The Placer herald., 1861-05-04
Coercion in New York.

NCuNiOu " A>CW AOIk, WulCt IucS III sAipouS
in February, and which was composed Of
more than seven hundred members, an ex-
citing scene occurred upon the adoption of
the second resolution, which read as follows:
Resolved, That, in the opinion of this
Convention, the worst and the most inetfect
i've argument that can be addressed by the
Confederacy or its adherng members to the
seeding States is civil war Civil war will
not restore the Union, but will defeat forever
its reconstruction.
On the reading Of the resolution, Chan
celor Walworth appeared upon the platform.
His venerable looks claimed instant atten
ton from the Convention, and he was re
ceved with an outbu'st Of enthusiastic ap
plause. He said:
Gentlemen of the Convention: am far
advanced in years, and not in the habit of
attending conventions of this character,
but could no, resis, coming here to enter
my protest against civil war. have seen
the horrors of such conflict In the war
of 1912 my house in Plat,sburg was sacked
by the British. A battle WAS fought oppo
site my very door, and the bullets that were
In the easement Of my door remains to
this day imbedled one of those bullets, a
memento of the fight. In that struggle |
saw nv fellow citizens shot down by my side.
l know, then, the horrors of foreign war,
and they are nothing as compared with the
horrors of civil war A civil war is a war
among bre,hern. We are are all brethern
in this Conederacy of States; the people
of the South are our brethren, not only
nominally, but actually our brethren. In
Georgia alone | have the names of one
thousand citizens, whose ancestors were near
relatives Of my own. In the same State
alone are over one hundred relatives of the
family of Ililhouse, whose name is known
as that of one Of the patriots Of the revolu
ton, and whose descendant now occupies a
seat in our State Senate; and so, scattered all
over the Southern States are the near rela
tives OF the men of the North, and perhaps
there is scarcely a member in this Conven
tion who has not some such ties in the States
of the South. 1t would be as brutal in my
opinion, to send men to butcher our own
brothers Of the Southern States as it would
be to massacre them in the Northern States.
We are told, however, that it is our duty
to, and we must, enforce the law Bu,
why! and what laws are to be enforced'
There were laws that were to be enforced
in the time of the American Revolution,
and the British Parliament and Lord North
sent armies here to enforce them.
Blu: what did Washington say in + gard
to the enforcement of those laws! That
man-honored at home and abroad more
than any other man on earth ever WIS hon
ored-did he 60 for enforcing the laws?
No, he went to resist laws that were oppress.
i've against free people, and against the
injustice of which they rebelled.
Did Lord Chatham 60 for enforcing the
laws? No, he g|oried in defence of the lib
bIe declaration in the British Parliament,
'If was an American citizen instead of as
l am, an Englishman, never would submit
to such laws-never never, never!"
Such is the spirit that animates our
Southern brethren, and shall we war upon
them for it! Mol We must avert civil war
if possible, and l close he exhortiny my
brethren to do all in their power to avert
civil war. Concession, conciation-any
thing but that-and no man among us, in
his dying hour, will regret that his conscience
is clear, and that he can lay his hand upon
his heart and say, II did all in my power to
turn from the bosom of nv country the
horrible blow of civil war"
Immense sensation followed the remarks
of the venerable Chancellor, and the deep
silence that had attended his remarks was
followed by an enthusiastic outburst Of ap-
p!ause.
Several oth,r speeches Of similar tenor
were made; and when the vote on the rcso.
luton was put, every delegate in the Con
venion rose to his feet AID responded "aye" )"
The scene is represented to have been inens
y exciting and interesting.
A correspondent of the Evening Post is
responsible for the following:
1t is a sn4ular coincidence, and would
seem at the present time to possess quite IN
oracular meaning that the syllable "ln"
occurs in the name of both President and
Vice President, which signifies ''to yield''
| (see Webster) - Lincoln - IIamln - the