Winchester journal. [volume] (Winchester, Indiana) 1862-1863, 1863-03-13
Mr.. JrLIAN said:

Mr.. JULIAN said;
MR. SPEAKER:-The line Of argument
propose to pursue during the hour nich
belongs to me is general in It's character
and will not specially refer to the meas
ure before the House. lt will not, how
ever, he found substantially irrelvemt to
the subject; and a. | have already waited
several weeks for the floor, and the wi
dest latitude has thus far been allowed in
this debate, trust | shall he permitted
to proceed without cncOunteriHg any very
strict construction OF the rules OF order
provided for the government OF this body.
In seeking 70 interpret the terrible
conflict through which our country Is
passing, and to devise, II possible, a just
and wise policy TOR the Government in its
future action, the mind naturally reverts
- the past. There is sense in which II
Is well To let bygones be bygones, but
We can never afford 10 dispense with the
lessons oi experience. By an eternal law,
a. unvarying in politics as ia morals, 20.
day is made the child OF Yesterday aud
the parent of TO -mOrrow-thc past and
the present linked together in the rela-
ton OF cause and effect, and irreyOcabiy
woven into the future. 1t j. true phiius-
ophv, therefore, 10 profit by our mistakes,
{ the extent stunning their repetition,
while causing the past 10 reAppear where
its deeds have been worthy
The triumph OF the Republican partly in
800 was the triumph o dom over sia-
very. Go not SAY that ali wao supported
Abraham Lincoln were abolitionists, or
even anti-slavcry m,n. or that all who
opposed him were the advocates 0f sia
very. This would be very far from the
exact truth. WHAT affirm is, that hos
tiiity 10 slavery was the anlmatng senti-
ment OF the men whose deeply rooted con
victions and unquenchable zeal made the
formation OF the Republican party ne
cesslty, and ncryed II with all It's real
strength; while, on the other hand. the
espousal Of slavery was the grand and
darling purpose of those whose shaping
hand and inspiring ambition gave life and
law to the Democratic organization.
| go further still. The contest Of $50
was not simply struggle between slavery
and freedom. but struggle of life and
death. Slavery as a system OF unskilled
labor. demands the right of unrestricted
extenriOn over fresh soil a. condition
of It's life. This is law OF nature, at.
tested by the Seminole and Florida war.
the seizure 4 Texas, the war with Mexico,
the repeal of the Missouri restriction, the
raid into Kansas, and by its entire history
in this country. Confne it by impossible
boundaries, and it will turn upon and de-
your its own life. and destroy both master
and slave. Shareholders understand this
perfectly, and ! DO not marvel that their
hostility was not assuaged in the smallest
degree by the Republican dogma of non
interference with Il in the States. They
knew that the exclusion of il from all the
fedtral territory would not only put the
nations brand upon il in the States which
IL sconrges, and condemn il as a public
enemy, but virtually sentence il To death.
They believed, with our Republican faith
ers' that restriction means destruction.
ney knew that as the first dose of medi.
cine gwen 10 a sick man forms q part of
the whole process of cure, so the p0licy
OF Limitation, as an incipient remedy for
our great national malady, would Toe fol-
loNed Dy other measures, moral, ec0nOm.
ical. and political. which would ultimate
y but surely eKpel il from the country.
Hence they fought Republicanism with
all the zeal and desperation which could
be inspired oy great social and moneved
power, threatened with suffoca,ion and
death. They we're simply obevinc the
laws Of sell preservation; and | think IL
due 10 irankness TO confess that me
charge Of ''a0olitionism.' which they In