, 1863-11-21

There was never heart 80 full of care
But thad one hope to cheat despair.
There was never a winter dark and drear
But it changed to spring in the early year;
There was never summer, well-a-day
But it sloped through autumn to decay.
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Southern Treason in the 36th Congress.
Senator Toombs, of Georgia, in the Senate
of the United States. january 7, 1861, fol
lowing the introduction of the Crittenden
Compromise resolutions, among other things,
said:
q The Union, sir, is dissolved That is
an accomplished fact in the path of this dis
cussion that men may as wellheed. One of
your confederates has already wisely, boldly,
bravely confronted public danger, and she
is only ahead Of many of her sisters because
of her greater facility for speedy action"
The one of our Oonfederates" here no
ticed was South Carolina, which had al
ready seeded Her members of Congress
retired on the 2lst December, 1860 The
speech Of MIR. ToOmbs was not the first ex-
hibtion of the disposition of Southern Sen
ators at that Session Of Congress to be con-
ciliatory and compromise, and cultivate Mr.
Cox's " spirit of sacrifice" On the 5th De
cember, 1860, two days after the meeting of
Congress, Mr.. Iverson, Senator from Geor-
ola, made speech on the Presidents Buc-
hanan's7 message He said Congressional
GLo5e, Session of 1860-'6l, Part l, COM
mencing on page 10) "I do not myself
place the right Of State to secede on con
stitutional grounds admit that the Con-
stitution has not granted that power to a
State. 1t is exceedingly doubtful now
whether the right has been reserved. Ger
tainly it has not been reserved in express
terms = x \ K < But. sir, while
State has no power under the Consti
tuition conferred upon it to secede from
the Federal Government, or from the I'm
ion each State has the right of revolution
which all admit. Sir, before the
4th of March, before you inaugurate your
President, there will be certainly five States,
if not eight of them, that will be out of the
Union and have formed constitution and
form Of government for themselves.
You talk about concessions You talk
about repeating the personal liberty bills as
a concession to the South Repeal them all
tomorrow, sir, and it would not stop this
resolution. x x Nor do we
suppose there will be any overt acts on the
part9of Mr.. Lincoln. For one | do not
dread these overt acts. [ do not propose to
wait for them. Now. sir
we intend to 90 out of this Union. speak
what believe upon this floor, that, before
the 4th of March, five of the Southern
States, at least, will have declared their in
dependence and | am satisfied that three
others Of the Cotton States will follow as
soon as the action Of the people can be had
"Sir, the Southern States that are now
moving in this matter are not doingit with
out due considerations We have looked
over the whole field We believe that the
only security for the institution to which we
attach so much Importance, is Secession and
Southern Confederacy. We are satisfied
Notwithstanding the disclaimers Of the black
Republicans to the contrary, that they in.
tend to use the Federal power, when they
get possession of it, to put down and extin-
guish the institution of slavery in the South
ern States. x We do not intend to
stay in this Union until we shall become so
weak that we shall not be able to oresist when
the time comes for resistance. Our true pol
icy is the one which we have made up our
minds to follow. Our true policy is to go
out Of this Union now, while we have
strength to resist any attempt on the part Of
the Federal Government to coerce US. [
can tell the Senator from New Hampshire
(Mr Hale), as we'll as all his friends, when
they talk about South Carolina going out,
that she is not the only State. Her destiny
is, beyond doubt, fixed. She is determined
in the language Of her distinguished Sena-
tor, not here to-day Mr.. HAMMOND, to go
out high, dry, and forever; aud there are
other States that intend to follow her exam
pie
Arkansas, whose Legislature is now in
session, will, in all probability, call conyen-
tion at an early day Louisiana will follow.
! Her Legislature will meet, and although
there is clog in the way of the Lone Star
State Of Texas, in the person Of her Cover
nor, who will not consent to call her Legis-
lature together, and give the people Of that
State an opportunity to act, yet the public
sentiment of that State is so decided in IA
vor Of this movement, that even the Cover
nor will be overriden; andif he does not
/ yield to public sentiment, some Texan Bru-
tus will arise to rid his country of the hoary-
headed incubus that stands between the peo-
pie and their sovereign will We intend,
Mr. President, to 90 out, peaceably if we
can, forcibly if we must. We shall,
in the next twelve months, have a Confede-
racy of the sovereign States, and Govern
ment inaugurated and in successful opera
ton, which, in my opinion, will be a Gov
ernment Of the greatest prosperity and pow
er that the world has ever seen, There will
be no war in my opinion
"Here are two hostile bodies on this Aoor
and it is but type of the feeling that ex-
lists between the two sections. We are enc
mics as much as if we were hostile States
I believe that the Northern people hate the
South worse than ever the English people
hated the French and can tell my breth-
ren over there that there is no love lost on
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