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THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
speech of Stephen a. douolas
Pelivercd in tlio Uiiite'l Stntci cSnnte, Thurs
tiny, Jnnuary 3d, KC1.
Mr. loupliiB ked that tha report of
tho Com'tiitto of Thirteen bo taken up,
Mr. I), proceeded to address the. Sonalo.
Ho said no act of his public lifo ever gave
him io much pain as to vole for the reso
lution. The Committee could not agree.
Ir order to nee the cuuso of the trouble,
tve mtikt po t ack to tlio late, election.
Wo should assume that whenever Con
gress undertook to act on the slavery
question, discord and agitation was buic
to follow. When Congress lot tho ruies
tion alono there tvai reace. He referred'
to tho time when tho Miswouri Compro
mise was enacted. Tho fearful agitation
of 1820 was settled by the establishment
of the compromise line. So long as that
adjustment ras carried out, there mus
. . . , .1;,, i 1 '
Deuce and ouict. lesas was Adjusted :
luictlv under this rule, though there was
a great contrariety 01 opinion, j.uh no
one objeetod because it extended that
lino. Again, Califonii i and New Mexico
were acquired, and tho extension of tho
line to the Pacific ocean was demanded.
Tho records show thr.l lj.c reported, as
Chairman of the CommitUe on Territo
ries. a resolution to extend the line to tho
I'-r-ifi... Thiy rn....ln..tH.l in tl.o S.-nnte.
but w!,i:i it was sent to the House it was
rejected by Northern votes. That opn-jcl1
,i n,ninifiu nii.i,.nri.w
which was settled by the Compromise of
1850. When wo settle this question in
tho Territories then wo shall settle it en-!
tircly. Wo
como now to the consideration of that
party which has plunged tho country in-
to a slate of discoid, his folly for any
man not to see facts which do exist. Th0
result of the recent election, in connoe-
tion with all the circumstances with which
it i surrounded, have led tho people of
the .South to form the convictions that it
is n fixed policy of the dominato party of
the North to invade anl destroy ,i)(,ir
constitutional rights, and they are Toady
to rush, rashly 1 think, into all the hor-
tors of revolution nd disunion, rather
than to submit tn vihnt. thov think the
impending blow which Langs over them.
The Senator from Ohio (Mr. Waiii-j ac
kiiowleged the exi-tence of this conviction
inthe minds of the South. 'i-n people, and
s.iid he did not so much b'viuc tlifia as
he did that northern Pjtuouraey, who
had misrepresented and f.ilsitied the pur
pose and policy of the Republican party ;
yet he advocates a policy which wdl not can only bo enforced against criminals,
relieve theso apprehensions, but threaten and those of us who are 111 favor of the
them with revolution and coercion, Constitution and the Unicn must be caie
rather than to give them eecurity. It'ful that wc do not perpetrate tho very
matters not whether thes dangers were ' things which we denounce as criminal in
real or imaginary, if the Southern puople these seceding State. And South Cavoli
ar prepared to take a position which will na docs not stand alone. We arc told
plungo us into disunion and discord for-. that seven others will follow her, and wc
ever. 1 regret that any one on this floor have reason to apprehend thai seven
should have introduced pii ty polities, and mure States will follow them. Tho an
endeavor to make party capita! oul ol any swer is, wo must enforce the laws. My
question affecting tho peace and tafc- reply is you cannot cnj'orc the laws in
ty of this country. I'ut, sinco the Sena-.
tor has attempted to make the Northern
Democracy responsible for tho revolution,
ani forced to
inquire whether mo
. 1
rliarre is true
Thero is no man living
o- -1
who would be better pleased to learn that
he had niisfRpvescntcd or misunderstood
the policy of that party. 1 would like to
know whether that Senator will no.v say
it is not the policv of that party to con -
fino slavery wiihii: its present limits by
tho action of tho Federal Government 1
Whether it is not the policy ol that par
ty to excludo shivery from the Territories
re now possess, or any wo may hereafter
acquire? Whether or not that party is
in favor of returning fugitives to their
masters from whom they escaped ? In
short, I will give Lira tho epportunity of
saying no-, whether it is not the policy
of that party to exert all tho powers ol
the Federal Government, undor tho Con
stitutioa according their interpretation
of that instrument, with a view to its ul
timate extinction in the States, old as well
as new, North as well as South.
Mr. Wado (Rep., Ohio) All thoso ques
tions are most perfectly answered in the
speech to which ho is now professing to
make answer. I havo nothing to add
to it.
