Year: 1861

OlLl hloIe. A NATIONAL DEMOCRAT,

 

 MR. CRITTENDEN's FAREWELL. SPREcH.-The following is the latter portion of Mr. Crittenden's farewell speech, delivered in the Senate on Sun- day night, March B.:

 Now in regard to the South and the Border States, l would have them trust to the Union and to the people. The North has given as- surances of their sympathy for them, and justice will be done. 1 believe it. There are assur- ances given of kindness and patriotism that will be redeemed that sympathy and that kindness which exists in the North will attract others to it; its standard of Liberty and Justice will be raised from one end of the country to the other and the people will crowd around it until States shall come and make peace offerings to their brethren. That day will come, and it will be happy day. l believe this, and would have the South and the Border States believe it. Our Northern fellow-citizens have entitled themselves to confidence by their action upon these very re. solutions; thousands and ten of thousands have come here with petitions in their favor; States have pettioned for them and in all this recog- nize spirit of kindness which should bind the hearts of Southern men. I will say, I am for the Union; l am not for secession. No, sir. And as to my native State, will say to her; more than to others, l desire to see you stand by tho Union of the country. Do not go off unless an mperious necessity forces you. You have given to the world long g-continued evidences of your consistency, your patriotism, and your fidelity to the Union Stand by it. You have stood there heretofore; why not now? You have literally founded your State upon arock. Yes, Sir, upon rock that State is founded, and you have en- graved on rock your testimony to the Union. The stone you sent to be portion of the monu- ment to Washington bore npon its Kentucky marble front these words: Kentucky was the first to enter the Union after the adoption of the Constitution she will be the last to leave it."- That sentiment she has engraved upon marble, and it now stands sanctifed still more by form- Ing portion of the monument to George Wash- ington. want to see her true to that great and noble sentiment. It swells the heart within me, There is nothing, it seems to me, in all the hope of triumph-nothing of the manly and heart swelling character of the feelings which this noble and patriotic sentiment has called forth Let her stand there with us and stand by those sentiments Let her be the last to leave the Union which is covered with so much glory, so much of triumph, and so much of blessing. This is the only Government on earth under which man can control his action, can speak his own thoughts, and where no man is imprisoned un. lawfully from one end to the other-from San Francisco to Portland. What if our Treasury is empty and our money spent and our Government badly administered? Still, with all these faults, it is the best Government in the world. It is here only, in the arms of this great and mighty Empire that Liberty was presented to the world, in all her might and all her glory and all her usefulness. In the little Republics in the Alpine hills of Europe, whose little territories are too small to attract the ambition or cupidity of imperous power, there Liberty is kept as thing to be looked at and petted; but here she stands in all her majesty and might, with her arms stretching across continent. Who does l mi InuQ hIs " m. efts to every citizens? The name of his coun- try goes before him like host and is shield over him. The very name contains cL arm ana spell which attaches to him in every re. ion of the world and it's greatness and blessing iI mag nified still more every day. 1say hope Ken= lucky will stand for the Union. Try it, and try it again If one Congress does not judge right ly and does not act rightly, another will It IS principle of our Government that these frequent changes will give us justice, and every State in the Union should exercise patience and forbear- ance Let us wait; and when, if it be our sad fate, rebellion and revolution shall have passed over the whole land, want to see old Kentucky standing up, even in that day of dissolution standing up with unabated strength and with the Flag of our Union in her hand-standipg upon her conquered fields like the last soldier of brave and gallant band; ; and then, when the Un. ion is no more, and she stands the image of pa- ei'Ooiotus AOAot ACiOSm anu uucllly H tnO OufOn to the last; then, and not till then, would have her consider, what next is to be done for herself. My principle is, take care of the Union; compromise-do anything for it. It is the Pal: ladum of Government. Take care of it, and It will take care of you.

 Mir. President, have occupied mere or your time than intended am about to part rom all my friends here, whom l shall be sorry to leave. If I have offended or grieved the hears of any man, never so intended. have spoken what in soberness and truth I believe, and what tu some extent, coming from the region which do. may say know as fact. have endeav- cred to give you warning, but not to threatsn.-- have long ago learned notto threaten. may warn it is one of the duties of brotherhood; it is one of the duties ofmy place in the Senate to warn you of any danger l see approaching OFT country. have endeayored to do 30. To-mor- row, after tomorrow, and each succeeding to. morrow brings with it new fears and new ap- pfehensions. To my mind, rebellion and revolu. ton seem to be epidemic in the land, and some remedy must be devised.

 MT. Crittenden closed with an appeal to the Senators to pass some measure, "not of com- promise, but of policy" which should bring peace to the country and allow the sunshine once more to break through the clouds and make us once again the brethren ef ene common family