The Placer herald., 1863-03-14
Infamous Speech. ="

correspondent OF the Sacramento
Union quotes the following extract from the
speech Of Senator Salisbury, of Delaware,
and charac,erizes it as "infamous!" Ii is
the uniform practice of the Aboitionists to
assail with vituperatioa those positions which
they cannot combat with arguments. Mr..
Salisbury uttered nothing but the living
truth, for the uttersnce of which he is pub
lished to the world as Infamous. Here is
the language to which the term is applied
The reader may judge with how much
truth:
ten been asked heretofore, why denounce
the administrations Why not denounce the
rebelss answer, sir, that the rebels, as
they are called, are not to be affected by de
nunciation or praise from you or me. They
hava gone out from among us. and are not
to brought back by denunciation, but by
wisdom in council more than by bravery
in the field. have said, Mr. Pres
ident, that the revolution of the Southern
States, was not justitiable | repeat it, sir
But sir, | say as emphatcally that | believe
the intermeddlng 10y the people of the free
States with the subject of slavery, and their
attempt to evade their constitutional obliga-
tions. and to render the homes and firesides
of the people of the slavehoIding States in-
secure, was a crime, and a crime without
which this revolution never could or would
have happened. When he
(the Presidency first attempted this usurpa'
ton of power in this respect, it was to the
extent of snspending the writ Of habeas cor
pus, in reference to particular persons and
particular districts of country; but havin 9
tested the submission of his countrymen, and
fortified himself with the printed opinion OF
his most obsequious Mr.. Attorney General
who manifested great facility, as we'll as fe.
'icity, in writing opinions to order, oletber
with the assurance by a subservient press, as
the consideration for the privilege of trans
mission through the mail, that it is treason
to question the action of the King-vouched
for 10y Mr. Attorney he boldly procams
the suspension in every part Of the United
States, and in respect to all persons who
shall be guilty of whatever he shall adjudge
to be crime, however unknown to the Const-
tuition and the laws of the land.
When, before his inauguration as President
Mr.. Lincoln entered this chamber and found
Crttenden and Douglas and their coIaborers
endeavorng to procure the adoption of meas
ures of honorable compromise, did he request
one Of lis political friends to aid them in
their patriotic efforts? The only response
he ever deigned to his nqnirng and distress
Ell counlrymen, was the dignifed assurance
that nobody is hurt Installed into office,
he betakes himself 20 the agreeable work of
distributing otfic to his greedy followers,
and manifes;s no other interest in public
affairs than to see whether a pretext for war
cannot be had 10y tempting the seceders to
strike the first blow. 1t is struck, and inn
mediately the cly rings throughout the land
that the rebel, have fired upon the national
flag, that Sumper has fallen, and that the
rebellion must be crushed out! Seventv,fve
thousand volunteers are called into the field
soon to be followed by a half million more,
and On to Richmond is the cry. War ex
lists not 10y the act of Congress, but by the
act of Beanregard and Abraham Lincoln
Better. far better, for this country had nelh-
er of them ever been born"