Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1864-04-21

| Mr.. ASHLEY. deny the gentlsmsn's statement "a
Tar as the Secretary OF the Treasury is concerned dc
sire to ask the gentle from New York where
the present Secretary Of the Treasury any official ac
of his advocated the recognition Of the Southern States
| as an independent nation 7 A 't3 3}7Nr tR
/ Mr.. COX. With the permission of my friend will
give my colleagues the proof If the gentleman will look
at the National Integencer of April 90 1861 he will find
speech reported made by the Mayor Of Baltimore,
winch SAID IN full meeting the 10Th day Of April that
Secretary Chase had told him that This from the
Mayor Of Baltimore and has been denied and my
colleague knows very well that Governor Chase will
deny it. .sI af Hf
Mr. ASHLEY. Sir. deny il for him. know he has
never officially in any published letter speech advo-
Gated the recognition Of the Southern States nde
Mr.. cox The gentleman should not deny any thing
before no hears what il s He prompt to put in
general issue before he knows what charge The ex-
tract reads that although he Chase) opposed the right
81 secession yet when independent and powerful States
mad gone out OF the Union and determined not
turn no was Tor telling them to go in peace. That
announced to the people OF Baltimore in public meeting
ny an Official character, aud has been denied.
Mr. ASHLEY Ideny it now; and deny the authority
from which it comes.
Mr. COX. ask the gentleman what authority he has
for that denislf @sEte 3,e #rt EfEt Tn
Mr. ASHLEY. answer the gentleman, by the char.
acter OF the man. and my intimate knowledge Of his opn
Mr. COX. Then the gentleman does not speak by au-
thority at ALL II were to judge Of man BY his Char
acer should say that the gentleman authorized
10 deny any thing for any body. tt
Mr.. FERNANDO WOOD, Mr. Speaker, the gentle
from Ohio (Mr Ashley may deny the fact but the
Secretary OF the Treasury himself does not deny it,
surprised that there should be any denial here now
IT we'll understood any declaration that has been
made officially otherwise by any gentleman connected
with this Administration and when any member of this
House will produce authorized denial from the Secre
tary OF the Treasury himself the country will believe him.
and not before.
But sir have said that the Republican party had its
existence in spirit Of disunon that its fathers and great
leaders came into political being that sentiment This
Administers could not hold together forty-eght hours
except by that hord dogma of destruction acting col
fusion with corruption. have some few extracts from
the recorded opinions of the men who rule the country
it necessary could prove like reasonable utter.
ances the President and each member of his Cabinet
But by their acts shall they be judged It s not Deces
sary in their to refer to expressions-ther official
conduct speaks louder and palmer than words.
Mr. WOOD then proceeded to cite numerous instances
IN which dsunion and revolutionary sentiments had
uttered IN times past by Northern statesmen and po
clans, viz:
On the Gath of February lS42 John Quincy Adams pre-
sented petition in the House of Represe signed
paceabe dissolution of the Unon ASSIGNING the
the inequality benefits conferred on the different
the Of ss Me- Ssdass
petition from large number f Abotionists Austinburg
in his district praying for dissolution the Union aud
separation OF the slave from free States"-ibid
In their State Convention of 1851 the Radicals of Mas
Resotped, That the Constitution which provides for
slave representation and slave ogarchy in Congress
legazes catching on every inch Of American
soil which pledges the military and naval power of
country keep millions Of cbatte rlaves in their chains
is be rodden under foot and pronounced how
ever unexcsponabe valuable may be its ether pro-
Of the onion in comparon ish which al other
with the slave dust there
fore we have given ourselves to the work of annung this
with death ESSENTIAL our own nnocency and
the speedy and everlasting overthrow slave power
10 1856 the same party passed the following in Con-
veption:
Resoiped That the necessity OF dsunion is written in
the whole existing character and condition of the
lions of the country their social anzation education
habits and laws in the danger white citizens in
Kansas aud colored in Boston; in the wounds OF
Charles Sumner and the aures of bs assaants and no
on earth wSs strong enough to hold together
Resoiped That this movement does not merely seek
dsunon the perfect union of Free States by the
expu ion the Slave from the in hich
they have been element Of dcord danger and dis
grace.
Resolved That it is not probable that the ultimate
severance OF the Union will be deberaon or dis
oussion but that long period deberon and sson
must rrecsde 1t, and here to begin the work
Resoped That henceorward. Instead of regarding it
AS objection TO stem of policy that will cad
est of all recommendations and the X pro of states
manshp AID will support politically such and
as appear TO tend most TO this result"
Mr. Garrison made speech in 1856 in which he de.
clared:
have sad and say again. that in proportion TO the
growth of disuuonism will be the growth OF Republican
ism The Union is a lie. The American Union
Is mpoure and covenant with death aud
with he'll am for irs overthrow" :. Up
with the nag OF dsunion that may have Rlo
rious Union OF our own"
At Republican Convention held at Monroe Green
county, Wisconsin, in 1856, the following resolution was
passed:
Rssoi1ed, That it is the dnty Of the North in case
they fat in electng President aud Congress that will re
stlre freedom 10 Kansas to revolutonze the
Anson Burlingame made speech in 1856 in which be
basphemousy sad
The time is cmng and will be that we must have
anti slavery Constitution, anti slavery Bbe and an
anti slavery God"
The Montrose Democrat Of May 10, 1856, said:
Z" We recoec that over a year ago we heard Mr. Wlmot
make the foil wing declaration am determined to ar use
organization through which they get the control Of the
Government IN 1856 And ii become satisfied that these
efforts will fail and hathe people will not assert their rights
then il be d-di don't Join the party that think will
Horace Mann on one occasion said:
Ia conclusion have only add such ia nv solemn
and abiding conviction of the character slavery and upder
full sense of responsibility my country aud m, God /
deliberately say better dsunien better sev le war
better any thing that God His providence shall send than
an extension OF the bonds OF slavery"
John p Hale, on the 23d March, I64S presented hatch
of eight petitions at demanding the dissolution of
the Union =
"On the 9TH day of February 1850 John p Hale inssted
upon and along with Chase alone voted 10
ceye refer and consider petition demanding Congress
an dissolution Of the Union because Unon with
shareholders is voative of divine and human rQhs
On the 18th Of July, 1S4s, John p Hale said:
the terrors Of dissolution look steadfasy in the
lace could look 10 that union VIII ch must fall
upon us when prostitute as 10 become
the pioneers OF slavery in the Territories"
In the Senate February &c 1856 Mr. Hale in sneakinp