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 PKACrU^AL LKilTSL.VTlON FOR THE TROHKLRS IN KANSAS— THE DEMOOKATIO 
 ANO >}EJ>lIIU.TO AN PARTIES, TJIEl R POLICY AND ACTION- 
 MIL i.ARD FILLMORE AND IflS PARTY. • .: 
 
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 11 
 
 SATiJiinAY, August !^, 1856. 
 
 place uttered one ^rord in dobatoupon ihesiib- 
 
 Thc House being in. the Coniraittw of the: | jcct, I have nevertheless been exceedingly s - 
 liole on the statp of the Union- - licitoiis all the time, to -ce the earliest po.ssible 
 
 Wr. MOOKE f^ait^: settlcriicnt of thi?; delicate and vexatious qnee- 
 
 Mr. CiZA::;?iA:v : Until yevSterday, it wa.>^ ixt 
 ;ny purpose lo avail nsyself of the latitude 
 uiveu to de'i.ito while in Coniniittee of the 
 
 tioii, .tO lav as tni> Congress, constituted as it 
 in, can ssttle it. But pray \s\\^X jn'^ctical riood. 
 is accomplished lor Kansas or the country, 
 A'aol;:, to submit any reni.'irks whatever, know- j (v>H!'7/ /,<(«/, as we all concede tjtey are, by a 
 ill};, :!S we all <i-.^, that w^uitever is said while | more fecJlng ofanxit'ty, whether real or ilcti- 
 tbus iu Coni-.iiiciee is jvidressed rather to the I lions, on the part of Congress? The Democracy 
 ■c-fliniry than to Congress. I have, however, luu-e settled dowi^ upon ajlnality. Tiie. coun- 
 tiir s /.!i!0 tiiue desised, in the spirit of that can- | try vv!is peaceful, ipiiet, happy, prosperous al- 
 •.;'>r MVid frankn-S3 which ought ever to charac- j most without a parallel, when, a Httle more 
 ■.i.Ti/c our int.oroui'so heiC, to addre.ss myself Mhan three years ago, it was transferred by 
 ■rieHv Xi; f/eritlr'i,en upon this fioor, whose [ Millard Fillmore to the present administration, 
 lutr it j-, in coininon witii myself, to forget i and now the whole country is corivuhcd, and, 
 \i)C a while what I fear engrosses too much { to say nothing of subsequent events, there can- 
 our atteption, iind endeavor in good faith to ] not be found a single man v,-h > has the effcont- 
 MCi'oinplish some practiral plan of averting a I ery or indecenry to say that the introduction 
 ■'•lcr.,iit>.f which all agree Ihreateas the coun- | of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, and the repeal ©f 
 'ry, ari>l for iesioring that good feehng and j the Missouri Comi)rouii3e, was not the incfp- 
 !::innouy which ou'j;ht ever to exist among the j Hon of the entire scries of unhappy events 
 ■Utiertnt States i-fthii Union; but a dintrust j which have followed close upon th« heel of tiiat 
 .»!'niy own povi^rs, a.id that timidity and difh- di.sastrous measure. It is not our purpose to 
 dejice which, if it were not pccuiiar to myself, 
 is a very natural eifsprifig of my position as a 
 new iiieinOe/' npor.\ this Hour, has heretO|fore de- 
 lerri'd me from making that effort ; and now, 
 :i<imoni.«h('d by the |>re.>^sin'e of business before 
 as, and thevery brief peri )d alio ved to accom- 
 plish it, I am comjielied either to forego en- 
 tirely what I have desired to say, or to present 
 it to the ('ommiltee, where, (or the reason 
 already stated, it may never reach many of 
 those by whom 1 de.sii-e to be heard. 
 
 We have heard much — very much — said, 
 and a great anxiety has been manifested in 
 "his flail, during this protracted session, about 
 an ^.virly settlemtnt of the "Kansas question," 
 I stiall not pause to inquire with what siiw.erity 
 ^eiitieiaen have at all times talked, or how 
 much less o^ feediiifi than was evidenced by 
 the words uttered, of anxieiy for tlie early set- 
 tlement of this que'-tion, but wish merely to 
 
 truce the effect of that scheme, or to suggest 
 motives for its introduction, or mark its pro- 
 gress from tho fatal hour when it was concoct- 
 ed, down to the present moment of gloom and 
 despondency; but it is enough to say, that 
 wherever you may cast your eyes, you caji 
 see nothing but havoc, and desolation. 
 
 If a tornado had swept over the whole corn- 
 try no greater devastation would have been 
 perceptible in the natural world than is now 
 standing out in bold relief, everywhere, in the 
 political condition of the count nj. The govern- 
 ment, from an unprecedented tranquillity and 
 prosperity, has been pre -ipitated into the veri- 
 est vortex of discord, and so deep siittltd a 
 disqui-otude is everywhere exhibited— such a 
 portentous murmuring of the people, such a 
 distrust, such a want of confidence, such a 
 sectional bickuing and fitrife is now inanifcsi,- 
 cd all over the land, that even the coolest, th© 
 Bay that I, too, have been a«a;/c)«s upon this j bravest, and the truest men of the couutrj / 
 subject; and although for more than light | arc watching the passing events with tho ut^ 
 months I have sat heto, ■ivdifferent, apparent- j most solicitude and apprebension, lest it m»f 
 If, perhaps, to eome, i\m\ havo never in my ( result ia open rupture and civil war. V."hc 
 
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 giant Ucmor-ratic party of IS")?, where is it | of every one within it. And yet no anu of t^jis 
 now? Where are its coIodmI proporti<inc, its government, strong enough to aco<Hnpli^rl its 
 I »roud cropt, its Samson lock ■;■:' 6(>?(c / jr-iw^ .' i pu!po-e«, has ever b..cn interposed. Fraud 
 
 it has fallen; its giant proportions have dwio 
 (ile<l away ; it has been shorn of its Sam- 
 son locks, and with them have d -parted their 
 Samson strength, and now, as a sick girl, it 
 cries — 
 
 "Give me some diink, Tiiiniuf.' 
 And that proud chieftain, too, who ::. 
 wascam.:d into the Presidential minsicu uiili , 
 jilniost a unanimous, vote — h^v- ir.^: the nii^n- j 
 (y fallen ! 
 
 " But yestorda.T, the word 
 
 Have Ptood against the woilj : now \'v < hetlier'?, ; 
 
 And Tionc bo poor to do liim iwereiice." i 
 
 And that ''Little Ci:int" OMce the pride of: 
 "Young Amoricu," with a talent worthy of a | 
 '• ;• ! caiise, with a bravery scarcely parallel- | 
 . ' , m1 a tr/7/ to cxe'^ute ecj'ialed only by his 
 ti;iii'!llo=s courage. lie, too, is huti.bled to the 
 (la«5t. The chalice prepared h-y Iiini [''cano- ; 
 thor, has be?n veturDcd to his own H - ' :>" 
 .•irrow has rebounded and pierced hi 
 Bom : , 
 
 " Keen w.'n> his'.fang.s, but keener !ar to i'efl, ' 
 
 He uiirsed tlio pinion which impelled the f<teel.'' ] 
 
 The very friends of tho=e who initiated this ; f'l'^'f. -^^ •^''i?^' a preponderance of actua 
 mad scheme, i.nd brought to its support all the I '^'^'^^ ^'^ ''^'^^ Jernlory who desjrcd to 
 
 and violence have stalked abroad, and blood 
 has fiown, and yet no interposition, by the ad- 
 ministration, until the act has been consum- 
 mated, and then only a fore-, too puny and im- 
 becile to restorer order and enforce obedience. 
 And now this Oongi ess is to adjourn, and no 
 prarticab'ie remedial measure is propoecii by 
 ihe Demoiiacy, at all adeqaute to tl 
 ing lri)uble>. Nothing cooeiliulor 
 ht.a'ing, nothiug saluiary 1o tb.e it-. - k.m 
 pciee of the country i:* profT^rcd by that party, 
 that chiims ior iisvlf «/^ of natioriulit}, till of 
 coiwlrvatism, nil of pat:iolisin. iJut I <^-- ir- 
 to do no injuslioe. 
 
