Year: 1859

the end they are mistaken. If know INV
: self, never indulged in an opprobrious epi


thet IN relation to any State of this Union, OF


to any public man of this Union. l have en-


deaVored, according to the measure of III,


feeble abilities, to grapple with the question,


which have presented themselves in thi.
Chamber and Oh the theatre where the conf
dence of my constituents has again and again
placed me. But l should feel myself unworthy


of their confidence, would not dare to look


them in the face nor to shake their honest


hands, Il L failed, on any fitting occasion, 50


far as was able, to vindicate them from what


l believe to be unjust and, sir, the idea that


this people can be driven by any such annun-


citation Of what is to follow the exercise of
! their Judgment, l utterly disbelieve and disa-
yow.


While know that it is the province of
! every member upon the floor to present his
convictions of the reality and of the truth of


the case, as it exists to-day, in just exactly that


light in which his own convictions and his own


understanding of right and propriety may sug-


gest, yet l will venture to submit to them if,


as they avow, and as fully believe, they do


desire this Union to be perpetual, whether this
n.
desire this Union to be perpetual? 1 would
not if thought as meanly of your people as
you would imply that you do of us. / would
not desire union with you another DAY be-
cause it seems to me the implication is that we
are not equals. You seem to think that you
are unequally yoked. You are high chival-
rous, noble men, born to commrnd, associated
with a craven set, who have nothing left bnt
to register your DEGREES and if perchance, in
dulging in fanciful theories of the equality off
States and of men--no, | will not say of men
OF white men, they undertake to place man
as the representative of their opinions, in the
executive chair, by that they have sealed their
doom, and have committed an act which, from
that day forth, is to be considered AS the kncll !
which sounds the desolation and destruction oI
this Confederacy!


will not detain the Senate longer; but
recolleet an anecdote, which / have already
told, that / think illustrates the manner in
which we are to yield and settle those Difficult
ties, and | hope that | shall not be considered /
as having too much levity. 1t is to be remenl-
bered that our speeches have been rather sol
emn this morning, and we may temper them
with little levity. l remember hearing a dis

tinguished clergyman once say, that in the State
of Connecticut very serious and alarming
controversy arose in one Of the churches, and
it got divided about equally, To render the
division more sad, one of the deacons represent
ed one division, and the other the other. The
seeing this state of things, preached
a sermon on union and presented it so forcibly
that every heart was struck with the idea that
union must be had at any rate. So Deacon
Jones, with a teeming heart, earnest for union,
went down tc see Deacon Snow, and said he,
Deacon, we must have union Coed" !" said
Deacon Snow, "we must.' Well" continued
he, Deacon, there is but one way on earth
that we can get it, Deacon Snow replied.


Brother, do tell Inc what that is" Well
answered he, you must give up, for cannot"
IaughterD 1t seems to me that it is just ex-
aetly the appeal that is made to US. There is
a dreadful state of things-an irreconcilabIe
difference and the appea+ 1nurtr TO ,,,,- =. Y on
must give up, for We cannot you are used to
it, and we are not Laughter)