Mr. Douglas I did not expect an
equivecal answ er. I know to well that
Senator will not deny that each of these
interrogatories does express his individu
al policy and tho policy of tho Republi
can party, as he understands it. The
harshest thing 1 have said of tho Hepubli
an party was they intended to uso the
power of the Government with a view to
the ultimato extinction ofvlavery, not
only in the Territories but in the States o!
the Union. I have said, and have tcliev-
od It, and 1 would rejoice now to bo cor-
rccted, that it is tho policy of this party
to prohibit nhivcry in all tho Territories
of tho I'nitod States now owned or hero
after acquired with a view to surrounding
tho slave States with a cordon of Abolit
ion States, and thus keep si ivory confin
ed until tho number increases beyond the
capacity of tho toil to food thorn, and
thus force them to dio of starvation, as a
means of gettin? rid of tho evil of slavery
in tho namo of humanity and Christianity.
Ko man
will go further than I to maintain the
Union and enforce tho laws to put down
rebellion and insurrection, and to uso all
tho power conferred by tho Constitut ion
for that purpose. Hut we must look the
f.icts in tho face. We must take notice
of thost things whose ixistenc cannot c
denied. History teaches us that rebellion
often becomes successful revolution ; and
t.n ...tint's.., n,,.l a rf . . . 1 1L. . .nnr.-
, 1 ,. 1
archies have found it necessary to recot:-
. ' . . c
in the rebellion of Stales and provinces.
Such was tho condition of of tho Ameri
can colonics for seven years after tho Dec
laration of Independence. At first, it
wa3 rebellion, and rebellion was treason.
A few months afterwards, it was revolt!-,
tion and a Government uV facto at j?hila
ihiicr-h, iieMucm, nu..
. i -m : 1.. - 1. 1
u ashinSton, toinuiundcr oi tlio armies.
Rebellion hail ceased and revolution tak
iU l,lilCH- Tll American colonies
herein revolt, had Govcrnnicnts dc , facto
,and Urcat 1''"taln- rroud as sll ,Vil8' was
otnptlled to recognize the existing etate
r fai;ts- Th lil(TS of a"
,IWS civilization .demanded that the
'Government dc fu-to bo acknowledged,
1 1Jl,t tlie laws lnUbt be cnfoiced. Ji. our
' s.vslcm of Government tho laws arc to be
' clsr rccJ ly Clvi1 "t"only, assisted by
i tlie Ulilitb and pocomltaNs, xhcn the
' Marshal is resisted. If the colonies, or a
. ytilte' revolt, tho revolution is complete
, ,vIien tli0 federal authorities are expelled,
,und 110 01le is k'ft to "knowledge allege
( ee to tho United States. Ilo.v are you
oin2 enforce the laws then ! How are
Jou fc'oin 10 " in South Carolina 7
febc has passed an ordinance of secession,
I deny her t ight to secede but sho lias
done it. The revolution is complete
She lias no human being in her borders to
acknowledge our authority. This is all
wrong, Lut how are you going to help it?
You toll us we must enforce tho laws 1
am in favor of that. 1-aws must be en
forced according to the Constitution and
the laws. Under our Constitution, laws
countries not in your poscston. 1 deny
that wc have a right to make war in order
to regain possession, in order to enforce
' . . if a y
the laws. Are we prepared tor war ; 1
do not mean in tho sense of having sold-
iers, arms and munitions, but aro wc pro.
. pared in our hearts for war with our
Southern brethren ? While I alhrm
that tho Constitution was intended
, to iorm a perpetual Union while I
atlirm the right to uso all the lawful
means to enforce tho laws yet 1 will not
meditate war, nor tolerato the idea, until
every effort at adjustment has been tried
and failed, and 11 hope of the Union is
gone. Then, and not till then, will I de
liberate and determine what cotirss my
duty will require of me. I am for peace,
to save tho Union. Waf is disun'on,
certain, inevitable, final and irreversible.
Our own very existonco fordids war.
lie preferred
compromise to war, and concessions to
disunion. No compromise would be
available which does not carry the qucs
tion beyond Congress. He said ho had
voted for the proposition of the Scnstor
from Kentucky, Mr. CrittcndenJ and
was leady to vote for it again. Why can
not tho Republicans unite on the Missou
ri Compromise line ? They had heaped
curses enough on hi3 head for repealing
it, to be glad to now re-establish it. He
had helped to support that meusnrc until
ho was compelled to abandon. He w as
willing to meet on terms of mutual con'
cessions. Ho had offered another propO'
sition, to leave tho territories in sf fit quo
until they havo HO.OllO inhabitants, and
then settle tho question themselves, and
also provide for tho removal of negroes,
if theTerritory choso, to certain provinces
If the Republicans do not intend to inter
fero with slavery in the Stale, why not
put on (intendment to the Constitution
so that they cannot doit. Thero must
be a settlement of solno nort now, It
cannot be postponed. We aro in a state
of revolution. His compromise or war.
