American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1851-1863, 1862-07-18
!. SPEECH IN THE U. s. SENATE

the Yankee senate on the z4tn ult.,
salisbury. of Delaware. expressed
,;ess 10 the following strong Ian
H. said that history would hand down
he future, with execration and con-
nation. many acts THE present day.
arbitrary and despot;c power now.
satisfied with trampling on every
stitutionsl right of citizens. has dared
pfaneIy to enter the temple of justice
4 drag her ministers from the altar.
Who thus invades court of justice
80 himself tyrant. capable of any
anIt on the liberties OF the people.
ma the pretence Of supPressing a
rseless rebellion, the Executive De-
@srtment of this Government. in his
IA gment. were daily engaged in the
srDssest violations Of the fundamental
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Who are they who are thus murder
mo civil liberty ? Those who, in the
oretence OF philanthropy. have plunged
she country into all the horrors OF civil
- and now evidence sincerity by
.bouiing LOYALTY, while engaged in de-
.frpying the liberties of the people, and
ever 90 so far as TO dare to impeach the
fovalty Of those men who stand by the
Consttuton He said it was his delIb
4rase and solemn conviction that either
.bolitionism or constitutional liberty must
Earver die-the two cannot exist to-
oether. Abolitionism has, for the time
king. dissolved the Union. and while it
INES II will remain dissolved No free
pecple either will or ought to submit TO
aaswav. Il has been the author of all
car political woes.
aboliionism always has been aggres-
eive CO the liberties of the Government,
end bad eliminated in an attempt to in
vsde peaceful State. Then the Repub>
fcRn party. in the same aggressive spirit.
animated man who declared that "a
house divided against itseIfcannot stand"
TIE war clouds Immediately began TO
iHesten. A Senator { Mr.. Crittenden)
odered compromise. which wouId have
agered the war, but the Abolitionsts
refused compromise and deliberately
chose war Then arose the cry Of lon
90 Richmond" when it was met with a
blpody defeat at Manassas. Then Con-
Rpss passed resolution that the only OBJ
i'll Of the war was TO suppress the rebel
Nj and nothing else. and the loyal peo
III Of the Border States took heart and
How has Congress kept this
pielge?
~ They abolished slavery in the Dis
tf;ci Of Columbia. and established pa
nd for free negroes from Delaware and
Nj Wand. where they were supported
~ taxing white men. They are paying
nvgro teamsters thirty dollars per month
fby have legaIiEed negro testimony
nc established diplomatic relations With
Hayl and Liberia. The council cham
ber Of the nation has been turned into
shOuse of wailing for the wrongs of the
ego. He contended that the present
~ not merely an insurrection or q re-
eilon. but great revolution.
We would take the admissions of the
seastor from Vermont, (Mr. ColIsmer. J
~ Pennsylvania Mr.. Cowan. and AS
pae that the present Confederate Gov
unment is a government de Jdcto. and
tostend that when the old Government
W. fully ousted and new one firmly
esublished. those who give allegiance TO
the after cannot he punished for treason
tothe former. The right of revolution
has been asserted in this country. and he
thor ght it settled. that where a revolu-
too is inaugurated under circumstances
Ehtre success seems probable. it may
pee ome the duty of every citizen 10 yield
slk glance to the new Government, and
Nhtre there is only reasonable proba-
billy OF success, such support to a new
6oSernment is not felony which would
tutject them to prison and death, or con-
hseation.
II was not right to visit severe punish
nent on men for doing what they conci-
entiously believed to be right. A large
nass of these men at the South believe
teat they have the right. and that they
ope allegiance to the State as well as to
th Government. and they had always
GHen great weight to the former HUI
unity. charity. and all the usages of the
ezfllized world cry out agsingt severe