 A bill has been introduced ami 
 the Si'nate, at the instance of 'hi- " 
 which, its fi lends claim, is th 
 and 1 i~. >■. I. 10 wi 'i u-. (■ -tract li 
 of !;'■ V possess. 
 
 to .- \; tiiat bi.. 
 
 ■k?mblitiicc. ai lea>c oi^/(4</'/<i?^s ; and U ai: >- 
 teachings heretofore from those "tvho \i\c:>- 
 claimed to be the "peculiar friends" of free 
 Kuflsa-i wcVt- trve, and there w»s, in point of 
 
 power and patronage of this vast government, 
 haVe, in one portion of the country at least, 
 i.ie?»crtpd them. Their heads have b^en phici-d 
 upon the block, and the axe appliorl by the 
 vcpy hands of those that they ba\e carcs-sed ; 
 and while they have permitted their bodies to 
 icriche in all the agonies of s <leath strugg'e, 
 they have turned contemptuously away, ; ndas 
 if to show how intiHtble is thiir scorn, thoy 
 are seeking now to elevate to the high places 
 from whiili the sclicmers have been dragged, 
 the very ma», who, above all others in this 
 countr}', can smile nyviphicenthj at his fallen 
 
 Kansas a free State, as has alway.-- 
 I been represented, there could be 
 i objection urged against ihcnieasuri.' 
 I who desired to see the quoKtion sett 
 
 the sfiine time desired also to see K . .. 
 
 I mitled into this Unioi\ as a free State. Itut 
 I uJifortunately for the success of that measun. 
 I the int'ommtion which liis been spread al; 
 
 over this country by the fiiends of free Kan 
 
 sas, a.s to the groat supei-iority in nurahers, 
 j of the free Stale men in that Territory', is now 
 I pronounced yuftu/yin', or at least doubtful, b\ 
 ! those men themselves. And again, in aniici 
 
 rivals, and in the deepest recesses of his cold F ^lion of the passage of this Senate bill, from 
 
 and antiquated heart, laugh at their calamity 
 And yet this venerable Democracy wrups itself! 
 up in its own dignity, and instead of offering 
 some jiraclicil healing measure to the country, I 
 looks out with cod and deliberate unconcern, ! 
 and, in deep 8epuichrdl tones, says to the jieo- 1 
 pie of this convulsed governmetit : 
 
 '• There U no rciud/— we can do nothing — we 
 stand upon a JinnUt;/, wliieli we otupclvcrt have' 
 foroed upon tlie couiilrr, nnd now l..t what will 
 come, we leave you to the H-ree pn«!>io!is, the vio- 
 leno»?, the howie-knife Hiid the rifl ' of iiilurintpd' 
 mon, to protect >0iirFeIve3 if jou c:in, or to auffer 
 uiid filced ai d die if you n>n?)t." 
 
 The very principles Inch was introduced by 
 the Kansas bill, rnd upon which the Democra- 
 cy j'^u/ne tip to " v(<, thi-y have sufTeiefl to be 
 tejtuiliuti'l iu.d ■•■■rnited out of the 'I'eiritorx', 
 uid the inw principle intioduced of pei milting 
 cvoryboriy ontnide of the 'J'eiritoiy to prc- 
 Ectibe the govtrnracnt to the cotiro exclusion 
 
 information recently receivid, which, to say 
 the le^st of it, comcb trom a source entitled, 
 in the absence of more rtliulile teBtimony, tc 
 no little credit ; it is understood and believed 
 that ihat class of mm whi', from the first, have 
 Set out with a iixed deteMuinaiion to c^lab 
 lish shivery in that Territory, and aiehbor 
 'ing fieduloufly to acconqdi^h thit purpo.-n-, 
 have already taken the necessary fitcps un 
 der the pimisions of that bill to control tht- 
 ■jlestiny of that Territory to huit theiii'!«lves| 
 and, with that information ttaiing us in tju 
 face, in -connexion with the notorious fact 
 that lilmost every niiin here, wlu'.^e sunpa 
 thios are with ih slav ■ party, and who would, 
 wcro it Kft to him, t\stat»li-h t'livery there, 
 is fin* th;it bill, and ttesiios \{a \ i!^ 
 ever of lairui'Ss may 5i(ipc»r npe: 
 t^io bill i Self, or hoi.vivi.r jliusibl- ..i > i."j 
 tlio argnuienis lugcd by ii«, f.iends in its fa 
 
 > ..• \< :. ./.v •n.. f. ,•■ i V ,, (li ^..1.. Ii ,1 . <"tl;. 
 
House, and thenf.^re it offtrs n-> 'practical 
 relief oithor to Kjiuhis or the coiii>tiT. For, 
 come what will — diifcr as widi ly as we may, 
 •iS tc what mcasu7'c of p^acc si ouli be adopt- 
 ed, whoever or whatever may be affected by 
 it, it is due to frankness and to truth to say 
 
 The power bihlnd the <hrone,.thc wheel 
 uithiii the wheel, the complicated and deli- 
 cate machine}-}/ which gives impetus, and di • 
 rection, and control to paity organizaiion, is 
 not perc?ptible, even in the calmest momenta, 
 to the pure-miiidud, unsuspecting, true men of 
 
 that no mejisure viore facorallc to the cstab- i the country. And while now the farmer at 
 lishraent of slavery in Kan?aP, than iho Ter- i his plough, the mechanic in his work-shop, 
 ritorial bill itself, wholly nv; aided by any other and ihe laborer at his toil, in the honesty of 
 legislation looking to that end, r.nd divested } hi;? pure heart, in the unsuspecting eincenty 
 of ever? appliance brought to bear by o««- j of his true nature, with p .Iriotic emotions, 
 »i(Ze iniiucnnes and considerations, can ever looks out upon the turnu il, the distrust, the 
 
 receive the sanction of a majority of the 
 House. And it is worse than useless — it is 
 tiie sheereM vioclcery, therefore, to [)ropose 
 anything that can afford ne'.v legi:?lative ald^ 
 oven in the t-lightcst degree, to tlie establi.-h- 
 ment of slav-cy «in Kansas. If, then, this is 
 I h.K-'uUimatmn of the Democracy, we can, with- 
 out doing the least injustice, insis^t before the 
 people, tluii they turn a deaf ear to all their 
 ttUtreaties, al'ord no relief, proffer no healing 
 measure, but complacently fold their arms, 
 planting tiiemselvcs upon theirjina'lty, and 
 li iive the couiitiy to woriv out its own sal- 
 vation, as best it can. But a new purty lias 
 recently sprung up in this country, and with 
 all the rt-r^or and eniJinsiasm oi i\ xiQVf axxxicw 
 for ihe popular favor, this strange couipouiid 
 of discordant eltments — this pic-bald, hetero- 
 geneous mass of coiiglomerated inconsistencies, 
 instigated and led on by a band of political 
 
 for years 
 
 disquietude, the portentous murmurings of the 
 people, and thinks only of the quick return of 
 happier and more tranquil moments to the 
 country, docs not even drenm^ that at tha 
 very moment there is behind the scene, that 
 batid of political triclcate.rs, and, renegades, 
 and cuhentu7erii\v\uch always heretofore be 
 has shunned as he would the adder — whovso 
 touch is contaminaiion, whose breath is pesti- 
 lential, and whose rule is dishonor and ruin — 
 are chuckling over his innocent infatuation, 
 but, at the same time, arranging with the ut- 
 most caution and care the party m-achinery, 
 so that they may reap the harvest, and gather 
 the fruit, while he is left to enjoy the mortify- 
 ing reality of a disappointed hope and a de- 
 frauded expectation. And yet no man who 
 has mingled at all in public life, or has but 
 half heeded the admonitions of the past, or 
 looks with but half an eye at the " beautiful 
 workings" of the iAiTHFLL now, with all their 
 
 desperadoes and charlatans, who ... j , ^ ,, , , -.i,-!. 
 