He proferrcd compromise. Ho said it
seemed as though tho Senators on tho
other side determined to act as a party.
Let tho pooplo decide tho question. No
doubt tho people of Massachusetts aro op
posed to sl'ivexy extension, but ho thought
if tho question were submitted to daj cf
the resolutions of the Senator from Ken
tucky, they would ratify them. Thero is
no other way of rocourso loft, to enforce
tho law in a seceding Stato, except to
tmako war and bring tho St'ito into your
possession first and then enforce the law
afterwards, A war between eighteen
Stale, except to mako war and bring the
State into your possession first and then
enforce tho law a;'tcrwards. A fvar be
tween eighteen Slates on one side and fif
teen seceding States on tho other, is to
me a revolting thing. For what purpose
is this war to be waged? Certainly not
for tho purpose of preserving the Union.
I have too much respect for gentlemen on
the other side of the chamber, collective
ly and individually, to believe there is one
of them who docs not know that war is
disunion. You cannot expect to exterm
inate ten millions of peo le, whoso pas
sions are exhibited viith tho belivfth.it
you mean to invade their homos and light
the flames of insurrection in their midst.
You must expect to exterminate them, or
subjugate them, or else, when you get ti
ed of war, to make a treaty with them.
No matter if the war last one year, or,
seven vers, or tnirty years it must have
an end at sotno lime. Sooner or later,
both parties will become tired and exhaus
ted, and w hen rendered incapable ol light
ing any lotiper, Uiey will make a treaty of
peace, and that treaty will be one of rep
aration. The history of this world iloes
not furnish an example of war of sections
or between States of the same nation,
where tho war ended in reconciliation.
Such a war always ends in a treaty of
peace, and a final, eternal separation. I
don't understand then, how a man can
claim to be a friend of the Uniou. Ni w,
the question must be met, and rvhatcver
concessions I urn called upon to make 1
choose to make voluntarily, before blood
is shed, and not afterward. No man bus j
more pride of country than I. It Lun -j
b!cs my pride to see the authority of the
Government questioned, but we are not
the first nation whoso pride has thus been
humblee. l!epublici, empires, and king
doms alike, in till ages, have been subject
to the same humilitating fact, but when
there is a deep seated discontent perva
ding ten millions of people, penetrating
every man, woman, and child, and invol
ving everything dear to them, it is time
fcr inquiring Ahether there is not some
cause for this feeling. If there be just
cause for it, in God's name let us remove it.
Are we not ciiniinal, in thesightof llc.v
en and posterity, if wo do not remove the
just cause ? If there is no cause, and yet
they believe thero i?, so much the great,
er the necessity for removing the miscon
ception. SPEECH OF HON!" W2LBIGLER.
Or rLNXSVI.VAMA.
I rnr. Si:satc, Janunry !!, 1861.
The Senate having under consideration the
joint resolutions (S. Xo. 5t) proposing ccrlniii
amendiuonts to the Constitution, the pending
iiucstion being on Mr. Bigler's amondmont to the
amendment of Mr. Clark.
