The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1862-01-22

Just cause OF offence to them, by showing
distrust Of that elevated patriotism and una
nimity with which they are sustaining their
country in this her hour Of trial. Let us a
bandon this measure as impolitic, as it is
insulting, oppressive and unjust. ask the
yeas and nays on the question Of its indefi-
mite postponement.
SPEECH OF MR.. VALLANDIGHAM OF OHIO.
THE MASON AND sLIDELL AFFAIR.
We get from our Northern advices some
interesting news Of the Congress at Wash
ington. The debate on the war, which had
occupied the body since its re-assembling,
had turned on The Mason-Slidel affair,
which had been brought up by the President
communicating to Congress the official pa
pers in the matter. Pending Affairs, Mr..
Vallandigham. Of Ohio. made iorcible and
stirring speech. Of which we give summa-
ry:
Mr.. Vallandigham said avail myself,
sir, Of this the earliest opportunity offered to
express my utter and strong condemnation,
as one Of the representatives OF the people,
of the act of the administration in surrender
ing up Messrs. Mason and Slidell to The
British Government. For six weeks. sir,
they we're held ID close custody as traitors
of the United States, by order OF the Secre-
,ary of State, and with the approval and APP
pIause Of the press, of the public men, Of the
Navy Department, Of this House, and OF the
people Of the United States, with full
knowledge of the manner and all the clrcum-
stances Of their capture and yet. in six days
after the imperious and peremptory demand
of Great Britain, they were abjectIy surren-
dered upon the mere rumor even oi the APP
proach of a hostile fleet. and thus. for tile
first time in our national history, have we
strutted insolenty into quarrel without
right, and then basely crept out Of il without
honor and thus tor the first time has the A.
merican eagle been made to cover before the
British lion.
Sir, a vassal, or fetiered and terror-strick-
en- press, or servile and sycophantic politI-
clan, in this House or out oft, NAV applaud
the act, and lawn and hatler, aud lick the
hand which has smitlen down our honor into
the dust. But the people. now or hereafter.
will demand terrible reckoning for This
most gnmsnly surrender. But do not
trust myself to speak Of il now as propose
some day to speak. l rose only to put on
record my emphatic protest against II. and
/ to express my deep conviction thai the very
war which the other day might have been a.
yoided by combined wisdom and hrmness is
/ now inevitable.
Sir, the surrender NAV be no fault nf the
Secretary Of State, but he has sown. fpar,
the dragons teeth by this, his fatal dispatch,
and armed war will spring from il. la the
name of God, SIR, what does England want
with Mason and SlideIl! twas surrender
Of the claim Of the right TO seize them on
board her ships. under her flag that she de-
manded, and yet this is The very thing that
Mr.. Seward pertinaciously refuses, and he
! only condemns Captain Wilkes because he
did not enforce this asserted right with
greater severity against the offending neutral
ship. Why. sir, upon the principles Of this
dispatch, II merchant vessel. as at first in
tended, had been employed TO carry these
men out from Fort Warren to England, she
might to-day have been arrested on the high
seas and they dragged from her deck. provd.
ed only she were forthwith brought back Ia
the port 81 Boston for conf,cation.
i But more than this. England needs. ! III
not say wants. 4 war. but she must and will
have il, aud this administration has acted
from the beginning as if il was heir purpose
to oblige her IN Il 10 the utmost. LnUk into
J. your diplomatic correspondence. Look Al
your stone fleet. But let that pass. Who
ask. among Ill the millions Of his country
or even in this House or Senate, or the Al
minisration itself. 10 the midst Of the dead
calm o. stnlld security which seems nov /,
rest over all. has reflected for moment Up.
on the signifcancy Of the events Of the pass
ing hour j:
A BRUSH man-of-war bears to the shore.
|, oil England, there 10 be received 10 triumph
and with shouts OF exultation as martyrs ant
heroes, and with The gustos Of the people o
England, and as the proteges Of their minis
tiers, the very men who, but for the rash &C
Of Captain Wilkes and the still more rast
endorsement Of the administration and Oh,
country, would six weeks ago have been qui
city landed from a private ship in quiet Sc
curity as rebels and refugees. All Europ'
echoes now with their names. All Europ'
!. mill rt.a nm IN da than honnr and vot va,