Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1864-04-07

Northern Congress. A bold Speeoss.
from - bold Man
We find in the Richmond Examiner,
extracts from Il speech recently delivered
in the Yankee Congress by Hon. VIM. j.
j Allen, OF Illinois. It is indeed, "a bold
and fearless document" and nanfnlly ex-
poses the corruption and infamy OF Lin
coin and his party.
Mr.. Allen first lays bare the hollow
professions of the North at the outbreak
of the war, showing that by resolution OF
the House ct Representatives, the war
was not waged Gin any spirit of oppression
or for any purposes OF conquest or subjn-
cation, purpose of overthrowing Or III
terfering with the rights ct established in
stitutions OF these States, but to defend and
maintain the supremacy Of the Constitu-
tion and to preserve the Union, with all
the dignity and equality and rights of the
several States unimpaired." He then cites
a similar resolution submitted to the Sen
ate, bv Andrew johnson Of Tennessee and
unanimously adopted by that body. But
few days before this, says Mr.. Allen, on
the 4rh Of July, 1861, the President spoke
to Congress as follows
@Lest there be some uneasness in the
minds of candid men as to what is to be
the course Of the Government toward the
Southern States after the rebellion shall
have been suppressed, the Executive
deems it proper to say it will be his pnr
pose then, as ever, to be guided By the Ooqs-
stitutlo7s and the Iaaos. He desires to pre-
serve the Government, that 1t may be ad-
ministered for all, IS it was administered
by the men who made IT,"
To the same purpose Mr.. Allen quotes
the language OF Hon. Caleb B. Smith, a
member of Lincoln's Cabinet, since dead ).
in All address TO the people of Rhode Is
land, wherein he says:
''The theory Of this Government is that
the States aresovereign within their proper
sphere. The Government of the United
States has no more right to interfere witt,
the institution of slavery in South Carolina
than 1t has to interfere with the peculia ar
institutions OF Rhode Island.
my friends, we make no war upon
Southern institutions. We recognize the
right of South Carolina and Georgia to
hold slaves if they desire them
sit is not the province OF the Govern.
ment of the United States to enter into a
crusade against the institution OF slavery
would proclaim to the people of all the
States OF the Union the right to manage
their institutions a,a their oaon acay."
Mr.. Allen then caps his climax by put
ting npon top of all his other proofs, the
instructions Of the infamous Seward to Mr..
Dayton, Yankee Minister at the Court of
st. Cloud, in these words
"It is hardly necessary to add to this
incontestible statement the further fact
tina. the new President, as well as the
citizens through whose sufragos he has
come into the administration, mas always
repudiatecsall designs whatever and where
eysrimputed to him aud them of disturb
amg the SYSTEM Of slavery as it is existing
under the constitution and laws. The case,
however, would not be fully presented if
were to omit to say that any such effort
on has part aoonld BE- pnconstitutsona1, and
all his actions in that direction would be
prevented by the judicial authority even
though they were assented to by Congress-
and the people. ."-Instruction to Mr. Day
ton in 1861. rssas@-ssv44 b5a .sfsa< hsrl1 |
Itisrefreshingto to see how Mr.. Allen then
analyses the hypocrisy, Of the. yankee gov
ernment, by contrasting their present.
practiees With their past promises, and
how the MAI, commenced Ondsr the theo;;sss s !