Mr. RIGLKR said;
Mr. President, tho organization of a
geographical parly ; that organization
against which Georgo Washington warn
ed his country, was the fatal day for the
Republic. I have been in tho habit of
saying, sir, everywhere on the stump, that
bucIi an organization was inconsistent
with tho peaoe of the nation ; that a po
litical afsociation so hostile to tho institu
tions of another section of the country
that it could have no recognition and no
members in the assaulted noction, must
necessarily be an agent of alienation and
hostility among the people. George
Washington and Andrew .Jackson both
foresaw this, and men on the other side
should have heeded their warnings. 1;
will not do to say that it never wa. inten
ded to be a sectional party ; that it is ba
sed on great truths that can be and ought
to be universal. Sir, disguise it as we
may, the Republican organization has had
and hastiow, but one vital spark of exis
tence, and that is prejudice and hostility
to admitted lights to the institution ol
slavery an institution recognized by the
fathers. I know, sir, it is said, in miligiv
I tion, that they never intend In exercise
- 1 any unconstitutional right ; that its pur-
pos is not to interfere with slavery in the ,,0,lt r ll'0 disease which is exhausting
States. Hut, Mr. President, tell ivhcn or llici vitals of our Kcpublic. How to re
wheioa Republican meeting has been 'ovo it, God only knows. The cxpres-
held, since the dawn ef that put ty, where
the imprc-sion was not le't, either by its
proceedings or in the language of t he ora
tors, that in some way or other th Re
publican organization was tho agency
through which lnvery was to be abolish
ed everywhere? This was not always
done directly and in plain terms ; men
occupying tho position of statesmen dare
not uo this; but they would talk ubotit
an inepressiblo conflict betweon tho local
institutions of the States. They would
say they did not expect tho hou.o to fall,
but they did expect it to become all 0110
thing or all th other, a'l slave or all free,
and who could imagine that they intend
ed to intimate that the States should all
become slave ; Then, sir, they would talk
about hemming slavery in with a cordon
of lire, so that, it might perish by its own
blasting effects.
It is idle, Mr. President, it would Le
unmanly at a time like this, to close our
eyesto the manifest elfjcts of what men
have said and done. Thin kind of myste
rious teaching ot the Republican leaders
was neccisary to draw to them tho sup
port of the old anti-shivery party of the
North. Without that suppoit, they could
not tucceed; and they could not get that
support, without, to a greater or less ex
tent, identifying themselves with the doe-.
trines of abolitionism, and cf aggression
upon slavery everywhere, Now, sir. if
these doctrines are not to be carried out,
why not say so ? Cannot men rise above
the ordinary position ol partizans, and
s;iy fiankly and emphatically that they
do not intend, cither by direct, or indi-
tect means, to interfere with tho lights of
the Southern States, or attempt to deny
to them perfect equality not only mem
bors ol the Loniedcracy, but in tho use
and enjoyment of our common Territo-
1 ie- ? Let the President elect say Ihi.?,
and tho skies will brighten. Come, Sena
tors, "let justice be done though the Hea
vens fall ;" let the outh have her share
of the common estate j and as she is the
weaker party, give her prompt- and cf!i-
ci nt guarantees against futuro inter
fereneo and afuinst future aggression, as
far as that can bo (lone ; and wcshall.have
peace again. Without it, without conces
sion and compromise, our destiny is inev
itable dissolution, civil war, and anarchy
arc before us.
'To my ovtu mind, Mr. President, a still
greater source of evil, of alienation, and
hostility, than till these, it, the habit
which prevails in the North of branding
slavery and slaveholders with approbious
epithets, and denouncing slaveholders as
barbarians and criminals, for doing that
which it was agreed they might do. This
is the exhaitstlcss fountain from which
In.,..- ii, 1 in,,-,. ,.,,.. n4' .1 .i.;..i.
aro poisoning all the (hunucls of inter
course, commercial, political, and social,
between the northern and the southern
States, wielding an influence more poison
ous and 1 lighting than the shades of the
deadly upas. Southern men, from no
tions of pride and dignity, give less prom
inence to this idea; but no man who has
.'ssociated with Ihcm asl have.could fail to
discover its effect upon their feeling?. A
southern man, once a member of this bod
y, but not now here, because his Stale
claims to be out of Uie Union, touchingly
remarked tc me on this floor : "Look at
our case; look at my State," said he;
"the present generation there have had
nothing to do with establishing slavery;
wo inherited it; wo believe it to be right;
we do. fust what it was agreed wo Plight
do at tho time the Confederacy wus made
and what tho northern States were main-
ly doing at tnut time; aim j ci, r.r, lor (to -
ing this thing, vo find ourselves branded
as barbarians, and our institution talked
about as a twin elic of barbarism
and pedogamy , and we as men favor -
ing a lower order of civilization than
that enjoyed in the North, and ns
livirfRjn the daily practice of oppression
I X' ... ri..' tni.l 1A .'1 1, I
U1CI niull, ..un, 1,11, pi.iv ....tt.
little about your tcrritorM question ; we
have a clear constitutional right in the
Territories, and it ought to bo recognized,
but it is not a valuable right ; nor have 1
any fear of violence at the hands of north
ern people; with me it ia the wear and
tear of feeling ; it is the attempt at hu
miliation and inequality in the Govern
ment that lias alionatcd mc. I would
rather have," said he, 'relations with any
other men on the face of tho earth, than
with those claiming to be my brethern
and part of the same common Govern
ment, who thus outrago my feelings and
estimate mo politically and morally as
beneath their position."