 have distrraced the country and embroiled its riew-lorn zeal for that rep: »s and quiet which 
 peacefurcitizens, but, rendered now somewhat I the country so imperiously demands, but 
 respectable by an association with no incon- ! ^'li>ch ever heretofore they have been so stu- 
 siderable^ number of worthy people, have diously and sedulously cartful to dtstvrl and 
 appropriated entirely to themselves the settle- !/^''s^™2/,, c^i" ^or one moment doubt the jpwr- 
 uieut of this Kanzas question, and a restora- 
 
 tiou wf the peace and quiet of the couutrJ^ No 
 higher aim, we grant, could challenge the ex- 
 ertiitns of any pf»rty, no nobler purposes could 
 injisige the untiring energies of any political 
 arg!iuization in this country. And if this were 
 die aim ivnA pur^JO^e of the Icadei'S and insti- 
 gators of this new party, one universal ahoitt 
 should come up, " God speed its success!''! 
 But lot no man be deceived ! It comes, we I 
 grant, under an eaphoaious name — "Republi- 
 can!" "The People's party !" And, looking | 
 only at its title, the liumble h.abiliments ! 
 tlirown around its exterior, no wonder that so 
 .T.anj' good and true men in the North are in- j 
 dined, in the bitterness of their anguish, to | 
 fiiU into it- embraces. No one can doubt that, j 
 in niunbers. at lea.sr, a vast mjijoriry of those j 
 who are this day widiin the folds of this new 
 organi/j,tion, nro honest and pure in purpose, 
 sincere in design, and patriotic in deterniina- 
 tio;!, and that if leffc to them, they would bring 
 back the country to {jviniitive landmarks, and 
 restore peace and order ; but no loss true is it, 
 that the hone.-l, tuie, and patriotic mnssesof 
 that party will not, as they have not, thus far, 
 dictate its policy or control its destiny. 
 
 i pose and ban&drsigii of such men ; their unti- 
 ring exertions to carry out those purposes, 
 and their ability to consummate them, if by 
 excitement and confusion, or by feeling, pre- 
 j'-idice, or passion, just)}', perhaps, aioused, 
 the people of the country can be so lulled to 
 sleep or seduced into a heedless acquiescence, 
 as to enable them by stealth and Jrand to at- 
 tain power and control in this goverrment, 
 either by themselves or by the minions that 
 they have raised up for the occasion. 
 
 Settle the dilBcultics in Knnsas, Mr. Chair- 
 man ! Restore peace and quiet to a distracted 
 country ! Bring back the goverament to an- 
 cient Ian Imavks! Inspire new confidence! 
 Avenge the breach of plighted faith ! Con- 
 ciliate and reconcile conllicting rights and in- 
 terests in the true sj irit of the jaiherif, a: d 
 plant thom:^dvcsJhYhly upon such reconcilia- 
 tions and stand-by them! Who, sir, in all 
 this land, in sober seriousness, would ever 
 even suspict that the master frpirita of this 
 Republican movement, the men who seek to 
 control its destiny, who hnte thus far dictated 
 its policy, Mnd will in the future, if it shall 
 suc-eed,' guide and direct its course, either seek 
 or d.sire to accomplish any such pnrposea 
 
Peace ami quiet to the country, gooil fnlh, 
 loyalty to the conslitutioti, .•icq'iii.M'ence in all 
 the coin»(ron\is;cK of that iriK'rumeiit, nnd a 
 stoadf:i8t adheiencc to tho policy, the yiddinjr, 
 con«i!iHtory spirit of those ^rweync?; who stood 
 by the cradle of this govcriiracnt in its intancy. 
 cheri'jhed and pj-ot-cted it in its youth, and 
 traiii^niittod it to us in the victor and strength 
 of its umnhocd, no useless agitation, no r.n- 
 wanantc-d ftctionali-ni, no fratiTTjal suifi'I 
 And say you that this is the doctrine of tin- 
 ?u:^ R.nd front of Kepublicanism? lilot out 
 the r-^cord that these men Iiavo made. for;^i't 
 the strife which they iiavc -o'^e.-i-^ioned, crus'' 
 from your history the recc^rd.'d scenes of agita- 
 tion iti which they have f.gureil so conspicu- 
 ously ; hur.i lilt the stitute-b wk ii every State 
 in which by any means, either foul or fai'-, 
 they have at any time had the ]>v.ver and con- 
 trol; gather logpt!:er every di-^iinion and sacri- 
 legious sentiment which even now every day 
 is pouring in upon ua from nil quarters, ema- 
 nating from men «ho, while tlioy are kindred 
 spirits, nnd think nr.d f-el wi'.li them, have not 
 that cool, calculating head nor that dishonest, 
 insincere and insidious liv.-rt that for its own 
 own wi~e purposes in this particular juncture 
 can smother up and conceal its tnie instincts, 
 and bury all these tilings deep, deep in the 
 bowels of the cirth, and you may then induce 
 the people to believe tiiat their purposes are 
 ideniic^I, and that th.ey seek to accompli-h 
 only what the people themselves de«ire in these 
 perilous times. 
 
 (Jod knows, Mr. Chaiiniaji, that there is al- 
 ready enough in this country to excite .ind 
 startle it- peaceful .*md (juii't rilizens, and that 
 it is in no wise the part either of wisdom or 
 prudence to say aught to add to that disquiet 
 ude and re*;tles8nefis, or acecllerate the fearful 
 issue so likely to omc out of it. It is all 
 doubtle,s.s the legitimate offspring of tho sad 
 workings of a wiciced ar.d mad iidministrat'nn, 
 frho with impious hands h.ivi liroken up the 
 dei'p fountain in whieh 1i:ik betn hid<le.n fur so 
 long tho dark waters of ijisconl, and deluged 
 the country. And while we wouM not sup- 
 pn«fi one tittle of that ju.-.t imiignrition which 
 is felt by nil outniged people for the wrongs 
 inflicttHl, or avert the merited punishment for 
 those wrongs, or rcticue for one instant from 
 the deep grave ot dishonor and infamy, dug by 
 their own h-.ujds, and tn which with so nii;ch 
 unanimity ui' insulted and indignant people 
 h»t^ consigned tliem, a party so pervcise as 
 that which now atliicts the country, we would 
 ask, in th»; spirit of patriotism nnd ilei p devo- 
 tion to this great ^ovenunent, to pause one 
 moment and look beyond the t\irbnltnt .scenes 
 of tlie pre>ient hour. Is there to be a fuliiri. 
 of this Republic? And is that j'uturf to lind 
 »■; a unitiKi and happy people, with one coun- 
 try, Olio constitution, otic Hag, *' with no slar 
 ♦Witeratod or Btri|)0 enkse<]," one destiny ; or 
 
 shall that great orb of day look down '• 'tn tbf 
 broken and dishonored frag mi. .its of n once 
 glorious Union, on n land rent with civil feno 
 or drtnched it may be in fr.Hu,?nal blofd V" 
 
