Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1862-03-12
Speech of Senator WriEht...

Speech of Senator Wright..
Senator Wright, of Indiana, represen.
: ed this country at Berlin, during the adj
: ministration of Mr. Buchanan, and witI
marked ability, too. He is thoroughly .
Western man, one of the wide-awake, GO
ahead sort, plain spoken and out spoken
and when abroad, did not go to sleep ovel
his mission. His recent speech at Indi
annapolis is full of good things, and We
should like to publish it all. A few ex
tracts, however, must suffice:
PARTIES DEAD DEADi DEADw
think remark once made by the Ia
; mented Senator Douglas, to Mr.. Buch.
anan might be applied with great force
and truthfulness to the political parties OF
this country. In 1860, when the Presi-
dental Convention was progressing, Mr.
Douglas found in newspaper that he was
a LecoH,ptonite- he had written let
ter to Mr.. Calhoun, and that he was i.
Identified with the Lecompton scheme,
&C., &c. Then, for the first time, he gave
the public his own views of that affair
He told this anecdote-said he: when
l went to Washington, Mr.. Buchanan
sent for me. Said the President: Mr..
Douglas, | understand you are opposed to
me upon this question" "Yes, SIR" was
the reply, Il am opposed to you" Said
Mr.. Buchanan, Mr.. Douglas, won't you
wait until the people of Kansas haye ex-
pressed their will upon the question p
Yes sir, will wait till then, unless YOU
send in that Lecompton message" Thus
the conversation went on until the Presi-
dent got into passion. I" Mr.. Douglas"
said he, Remember Rives, remember
Tallmadge, and a host of Others. The
Democrat who stands in the way of o
Democratic Administration must go down.
As quick as lightning the Senator replied,
Sc Mr.. Buchanan, Gen. Jackson is dead
He is dead 70 So l think in regard to
these political parties. They are dead
deadL deadi Their platforms are not
worth the paper they are written upon
They must always go in a contest involv-
ing, like this, the very life and existence
of the Government
COL. BESToN's WARNINGS.
First, few words in relation to Mr..
Benton. You that have kept up with the
public life of that great man, know that
for the last twenty-five or thirty years he
has insisted upon every occasion where
he expressed his views, that itwas the aim
of Southern politicians, of Mr.. Calhoun
and other, to destroy the Government ?-I
Many thought him childish at the time.
and but little attention was paid to him.
But Time, that great inquisitor of the
truth, has shown that the old man was
right. Ever since the year 1882 the great |
aim of many Southern political men has |
been to foment jealousy and Ill feeling be- |
tween the North and the South. Hence |
the uncalled for and unceasing agitation |
of the slavery question, looking directly |
to an ultimate dissolution of the Union.-l
Why was this?
ORIGIN OF DIsUNIoS.
At the time of the Revolution, the city |
of Charleston was the commercial rival of |
New York. Its trade was almost as great. |
But it did not continue so. The mighty |
metropolis of the North outstripped and |
overshadowed its Southern rival The |
South saw its glory departing, and there !
this contest in a great degree. |
Hence the long cherished iealousies that |
have existed between the North and the |
South. From the year 1882, the South
ern papers never have had anything to
say about statistics. No man in Congress
speaks about the comparative prosperity
Of the free and slave States, or compares
the commerce of Northern or Southern
cities; but the constant talk is supon topics.
that have tendency to inhame Jealous
les, and to keep the two portions of the
country IN q constant state of excitement. Il
What was the object? What was the end
If all this? 1t was the dissolution of the In
on and the subversion of the Federal Coy
FOREIGN NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
In the next place, one word in regard
o foreign interference. The late effort {
% place a member of the House of Haps-
,urg on the throne of Mexico, is one that
he patriotic statesman cannot but con- /
emplate with deep interest. If it shall {
)rove to be true that the Southern States '
laye offered to give Great Britain mo- Y
lop0iy of their trade for fifty years, and .
o abolish slavery, on condition that they
hall have her assistance in this struggle, {
hen you and / are living in times in S
which the most momentous questions are I
o arise for solution l pass by without G
living any opinion upon this subject, al
hough have my views.
NAPOLEON AND ENGLAND. e
One word, however, in regard to Napo- t
con. Here is one man that believes Ma v
'oleon will never engage IN contest T
gainst us. 1t would be directly adverse v
o his interests. If l learned anything b
rom my intercourse with foreign minis v
ers at the Prussian Court, it was this:
hat Napoleon can use his alliance with I
,ngland. He used it in the war with t
Iustria. He broke the treaty of 1915 all c
D atoms, and John Bull stood by all the
me and saw it done without saying q e
ord. He took fifteen millions of people 81
'om the Austrian Government, and gave b
hem to Victor Emanuel That's the r.
ay he can use his alliance with England. Il
viii he not use it again? p
This man Napoleon is a man Of his own fl
lind, and has sense enough to keep his o.
wn thoughts to himself. He has more e
ltellect, too, than any of the ruling mon e
rchs of Europe. These royal families, you n
now, generally have long genealegies, Il
nd most of the crowned heads of Europe o.
lherit their royalty through so many is
enerations that all the intellect is usual O.
7 exhausted before it reaches them. Ma n
oleon is the.frst of his line, and conse- s.
uently he has more blood and brains and c.
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