The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1861-03-02

drive from beneath the shield Of the Repub.
lie other States that are now trus in their
fealty. Ifit does not do this. it will dig,
between Republican States and the States
that have seeded, ditch SO wide that
never again can they get together. 1t
will SOW the seeds OF such a harvest Of hate
as will forever prevent the coming together
of the States that have seeded and the States
that are true. This. in brief. will be the IF.
feet Of tho policy. Now, after you have car
red out your policy of coercion without COM
promise, Of war without concession, Of en-
torcen,ent oflaws without conciliation--when
you have brought these results on :he country,
when you have seen the southern cities laid in
ashes, her fair fields blackened and destroyed !,
and her sons given to the sword, when you
have seen her women and children wandering
homeless and fiendless : and when. recurring
to your own section you find that your own
people are burdcned with intolera ble taxation
that skeleton stands beside each o, your
own doors: that you are oppressed under the
weight Of military despotism: when you find
that the country is irrellitvatly broken up,
what consolation will it be 10 you, in that
hour, to reflect that all these cala,nitieS have
been brought upon the country in the maine
OF the Union. of the enforcement of the laws,
and Of the protection Of public property?
Sir, there is another policy: and | trust
that its friends are in majority on this floor
1t is the policy of compromise and concllia-
ton and peace. 1t is the policy which our
fathers followed when they framed the Con-
sutu'ion. That instrument originated in a
spirit Of compromise. General Washington
declared, in the letter in which he submitted
1t 1.-THE Constitution to the old Congress- tina /
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