 These may be inquiries wcvtiiy of thi- ;>u<*»- 
 irjg not ire evun of those Vi\\os(rfat the '' ITni- 
 on savers" of these day.^. And while upon ihn: 
 subject, I de.sire, Mr. Chtiin-'.an. simply to sa\. 
 that I am not one of tho-" \v.'> believe that 
 this Union can be dissolvi i ' j i.ny Fudden po- 
 litical coiivul-ion. No gn tt tc ,i(u!o will ever 
 sweep over this country, j ofent trough to s.'.ver 
 at once the stron'.; cords which bind ns togetli- 
 er. Nor is it again.^t nny s-vh occurrene a-- 
 tliat, 1 wo'dd desire to raut'Ci the country. 
 But it is ngninst that iii.iiJ.ionx, mendacious* 
 power and inliuence vrliieli xte'iU upon u< in 
 the night sea.<on, when huUfst nnd tnir men 
 are sleeping, and severs ri c^i-d here, and 
 another one there, and thus. w-.i!vcns the bond 
 of union. Tt is agfii.ist that f'U ajjirlt which 
 creates di.strnst, and dest-oys th;!t mutual c<ni- 
 Hdencc which is so essential among the jumi] le, 
 and igainst that demon who, wi'h a fair exti> 
 rior, and honeyed words, .sa3-bl'.rsl to the Nortl;, 
 "See what ihe South ha> t'ione!" and then 
 to the South, "see what the North is about to 
 do!"' that 1 would c.ntion the country and 
 above nil, wl.ile thus the borid of union is 
 weakened, and all conddetice is lost — vhiic 
 the North is u'-ouscd, and exciicd, and indij;- 
 nant atwh.it it is suid the South has d(vne, and 
 the South is all on Jire at what it is s-sld the 
 North is about to do — whi! ' the cloud.- are 
 loweiing and the storm coming, it is net only 
 against all new and untried «xperiments — all 
 tamper imj — )m{ in thv. very dcijiest rece.^st* 
 of my soul, I solenmly protest ag;unst entrust- 
 ing the ru'o of thi.s government into the hai ds 
 of cither the men or their minions, who \'"r -o 
 long have desind in thtir"lu.iit of hearts" 
 to witness just such a condition of thi-'^g-^ in 
 the country ; and wi.o f.vr so n»:iuy yeJirs havu 
 l;\bored so sedulou«ly and uncea.>iingly for il* 
 consummation. 
 
 Hen tofore, Mr. ('haunian, there ha.^ r^ever 
 been a time, when the course's of such men 
 wouM have been hf^eded for ono instant by thi> 
 great ma.s.<es of ptnv-minded and true men 
 who love their country. It is true that, occa- 
 sionally, ofic of them has utolcn int<i somt- 
 high place of trust in the North, but theystot>d 
 out as livhifj moHument'i oi tfuir own >li.ime 
 and disgi-ace, and a fnot'on light to point out 
 the rod: upon which every true man in thfc 
 country, who travels in that direction is de— 
 tined inevitably to spliL 
 
 And, sir, never imtil this f.dministration. 
 in utter disregard of all it.s ji'cdgcs, and in 
 open violation of that coidi<leMCii which lh« 
 people reposed in it, sank il.self *o ('cq, <lid 
 thexe vitn ri.se above the surface b -neiith w hich 
 they had so long remained, witli enough <'f 
 power only to di*color the waters, and at liiue*. 
 
possibiy create Ji riji^iU. And now, brouglif 
 into notice, and v.-'uh a rcspectaliility and an 
 importance given to them only by the contia.st 
 which they bejir to tho present ;!.dmin.istration, 
 in its law and ^unlcn estate, these; men have 
 in.iUiVurated a oe'io party^ mside uyi, ii-is true, 
 moiitly out of those wlio, like rat><, h;ive had 
 tho necessary imiiiwt to escape from the sink- 
 ing ship in time, and tlie excrements of tjvery 
 party that lian ever exi-teil in this country, 
 and, u'lder a "j'tnici/ riatiH\" chosen hecause no 
 one could iinderstund, or <iven 8Hi']ii'''J irom it, 
 what were the ti-ue (h'^igh^ and purpOiteH of 
 those wlio stood .nio}i.\or;< to it at the baptis- 
 mal font, prdlijic of jjrOMiises fjut iiiengi ew'xth 
 both the abiity and disposition to keep them — 
 profcsxing to be guided by tlie wisdom of 
 Washington, and Jeffesson, ni.d Madison, but 
 trariiplinij, in reality upon the liraves of those 
 men — reviUn'j their memories and traducing 
 and filifi/ing their characters, by denouitring 
 every daj:, as the <leepest of all damning .tins, 
 the- rrry thing of wliich tliese men were all 
 guilty, and upon whose Kkirln, if sin it was, it 
 rested, when their spi'-its took their flight — 
 and sailing, too, as i!u'y say, under the tl;ig of 
 their country, and yet that ''shorn of its fair 
 proportions," and not less l!\an fijlenn. of its 
 bright stars obliterated, they appeal to the 
 countrj' for recruits. 
 
 And who, pray, is to raily around their 
 standard? Not a few, perhaps, with more 
 zeal thm wisdom, catclilnfr from afar off, the 
 tU'.nt iiou;s of some one who, for the first time 
 in his life, perhaps, has discovered that some 
 weil-fcd, light-hearted, hap'iy descendant of 
 the African race " is held in bondac;e," and he 
 Is crying out lustily, " liberty,'" ''liberty," and 
 remembering tliat icnn t/if vntchword of the 
 Revolution, and that there was prf stige of suc- 
 cess to it., therefore instantly rush into the 
 tliickest of th..' fight. 
 
 There is one other class who, far more wor- 
 thy than tiiese. are laboriuii under the strange 
 itiJ'atKatioii that no ont-, unltss In; has been 
 all his life a Democrat, it- entitled to their sup- 
 port, nnd hccause Colonel Fi-emont has been 
 all his lifj .1 l)enioci-at, iKwi .lames Kuclianan 
 has only been one for the last fori n years, and 
 before that was a Fkhekalist, of course, thi'v 
 prefer the foiiner, and very naturally go over 
 to his support. 
 
 There is still another class, far more formi- 
 dable than either of the twu named, because 
 thty are more numerous, and more harmonious, 
 and far better united in all their political ac- 
 tion than any other body of men who i-.ver, 
 in this country, exercised the right to vole. I 
 mean, Mr. Chairman, that class of adopted cit- 
 JKeus. vvlioaver tiiey may be, or wherever they 
 may have come from, ami none other, who 
 hand themselves together, stand aloof, never 
 minglv; with our people, never learn cur lan- 
 gnagf, never become Aaierirwiized^ go to the 
 
 polls and vote as orie man, and who, in everj^ 
 political contest in which our own people arc- 
 at all equally divided, control at their owa will 
 the election. 
 
