Year: 1860

w tHe DattIe TO MAINTAIN Onr rights TO
the last, but when the question came to
the last, one after the other, we saw the
States Of the South rcceding from their
position. Disowning every effort we had


made to maintain our rights; and, let me


say with sorrow, dragging MS into the
gutter for the devotion we had shown
them, And why did the South do this9
I There is no ungrafefal breast at the


Sonth. it could not be that she was in
I clined to disown the services ofthose who
had stood by her to the last but it was be-


cause she considered, and truly considered
that even an impending wrong was not
to be put in the scale with the preserva-
ton Of this glorious confederacy. (Great
nppIause.) And we, in obedience to
their wishes, nut of Difference to their
convictions, surrendered.


We considered that we were in duty
bonnd to abide by vonr own decisions, and
perhaps it may not be improper for me
here to refer to the considerations upon
which those accessions were predicated.
The only compensation which the South
could find in the measures generally
known as the Compromise measures,
was the doctrine fnon-interyention then
claimed-(Applause.


That was the only boon offered to ms
in those davs as compensation for the
great sacrifice which was asked at our
hands, and the South accepted the com
promise. and the compromise became the
law OF the nation, certainly of the party
as far as the question of slavery was con-
cerned. am surprised at the extreme
sensitiveness exhibited by the men of the
Snoth at this day upon that question of
non intervention. John G.. Calhoun, when
the famous compromise rendered by Mr..
CLAYTON. of Delaware was being discussed
in the United States Senate. John G. Cal
honn considered that the proffer to place
In the hands OF our Federal Tribunal the
question of the extent Of power in the
Territories was to the South a sufficient
guarantee to make acceptable the com
promise rendered. and where Mr.. Cal


houn could stand Southern man need
not fear to stand. [Applause. .


l have said, in my very unconnected
remarks that have had the honor to
submit to you, that secession means dis
union, and / will go on now to show up
on what considerations that opinion Of
mine is predicated. What is the question
at issue? On the one hand Northern Alb
olitionists claim intervention for the pur-
pose of excluding slavery from the terri
tories-on the other hand Southern men
claim intervention on the part of Con-
gress for the purpose of protecting slav-
cry in the Territories.


Now, | ask Southern gentlemen here
and elsewhere, as you are serious, when
the battle is thus drawn, when the lines
are thus drawn ont, when the whole |
strength of the North is combined with
the great strength on the part of the
West to exclude slavery from the Terri !
tories? Are you, my friends Of the South |
IN earncstwhen you ask to submit the
protection of your property to the keeping
OF such men as may he sent from the
North and West to constitute the ma or-
ity in your Congress. There is not pa
per in the South which is not teeming
with denunciations that Congress has be-
come rotten body, that the majority in ,
both Houses is i'll heart to all intents and .
purposes, opposed to slavery, and yet
these men who set up the pretension Of
being the exclusive friends of slavery at
the Sonth. ak that the protection of sla-
very shall he put in the keeping of that
very power which is represented as being
bentupon its destruction. Applause


say whatever be the views they take
of the manner in which that power might
eventually be eXerted, from the moment
that the power is recognized as existing
in Congress, from that moment there is
not Southern heart that does not beat
to the conviction that slavery is gone.-
And if that should be the ultimatum of
the issue, is the South ready now for it?
Have they prepared their armor? Are
they ready for the battle? Sirs, they are
not, and the reasons are very Obvious
The gentlemen who have seeded from
this Convention know that the manners
of their people at home will not respond ,
to the call which they have made upon
them, and the best proof of it is that in
no State whose delegations have seeded
did the seceders call a fair Convention of
the people to put to the test the innova-
ton which they have attempted. [Ap-
plause.


perceive that have detained the Con
vention longer than have intended,
Cries of "go on go on, and my own
strength is nearly exhausted. Mr.. Presi-
dent, though Louisiana is mindful of what
she owes her sisters Of the South, and is |
ever ready to act in concert with them /
when actual oppression shall call for ac-
tual resistance, still Louisiana is still un- |
willing to risk her future and the future
of this Union upon impracticable issues
and purely theoretical distractions. APP
planse. faa a E


She cannot he so far obvious of the
past and the recent services to disown
that fearless and indomitable champion of
popular rights and State equality, him,
who in that great and memorable strug'
gle, which in his own State initiated that
war which has been waged against him
so unreentingly; him who has vindica-
ted the rights OF the South so victorious
ly against his infuriated opponents, him


who will yet enable us to triumph over
the enemies of the South. the Black Re-
publcans who are arrayed against us
Louisiana casts her entire vote for Ste


phen a. Douglas, of Illinois. Nociler-
GUS cheers and applause. ...... .....