Delaware State journal and statesman., 1862-02-04

Senate or House OF Representatives there, 1T
would doubt whether it was his duty - consent
nt Once To the destruction of II great country
10 it's separation, it may be, into two hostile
camps or whether he would not try what
means were open to him, and would be open Ia
the government, TO avert such an unlocked iul
aud dire calamity. There were other speeches
that have been made ! will not refer TO them
by any quotation | will not, out Of pity to
some Of the men who have uttered them
tlaughter)-l will not bring their names even
before you, or give to them an endurance which
hope they will not have-- (hear, hear l
will leave them in that obscurity which they
so richly merit. tLaughter.) But now you
know as well as do, that of all the speeches
made at the end of the session of Parliament by
public men and politicians, the minority of them
displayed either strange ignorance Of American
affairs or a strange absence Of that cordially
and friendship which, | maintain, our American
kinsmcn have right to look for at our hands
(lielr, hoarl
And if we part from the speakers aud turn to
the writer's, what do we find there We fluid
that that journal which is reputed abroad, and
has hitherto been reputed at home, as the most
powerful representative Of English opinion, At
least of the richer classes-we iiud that in that
very newspaper there has not been, since MIR
Lincoln took Office in March last as President
of the United States, one fair, aud honorable
and friendly article on American affairs in its
columns CIlear, hear) Some of you, dare
say, read it--Caughter) )--but fortunately now
every district is 90 admirably supplied with
local newspapers, that | trust in all time to
come the people Of England will drink Of purer
streams nearer home-(eheers and laughter)-
and not of streams which are muddled by party
feeling, political intrigue, and by many motives
that tend TO anything rather thin ihp en.ight-
enmcnt aud advantage Of the people. tllenr,
hear Now, il is said why this war? Why
not separate pcaceably? Why this frNtreda
st,irr. hope they will all br against frAiri-
ciIal strife? | hope they will NIL he against
lratrcdal strife IN every respect tit be true
that God has made of one blood all the families
of man TO dwell on the lace Of all the earth, it
must be fiairioidal strife whether we are
slnnghtering Russians in the Crimea, or bonn
hartliug the towns OH the sencoast of the United
States. Hear, hear) Now, no one will eX-
pect that shonld stand forward as the advocate
Of war, or ihe defender Of TINT grent sum Of all
crime which il involved in war hut when you
aro discussing n question of this nature il ia only
fair you should discuss it upon principles which
arc Acknowledged not only in the country where
the strife s being carried on, but universally
acknowledged in this country. When | dis
cussed the question of the Russinn war seven
On eight years ago, | always discussed it on tho
principles which were avowedly those Of the
government of the people Of England, and
took my tegta from the blne hooks which were
presented hefnre me- tako the liberty Of doing
that now in this cnse. / say thnt, looking at
the principles avowed in England, and ut all its
policy, there is 10 mnn, that is not absolutely
non resistant in every sense, who can fairly
challenge the conduct Of the American Govern
ln9nl In this war. II i9 n curious thing to find
That the party in this country which on every
public question is in favor of war at any cost,
when it comes to speak of the duty Of the Gov
ernment of the United States is in favor Of
peace Il any price. (1lear.) l want to know
whether it has ever beeu admitted by politicians
and statesmen that great nations can be broken
upa any time by the will of any particular
section of those Aations2 1t has been tried oc-
casonaly in Ireland Caughter)- and il it had
succeeded, history would have said with very
good cause (IIear, hear.) But if anybody tries
now to get up secession or insurrect0n in Ire
land, it would be less disturbing in everything
than the secession in the United States, because
there IL n boundary which nobody can dispute
| am quite sure the Times newspaper would
have sent a special correspondent who would
have described, glowiDgly and exutingly, the
manner in which the irish insurrectiOnists were
cut down and made nu end of. Let any man
try in this country to restore the Heptarchy.
Do you think that my minister in this country
would think it thing to be tolerated for mo-
ment? But if you will look ut the map of the
United States, you will SEQ that there is no
country in the world, probably at this moment,
where any plan Of separation between North
aud south, rs far as the question of boundary
is concerned, is 50 surrounded with nsurmonnt-
able difficulties For example: Maryland is a
slave State, but Maryland has, by n very large
Il . a.. a
10 North, or South Kentucky is a Slave
State, md one of the finest States in the Union,
and containing a fine people Kentucky has
voted for the Union, and has been invaded from
the South Missouri is Il Slave State. Missouri
has not seeded but has been invaded from the
South, and there is secession party in that
State. There are parts Of Virginia which form
themselves into a new State, resolving to adhere
to the North aud there is no doubt n consider
able Northern aud Union feeling in the State Of
Tennessee and have no doubt that there is in
every other state Indeed, am not sure that
there is not now within the sound Of my voice
a citizen of the United States (hearl-a citizen
uf the State of Alabama, who can tell you that
there the question of secession has never been
put to the vote, and that there are great num-
hers Of most reasonable and thoughtful, Just,
men in the State who entirely depore the con
dition of things there existing. Well then,
what would You do with all these States, and
with what may he called the loyal portion of
the popul ,tion of these States? Would you
allow them to be dragooned into this insurrec-
tion, mud into the formation of new State, to
Shnh they themselves are hostile But whht
would you do with the city of Washington ?
Washington is in Slave State. Would any
body have advised President Lincoln and his
cabinet, and the members Of Congress, of the
House Of Representatives and Senate from the
North, with their wives and children, and every
body else who was not u favor of the Sonth,
that they should set off on their melancholy pill
grmnee norhward, leaving u capital hnllowcd
hy such associations, having its neme FROM the
father ot their c0untry,-would you say that
they should travel norlhward, and leave Wash.
iuptou 10 the S0uth because Washington was
situated in Slave State : Again, what do you
say 10 the Mississippi River Have you seen it
on the map--the father of watrrs-roling thnt
eigautic stream to the ocean do you think the
fifty millions who will one day occupy the banks
of that river to the nOrthwArd-dO you think
that they would consent that that great stream
should roll through foreign, aud, il might be,
a hostile State (llear, hear, aud cheers.) Aud
more, l'ir are four millions Of negroes in sub
lection FOR them the American Union is d-
rcctly spuusibe. They are not seeessionists.
They are now, as they always were, legally,
not subjects nor citizens, but under the care and
power Of the Government Of the United States.
Would you consent that these should be delivered
np tu the tender merces of their taskmasters,
the defenders Of slavery, as an everlasting in
stitu;on? Well if all had been surrendered
without II struggle, what then? What would
the writer's in this newspaper, and other news
papers, have said? If bare rock in your EN-
pire that would not keep a single goat alive, be
touched by any foreign power, why. the whole
empire is aroused TO resistance. And if there
be, from accident or from passion, the smallest
insult tn your flag, what do your newspaper
writers soy on the subject, and what is said in