 Never, .^ir, diil th** Buchanan Democracy humbif 
 itself so much, never did they go .so )ar out of their 
 wiiv, to sj)it tf/.o.'i- ihe iiativc-boi'ii America'!! citizeu, 
 to apjifwii ih.ii i.;lass of ro'trs, as has the Republican 
 panv, under die management of its virtvo-U'- leaders. 
 And now, it this cla.ss of voters withhold their su])- 
 port, and refuse the rich bounty of tree homes -i)n 
 free soil, in Im' Kuu.s;is, under Frennjiu — h:it is 
 promised them, and still .«;»a/-ii the embrace o'f the/ 
 men who, under one of thi;ir clu^f leaders, for their 
 sake, have i/ufiy nantLi/ luxiii'd out the true sons of this 
 st)il, they but exhibit with their other faults that 
 deepest of all sins -Ajw Wf//-a/i7w(/t. .But it cannot 
 be. The Krpublieaii party are entitled to llie .sup- 
 port of this class of vciors--they destrve it for their 
 truckling .subserviency — they merit it (or their self- 
 debasement iu Jetpi^ing their own bl'iod, so that they 
 might love them the more; and it i.s to Li' hoped thit 
 they Will receive it all, and that no uiau vidl ciiry 
 them the boon. 
 
 There is another class, Mr. Chairuinn, upijn 
 whom ii powerful appeal is mtde. I mean, sir, the 
 quiet, uuol)iru.sive, conservative portion of the 
 country -the trut' in'-n who are disa])pointed, ch;i- 
 grined, mortified and overwhelmed at the biid faith 
 and broken promises of hiojh public fuuctionaries. 
 The upright cili/en, who deplorts the unfortunatt- 
 condition of public atiairs, i.s justly indirjoant at those 
 uho are respon.-ible lor it, and desires ardently to re- 
 buke the ptr))etriitors of the wrong. 
 
 Btil, while tliey would pjo far to hold up u.j puhtic 
 censure and condfifiin.ition all who are rcspoiiiybk' 
 for th;- outrage, and would hurl, with scorn, from 
 power the party under whose auspices the act iiiis 
 been coiisumniuted — yet wimld be the last, in doing- 
 this, to perpetrate :i ni'.ire glaring wrong, or ijitlici 
 upon the country a far f^reater calamity. The desire 
 of the.se men is peace, order, justice, safety to tlie 
 country, the supremacy of the law, and the preser- 
 vation of th» uoverumeut as it is. And the aid of 
 these men is invoked to the building up of the Ke- 
 publican party, and unless that aid is afforded heni 
 that party is destined to the most inglorious defeat. 
 Will that aid be given? It is not to be disjfuised 
 that theie is an intense feeling iu ihe couciry, that 
 ihert' exists the stroofjest delerminution to rebuke 
 the .Vdniiuisiration of President Pierce, aud to tix 
 the seal of condemn.ttion upon the party, who pro- 
 I ose merely to cousvmiua'r it scheme of wron ^ an<l 
 wantonness, ccncocted, and, to a very censid.-?rablt> 
 extent, carried ihroujjh by the Adniinistrution, 
 which it pro vises to succeed; and could it st<!p there, 
 and the eountry lejiose quutl- , when that great 
 work is accomplished, the duty of every man would 
 be a. plain one. But that brings up the momentous 
 question; and it is well worth tho candid niA dis- 
 passionate inqiiiry of the quiet and considerate citi- 
 z.'u everywhere, whf'ther ir is not better to endeavor 
 10 rebuke the wrcno- in ."iv-me other wajx or even k- 
 suffer it to ffs> unrebnked. than to inv<ike a power 
 that may prove mori- terrible aud disastrous in itt 
 consequence, and more faUil to th ' peace and proi*- 
 perity of the c;i)Ver-jmeni, than even the continu- 
 ance in power of a party so universally condemned 
 and detested. Good irien cry out, there is do dan- 
 ger, but is that true? 
 
 A party exi.sting only iu one port'on of the eotin- 
 try, Selecting their own candidates, proposing te 
 elect them by a strict sectionaHote, to the entire 
 aud absolute exclusion of. ev ry other portion of th* 
 Tvepublic, and then, lUidiT Siich au organi^^.-tion. un- 
 dertaking to administer the g.vernmeotfor a portion 
 of the country intentionally pivcluded from ajjt p'.ur- 
 
lidpation in the m;i»tcr, ik an experinu nt, tu say the i Blrugjjle, tho eutir^ TCspon!»ibiliiy of which its friends 
 
 loiiBt of it, of doubtful ch,iracter. Upou its very faci- j htxrc :i:ionofaU>/ Mm^lit to imposi.' upon th' se who 
 
 it bears the scmblnntv of wronjj and injustice. It! would not aid. contribute to, or acnuesce in, or even 
 
 threaten.-, dancer, and it may result disastrou? to the | submit t ) its b?hi's:s, conneeted with its birth, have 
 
 country. A"d ""^ candid ;ind la r-min^led man can j alieady b;'en alluded to. Has anything pirce ocjiir- 
 
 look upon thes h-niein his culm and soberniomcnts, I red lo render it w<j/-.' acaptdU »o the prudent, con- 
 
 w-ithonl feelin» u det p dislnI^t f.n- il.< success Ciui- | servutive and cnnsider.itu cifi'/en! It is said that, 
 
 ded, hnwev.r, by \v'sd.)m. contr lied by considerate j even if rash, gel!i-<b and dangerous nieu, were if'/4(y in 
 
 and r\ peri, need" men, and nrgid on by pure patriot- conciviuj^ and in jrivinir birth to the bantling, thit 
 
 ism, the experiment, even ns dans:! fou.s as it may ' thdr p >wer r.nd control luis lon<r since censed, and it 
 
 appear, might rnHult well, and the great i>bi<et of the it is now "thi- people's pnny," and under tlifir auspi- 
 
 triu me ' .v ho an- imlined to eo witli if, might be ac- C;.s, guidance and nianagenient. ^r>ir. no absurdity 
 
 comprshid-the wrongs redressed, the perpetrators ^ under the tiinisy gaib <f apparent truth, more <//«'//! ^^ 
 
 rebuked, peace restort-d, and no new calamity entail- \ than this, n<>/>'i/.'>i<;/ mor< iatal to the p^ace and (|uiet 
 
 ■•d u])onthe c>nintry. " i of the country, was ever ait'-nipt id to be palmed off 
 
 But has one .single element so essential to the sue- I by sinister and b.si'-hearU-d nun, upon an honist 
 
 cess if Ihi- jjurty in aci\>mi)lishing the purposes i^i- \ and discreet, but in-W excited and indignant Ptople. 
 
 signed bv conservative men to be acconiplished by We do not m-opose, Mr. Ohairniin, to trace the 
 
 it, nifirked its progn-ss? It is not our purpose to go ; history of the I'hilad.jlph a Convtuiion. The result 
 
 into any cl"se examination of th j rise oflhis partv, ' of its'delib.ration is well known to the country. 
 
 or inqiiire j)artieularly into its parentage irlioi it i That there were many good nun, .sale and prudent 
 
 was conceived -J/'Av it originated— /p/«i arranged for ' eiti/ens, nod true patriots in that convention, «i>me 
 
 it.x birth- icAo acteil ns n.-cnoj/ieur—hoic dirii'''ilt was '■ of whom even, under a str inge infatuation, favored 
 
 r.hf partiir.tion — "hdw the uiounialn latjorcd and I the nomination of Colonel Fr. Dion i, no om- doubts; 
 
 hidiight forlh the mouse"— ii'»r ceiit.^i.n men rej-iiced i bnt that his nomination was the result of the delibe- 
 
 vvhen ihc bantling was u^he!•fd m—uh" h^^f jfrofrl.il ; rate judgment, the honest convictions, the di.-»inter- 
 
 bv it thus far, ui on what nourishment the .vJ/'/f/'/ j csted promptings <.f any such men, is so i/;i!V(/-/n'/.;- 
 
 tf.ing has ben f. d. and how dilKcnlt, with all the | l,i/ t'<dx,-, that no (me can be found so Insn," us to a.- 
 
