Newbern weekly progress., 1862-01-21

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SPEECH OF Mr.. VALLANDIGHAM, OF
ONO. IN THE YANNEE CONGRESS ON
| THE TRENT AFFAIR
In our edition of Saturday last we made
mention of the fact, says the Richmond
| Dispatch, that Mr.. Vallandgham made
speech, on the 7th inst, in the House
of Representatives, on the surrender Of Mason
and Sldell. The following is the report of his
remsfss anstbat occasion. ssasea
| Mr.. Yallandigham, (Opp.,) of Ohio, said:
avail myself sir, of this the earliest opportuni-
| ty offered to expires my utter and strong con-
Cemnation, as one of the representatives of the
| people, of the act Of the Administration in sur
rendering up Mason and Slidell to the British
| Government. For six weeks, sir, they were
! held in close custody as traitors of the United
5 ;ltes, by order of the Secretary of State,
and with the approval and applause of the
press, Of the public men of the Navy De-
partm 4nt, If this House, and Of the people of
the United States with full knowledge Of tho
! manner and all the circumstances of their cap-
ture and yet in SIX days after the inpcriouI
and peremp .ory demand of Great Britain they
were abjectly surrendered upon the mere ru-
NOR OF the approach of a hostile feet, and
thus for the first time in our national history
out right, and then basely crept out of it with
out honor ; and thus for the first time has the
American eagle been made to cover before the
British Ion.
Sir, vassal or fcttered and terror-stricken
pres or servlle and sycophantic politicians, in
this House out of it, may applaud the act,
and fawn and ttatter and lick the hand which
has smltten down our honour into the dust
but the people, now or hereafter, will de-
nand terrible reckoning for this most un-
manly surrender. Bat do not trust myself to
speak of it now as propose some day to speak.
| rose only to put on record my emphatic pro-
test against it and do express my deep convic-
ton that the very which the other day
might have been avoided by combined
wisdom and frlnness, is now inevitable.
Sir, the surrender may be fault of the
Secretary of State, hut he has sown, | fear, the
dragons teeth, by this, his fatal dispatch, and
armed war will spring from it. In the namo
of God, Sir, what docs England want with Ma
son and Slidell? 1t was a surrender Of the
claim of the right to seize them on board her
ships under her flag, that she demanded, and
vet this is the very thing that Mr.. Seward per-
tinacously refuses, and he only condemns
Captain Wilkes because he did not enforce this
asserted right with greater severely against
the offending neutral ship. Why, sir, upon
the principles of this dispatch, if a merchant
vessel, as at first intended, had been employed
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England, she might to-day have benn arrested
on tue high and they dragged from her
deck, provided only she were forthwith
brought back to the port Of Boston for contis-
atGn.
But more than this, England needs, do not
say wants a war; but she must and will have
1t, and this Administration las acted from tho
beginning as if it was their purpose to oblige
her in it to the utmost. Look INTO your dipio-
matte correspondence. Look at your stone fleet.
But let that pass. Who, ask, among all tho
millions Of this country, or even in this House
or Senate, the Administration itself, iii tHe
midst of the dead calm Of stoiId security which
seems now to rest over al has reflected for u
moment upon the signihcancy of the events Of
the passing hours?
\ British man of war bears to the shores of
England, there to be received in triumph aud
with shouts Of exultation as martyrs and he
roes, and with the gustos Of the people of Eng
land and as the protcges of their minister's the
vc:y who but for the rash aci of Captain
Wilkes, and the still more rash endorsement
Of the Administration and the country, would
six weeks ago have been quietly landed from a
private ship Ill quiet security as rebels and re-
fugces All Europe echoes now with their
names. All Europe will rise up to do them
honour, and yet you surrendered them, did
you to escape the recognition by England of
,he Confederate States, and your Secretary Of
ioSophy, camly cejoices That the cffectual check
upon and warning proportions of the insurrec-
ton, as eli as the comparative unlIuportance
Of the persons concerned, happily enable tho
Administration after six weeks of experimen, to
cheerluly libcrate them, and thus 10 remove
this tctcriani cauSi JeUi. -e, esz.-
Sir, give me leave TO say that the m-tnent
they (Mason and SlidciD stepped upon the deck
of British man of war, your prisoners of ate,
whom the other day you would have consigned
to felon's cells, became inded the ENJOYS and
ambassadors OF a recognized independent State,
and | predict her to-day, in spite of this deep
national hunation rather perhaps because
OF it, and spite, too, Of the surrender, with
out protest, ot the Monroe doctrine, for forty
years the cherished and proud policy Of this
Government, in less than three months you
will be at war with Great Britain, else, in
the meantime will have basely submitted 10
he recognition of the Confederate States and
the breaking up Of the blockade and, il at war
then, Hith hearts unstrunS aud hands unnerved
by this very surrender. fs4
Courage! courRge courage! sir. is the best
ana first of poacemakcrs know well, of course
sir that like all other similar. predictions for
some years past. in regard to our public affairs,
you viii treat this one also with SOOTHING and
:ncredulity /; but, nevertheless put itoG rec
ord here today. THE prudent mar foreseeIh
the evil and hideth himself but the simple
pass on and are punished" e