The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-31
TIE REvOLUTIOE.


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s1Sst Yourselves ON your dignity no longer.
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cratic State Convention IN favor OF some Oh
en- yresen, troubles either BY the border sa.s or Doug
d = C1,tenoen plan and especially favormg the ealing
Of National Convention
M liable and They are the exp esson Of 2oo
"a Ms good patrio.s as live in the republic L.. 10
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~ 0 Rrysosps sopu1 OF NJ ", from the select
niliee Of fve reported bin for calling forth the militia
M pp .pST' fopp 81 " c. presented his reasons In
writing for his non concurrence In the report
MI JOHN CocnRAsF, (opp) OF N. Y, from that com
xrstee reported bill to further provide Tor Inc oOiS
The a Ssy resu%a The of the ssnaes
amendment 10 the Post Route biii . 80 r,oceaa,r~e
~ she wa.s,oameDs Convention held in Independence
square, Saturday last, asking the sn1p. ~ o
seDdens resolutions or se 10 large humber Of
people and have effect allaying the unhappy ex-
cement The reoh "sas,od y Ne
printed and referred 70 the select Committee OF Five
The resumed the consideration Of the report Of
shs Committee OF Thirty three.
srEEcB OF MR.. ooSKInG
Mr. Cor KING, tep) Of N. Y, IN opening his remarks,
said from the nrs advent Of this secession move
nent he had hope that any concessions they might
sfer would stem tbe current OF revolt knowing that II
Aad been long smoudcrng and fostering IN the Gulf
States The people Of these States were the dupes Of
wicked and designing It was said that the leading
sion Of the republican party 70 subvert the con
etutonal rights OF portion Of the people Of the coun
Try and that repubicanism only another name for
abotionis that upon the 6rst accession Of power
their part they would hberate the slaves by armed in
Of the federal government These charges were
broadcast throughout the land, and were
like storms clouds of ocasts to cover the entire
South These charges were founded upon the sayings
Of republican politicians torn from their context, and
which the original shred rent from tho
picture would the conceptions OF
She painter But they aboundcd in another thing, in
nnitey more detrimental They abounded IN scraps cut
from Northern newspapers, which assaied throughout
The Political contests the motives and principles OF the
pepubican party Ten thousand springs OF fasehood
and perveTson had opened and filed the very atmos
pbsrs Of the South with noxious vapors, which
urned years by Southern politicians
mighty that had broken the safe props
% e SrS the lowers Of
NV, reduced TO min Ty 30 hopeless as TO be ut
serly extinct: dc was consuaned 70 believe that the
TASK Of Cancellation hopeless far regarded the
Gull States. He was constrained TO believe that every
avenue closed TO every thing except what was cacu
hted to lash the public mind throughout the South into
fury II the avenues Of compromise still open he
did no, be ieve, far the Union concerned, that
Cspible effect Dupes never leaders, aud the
a Abe South who were deceived with regard to the senti
rebellion or iBstieate revolt Those who sowed the
vhrwind would direct The storm. Those men, no vover,
south wind deceived, for they knew well that
she party which had recently prevailed In the country
lad no idea VI an invasion upon constitutional right or
intended any novel application of doctrines with
gard TO slavery OF any other subject. They knew wen
policy Of the Iepuble-a policy Which b, gan With Wash
ngton, and carried the government successfully
ps s p and peaceful years These men Wen IN
aerstood the neediessness of all those schemes
the Personal Liberty bills were, they ' conacted
with the constitution or with the law, They had
an example o. tins IN south Carolina, r -. where were
hat nsurpaton states before the bsak and claws OF
federal power That none pretended 70 invade the reia
tiops Of master ami slave these Southern leaders well
knew. They knew that the declarations OF all political
parties against IT, and they knew also that any
party desired amendment 20 the constitution 10 give
Them this power could be effected any period of
slime which human prophecy could roresee. they knew
Mat whai his intention might be- presiden;
would be harmless 10 njure them, harmless as chid
with majority last Them IN both Houses of Congress-
and renamed faithful at their posts They
sganst territorial injustice and usupaton and yet they
ever hope TO peorie not by the law Mexoo rs i WIS
said but by the territorial law, which they would have
been unable 10 under the organic law bat for the
votes Of Northern people as well as southern lie under
sood the list Of grievances, but yet considering, while
spostae Americans plotting The ruin d ,his country,
on the great mission of constitutional liberty which
nea Christ pdom VIII light and hope was shryeed like
O pnched scroll. These aIologsts attempting TO
ARROW the OF revolution our free Institutions,
waning the nations OF the earth to keep aoo from the
Mr. HnpMAs fopp } of Ark, appealed to the Chair to
know whether the gcl teman in order in using and
applyip euch language as "apostate Americans He
weulo inquire OF the gentleman he intended 10 Apply
,ha language 10 any members Of that House TO their
e0nsttucDtsy such language could he used here then
abe had come for the dissolution OF the Unoa and
for the secession Of the Southern states from IT, He
would ask the Chair 10 decide whether or not such Ian
Suage was in order.
Mr. GROW, Hep) of Pa.-The pon, Of orderwas no, do
batabe. The Chair requested gentlemen 70 keep them
selves fair OF the questions before IT, but
sness gent, men made their remarks personal he had no
Nr. CoSNiiSG was not addressing his remarks to the
gentlemen from Arkansas, nor did he desire 10 say
thng offensive 70 any gentleman on the nocr Bu; this
time which imposed upon every the duty Of
speaking unresersedly on this subject.
Mr.. fifspmts again rose. He SAID that he words
"American apostate had been used for purpose,
and he desired to know 20 whom tho words applied
and whether it was proper to apply them 10 this Ao1scs
was better to meet the question now th"- 90 "no'ner
S.me interruption followed.
Mr. CoSKuSe, resuming said that he about 10 say
that these grievances which he had spoken the
Asowed reasons for this revolt-pitifu contemPble
Of designing ard desperate he believed them
~ be suberfngcs makcshifts Of an unholy and vapd
ambition Tho true az this revolt lay deeper than
those reasons which had been assigned Tie true reason
was that by the sentiment OF an overwhelming majority
at the people Of this republic, slavery, az moral
poison, was outiawed snd abhoIed. Il was
sered, had ceased TO be national in this country.
vas charged on the North that all s,cia
held 70 be moral, social and political cy,i The
charge s true, every word of IT, II was true tia, she
vast majority Of the people Of the North at political par
ties alike, hooked upon slavery an institution
ster of the worst KIND Unsuitable and destructive
VICTIM 70 the master ann TO the and In tina. r,sprc
Abe North agreed with al the rest 81 the cvi,god jrli
ma, slavebcdipg was The wo,s, 81 wrongs he he "
founded, model republic, alone excepted ire lrspri.
deuce Of The world az inns, slavery the civilization
OF the world was against slavery The literature IL the
world was against slavery Webster said, "IArh
nmg 70 ttong tho tornado is strong the esrthauake ~
strong, bot there ro.'~thns stronger than al ths.
N the enhght ned judgment, % mankind.n And tuai,
SEQ, u against slavery. There blame for
that No. was OF The onactrnents % that "kiahor
hwn which was recognized ny all peopa, aud g. winch
Dke had given u,eragce shsn he SAD, tth he avs of
Parliament when IN conflict with the lag % God was 10
Dc held utterly as nougbt.7 He affirmed that that owe
81 liberty that detstaon % oppression, that aen
able hatred OF tyranny which Jay AZ the fcnndatcn Il
republican INSTITUTIONS, the sennen Of The earth
and was a law which lay at tho foundation of 70