The weekly sun. (New York [N.Y.]) 1851-1869, 1861-07-27
THE WEEKLY SUN
SATURDAY, JULY q, 1851.
TAs speech or sr. Br., ,l,.r,d,.

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The speech Of Ne. BsEokIsnDeE In u.
United States Senate, on Tuesday, confirms u.
previous Esnsrsl opialon that all his symps
THEA are with those who have tsksn mp srmI
against the Govsrnmsnt of the United 8 .atee
70 destroy Il. Mr.. BsEcKnRIDos had not 4
word 10 uttu In condemnation of the esusslss.
treason and high bOnded acts Of public robbery
and psrsOnal cutrsgN cammittsd By thOse vh'
~ part of thsir vrsasonsbls schsm', made
him THAR candidate 10 the last Presidential
campaign. II. sspifed "a ths ofios which Mr..
d.uotn holds. His su upportsrs cont, ndsd al
The ballot box for the control Of the @ worn.
n.nt of the United Ststss, but being beaten
thas in a consits,ioua way, they bassly,
tse-cbsrOusly and vieksdly adopted measure,
Of violence, hoping 10 obtain BY forcs. frs.d
and iDsurrsction the monopoly os power which
they ecu'd not sscsrs under the psscsful forms
OF the Constitution.
The frs, men TO violate the Constitution,
and dbregsrd all their duties and l.gal obliga-
tions. az citizens, were Mr.. BsxoKrsRIDoks
prit cipL supporters. We have not yet fro n
-him the first sentence ecndemnans ther at.
y
pisos Of parchment, and establish q r,igu o'
tsrrer and pres ription. Bsfors Mr. LfScoI.z
reached Washington sevon states were In re
bsllicp; public property worth millions Of dol
lars bad been seized Unisn men had bean
driven from the rebel states; armed bands,
hostile TO the Uaion, had been organized, and
large forc,s II reo, Is wsr. bssisging a. Chnles-
ton and Psusscola forts b logging to the Uni ei
States and garfiscnsd by its soldiers.
Washine,on Ci'y was even threatened by
tie Brsckinrli s. rsbols, AMI measures bad al
rsafy bean taken to protect the Natio, al Capt.
tai fron ts>ir viol' -, by the i'trstion
with which JoBN G. Bar CRiNRtDaE was con-
noctOe by party ties and his position as Vice
Prssidsnt What support did NJ. BREoKIs-
RIDGE eive TO = Govern usnt, thus msnaOed,
ard which Il WAS his solim duty to sustsin1
Did he Iaiss his voice against those who frst
assaulted the Constitution, and set al nsuEht
the laws made und,r i,7 His record answers
In the negative.
Bat now when rebellion Is bsing crushsi;
whom the prompt and strong measures taken to
defend ths Govern nsnt and the integrity Of
the Union, promise 81 eedy suecess, ne comes
forward In the guiss Of defender Of the Csnsd.
tstion, 70 create discord In the National Coua
cha 10 hasms the passions and revive the
zeal tf the disloysl. We need not wasts
space In exposing the wrstcbed fsllscies and
patent sopohistr,ss which form the lead
ing features Of Mr.. BAKcKNRno oE's speech.
It Is rank throughout, With the ,piri,
oftroIson. Mr.. BRscxfSRmoE would maxi
Of the Cons shtution an iron chain TO fettel
Copgrss and bind the hands Of the Pfesiden,
Of the United States while traitors like JEPr
DAVIS worked out th,ir plans for overthrow
ins TIE Govsrnment, oc -upying Washington,
conhics.itg public and private property, and
establish ing their own despotic rule.
To PTS rye the Con,titudon II must b do
fetded sgsirst tai ors who sssk its subvsr
sion, ard the American people have resolved
that II sbail be pressr,sj, not by MIR. BRKoK
rrhIDoA's doeuiss Of suomission TO lawlssI
violence. but by the noblsr dsctrino OF manly
and uneon promising reeistanoe to treason.