The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1861-02-07
SPEECH OF SENATOR HARLAN, OF
IOWA.
DELIVERED IN ruE SENATE, JAN. 10, 1861.


in the Senate, on the 18th of January,
which the crowded state OF our columns
prevents fr,m publishing entire. We
shall be obliged to make mere ly sketch,
for the purpose of exhibiting the strength
and character Of this mastery produc-
ton. 1t was in reply to Hunter, of Vir.
ginia, who advocated IA dissolution OF the
Union, aud afterwards a reconstruction
Oh pro slavery basis.
MIR. HARLAN said:
Mr.. PRESIDENTS: l would most viii.
lingly do anything in my power, which
an honorable man could do, to alay the
commotion which surrounds us. The first
pertinent inquiry presented is, what Is
its cause! The Senator from Alabama
(Mr. Clay) furnishes a laconic reply
In recent letter, dated at New Orleans,
and addressed to friends in South Caro-,
lima, the Senator ren arks Of the people
Of the free States of the Union:
They are the most bitter, relentless, and vim
dictivc enemies we have on earth"
"Ot course. we cannot live under the same
Government with these people, unless we must
control it,
We must control! We must govern
the North the North must obey! The
minority must govern the majority! Is
not this the key to the solution of all our
difficulties And we have had this doe.
trine amply illustrated in the speech of
the Senator who has just taken his seat,
(Mr. Hunter). After informing US that
the Republican party had marched into
power over the fragments of a broken
Constitution, he himself proposes radical
changes in that Constitution, which, ac-
cording to his own statement, would con-
vert this Government into new conted
Grafton of States, securing to the mnoli-
ty the power to control it.
Whatever may be pretended to the
contrary, the real grievance Inflicted on
"tbe South by the North," is the ,uyi-
tation extended to the Southern Democ
racy, on the 9th day of last November,
to resign the reins Of Government into
the hands of their political opponents
But when pressed, Southern
Senators admit that 1t is not the escape
of few miserable slaves through the
free States, nor the Personal Liberty
bills, nor yet the election of Mr.. Lincoln
by the free States to the Presidency, that
justities the alarm manifested in the
South but that it is the public opinion
behind these acts, giving rise to them.
which justities the opposition to his in
au2uration as the President of the whole
Republic. 1t is demanded that the press,
tho pulpit, the legislator, and the elector,
in the free States, shall be restrained
from this discussion which results in the
lions. Ana the senator from FROM HIM" nii,noIs
(Mr. Douglas) has proposed bill for IA
law, something like the scdltion laws of
the earl y time, to declare freedom of
speech and Of the press, in the free
States, on this subject. grave crime, to
be punished by hne and Imprisonment in
the jall> aud penltentiarle>. bill which
the Senator f"om Georgia (Alr. Tooub>)
distinctly apl roved, few days sine
and VIII ch | understood the Senators
from Virginia to approve to day.
You have deprived your people in the
Slave States Of freedom of speech aud of
the press on this subject; and you now
demand that the people of the free States
shall adopt your laws and usagcs, on pain
of dissolution of the Union. You de-
mand that the free States shall so modify
their laws as to permit you to hold slaves
"ithin their Jurisdiction, for purposes Of
transit and temporary soiourn that is, to
tolerate aud protec, slavery because your
convenience and interest req ire it
You deuand the free States to conter on
your citizens privileges that are not CON
ferred on their own. We were told the
other day, by the Senator from Virginia,
(Mr. Mason,) that gentlemen of the
Sonth feel humiiated at being restrained
by confederates in tn ; Union from pass
ing through their territories with slaves.
and commanding their services during
temporary stay,-a'tempting the first,
their property is con6>cated, as in the
Lemmon case; attempting the latter.
they become telons that such laws
manifest a malignant hatred of the South,
which requires total separation. or the
repeal Of these laws, and OF or satisfacto.
ry guarantees to be promptly rendered
by the free States.
This is, to say the least, not a very
modest demand Taken in it's length
and breadth and depth, it is this: that
eighteen free States shall each promptly
agree that the slareholding laws of the
slave States shall be extended into their
jurisdiction respectively They must
agree that the slave States shall not only
enact laws for the government of their
own people at home, but that they shall
enjoy the right to dictate laws to the
people of the free States also; that is,
that Missouri shall be permitted to die.
tate laws for Iowa; Tennessee for Hi
no's; Virginia for Pennsylvania South
Carolina, Goorg a and Louisiana for New
England. 1t is by such reasoning as this
that secessien just'fes itself on the floor.
But you say that you are denied, by
the theory of the policy Of the Republi
can party. equality in the Territories. -
But the States, as States, can never ap-
pear in the Territories. They have no
means of setting up jurisdiction in the
Territories. They cannot transfer their
sovereignty outside of their own limits.
But you may say that each State should
have an equal right to transmit its citi
zens to the Territories Why. sir, moth
ing can be more fallacious. A citizen of
State, when he becomes citizen on
territory, loses his citizenship in the
State from which he has migrated. A