 /i^«iw?«8 that has been administered during its infan- j sert it. Colonel Kremout! the yre t wilud- \\\i- 
 
 ev, it h;i3 be^'U /(v^*: idi',; or ic/m! fo'ti! is yei prepared I " pathnn-lfr" ih«- '• '-.rpl- ri-r"- thv man who ascend- 
 
 for it, and nixni which it is to be feasted, with the : the Rocky nu-untiiins, and i>lauted upon its highest 
 
 \ain hope of eking out its miserable exis ence miiil ' prak the cikjss, tit emblem of his religion, forsooth, 
 
 the household of its- parentage mav be enabled to but a man whi' never " trod the deck.' chosen to the 
 
 rearlizc *./MWiV</<' at least of what proiui-ed at onetime entire exclusion of the tfn thousind bettt-r men in 
 
 lo be a large estate! To drop all figure, and use [ the country, to go aboard of the old ship of State. 
 
 plain liingnngc, catchi nc'orioux fharartftg^ irhlili/ \ and take hold of the helm in the midst of one of the 
 
 at least, if not fu I'oriibh/ known to the country, by i most terribh- st( rnis in which that cherisb"d old 
 
 prearningement had fixed the opening of this Gmi- ' craft was ever caught ; at an hour when etiry good 
 
 gre.ss, and the organization of this House, as 'he f-me j man stood appalled, and helil hisbr'aih, f.-aiinir that 
 
 and the place for the birth of this partv. Witliout j the very next wave that should dash agaiast hir 
 
 wailing to consult or impiirc into the adaptation of { sides would carry her and all on b.>arJ l>tl'^^c, and s.iv 
 
 rtli the naans prearranged, or the willingness on the • you that fhU-- is the wosiK of " t ftc p^p!-^ ?" S r, it is 
 
 part of those selected to aid in the inauguration of I ii hjne U'»J up"n the intelligeniv, the honesty, the 
 
 this pariv, the mavhiner;/ wa.s put in motion, and we • purity of the people; the impudcn * and wJAnithxnq 
 
 remenib'r wt-ll its workings, 'the hirt'.in'j^:\\\A "?<7- | ^fro'dfi-y th/il gi\-e8 utterance to which, is surpassed 
 
 Kt'-rn stood r.'udy, to*.'; m h'V'd, to scourge into active only by that which promoted the nomination itself. 
 
 service everv one wh > was inclined to /</</ in the per- I T/w jMifti^." u-'rl: .' .*^ir, if you wmild lean whose 
 
 tbrmunec of'the \v-vkhl/i.-f,l out fortheni by the sell- I work it wv.s, instead of '^^iing among the people and 
 
 <xinstituted masltt^. No tneuii^l for whom ili -so men | h,fiiltinfi\\\on\ by inuuiring " who did it," you shoiild 
 
 piofess so nirdi sympathy ever sntlered so deeply liitve gone, in some long still night of "ast winter, in- 
 
 fn.m thi' lasli of liie //;.';."')''/• wv/-Arc/- ihan did ihose i to some gloomy cav.'rn on Wall street, or perh.ips 
 
 who would not bow the knee, or yield obedience, or ^ iuio the darkened i-anetum of some New York cilv 
 
 servile sind menial like, di> their biildings. And what- ' newfspapereiitor.aml there witne.ssed the scene which 
 
 .'vcrmiiy be ihou/ht of me, and mv un\ ielding re- ' transpired auioU'' the wily inliticians of an oft-r^ 
 
 sistanee to th» mandati-.s of those im-n in that l<-ng I pudiated, reject. d. and dispised sch k)1 oti the one 
 
 strugg!..-, by Iboxe wh.)Se rc))resentative I am, eiilur part, and u band of puiVic ji'.taidi'iwi who ir./i-jft the 
 
 individually or corectivelv, I <;i-oitv in the lirnim-ss government, hovtr Ike evil birds of prey ab<'Ut th.- 
 
 by which I was . n ibl.-d to stand np against ihem— ,' Capitol, lilli.ig thr very atmosphere with iheir stench, 
 
 r sist the reiitreati s seoin and ditesl thrirmei:-, on the other, and ovt-rhear.i the scheme one. ctcd 
 
 nces, hcofl'at their carjnngs and base deiiniieiation, ' and the plan arranged f>.r a sudden and strange pub- 
 
 and smile compliiceutly a? the harmless innoccncy of i lie ser.tinient in favor of th-- nomination of Colom 1 
 
 their Hc<>urging:^. Thnt struggle is now over, and j Fremont to be indicated by vi.v-'^'""""' comniunica- 
 
 no one desires to n^vivo it. j tioiis coining up from all parts of the countiy «m«;i- 
 
 The. n-spi'CI f .r ilu- Sii.'«ker i^nn.spind bv the ot.v ' !au'Oiii-!i/, and then have markeel the unliring indos- 
 
 with which he has .idorned t!ie chair, as a" pressing ] try,iind the zeal with which those it istinct classes, 
 
 oflicer, and ic v>i (c/.v by that jHrliiiuril;/ with which | ncting cn-joiutiy, have lalv.nd to proin .t ■ that scn- 
 
 his ehcti.iu was tirged, not so mneh by renlh-nun | timcni.aiici pr.icnre.llirniii.'h their owo ivryi/K/r^-W- 
 
 wiff.ln, as by the WjwKii-t -/"t'A/i// thi.s Hull. To tin- ; ;.-/.>, its cxpre-ssion in tlu I'hiiadeiph .i Couvenlion, 
 
 .'oiiiitrv it y'VJuM bu' a stni','gli' for the orgiinizatioii i and you would liavi.- had no trouble <n either h arning 
 
 of this' Ho(L'-e, b;il lo th ■ r'nlrn'Miio ■■><■}, '■» of the ' "whose work it was," or \\hnt are the puri>^ '"^ nu-i 
 
 Republican paMv, it w.is ihe ve f tlv.it ! .''<.-'(;7<is of the cc-l.iborer.-. 
 
 parlv. It was b.." ui d. rs».od ih. ; ■ lio did Ihit p.rhaps it miy b<" orgcsl that this party, even 
 
 not 'svnu,aihi/,e with it, bni r. : i.i.ieh- i if it has done strange work in prvseuliug a cai.didKte 
 
 meiit.'4, uni it bus since l^i^i-ii f auk y pi..tKiliiied by 
 the Kcpnblicaii pre-a. Ami, no«,.Hinie its innugt - 
 ration, wliit Ivis it d 'O'', or nh^t do 8 it jirim'sj to 
 do, to oommo'ii' i Hilt I ■ th • s'ipp n of the (,«'<i and 
 trtt« ine 1 if thid country t The c rLiiuisaiices iiiuhr 
 vfhicii it I as bo.:n nshiriJ iu, the lon;j and f.'i'.rfiil 
 
 r,»r the highest otiice in the go»c riinieu , Ihrmigh its 
 represe;itativ( s in this Cotigress have exhibited the 
 true spirit, and evinced an earnest fleterinination to 
 Hccomplith ilic purposes detiniidf<l bv the times,und 
 thai thi' pariy thfnfoi-t is eiitiiktl to the support and 
 cncoura;,ein.-'nt of ino co'^scrvaf.iv ) nia,sHcs. Sir, that 
 
