Year: 1860

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of the doctrine.


Before proceed to the discussion of that
| subject, | wish to notice some remarks by the
gentleman from Virginia, Mr.. Millson, who
| addressed the committee a day or two since.
| did not hear the gentleman's speech, but
see it in the Globe; and in order that he may
not be msreprescnted, | will read what he
said that occasion:


But l understand the aluson of the gentleman
from Pcnns! yani, and 1t confirms me III the suppoS
ltion that have INDUCED for time past to the
objects Of the Republican party, with which the gem
teman is ayowedly associated. What is that partyf
Sir, l say for one that do fear the Republican
party IN any of its assaults upon slavery. am not
sensitive; because do not fear you. gentlemen. You
can do nothing that dread 1ouwIll do nothing that
can alarm me-


The gentleman said only what he believes,
and what every other gentleman on that side
of the House believes, if he would speak his
true sentiments. The Republican party have
no DESIRE have no design, have no power,
have no wish, to interfere with slavery in the
States where it exists They have said so
in every form, on every occasion, and gentle
men ought to believe us and | am glad to
| find the gentleman from Virginia does. lie
| says further:


And yet you maintain your organization, hoping
that the strong anti-Slayery sentiment which you at


tempt to nourlsh and Pcrpetuae will induce the peo-
PIE TO remain %ith YOU hnuhu tGSeiheI as heP4pll
can party: and when you are lifted into power then





ing and mining interests and prosecute those grand
and gaudy schemes of Internal Improvement, that
you have been prevented for many years from ac
accomplishing by the stern opposition OF the Demo
! cratic party


! | am obliged to the gentleman from Vir-
| gnia for that candid and frank aYowal Of
what lie believes tc be the position and objects
Of the Republican party. That is, no doubt,
the true secret of the opposition to that party
on the part Of our Democratic friends. They
Il i,o g,
! themselves say So, speaking through one OF
their most distinguished leaders on this floor;
but they oppose US because they believe that,
when we DO getinto power, We will pass laws
| for the protection Of northern industry. That
| is the true secret of their opposition. They
! are not afraid Of Us on account of slavery
and why should they be? Do we not hold
! the same principles on that subject that Hen
! ry Clay held in lis life time? We stand pre-
! cSely where he stood when he was supported
! by large majority Of the Shareholders Of the
! South for the Presidency. l ask leave to
read what Mr.. Clay says on the subject:


80 long as God allows the vital current to flow
through my veins; so long reason holds her seat
entlroned in my brain, VIII never, never aid in sub
mttug rood of free territory TO the everlasting
curse Of human bondage"


! Does the Republican party hold any strong
er position than this? No, sir. What does
| be say again with regard to the moral, po-
| litical, and social aspect of slavery?
| = have made no change from the earliest moment
when could consider the institution of slavery. l
have held and have said, from that day down to the
present, again and again, and shall 90 down To the
grave with the opinion, that is eya socl; and
political cv-and that it wrong as spectS those
who subject to the institution OF slavery. These
are my opuions.-Speeeh on the Compromise Of 1850.
! Now, these are the opinions of the Repub.
! lican party, and as far as any member of that
| party has gone. Then why do they complain
| IoFp hot for Sclo
in the States is concerned, they have nothing
to fear from US and as to the Territories, it
would be a vain and useless effort for slavery
to undertake to keep up with the activity and
energy Of freedom there. They have tried
! that once, in endeavoring to make Kansas q
slave State. That lesson, | trust, will not
! soon be forgotten by them and | also think
the effort will not soon be repeated.
! Give US, Mr.. Chairman, the homestead bill,
| as | trust we will soon have it. Give US "A
fair and free election by the people of the
| Territories, and freedom, think, would have
nothing to fear from the result. The Terri
tories are now free. They will be free 1t
| is their right and their destiny. Why should
our southern friends endeavor to force slavery
on them? They have ample space within
their own States for all conceivable wants of
the system. According to the admission CT a
! distinguished Senator from the South, made
| in the Senate a short time since, they have
| territory sufficient for two hundred million Of
| slaves within the slave States. As they have
now but four million, they will scarcely need
any more slave territory for the next five hun
dred years at least.


The gentleman from Virginia, however, in
forms US that the Republican party are in
favor of the protection Of American industry,
which doctrine, ho says, has been successfully
opposed by the Democratic party This, al
though persistently denied by that party in
my State, is unquestionably true, and am
glad to have so vertable witness OF the fact
in the gentleman himself.


Mr.. MILLSON. | rather think the gen.
tleman misapprehends what | said the day


before yesterday.


Mr.. HALE. read from the report in the,
Globe.


Mr.. MILLSON. / speak of the gentle
error in supposing that did not complain of
the position of the Republican party. What
| said was this: that while the real object OF
the Republican party was to revive the Fed
eral policy of the country, their pretended
| object was only to legislate for the prohibition


of slavery in the Territories. did not mean


to be understood as declaring that the south


ern members had no right to complain OF the


position of the Republican party. On the


contrary, l maintaned that' III keeping up


this agitaton-which, endeavored to show,


thew did not themselves hope to be productive


of any Legislative result-they were doing


serious mischief to the South. said did


not fear their legislation, because they had


not the legislative capacity to do what they
aimed at doing. They say that they desire
to prohibit slavery in the Territories but
remarked that their real object was to estab


lish the doctrine of the Federal party. |


meant to say that while their pretexts were


offensive to the South, their measures would


not be dangerous to the South. Their real


objects, though not offensive to the South, are,