The Washington herald., 1909-02-07

man Trumbull. men Of equally strong
convictions. and moved equally BY love
% country as they understood the term.
Davis made three speeches Two OF which
we're on the general subject Of debate,
and one MS farewell 20 the Senate The
first. singularly enough, was called by a
resolution offered by q fellow -Southeruer
and Democrat Green. OF Missouri de
cember 10, 1880, who proposed that there
should be an armed police force provided
by Federal authority TO guard, where
Necessary the dividing line between the
slave holding and the nonsIsvs holding
States. 20 preserve the peace and pre-
vent iavssions and TO execute the fuzi-
tive slave law. This scheme Davis con
sidered ausck remedy. and he declared
that he could not give IL hts support be-
cause Il looked to the employment OF
force 20 bring about a condition Of So
curity which ought 10 exist without force.
/ The present want OF security he contend
ed. could not be cured by an armed patrol
but only by a change OF sentiment in
the majority section OF the Union toward
the minority section. Upon this text he
argued in dispassiOnate way for a con-
siderable space. ending in these words.
This Union Is dear 10 me as a union
value TO me II l had to regard Il as
union held together by physical force. I
would be happy 10 know that every
State now felt that fraternity which
made this union possible: and II that
evidence could go out, ~ evidence salts
factory 70 the people OF the South could
be given that that feeling existed in the
hearts OF the Northern people. YOU might
burn your statute books and we would
cling 10 the Union still. But ii Is be-
cause Of their conviction that hostility
and not fraternity now exists IN the
hearts Of the people that they are look
ing 10 their reserved rights and 10 their
Independent powers for their own protec-
ton If there be any good then which
We can do II as by sending evidence 10
them q that which I fear does not exist
the purpose In your constituents to ful-
MI IN the spirit OF justice and fraternity
all their constitutional obligations. II
you can submit 10 them that evidence
| feel confident that with the evidence
that aggression is henceforth 20 cease
will terminate all the measures for de-
fense. Upon you OF the majority section
II depends to restore peace and perpetu-
ate the union OF equal states: upon US OF
the minority section rests the duty 70
maintain our equality and community
rights; ard the means In the one case or
the other must be such as each can con-
troll"
To Let Them Alone.
This was an explicit confirmation OF
what Lincoln, in his Cooper Institute
speech q year earlier, had said was the
chief difficulty Of the North: We must
not only let them (the South alone bu,
We must somehow convince them that We
do let them alone
The next step toward compromise which
confronted Lincoln during the critical
period was the movement initiated BY the
legislature of Virginia. known as the
John Tyler peace conference. This was
bottcmed on the Criuenden plan OF sd-
justment, with the Powell amendment
that it should apply to ali fu.
ture acquisitions OF territory south OF the /
line Of IS degrees. 30 minutes. A letter
from DR.. William jayne to TrumbuT. /
dated Springfield. January q 1881. saws
that Gov. Yates had received telegram 1
dispatches from the governors OF Ohio I
and Indiana asking whether Illinois would 4
appoint peace commissioners in response
to call sent out by the governor OF vir-
ginia 10 meet al Washington on the 4th 4
OF February. Lincoln" he continued. 4
advised Yates not to take any action 4
at present He said he would rather Be /
hanged BY the neck till he vas dead on 4