Unhappily, Mr. Tiosident, this feeling
is too wide and toogeneral. 1 say it is the j
sion of sentiment, under our institutions,
cannot bo suppressed, and can be slight
ly restrained ; and I had refHrouco to this
fueling mainly whn I remarked, on tho
llthot December, that whatever reme
dies were adobted ought to be complete
and final, reaching tho root of the disease,
and separating the question of slavery en
tirely from popular elections in the North,
in order that the publ'10 mind may beat
rest, and that those men who are sincere,
conscientious enemies ef slavery for a
large body of them aro so should fool
themselves entirely separated from the in
stitution ; that thoy have 110 connection
with it ; no responsibility to I oar, and du
ties to perform. Thus separated, possibly
they would cease their aggressions on their
southern friends; or, perhaps, thoy would
turn their attention to a wider field, and
look to tho elevation of the condition of
the African in Cuba, where they oould
wage war, if war they must havo, without
making it upon their kindred and their
brethren ; where there would be no com
baets to violate, and no fraternal blood to
shed ; or to the still wider fiel .l presented
in tho native l.md of the African, and
where they would find a still lower grade
of degradation. Surclv. u ben thpv ahull
have occupied those fields, and lovated
ti e native African to the condition of the
descendants of that country in the south-,
em States, no 0110 will object to their ef
for's to elevate and relieve the condition
of the African slave in Amsrica. But it
seems to me th.tt true philanthropy and
humanity require that they should take
hold of the disease where it i- worst. The
skillful 1d1ysicif.11 woc.ld do this. Tho
philanthropist ought to exert himself in
the field whore suffering humanity needs
his aid tho most. Then let them labor to
bring the African in his native country or
in Cuba, up to the condition of the south
ern slave; and when they shall have don
that, then let them turn their attention
to the descendants, of Africa in the North
the free negroes, a degraded and suffer-
fering race, and see w hat they can do for
them.
Sir, J do not wish to be understood as
an advocate far African slavery. I am
not; but I cannot see tho cruelty or the
political or moral evil in it that men
on the other side attribute to it. Thoy
do not intend to give the negro political
equality in this country. They will not
dare pay thny do ; nor do they intend him
to have social equality. What then re
mains to him? Physical existence, and
nothing else. Such liberty is a delusion
and a fraud the word of promise to tho
ear, to be "broken to the hope. Suppose
the proposition were submitted, at points
in the North, whore larga numbers of free
negroes are found, to appoint respectable
and responsible white men as guardians
for each family, to direct their physical
efforts for an animal exist onc ; tosoothat
their labor was properly directed, to that
their earnings might bo applied to the
use of iha family; to taUe care of the
aged, and food and clothe the young :
would that be a very cruel prejositiou?
Certainly not; and yet stripped of occa
sional abuses of tho institution by the
violent separation of families, and the
recognition of a;i unpleasant principle,
and this is about all there is in tho insti
tution of shivery in the South. It is the
application of a superior intellectual a
bility to direct the muscular efforts ir
thoso men to secure Eubsisteno.
Put in God's namo, if this agitation is
to go on, if a party in one section of the
country is to bo organized and derive it
vital s:ark of existence from this agitation
let 11s know what is to be accomplished ;
j h t , cnJ js (o ,t f u j
, r(m bc (one ,or tho w(ite cr lllack ,
j ,,y u , n ,yliat Iipsjibi0 woy in tlia coru
ilien of oiUier t0 bo improved? would
you n,akc tho ,.lilveB fr UK,n 7 jjnleis
; vou mcan tvis voa n,ean nothit 12. If free
men, hew. when and whore? You ac
knowledge tho restrictions of theConsti-
tut;0l, , to tho slave Stales. But sup.
poio this trore removed, and the southern
people were to say, hero aie our slaves:
we set them free; they nmt be rlothod
and fed ; cume and take them ; then what
would you do? Nothing, gentlomon, nl
sclutely nothing. The most abolitioniied
State in tho Union would not agree to re
ceive her quota of slaves in ordir to giv
them frendam. They could not b
brought North; and if such n thing wer
possible, every sano man must know that
their condition would bo infinitely werse.
They would not only be sl.ive', but miu
rable, starving, degraded slaves. As was
we'd remarked by the .Senator from Vlr
ginia, the other day, in fracing the const)
queiices of war between two sections, and
justly denying tho right and possibility of
cosri.ur.L on iecond raoi.J