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THE NATIONAL CRISIS.
SPEECH OF STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS
Delivered in the United States eSnate, Thurs
day, January 3d, 1861.
Mr. Douglas asked Hut the report of
the Committe of Thirteen be taken up.
Mr. I), proceeded to address tlio Semite.
He said no act of hit. public life over gave
him so much pnin as to vote for the reso
lution. The Committee could not aree.
In order to see the cause of the trouble,
we must go back to the lute election
We should assume that whenever Con
gress undertook to act on the slavery
question, discord and agitation was suro
to foil ow. When Congress lot the flues-
tion alone there was peace, lie referred
to the timo when the Missouri Compro-
miso was enacted. The fearful agitation
of 1820 was sottled by the establishment
of the compromise line. So long as that
adjustment was carried out, there as
peaco and quiet. Texas was adjusted
quietly under this rule, though there was
great contrariety of opinion. But no
one objected because it extended that
lino. Again, California and New Mexico
were acquired, and the extension of tho
lino to the Pacific ocean was demanded.
The records show that ho reported, as
Chairman of the Committee on Territo
ries, a resolution io extend the lino to tlio
Facific. This was adopted in tLe Senate,
but when it was sent to the Hon so it was
rejected by Northern votes. That open-
ed the flood irates of the agitation of MH.
which was settled by the Compromise of
1850. When wo settle this question i
tho Territories then we shall settle it en. I
tiroly.
como now to the consideration of that
party which has plunged tho country in
to a state of discord. It is folly for any
man not to seo facts which do exist. The
result of the recent election, in conncc-i
tion with all the circumstances with which
it is surrounded, have led tho people of ,
tho South to form tho convictions that it ,
is a fixed policy of tho dominato party of ,
tlio JortU to inviuloana destroy their
constitutional richts, ttnd they aro ready
to rush, rashly I think, into all the hor-
rors of revolution and disunion, rattier
than to submit to what they think the
impending blow which hangB over them. '
Tho Senator from Oliio (Mr. Wade) ac
knowlegod tie ox:tpnco of this conviction
inllie minds of the Southern peoplo, ;ond
said he did not so much blimo them as
ho did that northern Domocraoy, who
had misrepresented and falsified the pur- '
pose and policy of the Republican uarty ; '
yet ho advocates a policy which will not can only bo enforced against criminals,
relieve these apprehensions, but threaten and thoso of us who aro in favor of tho
them with revolution and coercion, 'Constitution and the Unicn must be care
rather than to give them security. It'fut that wo do not perpetrate the vory
matters not whether these dangers wero ' things which wo denounce as criminal in
real or imaginary, if the Southern peoido ' these scocdins: State. And South Caroli-
ar prepared to tako a position which will
plungo us into disunion mid discord for-.
ever. 1 regret that any ono on tli:s tloor
should have introduced pnity politics, and1
endoavor to make party capital out ol any
question affecting the pcaco and fftfe
ty of this country. But, since the Sena-
tor has attempted to make the Northern
Democracy responsible for the revolution, j
I am forced to iuquiro whether tho
chargo ia true. Thero is no man living do not mean in the sense of having sold
who would be bottor pleaacd to learn that' iers, arms and munitious, but aro wo pre
he had misrepresented or misunderstood j pared in our hearts for war with our
the policy of that party. I would like to
know whether that Senator will now say
it is not the policy of that party to con
fitio slavery within its present limits by
the notion of tho Federal Government t
Whether it is not tho policy of that par
ty to exclude slavery from the Territories
we how possess, or any wo may hereafter
acquire f Whether or not that party is
in favor of returning fugitives to their
masters from whom they escaped T In
short, I will give him tho opportunity of
saying now, whether it is not the policy
of that party to exert all tho powers ot
tho Federal Government, under the Con
stitution, according thoir interpretation
of that instrument, withaviowto its ul
timato extinction in tho States, old as well
i uew, North as well at South.
Mr. Wado (Rep., Ohio) All thoso ques
lions are most perfectly answorod in the
speech to which ho is now professing to
make answer. I hnvo nothing to odd
to it.
Mr. Douglas I did not expect fin
equivecal anwwer. I know to well that
Senator will not deny that each of these
interrogatories does express his individu
al policy and the policy of tho Ropubli
ran nnrtv. as he understands it. The
harshest thing 1 have said of the Uepubli
. i i . 1 1 .
can parly was iney imenunn vu use me
power of tho GoTeromentwith a view to
tho ultimate extinction of slavery, not
only in tbe Territories but in the States of
tho Union. 1 have said, and have boliev-
PRINCIPLES, not
CLEARFIELD, PA. WEDNESDAY, FEB. 6, 1861.
edit, ana 1 would rejoico now to bo cor
rectod, that it is the policy of this party
to prohibit slavery in all the Territories
of the United States now owned or here
after acquired with a view to surrounding
the slave States with a cordon of Abolit
ion States, and thus keep shvery confin
ed until the number increases beyond the
capacity of tho soil to food them, and
thus foreo them to die of starvation, ns a
means of getting rid of tho evil of slavery
in tho namo of humanity and Christianity.
