The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-01-17

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developing thsr naarai resources and wealth, and 70
This way bhey would become perfect and more p
anent organizations. The NON savehoding portion o.
the people progressing within their section, wniie
the slavehoding States would pursue like coutse OF
prosperity and progress within their own ses,ioa,
a mutual course of policy as regarded the customs
and postal arrangements. being mercy aeien-
se League against ~ me % haTs Free .n@s
intercourse, and thus they would cohsonoate their
strength against all foreign foes such as was provided for
by the present constitution Thus they would secure for
each confederacy internal peace and national ndepen
dence, and be free from the possibility of any influence
ascension about the interests Of slavery This would
be much better solution OF the present difficulties than
engaging in civil war; and would be nearer advance TO
wards the great American idea OF perfect self government
Mr. GrRIEY, Qep) Of Ohio, representing part of Cncn
NATL said that its citizens and those opposing in Ken
lucky lived on terms OF most friendly intercourse, and
what may they will maintain that condition of AFFAIRS
Those whom he represented FIR the constitution and
Unon and the enforcement Of the laws all hazards and
at any cost He spoke Of the seizure Of forts magazines
&c and TO crown all the South Carolina authorities have
hred into vessel in the service Of the United States
carrying at her masthead that ~ which everywhere is
shield OF protection The South has nsulted and treated
Northern men ms conquered people. Merchants OF Gin
cinnati hive been ordered home by Louisiana for no
their own choice W. should stop this work Of traitors
and vindicate the laws. They must prevail, and the
government must put down traitors by its strong arm.
Fsrbearance has ceased to be virtue. He charac-
terized the Southern movement as cold booded
rebellion. There was no sanse for rebellion.
IN go, eminent where people make and control it. Re
beon is leap in the dark-a high crime-wiId anarchy
and If successful must end in civil and consequent
desoIaion He suggested TO the secessonsts would it
act prudence for them 10 stand against the ten
millions of frcemen OF the West, where there would be
gathered storm If attempts made to interrupt the
navigation OF the Mississippi The peaceful fOunda
tons Of New Orleans would become the bed OF lake
where fishes would live instead Of men.
Mr. MAYNARD, (opp) of Tenn, asked that IL such acts
those which the gentleman alluded were the
Union what would be done If the Union was broken u
Mr. 6uRIEY replied, that if the Union was broken up
there would be and the test would be 10 who is
the strongest Did Southern gentlemen expect that tho
people Of the Northwest would fold their hands with
difference and their steamboats, fired into and their
merchants driven home? How long the Northwest
TO continue peaceful under this state Of thingsY II bill
should be passed giving the President authority TO sustain
the national government you could have hundred thou
sand men from the West, and then let the worst
The people of Ohio have through their Legislature,
recently unanimously passed resolution in favor Of
maintaining the government.
Mr.. HoINAS opp of Ind argued against secession.
NO one would question the right Of revolution Tor nole
rable oppression, but this did not exist Therefore,
the government overturned, IL would be without
JUSTIFICATION or excuse The people whom he represented
would not consent that the Union should be destroyed
They would rally around il. He could not, however,
despair OF the republic, and trusted that would con
tinue to endure
Mr. MORRIS (repl of H. said there is treason against
the constitution and it has grown to large proportions,
and It's heavy footsteps heard all around us. The
most hopeful begin to despair Of the republic. The
sooner make UP minds TO resist disuniOn the
hotter. We should move with steady nerve and
verdict OF every patriot The last in the Lecomp
ton drama has been play cd OUT producing hand
the overthrow Of the democratic party and the other the
destruction OF the government Who would have sup
posed that Mr. Buchanan on his return from abroad
would have become the instrument Of the nation ruiny
Nero hddlcd while Rome WAS burning, and Mr.
Buchanan, while the whole republic is falling
into ruin, complacently comes forward and says he
whole country Nathan said to David, Thou art the
man. The blackness and darkness viii overshadow
Mr. Buchanans memory. II there needed any other
inscription his tomb it should be, God have mercy
on him. "a voice from the republican side Amen
lie referred to his former remarks 10 show that his pre-
dction had b. n realized respecting the breaking down
Of the demo attic party by an odions demonstration.
The Presidei had descended from his high posi-
ton to maicously operate against Dir. Douglas II had
been said by outsiders that Buchanan is the last OF the
constitutional President, but IL might with truth
be regarded that he is the first OF constitutional yrants
and usurpers The President had virtually surrendered the
government to the sccessonst, who gained his He
travelled i'll them 10 verge of dissolution bu. refusing
take the leap they turn their keen blades against him
and he now cries for help, while he breaches like
patriot, but his acts like those Of traitor.
lie would TO him, deceitful man be that your
sins will find you out" In the the of his remarks
SAID that the administration lent itself 10 dsunionists
who embodoned by his course destroyed the democratic
party The Union would have been in safety il Douglas
had been elected President. The Southern people are
alone blame for the defeat Of the democracy, and the
election Of lincoln The object TO be obtained IN this was
the dismembcImeut OF the Union.
Mr. Thomas, (opp.) Of Tenn. obtained the floor.
The committee rose, and the House rdjourned'