Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1861-01-05

near no more OF tue TOAST Ludb 'CCblOu u
: King" and is going to oyerruIe all nations
3 and bring them under its footstool. Ii
never will be done. But have our South
ern friends any complaints to make Of the
! platform? | tell you frankly that we did
lay down the principle that we would pro-
i hibit, if we bad the power, Slavery from
Invading another inch Of free-soi territory
lof this Government. | stand there to,
flday. have argued il 10 half million Of
people, probably, and they stand there
land they have commissioned ne to stand
there forever, and, SO help me God, | will.
| say to you, while we hold this doctrine
Ito the end, there is no Republican, or Con-
lvention Of Republicans, or paper, that pre-
tends we have any right in your States to
linterfere with your peculiar institutions. -
On the other hand, our platform repudi-
Iates the idea that we have any right, or in
ltention even, to invade your institutions in
your own States. Now, what do you
complain Of? You are going to break up
I this government. You are going to in
lyolye US in war and blood out Of mere
suspicion that we shall transcend that which
we stand here to vindicate. How would
you be justified in the eyes of he civilized
world 10 take SO monstIous a position, and
predicate it on mere suspicion! We
don't love Slavery. Diln't YOU know it
before today Everything remains as it
did year ago. But all at once, when we
meet here, find all gloom, and gentlemen
rise up to say weare on the eve of break
Jug up this government. Seven or eight
States ale going to set up a hostile gov
lernment-and they look imploringly over
TO US, and say "you can't prevent it. =
What can we do! You have not conde-
scended to tel us what you want done. If
we should give up the verdict Of the peo-
pie and take up your platform, | don't
know but you would be satisfied, and
.lth;nk the Senator from Texas Mr.. Wig
lfalD rather intimated, and Ex-senator from
j Georgia ar. Iverson) rather moro than
lintimated that if we would take what is
EXACTLY the Charleston platform, on which
Mr.. Breckenridge was placed, and give up
that on which we won our victory, you
would grudgingly and hesitatingly be sat
Iisfed.
Mr.. IvERsoN said he wished the Senator
would read his speech before he quoted 50
much from it, He had not said they
, would be satisfied with any such thing.
Mr.. WADE read from Mr.. VERSIONS
lispeech, reported in Tie Globe, that he
supposed there would be no overt act OF
) the part of Mr. Lincoln, but the power o.
t the Government would be so executed
against Slavery that 1t would not last ten
J years, and continued;
Then you are not going to wait for any
overt act, but are going to proceed upon
) the suspicion that probably be might. !
haze disavowed any intention on the part
| OF the Republican party to harm hair Of
your heads. We hold to no doctrine that
cal possibly work you any Inconvenience.
! We have been faithful to all the laws. 1t
is not, then, that Mr. Lincoln is expected
flto do any overt act by which you may be
injured. You won't wait for any. But,
anticipating that the Government may
, work you an injury, you will put an end to
fit, which means simply this-that we IN
tend to rule or ruin this Government
There Is whence it comes. We do not like
your institutions, you say. But we never
! liked them any better, and you might as
vel have dissolved the Union at any other
time as now. We stand precisely where
I've stood, repudating your institutions as
"a matter Of morals, but, admitting that,
when it is out of our jurisdiction, we have
no hold upon it and no designs upon IT,
lis there anything in the character Of the
President elect of which you can complain
Has he not lived baineless life, never vi
olated any law; has he committed any VI
olation Of duty? Why then are you sus-
picious that he will Now, then, / have
shown that having the Government in your
hands all the time, you have brought it to
the verge of destruction; and the people,
believing it was time the scepter should de-
part from your hands, hayeplaced it in more
Icompetent hands. If this is so you have
mo constitutional right to complain, when
: we all disavow any intention SO to make
use of that victory we have won, as to in
lure you at all. This brings me here to
the question Of compromise. The first day
lof this session Senator rises aud offers a
resolution to inquire into the evih between
different sections, and to ascertain what
.lcould DO done to settle the difficulty. /
ltell that Senator | know Of no difficulty.
TO compromise supposed wehad agrees.
THAT the day OF compromises was Al an
END. The most solenn we have made ave
been violated, and where are they! Since
| have had a scat in this Senate one OF
considerable antiquity was swept away
from our statute book; and when in the
minority stood up here and asked you te
withhold your hands-that il was a sacred
compact between sectons-what was the
cry That it was nothing but an act Of
Congress, and could be swept away by the
same majority that passed it. That was
true, il fact, and true in law, and il showed
the weakness Of compromises. Now, |
/ onl, speak for myself, that in view Of the
manner in which compromises have been
treated, | should Think hardly any two
members Of the Democratic party could
look each other in the face and say seoin-
promise without smile. A compromise
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