Year: 1861

sEwARD-I am sure the honorable Senator does not
intend To misrepresent contemplated after tho
expiration compr ises convention the people
oi the United States, called in the constitutional form;
and after that convention shall be held refused TO be
hid-when 1t is impossible anything can be done, but
tht, by force, OF this Union Is TO stand fall
have advised my people to do as shall be ready to do
H. Applause in the galleries.


Mr.. MAsoS-I wanted 70 bring the honorable Senator
WHO the exponent Of the Administration, to the
pocy to which It Is to be directed understand from
him now that all remedies falling through the constitu
ton or convention Of the States, his recommendation
Is bate-boodsbed to preserve the Union HIS recon-
mendaton TO the people IS, that they shall contribute
money, which will march army upon the South-for
broken. There is no Union now in this country.
SIR those States ont and II the battle Is TO be
fought is to be fought against them for the purpose Of
reducing them to subjecton and dependence. That
honorable sensator wise in the experiences Of
STATES, and knows too well the construction and theory
~ ms government TO believe for one moment you could
ever tu6agate the people Of the States to restore the
un'oh, nins want TO speak to them. want 70 lot my
selves as medators to this Union know that this
thu 81 for whom the Senator acts


Mr.. SEwRD-I looked to such contingency as M. ,
ceded States and discovered Union l looked to no
suSs a sons condition Of things tn The Senator and
the present. He, with the earnestness OF an ardent
imagination sees this country hereafter rent
severed into separate confederacies / such
thing in the future. But do returning of
and Judgment to the American people, and return Of
harmony and consolidation OF the Union frmer than
before The honorable Senator may very well see
that we may differ in antcipations OF the fu
ture because we differ SO much in regard 10 the actual
living present. Sif am in the Union OF the United
States-this same blessed, glorious, highly inherited,
God given Union. am in the Senate chamber Of the
United States pleading for maintaining the Union The
honorable Senator says is gonetha there is Union,
yet he is here, this same floor with me, and where is
heY In the Union out Of it He Is actually present
here and bold him 70 bo the union. win refer
to those associates OF his and mine who not here
now But the senate chamber rs here. Inc seats are
all these and expect that there will be in the returning
Of further choice from those States and these
places will be filed II contemplated that, in any case
1t would be necessary TO fight for this Unon IL s be-
know that treason and sedtion maynot alone In
the States of the South but in the States Of the North
anywhere and everywhere--be excited and armed
to assail the Union And whenever II shall come to that
whether in my State Or any other State OF the Union
then expect whatever be done shall be done, that
do then expect what is left to be done shall
be done in the way that is necessary:


Mr. MAsoN-I give the Senator the full advantage OF
his present commentary the speech which preceded


want to place before the American people the fact that
Union or restore it, and that is the ultima ratio regio


Mr.. SEWARD Tin his seat)-l did not say restored
said preserve.


Mr. MAsoS-Well let the Senator choose his language


He has presented the argument Of the tyrant-force,
compulsion and poweras the only resort. lie says he
is to punish treason and seditlon, whether he finds II
North South and that Is the only remedy he proposes
in the existing state Of facts lie takes no notice OF the
other fact that organized political communities claiming
TO have resumed all the sovereign power which they
delegated to this confederation out OF the
Internationally and completely outside There Is not





authority denied, with laws punshing sedton and
obedience to any authority abroad And yet the
Senator still says know nothing OF all thatnothing OF
the purposes OF government. l understand him TO ig-
more all that, though it did not exist. And be it
in local Convention who is resisting the laws, or
be it three, ive ten Million still IT would be trea-
son and sedition and he knows but remedy-orce.
Sir 10 brig him TO that point want that, of
others, the people of my honored State should know,
and that the scales should fall from their eyes.
that there is puny pslanimous trick TO hood
wink the eyes Of that people by crying peace while
1
proposed by the most potent In the councils Of the new
government. point them to the four great remedies
proposed by the Senator. II l were to use
light expression on go grave an occasion, ] should
say the Union past praying s. for ,,s Speaking king
who TO be parties TO the voting outside
The Union. And money-bow is money to do n9
Why, the honorable Senator has disclosed how Not by
demorazing subsdizng by bribery, but by using
the snews of The next thing in the four acts Of
the drama which is to be enacted is battle Now sir,
let my people understand ii and Il any man among
them puny to be deluded by these idle efforts by
circulating papers among them there are PROPOSE
tions for amendment OF the constitution which will be
neutrality-suspicious. that will secure their rghtsif
there among the manhood of the whole South any puny
he Of the senator from New
II is money and which is looked TO TO reduce
hReS like anger by. do not feel H. have none Of IT, Men
who are upon the OF measuring swords conduct
themselves as gentlemen and use no language Of menace @
Senator from New York. If II be in the Providence Of
God that these slave States are to confederate and form



army and navy and creditif that be reserved IN the
unspoken speedy future trust that the good sense the
tery Win lead the people Of the North and the South
repudate the counses Of the Senator from New York
aaaon s 10 nerpose the broad ss o the popular viii 70
avoid the only resort which the Senator from New York
ohs q roe and ar sa os s nsys .C
cd men, who have here volunteers, really upon


mission OF peace have told them that IL manifest
that there was great and imminent danger of collision
between States and III they desired TO the
Union my Judgment they should make II their great
work to avoid that collision, and TO avoid the civil war
that must ensue when mcn's minds really heated
to madness, and passio usIrge their reason These
Of the Senator from New York Here amid hostile
fleets, md armies pitted against esch other, In two
southern states-here where we are in moTentary sx
are the counses of the Senator from New York Speak
for the Union Vote for the Union. Give money for the
trust the good sense wisdom the civilization the hu
manty age, will this country the cf
ascrbcd 70 opinions Of that honorable senator
rect will admonish the people meeting in their
sa,es 10 es the idle dclusion passhc idle deuson that
they have peace from any amendments 70 the
sttution We have now for the hrst time, distinctly
sbadowed forth that which confess, among others, had
seriously apprehended that the consels Of the leaders
would be force-force We have II avowed openly.
trust scales will fall from their eyes, and trust In
the states there body Of good sense-an enlight
cned basis Of free from the shack
les Of party obligations the folly Of such
what war to restore this Union or preserve And that
men Of sense shalI be deuded into under the pre-
ence Of only enforcing the laws Of the nation, appeal
to the free states repudate the counses OF the Senator
from New York and dsown them; and IT, In the Provi-
Of Cod 1t is TO result that we are 70 separate IN
two then let the counses OF peace prevail
and the counscs OF the Senator from New York. Let
the counses Of peace prevail the only counsels which
can avert that greatest Of all calamitieswar between
brother and brother-a bewnen races, which could
conquer peace only through Of blood and countless
millions OF treasure And when peace would you
find people capable OF constructing government
No. You would find people subugated and crouchng
under the tread OF deepot and you would ind the war
rior clad In with money contributed under the
counses OF the Senator from New York That would be
the result OF war and the only result earnestly trust
despite OF these counses these reports which
max ing through the mediation Of my honored state may
restore harmony to the government and that there b an
enlightened patriotism in this country that win meet and
separate In peace.


Mr. syw ARI have been amazed and surprised at the
deuson OF the Senator from Virginia TO make Of
speech pacific, fraternal, and cordial such have
made, a declaration OF cannot account for 10
While his OF honor remains clear and bright tina
he avoids all those personalities which might vtate ye