Year: 1859

that time it will come to be the turn for
! a Southern man once more; and al
| though it has been said that "Old Vir-
ginny never tires" I think, before then
she will be getting little impatient, and
her descendants are notso patient as the
old Commonwealth; they will got tired
of waiting.


Well, Sir, that is a fight in which 7
have no hand Let them make it mp
among them. I do not wish to say
anything harsh or severe about the
Democracy I admonish you Of that,
because in my position here,


| "T feel like ono,


Who trcads alone


Some banquet hall deserted


Whose lights ARE fed,


/ Whose Carlands dcud


And oil but he departed"


When I was in politics. and may
say, when was alive, laughter. and
old man Clay battled against the Demo
cratic party, lion. hearted as he was, like
Richard Cour de Lion himself, when
he went into the Holy Land to rescue it
from the custody of the Infidels, Mr..
Clay, with a lions heart and his battle
Ak upliftcd, fought TO rescue what he
believed to be the Constitution and the
rights Of the country from the Demo-
cratic party, that he thought was disloy-
al and untrue to them; then, Sir, I
fought and felt like a Field Marshal.


Well, Sir, rs to the Democrt tic party,
| I do not know that I could very well
| Join them, unless see a little further
/ into them I could not be Locofoco
anyway, for I understand that the dis
cipline is extremely rigid Laughter !
They muster their men with great Sc
verify, according to regular drill and
liz a man does not chalk up to the mark,
overheard he goes; and the rule is, that
/ it is better to have an enemy out Of the
camp than a friend in the camp cutting
capers and cutting shines John Ran
dolph, of Virginia said Of the Demo
cratic party--but I will not say it Of
/ them-that all they wanted was men Of
sense to lead and fools enough to fol-
low; laughter and if any man could
not subscribe to these principles, and
went into the party as a leader, who
had not sense enough to lead, he ought
to be turned out. I believe you did
cashier one or two. l do not know
what the severity of the discipline is
If can get private conversation with
my friend from Illinois (Mr. Douglass
before I leave here, I should like to
know if he has not learned something
on that subject. Laughter I wish,


just privately and confdentially, to
know from him if the discipline is not
excessively tight. If was to 60 in, I
do not know upon what sort of proba-
ton or trial should be put. ] suppose
it would be long enough to mako them
certain that.they had got all tho old,
genuine, gentemanly Whig principles
and feelings out Of me, and that I real
ly had the true religion, and was con-
verted. Then they might put me in the
kitchen Of the household of the Loco
focos until they believed I was really n
Christian, and showed it evidently. I
do not know how I should be treated
1 think I shall look little further be-
fore go in.


say platforms are fixed up IN that
way for the Presidency Now. I do not
know what may be the result of the next
Presidential election. expect to take
no part in it. I have been favored
much by my own State of Kentucky,
cherished beyond my merit, upheld al
ways, except recently, when my success
sor was elected. I love her, even as a
strong. hearted man loves his own moth
/ er. Whatever may be her wavwardncss
/ in politics, or my own fortunes, / can
only say that [ hope that all day long
the dews Of Heaven may fall lightly up
on her fields and upon her forests, and
the sunshine set brightly upon them.


Mr.. President, my strength is failing


me, but ! must say something more -
l utterly condemn this rampant spirit
aud cry for war. It is q wrong cry; il
is a wrong teaching for the country; and
1 predict that, if we get into a calami-
tous war with France and England on
this account, we shall repent it to the


latest day Of our lives. Do not pass
this unnecessary bill, and insult neigh.


Dor by this proposition, which is every
way unadvised and uncalled for When


you get into a war, you will find that
/ fighting John Bull is not talking


When England sent men here in the


last war, and burned this Capitol, it was


a mere by-pIay for her She was up
. holding all continental Europe then,


against the colossal power Of Napoleon;


and yet she came just as a by-play, and


troubled us as she did. Our people


think we whipped England, and you


hear them say throughout the country


that we whipped Wellington's invinci


bles; and they believe that we absolutely


whipped the veterans who fought the


battle of Waterloo, although the battle


was not fought until the 18th Of Jun,


after the Sth Of January, when our bat


tie Of New Orleans was fought. They


are stuffed up in that way, and indamet


with the war spirit


Old John Bull as I said is a bloody
| old bruiser If the Senator from Geor


gia was here, would ask him if he die


not see how Spain and Sardinia sent of


their quota to the Crimean war at tn,


request of England, although they haC
just about as much interest in IL as
had England just said to them, eff
, you do not fight on my side / vii
p whip you" That is the whole of it,
They follow England in that kind Of


way. John Bull, if / must use a famil
IEar ilIuetrafiop that will bn undarstoo,