- No man
will go further than I to maintain tho
Union and enforce the laws to put down
rebellion and insurrection, and to uso all
the power conferred by the Constitution
for that purpose. But wo must look tho
f.tcts in tho face. V0 must take notice
of thos thing whose ixistence cannot- to
denied. History teaches us that rebellion
oftun bocomcs successful revolution ; and
tho greatest republics and proudest mon
archies havo found it necessary to recog
nize tlio existence of aGevernment (Aacfo
in tho rebellion of States and provinces.
Such was the condition of of tho Ameri
can colonies for seven years after the Dec
laration of Independence. At first, it
was rebellion, and rebellion was treason.
A few months afterwards, it was revolu-.
tion and a Government dc facto at Thila
Uolplna, Mr. Hmcock, President, and
asliington, Commander of tlie armies
Rebellion had censed and revolution tak
en its place. I ho Amon'can colonics
were in revolt, had Governments de faetu
" Ulcal 1J,llal. piotul as slio was, was
comrllol to recognizo tho existing slate
ot 'act3, fI)e ':UT3 of nations, and all the
laws of civilization demanded that tho
Government de facto bo acknowledged
uuu iiiu niws uiusi oe cniorceu. in our
system of Government tho laws aro to be
IF... 11. 1 1 1 f- . .
enforced by civil authority, assisted by
l'10 niilitia poisceomltatut, when the
Marshal is resisted. If tho colonies, or a
St,lle revolt, the revolution is complete
w"on "e euerai authorities arc expelled,
and 110 oae 18 ,cft t0 acknowledge allegi
1u" - lo lUB states, now are you
60ln2 ' enforco the laws then f How are
you going t0 (i0 ;t jn South Carolina?
S'ho has passed an ordinance of secession
'I deny her tight to eecedo but she has
done it. Tho revolution is complete.
Sho has no liumnn being in her borders to
acknowledge our authority. This is all
ttrong, but how are you going toholp it?
You toll us we must enforco tho laws I
am in favor of that. Laws must bo en-
forced uccording to the Constitution and
the luwts. Under our Constitution, laws
'na does not stand alone. Wo are told
that seven others will follow her, and we
Lave reason to apprehend that seven
more States will follow them. Tho an-
'iwcr is, wo must enforco the laws. My
roply is you cannot enforo tho laws in
couutrics not in j our posesion. 1 deny
that wo have a right to make war in order
to regain possession, in order to enforce
tho laws. Are wo prepared for war f I
Southorn brethren ? While I affirm
that tho Constitution was intended
to iortu a pcrpotual Union while I
affirm the right to uso all tho lawful
means to enforco tho laws yet 1 will not
mcditato war, nor tolerato the idea, until
every effort at adjustment has boen tried
and failed, and all hope of IheXJnion is
gone. Then, and not till then, will I do
libcrato and determine what course my
duty will require of me. I am for peace,
to save tho Union. War is diuun'on,
certain, inevitable, final and irreversible.
Our own very existence ford id a war.
He preferred
compromiso to war, and concessions to
disunion. No compromiso would bo
availablo which docs not carry tho ques
tion beyond Congress. He said ho had
voted for tho proposition of the Scnstor
from Kentucky, Mr. Crittenden and
was ready to vote for it again. Why can
not the Republicans unito on the Missou
ri Compromiso line J They had heaped
curses enough on his head ior repealing
it, to be glad to now re-establish it. He
had helped to support that measure until
ho was compelled to abandon. He was
willing to meet on terras of mutual con
cessions, lie had offered another prepo
sition, to leave tho territories In si (it quo
until they hare 50,000 inhabitants, and
then settle tho question themselves, and
also provide for tho removal of negroes,
if the Territory chose, to certain provinces
If the Republicans do not intend to iuter-;
MEN.
- , fere with slavery in the States whv not
I . w
put on Amendment to
the Constitution
so that they cannot do it. There must
be a settlement or some sort now. It
cannot be postponed. We aro in a state
of revolution. It is compromiso or war.
He preferred compromise. lie said it
seemed at though the Senators on tho
other side determined to act as a pat ty.
