Year: 1860

whether they be under the garb of
Emigrant Aid Societies of New England
or Blue Lodges of Missouri Applause
in the galleries. In other words, this
provision Of the constitution means more
than the mere repelling of an invasion
when the invading army shall reach the
border of State. The language is, it
shall protect the State against invasion;
the meaning of which is, to use the
language of the preamble to the consti-
tuition, to insure to each State domestic
tranquility against external violence
There can be no peace, there can be no
prosperity, there can be no safety in any
community, unless it is secured against
violence from abroad. Why, sir, it has
been a question seriously mooted in
Europe, whether it was not the duty of
England, a power foreign TO France, to
pass laws to punish conspiracies in Eng
land against the lives of the princes of
France. | shall not argue the question
of comfy between foreign States. L
predicate my argument upon the consti-
tuition by which we are governed, and
which we have sworn to obey, and dc
mand that constitution be executed in
good faith, SO as to punish and suppress
every combination, every conspiracy,
either to invade a State, or to molest its
inhabitants, or to disturb its property, or
to subvert its institutions and its govern
ment. / believe this can be eifectually
done by authorizing the United States
courts in the several States to take
jurisdiction of the offence, and punish the
violation of the law with an appro pirate
penalty.


1t cannot be said that the time has
not yet arrived for such legislation. 1t
cannot be said with truth that the Har-
per's Ferry case will not be repeated, or
is not in danger Of repetition. 1t is only
necessary to inquire into the causes
which produced the Harper's Ferry out
rage, and ascertain whether those causes
are yet in active operation, and then you
can determine whether there is any
ground for apprehension that that inva
sion will be repeated. Sir, what were
the causes which produced the Harper's
Ferry outrage? Without stopping to
adduce evidence in detail, have no hesi-
tation in expressing my firm and deliber-
ate conviction that the Harper's Ferry
crime was the natural, logical, inevitable
result of the doctrines and teachings of
the republican party, as explained and
enforced in their platform, their partisan
presses, their pamphlets and books, and
especially in the speeches of their leaders
in and out of Congress. [Applausc in
the galleries.


Mr.. Mason. / trust the order of the
Senate will be preserved. i am sure it
is only necessary to suggest to the pre-
siding officer the indispensable ncces-
sity of preserving the order of the Sen
ate and l give notice that, if it is dis
tnrbed again, shall insist upon the gal
leries being cleared entirely.


Mr.. DOUGLAS. Mr.. President


The VICE PRESIDENT. The Senator
will pause for single moment. 1t is
impossible for the Chair to preserve order
without the concurrence of the vast as
sembly in the galleries. He trusts that
there will be no occasion to make refer
encc to this subject again.


Mr.. TooMBs. / hope that the prcsid-
ing officer will place officers in the gal
leries, and put stop to this thing. 1t is
very bad sign of the times. 1t is unbc-
coming this body, or the deliberations of
any free people.


The VICE PRESIDENT. The presiding
officer has not the force at his command
to place officers in the gallery.


Mr.. DOUGLAS. If the Senate will par
don me for depression an instant, l was
about to suggest to the presiding officer
that thought it would be necessary to
place officers in different parts of the
gallery, with instructions that if they
saw any person giving any signs of ap-
probation or disapprobation calculated to
disturb our proceedings, they should in
stantly put the guilty person out Of the
gallery.


The VICE PRESIDENT. That has been
done.


Mr.. DOUGLAS. / was remarking that
/ considered this outrage at Harpcr's
Ferry as the logical, natural consequence
of the teachings and doctrines of the
republican party. / am not making this
statement for the purpose of elimination
or partisan effect. | desire to call the
attention of members of that party to a
reconsideration of the doctrines that they
are in the habit of enforcing, with view
to fair judgement whether they do not
lead directly to those consequences on
the part of those deludcd persons who
think that all they say is meant in real
earnest and ought to be carried out
The great principle that underlies the
organization Of the republican party is
violent, irrcconcilable, eternal warfare
upon the institution of American slavery,
with the view Of its ultimate extinction
throughout the land sectional war is to
be wagcd until the cotton fields of the
South shall be cultivated by free labor,
or the rye fields of New York and Massa-
chusetts shall be cultivated by slave la
Dor. In furtherancc of this article of
their creed, you find their political organi-
zation not only sectional in its location,
but one whose vitality consists in appeals
to northern passion, northern prejudice,
northern ambition, against southern
States, southern institutions, aud south.
crn people.


i have had some experiences in fighting
this elemont within tho lask fow wears