is oue of the verv inatu^rs f.pon which I bav.- desired , ces, would have guided their sUjps, and jROne with 
 to bo heard. And I'bile I impv.-ra no peiitlemanV the Republican pai-y to any point withm rdiison, 
 notivcfl, I intend to deal frankly and f>;arless y with and short of revolution, the rupture ot vha fiovc-rn- 
 - - - - •'- ■ - .po^.g Qf 1 ment, or the creation of troubles and ailncu.t»« iti 
 
 this llonr to ihsU!' ui 
 adoption of some pla 
 
 the subject. If it ha.n been the object and purpo; 
 
 the subject. It it nan Deeu uie oDjeci ana purpose oi nu-nt, ui mc v,n;«i...... yi .,..^u-..-^;' — " .......,-...^. - 
 
 the Ktpablican3 upon this llonr to cv-.^i-v,' upon the the country, more terrible and disastrou.s thm those 
 
 adoption of some plan for the settlement of the I which they desire to remtdy. Audit is no excuse, 
 
 troubles in Kansas and the country, which /hr// kmw . therefore, to say that they had no power to propose 
 
 nation of the Senate and the . and carry throuoh this liouse some schenie or p .an 
 
 w conchsmi~i\vAi thev must have t/.V that they re- | they did not know wou.d not tnett th.- appriba'ion 
 Miire, or flo;,<?, when i\u^\ knots that, from the very i of the Senate or the rres;oent, aud couiu notUievc- 
 iature of thino-s, Ibey cannot, obtain that all. If they i fore be ca'rie.l out? They- have through th<j axl^ol 
 
 f.srd no relief, propose no healing nieasure, do noihin 
 
 the" Union as a State, under her Tup-jk:- constitufi'; 
 
 ■n.st theii 
 
 pleofth-.t Territory. Audyet,did«otevery Republi- 
 can, either iu or out of Congress, /trtow) /«i7 well. 
 when the passage of those bills took place, that they 
 were destined to inevitable defeat in the Senate, and 
 
 . -■■i-ed; if" ill;' tholr purpose to i<u*:r (ht: w ./-yof tli-j | mise. They have a so attached lo seme ol Uic »p- 
 1 fopte to couLUui.--the breach which alri.idv exists propriatiou bills, certain provisos looking uiwardt 
 between the KorOi and the South to grow wider -the the repeal of some of the odious laws of Katieas, a 
 biit.>rness which is now felt by people in one section redress of the wrohg.s inflicted upon some ot the pce- 
 towards those of .•.uot>'er, to became more rancorous, 
 and fierce passioa to become more fierce and malig- 
 nant, until every bond of Union is gone, all confi- 
 
 df nee lost, and "all fraternal regard destroyed, and , , ■ /■ v • + 
 
 nut, even pro:ose to arrest, in the si ishtest degree, that lo i«*:w!; upon the adopticm of the pr^visoN a^ 
 th.! sad prosrss of things, or to cast vu>ou the! iaehcd to the appiv priatiou bills. w.is t'> defeat those 
 troubled waters o!:e drop ofoi},morelvbucause they i measures, and theuby .stop the xrheeis of govevn- 
 cannot obtain their vUiutatum^ then.^ir. it is to be | nient, bring about revoUuion, and eventually destroy 
 conceded lliat their objects and purposes have been j th- Republic? And yet nothing else is pJ-f>P«se«' ^^■ 
 ^Mndly mcce8><f<d. And, if they are to, go out to I thing attemp ed, nothm ; cveu suggested byth.f par- 
 tlie countrv, and appeal 10 the good and true men to | 1y, who claim for themse ves,fKVfXceU.enf:e, in eserv- 
 sustain them, because of the iiigh excitun«nt and j thing that perta.ns to the "w.ongs of Ivuusas a re- 
 the intense feeling which prevails, and which, if, dl•e^s of those wrongs, ana the resior;^loa (t quicl 
 they did not, in the first place, engender, they have j to the country, 
 at least suffered lo aecumu 
 however slightly, to quiet 
 commeiidatioi s to the peii_ 
 
 umph is inevitable. It wi.. i.ui wi-, ,..11. ■.^. .»..»""". 1 , „ ., -, , /., - jr,„„.,v „„^ 
 
 for these gentlemen to say that the Republican party I man, a gentleman from ^cw lork.(Mr. HAVr-.v) pro- 
 LS m the miuonty upon this floor, anrf, therefore, i sented to this House an amendment to the henate 
 (An do nothing, and should not be he'd responsible. 1 Kansas bill. pr. vidiug ior the wiping ou. of every- 
 True, as a party, they have no majority ; but upon : thing transacted m that Territory since the organ- 
 every measure of po"licv looking to tb"e settlem- nt i ization-the taking ot a new census a^compiet^ 
 of the troubles in Kanaas~the rebuke of the Ad- j registration (f the leg.il voUrs, the d.stroang anew 
 ministration-and the restoration of peace and auiet of the Terr tory. the election ot a new Legislature 
 in the country, there has been enough of tho.e who | the annulling upon the meeting of the Legislature ot 
 are not of t.hom, ready and wiling to aid, to enable i all laws unless rc-enacttd by U,and an enure change 
 them to carry the same throneh this House. I in its government..! affairs. And y.t, sir, no actio 1 
 
 Gentlemen, sir, and 1 speak pnrticrlarly for my- has been had by this House upon that riieafcure, so 
 solfin this connexion, who came here r/<v/<)M«ci«(7 the i fair upon its face, so unexceplioaabie to aJi, even 
 Democratic partv for i:s breach of fa th: its violation I those who insi. t niioa the princii>Jes ot ttie ivans.s- 
 of rledo-es; its utter disregard of the peace and re- | Nebraska bill itsell, exciting no agitation condicung 
 pose of the country ; its palpable impudence and j with none of the doctrines of any party m ths coiii;- 
 folh-, 'f not wickedne s, in distiubing a peace mea- ; try, so prom-tive of its p ac^ ani quiet, but, in- 
 smeof Eolong st.nding, and m opening up anew stewd of action upon it, wh-n a pripnsiuon was made 
 
 bisely dualt with, bring back the govtriinient to a ! Mr. Chairman, is it «'./«,<(l to charg- that the 
 i.olicv upon which it had bven conducted by good \ disposition, n ilu- p.rt of the K, publicans in fiis 
 men through so many years, and restore once more j House to do anything /;«/f/l<t«Mov\ arcs tUii retUe- 
 inthcland,peaceandconcoid._GeiMlereen,sir,wlio, I mVnt ol the Kansas <iiihcn!t os, bnt that they arc 
 to ac 
 
all. becatuk." the Senate, constituted as it is, tf which ' betzin 
 we Lave had I'uli knowledge in advance, will not c<">i'.- ' and d 
 cnr in taitsc fttvri'e pl^cin or i,chtirf- upun which this Mr. 
 Hou»p, H8 ail d]lhna('im, han seUltii ■ osvo. ; ttd nc 
 
 And yet, s:r, thif Itrpubliciii) jv.irty fj'.t'S out, and ! tenrl>r 
 upon this ri.'conl «p;.>L':i'i* to th- cotintrv .n thv I'n «•- j w' 
 •ierr.I-il r::c^- ; -.nd wiiil.' ih;- l>i'niO!.Tacvf'>ld.-^ its arnib ; t. 
 
 ttiid oUud.s upv)ii ixs jh.a'.Ui;, doin^ nc' ■ - \'^-' ■"^>- j i;:-. 
 
 ir«r 10 d) .' otuiirg. Die KcpuMictiii?, \<y ^ other ti 
 
 to I'i'- ppopli?, ••■ih<?rf' ph-ill !)>; i " !-•'•: ' ('VfT 'uk'. 
 