Let tho people decide the question. No
doubt the p ople of Massachuset ts are op
posed to slavery extension, but he thought
if the quciiioh were submitted to -.Vi of
tho resolution." of the .Senator from Ken
tucky, they would ratify them. There is
no othor way of recourse loft, to enforce
tho law in a seceding State, except to
tmake war and bring the Stnto into your
possession first and then enforce the law
aftorwards. A war between eighteen
Stalo, except to make war and bring the
State into your possession first and then
enforce tho law afterwards. A war be
tween eighteen Slates on one side and fif
teen seceding States on tho other, is to
mo a revolting thing. For what purpose
is this war to be waged? Certainly not
for the purposo of preserving the Union.
I have too much respect for gcntlemon on
the other side of tho chamber, collective
ly and individually, to believo there isouo
of them who docs not know that war is
disunion. Yoi cannot expect to exterm
inate ten millions of peotlo, whose pas
sions are exhibited viith tho beli8fth.it
you mean to invado their homos and light
the ilamcs of insurrection in their midst.
You must expect to exterminate them, or
subjugate them, or else, when you get li
ed of war, to niflko a treaty with them.
No matter if the war lasts one year, or,
6cven yers, or tuirty years it must have
an end at .some- timo. Sooner or later,
both parties will become tired and exhaus
ted, and when rendored incapable of light
ing any longer, they will make a treaty of
peace, and that treaty will be ono of sep
aration. The history of this world docs
not furnish an example of war of sections
or between Slates of the samo nation,
where tho war ended in reconciliation.
Such a war altvays ends in a treaty of
peace, and a final, eternal separation. 1
don't understand then, how a man can
claim to bo a friend of the Uniou. Nt w,
the question must be met, and trhatcrcr
concessions I am called upon to make I
choose to make voluntarily, before blood
is shed, and not afterward. .No man has
more prido of country than I. It hun -blcs
my prido to see tho authority of llie
Government questioned, but wo are not
the first nation whose prido has thus been
humblce. Republics, empire?, and king
doms alike, in all ages, havo been subject
to the same humilitating fact, but when
thero is a deep sealed discontent perva
ding ten millions of people, penetrating
every man, woman, nnd child, and invol
ving everything dear to them, it is timo
for inquiring whether thero is not somo
causo for this fcelipg. If thero bo just
cause for it, in God's name let us remove it.
Arc we not criminal, in the sight of Heav
en and posterity, if wo do not remove tho
just cause ? If there ia no causo, and yet
they believo thero if, so much tho great
er llie necessity for removing the miscon
ception. SPEECH OF HON. WM. BIGLER.
OF PENNSrLVAN'IA,
It tub 6k!Iats, January 21, 1801.
The Senate having under consideration the
joint resolutions (S. No. SI) proposing certain
amendinonU to the Constitution, the ponding
quoation being on Mr. Riglor's amendment to tbe
amendment of Mr. Clark.
Mr. BIGLER said:
Mr. Prosidect, tho organization of a
geographical parly ; lhat organization
against which Georgo Washington warn
cd his country, was the fatal dy for the
Republic. I have been in tho habit of
saying, sir, everywhere on tho stump, thai
such an organization was inconsistent
with tho peace of the nation ; that a po
litical association so hostile to tho institu
tions of another section of the country
lhat it could have no recognition and no
members in the assaulted cclion, must
necessarily be an agent of alienation and
hostility among the people. George
Washington and Andrew Jackson both
foresaw this, and men on tho oilier sido
should have heeded their warnings. It
will not do to say lhat it never was inlcn
dod 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 bad
and has now, but one vital spark of exis
tence, and that is prejudice and hostility
to admilted rights to the institution of
slavery an institution rocognizod by the
fathers. I know, sir, it is said, in mitiga
tion, that they novor intend to exercise
any unconstitutional right; that its pttr-
,TERMS-$1
pose is not to interfero with ala., in U.a
States. But, Mr. President, tell when or
whore a Republican meeting has boen
held, since the dawn ef that party, whoro
the impression was not loft, either by its
proceedings or in the language of the ora
tors, that in some way or other the Re
publican organization was the agency
through which slavery km to be abolish
ed everywhere? This was not always
done directly and in plain torms ; men
occupying tho position of statesmen dare
not uo this; but they would talk about
an inepressible conflict between the local
institutions of tho S'.ates. They would
fay they did not expect the houte to fall,
but they did expect it to become all ono
thing or all the other, a'l B'.aveorall free,
and who could imngine that they intend
ed to intimate that tho St-at-cti should all
become slave ; Then, sir, they would talk
about hemming slavery in with a cordon
of fire, so that it might perish by its own
blasting effects.
