Year: 1861




overturn the temple Of liberty, and crush
the last hopes of the patriot, he would
move an adjournment of the pending ques.
tions from this house to the people them
selves


The revolution now threatening to sub
vert the country was the most uniustifable
and objectionable that the world ever be-
held, involving the most fearful conscquen-
ces, and yet men all over the country are
playing with the mad passions of the peo-
pie, and stigmatizing those as traitors who
would not participate in the revolution.


He proceeded to show the madness and
folly of subverting the Government to Sc
cure any right without that may not be en-
joyed in the Union. The personal---very.
bills are net without excuse, but it was
due to the truth to express his belief that
they would be soon swept from the statute
books, and, if unconstitutional, they arc al
ready null and void IF constitutional.
there is no right to complain. As to the
fugitive slave law, from the commencement
Of the present century till now not one
dozen slaves have been rescued from the
State authorities Why Mr. Orr himself,
of the kingdom Of Carolina laughter7 +,
said that it was as strong as anybody wish
ed to make it and would the fugitive slave
law be any more stringent and the people
more willing to execute it out of than in
the Union? The Northern people have
always and will ever be opposed to slavery,
and you can make no man in the North a
pro-slayery man. The strongest slavery
men in the South are Yankees, and they
no sooner go South than they marry. a ne
gro. Laughter lie begged pardon
they marry woman with negroes, and then
they commence to talk about the rights of
shareholders. There was not man in this
body who claims to be an abolitionist


If there is such one he wanted to know
it. Responses from the Republican side
-" Not one" "not one"] The Republi-
cans in their platform denounced the j ohm
Brown raid as the greatest of crimes
What other party had done this The
people South and North do not hate one
another more than the old wings and dem
ocrats used to hate each other But will
you love one another more if you separate?
You will separate on paper, bat the Ohio
river Is the Onl ly barrier to separate hostile
States, lfyou have no love now, will you
love each other better when you become
hostile nations and rivals? If our constit-
uents could see all the free-soilers and
Southern radicals here embracing each
other they would not believe word of it.


A voice" That's fact." You hate
one another because the ms must soon give
place to the outs, when political minority
must take up their baggageand travel from
this capitol. Laughter If he could
to-day save the country by sell-Inmolation
he would do so, and trusted that others
would. But a separation would lead to
blood and prccipltate a war Of longer du-
ration than that between the houses of
York and Lancaster. Let the central
States be drawn into the contemplated
Southern Confederacy, and ten years will
not clapse before the slumbering fires there
in will break out with intensity. If this
is not true, then history Is taIsehood and
a lie


If, as has been charged, the Northern
people are for negro equality, that is mat
ter of taste. Laughter. But while he
did not believe this, separation would not
change their opinions. Up to 1884, free
negroes had the privilege Of suffrage over
certain white men in Tennessee. Who as
sisted in making the constitution of that
State? Andrew Jackson. And before it
was amended, the latter was twice elected
President of the United States In New
York, recently, similar proposition was
voted down-twenty against one. Politi-
cal equality as to white and black existed
in North Carolina twenty years ago, but
does not now. He would stand by the
Government, and give his Northern breth-
rem chance to progress in political sci
ence. As to John Brown raids, he would
ask his seeding friends would they have
a more stringent code out of the Union
than they have now? The great evil of
the times is that the people have suffered
so much from misrepresentation and per-
sistent falsehood that they understand one
and another less today than they did fifty
years ago. The higher-law men propo-
gate the Gbels of the disunionists, while
the latter puDllSh the remarks OF Northern
fanatics as the opinions of the Northern
people. This is doing its evil wozk


As al evidence of his disposition for
peace, he would submit eight years longer
to the Administration of President Buch-
anan. Laughter He would assent to
anything-to the Crittenden, Or the bor-
der States compromise, or the resolutions
which he had himself sought to introduce
here. He would go for the recommends
tions of the select committee of thirty
three; before he would go out of the I'm
ion. Failing in this he would meet the
disunionists with orch in one hand and
sword in the the other; and, SO long as the
stars and stripes wave over Tennessee, he
would never submit to disunion. Ap-