The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1863-08-20

not Incorporated in the Constitution, and again
ratified and strengthened in the Fugitive Slave
law Of 1850? But do you reply that in many
instances they have violated this compact, and
have not been faithful to their engagement L?
rs individual and local communities they may
have done so, but not by the sanction of Govern
ment, for that has always been true to Southern
interests.
Again, gentlemen, look ut another fact ;
when we have asked that more territory should
be added, that we might spread the institution of
Slavery, have they not Welded TO our demands in
giving US louisiana, Florida and Texas, out Of
which four States have been carved, and ample
territory for four more To be added in due time,
if you by this unwise and inpOlitic act do not
destroy this hope, and, perhaps, by 1T lose all,
and have your last slave wrenched from you by
stern military rule, as South America and Mexico
were, or by the vIndictiye decree OF u universal
emancipation, which may reasonably be expected
to follow. But, again, gentlemen, what have
we to gain by this proposed change of our rela-
ton 70 the General Government? We have
always had the control of it, and can yet, if we
remain in it and are as united as we have been.
We have had a majority Of the Presidents chosen
from the South, as well as the control and man.
agernent Of most of those chosen from the North.
We have sixty years OF Southern Presidents TO
their twenty-four, thus controlling the Executive
Department. So, of the Judges Of the Supreme
Court, we have had eighteen from the South, and
but eleven from the North although nearly four
ffths of the judicial business has arisen in the
Free States, yet a majority of the Court has
always been froII the South. This we have re-
quired so as to guard against any Interpretation
of the Constitution unfavorable to us. In like
manner we have been equally watchful to guard
our interests in the legislative branch of Govern
ment. In choosing the presiding Presidents (pro
TEN. } of the Senate, we have had twenty-four to
their eleven. Speakers Of the House we have
had twenty-three, and they twelve. While the
majority OF the Representatives, from their greater
population, have always been from the North,
yet we have generally secured the Speaker, be-
cause he, to a great extent, shapes and controls
the legislation of the country. Nor have we
had less control in every other Department of the
General Government. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT we
have had fourteen, while the North have had but
five. Foreign Ministers we have had eighty-six,
and they but fftv-four. While three-fourths of
the business which demands diplomatic agents
abroad is clearly from the Free States, from their
greater commercial interests, yet we have had
the principal embassies, so as to secure the world
markets for our cotton, tobacco, and sugar, on
the best possible terms. We have bad Il vast
majority of the higher Offices Of both army and
navy, while a larger proportion of the soldiers
and sailors were drawn from the North. Equally
so of clerks, auditors, and controllers filling the
Executive Department the records show for the
last fifty years that of the three thousand thus
we have had more than two thirds of
the same. while we have but one-third of the
white population of the Republic.
again, look at another item, and one, be
assured. in which we have n great ard vital in
terest it is that of revenue, or reans of support
ing Government. From official documents we
learn that 4 fraction over three-fourths of the
revenue collected for the support of Government
has uniformly been raised from the North. Pause
now while you can. gentlemen, and contemplate
carefully and candidly these important items.
Leaving out of view, for the present, the count
millions Of dollars you must expend in a war
with the North with tens of thousands of your
sons and brothers slain in battle, and offered up
as sacrifices 10 the altar Of your ambition-and
for what? we ask again. Is it for the overthrow
Of the American Governments, established by our
ancestry. ccmented and built up by their
sweat and blood, and founded on the broad prin-
ciples of right, justice, and humanity? And, as
such, l must declare here, as | have often done
before, and which has been repeated by the great
and wisest of statesmen and patriots in this
md other lands, that it is the best and freest Gov
srnment-the most equal in its rights, the most
ust in its decisions, the most lenicnt in its meas
uses, and the most inspiring in its principles 10
elevate the race of men, that the sun of heaven
shone upon. Now, for you To attempt to
such II Government an this, under
which we have lived for more than thTeequarters
IF Il century-in which we have gained our
wealth, our standing as a nation, our domestic
afety, while the elements of peril are around us,
With peace and tranquility accompanied with un-
bounded prosperity and rights unassailed-is the
of madness, folly and wickedness, to which
can neither lend my sanction nor my vote"