Year: 1863

than this, they placed In the platform, for my


acceptance as law to themselves and TO me


the clear and emphatic resolution which now
read:


"Reaoloed, That the maintenance inviolate
OF the rights of the States, and especially the
right OF each State to order and control its
own domestic institutions according TO its own
Judgment exclusively, Is essential to that bal
ance OF power on which the perfection and on.
durance of our political fabric depend, and
we denounce the lawless invasion by an armed
force OF the government Of any State or Ter
ritory, no matter under what pretext, as amongst
the gravest Of crimes"


But this you say was before the war broke
out. Admit 1t. But what does this conuistent
u President say to our French Minister through
bis mouth'piece, VIM. H. Seward, his Secfe-
tary OF state, after the commencement of the
war, and while foreign powers are anxiously
inquiring as to the objects for which 10 will be
prosecuted lie says: "You can assure the
French Government that it is not the uurpoae of
the Administration to In any way interfere With
the institution Of slavery in the seeding States
SHOULD 1t do 80, the Supreme Court would at
once declare 1t unconstitutional" 10 will not
do, Mr.. President, for members to say to me
that the President did not SEQ this letter before
II was sent to Mr.. Dayton, card in Repub-
lean paper before me says;


"Allof my correspondence since have been
In office as Secretary, has been submitted to the
President before it was sent off-even this note
has been submitted to him.


"(signed) w. H. SEWARD,


Secretary Of State"


will say nothing, Mr. President, of the
violation of Mr. Lincolh's plghted faith in the
liberation OF the slaves Of the District Of Co.
lumbis, as enunciated in his discussion with the
gallant Douglas Bat will refer Won to his
revocation of Gen. Hunters emancipation
proclamation in Carolina.


When John G. Fremont issued bis pronun-
ctamento in Missouri, the President did not
wait the ordinary transit of the mails By rail.
road, but the lightning of heaven was called
In reputation by him to transmit requisiton
OF modification. Again, when Horace Greeley
importuned him to violate hia faith and subyert
the principles of our Constitution; and still
later, when the Chicago ministers forgot their
high calling and holy mission of "preachinp
Christ and Him crucifed," and made a political
partisan pilgrimage to Washington, and be.
sought the President to violate his often plight
ed faith, and give them an anti-slavery Govern.
ment, and, | suppose, an anti-slavery Bible,
he sent them home with Joke and q flea in
their ears. Now, behold his consistency. Two
weeks had not elapsed after the departure Of
these ministers, who had went to him with
mission from on high, until this weak minded
imbecile, vacillating man did the very thing
winch he had heretofore said he would not do,
and which would be unconstitutional il he did
i. O., Issued proclamation interfering with
and breaking up the domestic institutions OF the
Southern States.


Mn than I 10 80 k..
can President and his doctrines upon, or attach
him to Stephen Foster and his doctrines. And
this brings me to the message of the President,
delivered to Congress on the first Monday of
December last, In which We have no mention Of
the distracted and terrible condition Of our once
happy but now disturbed country. Nothing said
of the condition of our thousands and hundreds
of thousands of brave men upon the various
battle and tented fields In which we have no
word of sympathy for the brave men who went
forth to do honorable battle for the Consultation
and the Union, and who are now lying, by thous.
ands, sick or wounded In the various hos
pitals and pest houses Of the country. In which
we have no word Of coincidence for the thous-
ands Of widows and the tens OF thousands of
orphans who are now weeping tears of blood
throughout the length and breadth of our land.
In which We have no kindly expressed words
of cheer for the thousands Of aged parents who
sit weeping around their hearth stones, and
lamenting over the destruction of their house.
hold gods-the hope Of their age and the prop
of their declining years. Not word of this
kind. But we do have o long dissert,t tion on
the status Of the negroi in this country. And
the President sagely tells US that he has been
endeavoriDg to procure place for them
outside Of the United States-but can find no
country that ia willing to receive them but Hayti
and Liberia-and as they are unwilling TO 20
there he cannot COMPEL them, under the Con-
stitution (D, to do so. And he then goes on to
convince us Of the utility and the practioability
OF scattering them broadcast throughout the
United States; and tells US in 90 many words
"thai there would be only one negro to seven
whites. They certainly could not bs In one an
Others way or jostle each other-there would
be nobody hurt" Now compare the whole ar
gument of President Lincoln in this message
upon negro equality, with the foregoing sentl-
ment of Stephen Foster-and If they are not as
similar as two links Of sausage made from the
same dog, then must confess that have not
the ability to draw comparison.


Thus, Mr.. President, have incontestibly
linked together the leading men of this Admin
istration, and those whom the opposition upon
this floor during this discussion have denounced
as radicals for whom they were not responsible.
Had time might 20 on and by consecutive
links attach oil the one-horse politicians and
puritanical Miss Nancy's of the land to them.


now leave this and proceed to another branch
of this discussion. Il 10 claimed here, and ad.
mitted believe on all sides, that there is not
that unsnimity in the public mind of the North
with regard to the prosecution of this war, that
there was last summer, and in fact during its
whole progress to the 22d of September, 1862,
upon which day President Lincoln declared In
proclamation his emancipation policy. And
they now seek to charge tho Democratic party
with being the cause Of this division of senti-
ment.


For the solution Of these troubles shall lay
down an axiem which ask the gentlemen to rid
themselves of; and that ia this: A man or o set
Of men are responsible for the legitimate re-
suits OF the doctrines they advocate, however
much they may disavow them. This axiom is
true in ethics-il is true in theology; and IL is
equally true in politics-and gives the solution
of the present divieon of sentiment in the North
ern mind. There was no division lin the public
mind of the North as to the prosecution of this
war-not even as much as grain of mustard
seed, or the dividing of hair, until after the
proclamation of the 22d of September last.
And now to charge the Democratic party with
the legitimate consequences Of your own doc
trinea and your own actions" Is manifesting q
degree of inconsistency that Imust confess /
bad not prepared my mind for-reven from the
Republican party. srls1


had intended to cay something about Gar