 ^ae^''•y■t — .i(> <■ ■ ' , ■" . ; 
 
 ces^' ..i; ;. i>. ',^. 
 ihal ;-• iv(;i!r i 
 
 two prOJUi.-'tii-lJf., s-w .'.I < iy „],,.: 
 cul iu ihcir !'.u::l Umi<!.ci<'S u'.d ■ 
 cour.try, they propo.^ic lo I)k''^ •' 
 
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 br.t'.!'i of thi.s yt:>r. Hinplc-hiindcd sir.d alone, the j tiou -at every sttp of it- progress, and nnril an ho 
 w)p.t' ,-, viouU bj ficirf Hud t' rrib!'.-— bitter in its m- 
 ccpt'on— li'Wi'l'; and vindiclive in ll8 jirop^rrss — fwjr- 
 ful in its ii itnina:i n— fatul and c.ilaniitoiis to the 
 coiiui-y, wliat; vcr may bi^ its n-sults 
 
 l^ir, "the ercal hecri of this ndti./u is not in thai 
 r*t.M;'_'«1i> The tn!"Ht(v. — fii" /?".'.•', : /■■•if.'tvf, nuA ff"'' 
 
 est, insulted arid "■';(r',".M;!l p-. p\f '■hfiM r's" t-y in 
 their might, ;\i ' •". 
 
 eir. that tlu I d 
 
 itself :is a sroi i- 
 
 ifls 8 necessity iur h^ o.uuit-r^itiit xN'o ciCti.StT ciui be 
 made, in in v ipdfr'n'-tit. for rrich th:it )us bvcn doQ» 
 
 tioiuti t-upiV u-.i.V, pi\>..i(.ds, ii^id i.\A\ ;.(>;; 
 
 Dron;jh{ to i>i..'.r t«) ai'jiis-.' and ex if'' ti<:.: 
 
 cool i.iid t^tdi'i; eit'zea evorvwhir,., und tu 
 
 and j re • tlif-in into the scrdce of tiiher one :; d-.- 
 
 the ( ;ti(r, tlu-re O'lnie-^ into th- i\r\(\ a n'",vj>! 
 
 with its chi fi.iin bc:ii' 
 
 —with no n.nrtii.l 
 
 aoisu uf b.i't!-.' — hut ', 
 
 nition, ?.itd (nfiTS the li.iv. ii b- 
 
 iar bnnutr — rvory ttvijio and ^(: ■ 
 
 •1! ' . ". "U thiil blind would mh 
 
 -: I ■ . .\', war lis b.-.iuly or t:;' 
 
 id thf cause o! hannouy tind pc. 
 
 i<» th'- •"•.v — . u '.iry, and " Uif ■ 
 war cry. 
 ■ • Chuirttian, wii"' 
 
 v.h;. ^l,^..l!<l ; 
 
 itr" lii'ld j aril doer. 
 
 ifX! '.?!'■ I step tf» f)ii 
 
 I iicp whxh, in all the dark 
 ■\ up;t;n5: th«- Di'inocMcy, 
 •!d t.1 slrict accmnabiriv. 
 ud by a p.i'tv i'l no «'.,■>< 
 
 •'7 
 
 ■.Ion :A'yt ; li>:. 1 :.:! '-^iiv' 
 
 many, but, b Uilii.a: a.s b-nh thrive partita me, about j 
 a local and hcetional qu.-.-tion alone, niakinET no othiT j 
 if.siie, under idl ihe exoil'-nient find biuerm.-*' ivhieh 
 must arise in .such a ti^ht, and with ail the fearl'iil 
 i.-ons'quences destined iiicvilablr to grew cut of it.s I 
 termination, whatcTtr uiav be the result, and which- | 
 ever m-<y >••• to • v'clf-'-, can the musses, the bone and ■ 
 tiii, .'i,'e eKmentof ih eouuliy. i 
 
 be ii eitij.T .side? Thatprii- I 
 
 lie' ' , I putrioti-ni hhotihl deter j 
 
 then), ijo oiici. ill «.U,.-ii!. Ihat i n ly inlloonce will 
 be exert* d every utirmlu.') applii-d, aiid all means 
 resorted to for 'he pn pose ot c^vnj-r'nuj every niuii 
 t. • «ti!"ll hi)ii.'»elf en one side or th*.- other in th'« 
 r- C'.i al I-tIm. i.< :ilii idy loo apparent. The potent 
 (-r. face" . 1 the Niirili and ''.Abolition" 
 
 111 alreii. y freily i;.-ed ti> !(>reu men into 
 
 a-.. : . hich till ir very naiuie revoll.s. And 
 
 it '.iiiv remain.* to be S' en of what kind of .'■-'.•///' the 
 »>.v^.'i/« nf t •!■» rninilry in f>i:id'.', to di>lpr:nine whether 
 0, ' . ■' ■ " • ;.r-e-tisfiil. 
 
 \', . by nicii 
 
 in teinj)t;i- 
 
 tif n;, ii..i. ;u!ii., :;iL-.i;:>'. ui t;- ii.' > a l:^'lil « liieh ui-y 
 even orrniiK' t«o nini-b l< r lln-ir more poweil'ul ann, 
 yet. wr, dure is noi one of them who will f-r a sin- 
 j»Ic inK'UiUi pause in h.«c.iree» and < onsiilt thai silent 
 monitor wi bin hi'o, wi.^ will nil t>tiiiid app<ilJtdnt 
 >hc fearful nbvns whch hj bo rapidly apt-roachrs. 
 \. -1 T.', v'^, lilrc c :. 'mm, \\<:y r.;.U hcd .ii'y on, 
 
 him, and if nnythmp coch u- added to render the 
 eiici'tniun) more complete, it has lopg sine" been 
 written by those who now o)>pofie him. II '" 
 deiilial Adiniiiisir.itioii is the highest go 
 his luturo course, »:nd neither d«c ar.itn n . 
 pie nor promise • f pt rforrnnnce thould b<! n.-K>u «>r 
 cxpeeted. He enit-ix-d upon the diseharee cf I'rcsi- 
 dei:tial duties utice without them, an- " • - •- -'i-in 
 and brill ancy of his Adiniiiisiraiion •'■ 
 
 are r.ee<lod noiv to .■iutis.fy any onevl.. :;;>- 
 
 tied with anyihin;.' that In- could say. l'::_( r -'irh k 
 man, standing', a^ he will, between two ^nch con- 
 tending parlies, irawin'.: to hii^ i-upport from e(u.-h 
 of theni--everv man who hap no heart f»'r ntich u 
 bitiie there will rally to his support such an army — 
 so pure iu patri>>fis:n, SDtnhk'tred in couscrr.itivo 
 seniinieut, so devoted to the povc-unicnt, in all its 
 leiigih and breadth as to strike tenor and in*>piro 
 awe in llie bjsoiii of all who oppofe it. 1 he sub- 
 lime .sjieclnele of a pirly built up n 'he very midst 
 <if a revolution, bloi'dless as yet, but t«riiHe and 
 menacing on every si-'e, jie.'cetni and c inciliutory in 
 every mi "Vement, with no weyp os of warfare but 
 the cheri^lK-d principles of ».ur r'alhers aud their »:i- 
 rred memories— no dt fence bat the sh old of the 
 t'ons-titution— n « proni-e but i<n uiHiTid.-<l people 
 and an unbroken uut'imal f.iilh, — with the (•'od of 
 battle to >;iii<'e our steps, what power ou curth shall 
 overcome us ? ___^ 
 
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