Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1861-02-01
MR.. CLEMENS SPEECH.

bA]ASNS AAO4A NiN DP|SSh VI AA'' $iS4'SH'
of Virginia, in the House of Representa-
tives on~Tuesday
The Secession Statesman. states
man must now not only narrow his mine
and give up to party what was mean
for mankind but he must recede as sub.
missively as a blind horse in bark mill
to every perverted opinion, which sits
whip in hand, on the revolving shaft, al
4 the end Of which,he is barnessed. Tt
be diamond of the first water he mus
stand in the Senate House of his country
and in the face of a forbearing people,
glory in being a traitor and rebel. He
must solemnly proclaim the death Of the
nation to which he had sworn allegiance,
and with the grave stoidity of an under
taker invite its citizens to their own fu-
neral. He must dwarf and provincial
ize his patriotism TO the State on whose
local passions he thrives, to the country
where he practices court, or to the city
where he faunts in all the meretricous
dignity Of a Doge of Venice, He can
take an oath to support the Constitution
of the United States, but be can enter
with honor into a conspiracy to overthrow
it. He can, under the sanctity of the
same oath, advise the seizure of forts and
arsenals, dockyards and ships, and mon
ey belonging TO the Union, whose officer
he is, apd find most loyal and conve-
uient retreat in state authority and state
allegiance.
HaSsachusetts-Mr. Clemens then
quoted from a speech of Wendell Phil
lips, delivered in the Music Hall at Bos-
ton few days ago, in which Phillips
declared We are disunionists, not for
any love of separate confederacies,' &C..
ending with a reference to South Carroll
ma, and Egypt will rejoice that she has
departed The people had, therefore,
arrayed against them these knights Of
new crusade. The Constitution of the |
United States was the sanctifed Jerusa-
lem against which their deluded cohorts
battIed. They contended that the only
mode to overthrow slavery was to over
throw the Constitution. These men
claimed that their allegiance was only |
due to the states wherein they lived
They claimed to be State rights men of
the strctest sect, and they would WELD
the legislative power of the state for the
extinction Of slavery. In this crisis it
was meet that Massachusetts, so largely
partaking Of the common glory in the
past-Massachusetts, where the first
blood for American liberty had been shed
should rise superior to the conyulsious
of the hour, and give an earnest at least,
that the spirit of concliation, of inter-
State comfy, of fraternal affection, was
not yet wholly lost. As the worn trav-
eler8 in the midst of the SHOWS Of the
Alps, lingering with delighted gaze upon
The friendly light which peered from the
of the convent where fom the
1esolation of the storm around him, he
might at last find repose, so did he hail
he little gleam of hope in the future.
The Border Stare lStates.-If secession
we're allowed to be carried out, he would
show them Southern Confederacy from
which every man would turn back af-
lighted and pale, because it would be on
he bloody hand that his rights of prop
9rty would have to depend. Slavery
,anuot expand rapidly, either within the
Union or without the Union, as long as
slaves remained at their present high I
prices. The only mode by which slave
y could ever expand was to reduce the
'rice, and have a new source of supply.
That was, in fact, the real design of the
.oast states. Mr.. Clemens, in proof of
his, referred TO all the Southern Con-
'entions of late years, and cited the ad-
MISSIONS of Messrs. Miles, Bonham, Nc
Rae, and Crawford in the House to show /
hat the object was the reopening of the /
lave trade. Suppose, said be, that they ;
% not get, out of the Union, this equal ,
y which they now claim? That is
tile problem in the rule of three which I
rill be cyphered out if these events are t
iuch longer pending. The border slave a
.ies might as well be prepared first as L
ist for the realization of the truth. But
here was slavery to expand? If the t
oUih left the Union she would never c
q as much of the present territory as
c could grasp in his hand. A war of
liriy years would never get it back, nor h
ould there ever be extorted from the P
Iorth treaty giving the same guaran- n
,es to slavery which it now had. s.
In the event of Southern Confede- f
,ox, tbara Mill 10 bas;Jas tba f~;.a, a