New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-01-24

s,.7e H. would never Weld 10 dis MON. General
arr lausc from the dcnecly crowded galleries. nc ns@
r,fted what matter o history, hat every solitary
act OF the Constitution ordained alter pam ais
cuion and was voted for by statesmen OF The south,
and elder Iaissed by them or received the sane
ton ard approval VI their States, ana tlc
veIv policy under which Lincoln should be
irsr0uiued vas the very policy Of tho Demo-
crc raIty Of the south and which they gave 10 the
county and demanded aud received their approval
IRE House knew that when the Government was or
dsiItd v hen the Defamation OF Independence w.is
ttoclaiu cd thAt our Western boundary was the Ais-
sjrt River and be aserted that from that very day
III lie intan,s Of the South at the INSTANCE oil slave
LcdeIs the area If the Government bad been enlarged
and expanded. Every foot Of soil that hd
at tie Instance Of the South, the NoTth WIN a. nG-
narcal rover ard strength oyershadoW ing the so3th
IA will nely Welded. Florida and Louisiana had
been thus purchased 1T the instance OF the South;
florida had leen purchased N cost OF SJUuo,ocV ana
81 n cost Of 0o0 more TO remove the Svhges
iIions more TO build forfcaons aud towns along me
d, ep 10 guard Southern commerce. And after AL thls
lls Florida with less than half the population he re-
lJCseuttd goes ont OF the Union, with the orihca-
ons, with tie public lands With loli Millions on aud
ors Than all carries it'll her the prestige OF the unity
ofthese States Little Florida secedes which could not III
tLis moment protect hersef from tho alhgaors without
ibe aid Of the Federal troops-l iaughier this very
Florida, purchased NJ tho instance OF the Suu, VIZ
Northern money and Northern blood. Hethen not Geo
the all exaon Of Texas, aso AT the instance o. tue
South and paid a eulOgy ~ Gov. nonston u .hs'
State. In 1850 the South demanded fsgtlgs sla ~.
law. They had got that. They first deilnseu tne
Missouri Compromise They got II. They Men De
handed It's REPEAL. They got thai. They hed ae.
msnd.d nothing which they had not got. Dut now
they demand that Slavery should be pro'ec,ea IN e|Sry
inch of the Territories Vi the United saieA Bnt IVA
question was decided against them, in "a most unns
taxable manner, at the ballot box; and even th'
Southern States themselves had prvAounced aglins
that d. mand. The Government had been m operation
rearly eighty years and mp to this inc no Member
Congress had even 30 much ntr sduccd bill 70 pro
teet slavery in The Territories. But now they pro
posed 70 dpsolvs the Union beer .nse vast majority
the people had replied 10 their enand for pro,ec ion
ala, e. In the Territories that q they should ever nav
Wa non.interven,on. And. that was all they eve
would obtain. One disuIAonist said that be wan'e
protection for Slavery 81 the purpose OF expansion
thSt slavery we. lcre Aring, and that in fifty year
| ihey would have twenty millions of negroes an
consequently they must have room 10 expaos
| But Inc truth wss that they Deoded no expu
zion, and If tbay did even, they could nos g,
is. But, rs 10 taid before, Congress snoui
sajouru tie qssuel 70 the people, and they JAILED