Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1863-03-04
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SPEECH OF MR.. SALISBURY.

SPEECH OF MR.. SALISBURY.
The speech Of Mr.. Salisbury of Delaware, in the
Nortnorh senate Is attracting some attention. 1t
such extracts from 1t as our space will allow:
THE ABOLITION PROCLAMATION
Another measure was adopted by the President
profeSsedly as necessary measure to suppress the
rebellion in his proclamation of the LIST inst, pro:
claiming freedom to nearly three millions Of slaves
IN the revolted States. \ 6rutun tulaen. A Popes
anll as he himself has we'll said against the comet
Are the slaves whom he declares free in his possess
ion or that Of their masters? Has he or they CON-
troll over tbemg Can his paper bull give them prac.
teal liberty? Ifit can surely it can do some other
and more efficient things towards suppressing re-
bslon. II 1t is 80 potential why not issue another
declaring that the eyes of the rebels shall all imme
diately drop oug They could not then see to fight
against him. Why not still another, that the guilty
sinners shall all Immediately become lame? They
could not then march against him. And yet anoth-
er, that every nerve Of every rebel shall be imme
diately enervated2 They could not then fire gun
OR draw sword Still another, that Richmond is
taken! They then would have no capitol One
more, that they are all dead without heirss Then,
in'ieed, their possessions would all escheat and
without the aid OF cenfscation bill could be par
ce!ed out among the thousands of disnterested but
hopeful and expectant patriots who are impatently
waiting for the time to come when they shall be
hi den to go down and possess the "goodly land"
M President while this utterly unconstitutional
and abominably wicked proclamation can be Of no
service toward restoring the Union it will, while
unrevOked and attempted to be executed, forever
prevent peaceful reunion of the States. say
peaceful re union for never dreamed of a re union
by force. You can never conquer the South. That
many people, inhabiting that extent of territory,
hare never been conquered since the world began,
so Is to be made permanently to live in connection
with another people against their will. You cannot
restore the Union by force. 1t never could have
been preserved by force Would some modern,
slave freeing patriot hear what wiser man than
Abraham Lincoln has said on the subject? Would
some modern patriot who questions the loyalty of
all those who differ in opiuion from HIMSELF would
scme patriotic editor of newspaper which, perhaps,
may denounce me as disloyal because have uttered
THIS sentiment, listen to what greater man than
tho Executive, or even than mighty editor or
scribbler for some obscure newspaper has said? If
So invite his attention to the words of John Quincy
Adams in reference to this very matter.
Was he a disunionist was be secessionist be-
Cause he did not believe that Government created
ty consent and united by the affections Of the peo
pie could be kept together and preserved oy force
wien the people of the different sections had be-
come alenated? Ifhe was not disun;onist or Sc
cessioalst for believing that what have the
ir:dern pretenders to patriotism, but whose patri
otsm however, In too many cases, results from pub
lie contracts or from feeding at the public crib, to
charge me, and those who think with me, with be.
ins disoyal to the government of my country or to
the Constitution and laws of the land, because we
ha:ieve as he believes? What interests have l to
be disloyal to the government and Constitution of
my country? What benefit could secession bring
to me or my peopleP Do we wish to invoke fire
aea sword to sweep over our little State? Do We
want the contending factions maddened, deyilish,
pr fame to tread our soil and destroy substance
No. Sir; we only pray that the God of heaven may
even now aid the benightei counsels of this admin
i<t"aton, that they may retrace their steps, and
that by prudence Of action and wisdom of counsel,
they may again cause one national flag to wave not
only over the State of Delaware and the States now
m the Confectionery, but again to from the
lakes to the gulf and from ocean TO ocean, the en-
blem Of united, happy, prosperous and great pee.
pc.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS on COERCION
But sir, have digressed l call attention to inc
u.terances of Mr. Adams in reference to these qucs-
tiuns, that we may whether those who now en-
tain the opinions he did are properly to be charged
with being actuated by different sentiment from
that by which he was actua:ed. l presume it will
not be denied that Mr.. Adams uttered the words
which am about to read. have not the address
III pamphlet form, but have it taken from news.
paper protesting to give the time and place. and the
persons who were present on the occasion The
extract which shall read is contained in address
ibore the Historical Society of New York. delivered
in the city of New York. on the Both of April 1899
Mr.. Adams argued in the address that no State had
right TO nullify an act of Congress no State
had right to secede from the Union. I believe
every word he said in reference to both these mat
tcrs, and choose, now, SIT, to believe what he fur
ther said on that occasion, when he declared: .
But the indissoluble link of union between the
people Of the several States of this confederated
60 ftarc H. Ia I,,k h1,,k
Ii the day should ever come (may Heaven avert it
when the affections of the people of these States
shall be alienated from each other; when the fra
terna spirit shall give way to cold indifference, or
collisions of interests shall tester into hatred the
lands of political association will not long hold to-
gether parties longer attracted by the magnetism
Of conciliatcd interests and kindly sympathies and
Ear better will it be for the people of the disunited
States to part in friendship from each other than
TO be held together by constraint Then will be
the time for reverting to the precedents which oc
Cured at the formation and adoption of the Con-
sttutlon, to form again more perfect union, by
'issolving that which could no longer bind, and to-
leave the separated parts to be united by the law
IT political gravitation to the centre"
Mr.. President and Senators, want no dissolution
1t the Union l want to see all the States re-
United but do not believe in your policy of doing
it. You had better take warning in time. Do you
not hear in every breeze the utterances, in very
auu powerful scCliOn Vi tulS county,
the folly of extremes has dissolved the Union and
plunged US into war, and that the time may come
when selfinterest may dictate that they, to escape
the burdens which you impose, and to have securi-
ty for the future, may be bound to form union
among themselves? It may be that the thing now
is but imagination. 1t is for you to consider wheth
er persistence in the insane policy of this admir-
istration will not lead to such lamen.able catas
trophe.
CONSENT THE ONLY WAY TO RESTORE TIE UNION.
The only means by which the Union can be re-
stored is the consent of the contending parties,
based upon such terms as shall be agreeable to
both. This proclamation declares that the ESecu-
sive government of the United States, including the
military and naval authorities thereof, will recog-
nlze and maintain the freedom Of said slaves. The
effect of this declaration is that if the people OF the
South shall at any time hereafter be willing to re-
turn to their allegiance to the government Of the
United States, and to live under the Constitution
If &c opd in fha Ifp;on wos thew shall mt