The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-24

had arisepn They new il was So Every attempted |
not 50 made ppnis slaves
back 70 their mas.ersl But the Harpe,'s Ferry ,,o.
revolution riots in and grows fat upon But u was
all true would they be an excuse for dolvng the
Union2 Would they have law and order, would they
respect the constitution and live in feeling Of brother
hood with their fellow countrymen' They would do
bear bear, the burthen q the battle and the
Gull. from whence a slave in escaping would have 70
travel over six hundred mes Of slave territory before
he could bnd sanctuary IN the free States Precipta.s
"peciptaten 10 that Then there was no fault to be
found with the Fugitive Save law. United States
resident Of the present kingdom Of South Carolina had
assured him that the law stringent human In
Onion for tina. e.useS He kne, that the Northern people
opposed 70 the slave trade They always had been,
educated IN the free States knew nothing Whatever Of
slavery except what they beard Of 1t from Garrison
and o,heIs But tho strongest prosavsry man south
widow with plantation well stocked with negroes but
they coud no more hope 70 make the Northern people
| tican away from fat Office. Qaughter) These
precptators say that the Northern people in some time
to cone intend 70 abolish slavery in the States He did
not believe word of IL and standing there in his
place, before that crowded audience he avowed that
there was not in the House VIII desires TO abolish
slavery in the States, who imagnes they have the
right 10 attempt it, (Cres from republican benches mot
Il
| him such man would deserve the execration of his
colleagues and tho execution OF every man who re-
lish slavery was made by those precipaors teeth
OF the most solemn assurances that could be given by
political party He asserted that no political party that
had in the country had given such strong and
solemn guarantees TO respect slavery within the States
But this fact was suppressed by the politicians and news
papers of the country and the opposite doctrine zeaousy
| inculcaed into the public mind What more had the
republican party done9 That what other party in the
country bad formally done-they had denounced IN the
strongest terms that such raids that Of
John Brown into Virginia were the graves Of all crimes
and to appease them the republicans express
their readiness vote for amendment In the constitu
| ton which would bind them never TO interfere with
slavery in the States. would fact be amendment,
| but would merely declare what the constitution now
was and no man believed for moment in their power to
interfere with slavery under the constitution as was
They declared that the people In the respective sections
not and that they hated one another
became better known But he asserted that they did not
hate each other more than they had seen the old whg
one another more after they were sepaTa,
going to separate were they And whore would be the
| boundaresY The river Ohio, which it said was
the only barrier that would separate these hostile
sections If they hated each other would they be
into rival and hostile confederacesY They hate each
other Not bit Of It. II their constituents could
how the free soers Of the North and the radicals OF the
Of it. They hate each other9 No, only when the ms"
had to give way 70 the "outs." QAugherl Yes, when
the army Of ocehoders were seen clearing out, bag
phan. successors For his own part, if any
sacrifice he could make would the country he would
be glad 70 make IT, But separation, they did separate,
would breed that hate which would lead to feuds and
houses of York and Lancaster. Separate break up
the government and let the central States be precp
tated this revolution against the win of the people,
and ten years would not 60 by until the two sections
would be harassod by rvares leading 70 hosities and
finally the subversion Of the weaker party. If this
teachings was n falsehood. With regard TO the
fear excited in the Southernmnd with regard
termination on the part Of the North give equality
respect TO the negro no proceeded TO show bow
uDounded the charge wos and noticed that IN the State
submitted the people, who refused, by majority OF
twenty to one, to extend universal suffrage to the
negro and oontinuedI charged against tho North
that Il was from their midst that the John Brown raid
| came; but he would ask his seeding friends, that
in Ease OF dsunion, would South Carolina be better
able protect herself against raids then than shs
raids then than she had been IN the past Now, when
every true to tho constitution, when every
man was Judge and executoner OF the law and every
conyenlent tree galows upon which TO hang every
man who violated the constitution in the manner John
Brown and his followers had, who should teach every
that they had code for the punishment OF traitors
stringent as could DO made II was matter OF his
tory that II was the men of Pennsylvania who were ne
Isl 10 Nndcae the outraged laws and to offer support
end succor 70 Virginia against the attack Of John
Brown; and when the followers of that man had
| escaped from Virginia, IL ought TO be remem-
bered that they were arrested in PENNSYLVANIA,
| hanaed over TO the authorities, by whom they
tried, and being adad sed guilty, pad the penalty
OF their INVASION By their death. The people Of
either section had esronecd and provoked by
represc aons and caiumDes, and thus and
fasehooG had done their work lie would 4ccep, their
charges IN the aggrievcd FORM snd Yet he would
tell hem tn, they we're al false. He had said that be
would make aiy sacrifice save the country He would
accept James Buch for another term and allow
the "oj public funetonaryn 10 administer the govern
ment for four wears more He hopcd this was giving
4 Sufficient evidence Of his fidelity TO the consttu-
ton. lie was ready 70 lend his sanction 70
,tLruN hal haan a0ar 81
accept the rest He would 20 the report Of the Com
init Of Thirty three rather than 50 out or the unon
but, failing IN al, he would 90 hpme and would there
meet dsunion with torch hand and a sword In
the other, help him God, long the stars and
yield osunion. General applause from the densely
crowded galeriee.) Ho asserted, what was matter of
history that every solitary act Of the constitution
OF daiped public discussion, and voted FOR by
Statesmen Of the SOUTH and either passed BY them
very policy under which Lincoln should be inaugu.
| rated was the very policy or the democratic
country and demanded and received their approval The
House know that when the government was ordained.
wh,n the Declaration Of Independence was proclaimed
that Western boundary the Mississippi river, and
he asserted that from that very day az The instance OF
the South at the instance Of Shareholders the Of the
government had been enlarged and expanded. Every
foot coil that had been acquired at the instance II the
nth, The North III s numerical power and strength
overshsdowng the South, has willingly yielded Florida
and Louis had been thus purchased at the instance OF
The South Florida had been pur hased at cost Of i've
Millions and at a cest OF aty millions more to remove
The savages, millions mcre 20 build fortincaions and
towns along the deep TO guard southern commerce And
after all this little Florida with less than half tho popu
laon he represented, out Of the Unon, with the
/ fortihcatons, With the pubic lands, with
| told millions, and worse than al, carries with
| her the prestige Of the unity o. these states
| Little Florioa fecedes, which could not at
this moment protect herself from the asators without
tho aid ~ the federal troops laughter THE very
Florida purchased az the instance Of the South with
Nor bern money and Northern clood Tie then notloed
tho Of Texas also at the instance % the SOUTH
aud paid euogy 10 governor Houston Of mat STATE. IN
isto the south demanded Fugitive slave law. they
hao g,t that. They ffst demanded tho Nj sour com
promise. They gott They then demaDced its repeal
they got that They had demand q nothing which they
had not got But they demand that slavery should
be protected in every inch OF the Territories of the
| tinted states But that question decided
| against Them, ~ most unmistakacle mau-
ncr, at ihe ballot box, tho South.
| crn states themselves had pronounced against
| that demand The government had been operation
nearly eighty years and No % this hour m0mber Of
Congress- had much introduced sl 20 pro.
lsct slavery the Territories they rronosed