGce of the Confederate States of America.
 Who is there amongst us that would dare ruthlessly to refuse and deny 10 the brave people of our neighboring Stats, who are struggling to maintain and yndlcate for themselves and their postefity al those political and social rights that peran to 1 freemen. To day, sir, the purse antsword of once great and powerful natin-its stars and stripes-its hags-its fortunes and future we'll being of a great people ,se now solely in the hands of tyrant, with black republican cabinet to advise him totretch forth his hands to ruin and bligt the fairest portion of the heritage ofFte AL mighty Creator. That flag is tles now to wave in sombre triumph over thdown trodden and subiugated, but oncel free people. That proud emblem ofS uman liberty that has led the patriotic anbrave sons of Arkansas, to the arid plains obIexi- co, where they conquered and poura out their blood freely to protect the rigk of a nation, to-day, is desecrated. Sevelstars are dimmed out of it's ample fold, ad its stripes are obliterated from its plane This flag as it now Is mutiated and shornf its former glory, as the emblem of fleeen's s hopes, is now to be used by our ermies to enslave the sons and daughters of arave ancestry, who have dared ever to land down to IS glorious heritage.
 When Mexico, the Central and buth American States threw off the yoe of bondage that bound them to the car oop- pression dealt out by the Spanish three when S1mOn DOllNaT, DeCauuc tHc llUaIOr and regenerator of South American ihty. he had the sympathy of all of our peoph his right arm was upheld by brave and rm- } pathizing people. They met is assenly, , and in counties State conventions, ineg- islatures, and in the Congress of the Uted States, and passed resolutions by Mich the people of the United States gave lem } aid and comfort by full recognition ofeir right to throw off the shackles of thold Spanish tyranny, ,and assume for thelnsves !, and their posterity the rights and priviees of free government. Our sympathi always with the weak who are strrgsng for liberty and independence. Thea saIl we sit here and deny to our souhrn friends who are on our frontier, ren even the small boon of a recognition in their struggle to vindicate their sacre lrhts that have been so long trampled on byhe tyranny of the northern States? They Row their grievances--they arc not longer tbe ' endured. We are we'll advised of ours so, and it is the sacred duty we owe tour constituents that we withdraw from he Union that has so long oppressed tm, and has trampled on their constitltial