It is idle, Mr. President, it would be
unmanly at a time liko this, to close our
eyes to tho manifest efl'ccts of what men
have said and done. This kind of myste
rious teaching of tho Republican leaders
wus necessary to draw to them the sup
port of tho old anti-slavery party of the
North. Without that suppoit, they could
not succeed; and they could not gel that
support, without, to a greater or Icsn ex-
tnrtf iilf.nl !r..m . 1. l -.1 .1 t
.v..., .v.v....ijuib iiicuisuive wiiu iiie UOC-
trines of hbolilionism, and of nggression
upon slavery everywhere. Now, sir. if
theso doctrines are not to be carried out,
why not say so? Cannot men rise above
the ordinary position ot partizans, and
say frankly and emphatically that they
do not intend, either by direct, or indi
rect means, to interfere with the rights of
the Southern States, or attempt to deny
to them perfect equality not onlv mem
bers of tho Confederacy, but in ttio uso
and enjoyment of our common Territo
ries? Let the President elect say this,
anil tho skies will brighten. Come, Sena
tors, "let justice ho done though the Hea
vens fall;" let the South have her tharc
of the common estate; and as bIio is the
weaker party, give hor prompt and elli
ci-nt guarantees against future inter
ference and against future aggression, as
far as that can bo done ; and rvc shallJiavB
ron,' nKam
Without it, without conces-
sion and compromise, our destiny is incv
i tabic dissolution, civil war, nnd anarchy
are beforo us.
To my own mind, Mr. President, n. c till
greater source of evil, of alienation, nnd
hostility, than all these, is the habit
which prevails in tho North of branding
slavery and slaveholders with npprobious
epithets, and denouncing slaveholders ns
barbarians and criminals, for doing that
which il was agreed they might do. This
is the cxhaustlcss fountain from which
flow this bitter waters of discord, which
aro poisoning u 11 ibo chnnneU of inter
course, romnicrcial, political, nnd social,
between tho northern and tho southern
States, wielding an influence more poison
ous nnd I lighting than tho ehades of tho
deadly upas. Southern men, from no
tions of pride nnd dignity, give less prom
inence to this idea ; but no man who 1ms
rssociated with them nsl hnre,could fail to
discover its effect upon their feelings. A
southern man, once a member of this bod
y, but not now here, because his Stalo
claims to bo out o! the Union, touchingly
remarked to nie on this floor: "Look nt
our case; look nt my Slate," said ho;
"tho present generation there havo had
nothing to do with establishing slavery ;
we inherited it ; we believo it to bo right ;
wc do just what it was agreed wo might
do at tho timo the Confederacy wa made
and what the northern States were main'
ly doing nt that time; and yet, sir, for do
ing this thing, we find ourselves branded
ns barbarians, and our institution talked
about as a twin rclio of barbarism
and pologamy, nnd wo os men favor
ing a lower order of civilization than
that enjoyed in the North, and ns
living in tho daily practico of oppression
and wrong. Now, sir," said ho, "I enro
lillle about your territorial question ; we
have a clear constitutional right in the
Territories, and it ought to be recognized,
but it is not a valuaLlo right ; nor havo I
any fear of violence at the hands of north
ern people; with me it is tho wear and
tear of feeling ; it it the attempt at hu
miliation und inequality in tho Govern
ment that has alienated me. I would
rather hnvo," said he, 'relations with any
other men on the face of the eartb, than
with thoso claiming to be my brethcrn
and part of tho tame common Govern
niant, who thus outrage my feelings and
estimato me politically and morally at
beneath their position."
Unhappily, Mr. Proiident, this feeling
i too wide and too general. 1 lay it ith
26 per Annnm, if paid in advanc.
NEWSERIES-VOL. 1.-NO 29.
teat of the dlscaso which is exhausting
the vitals of onr Republic. How to re
move it, Ood only knows. The oxpret
tion of sentiment, under our institution,
cannot be suppressed, and can betlight
ly restrained j and I had reforenoe to thie
feeling muinly whn I remarked, on tho
11th ot December, that whatever reme
dies were adobted ought to be compleU
and final, reaching tho root of tho disease,
and separating the question of slavery en
tirely from popular elections in tho North,
in order that tho publio mind may be at
rest, and that those men who aro sincere
conscientious enemies of slavery for a
largo body of them aro to should foel
themselves entirely separated from tho ia
sti'.ution; that they have no connection
with it ; uo responsibility to tear, and du
ties to perform. Thus separated, possibly
they would cease their aggressions on their
southern friends ; er, perhaps, they would
turn their attention to a wider field, and
look to the elevation of the condition of
tho African in Cuba, where they oouli
wage war, if war thoy must have, ivithout
making it upon thoir kindred and their
brethrou ; where thero would bo no com
pacts to violate, and no fraternal blood t
shed ; or to tho ttill wider field presentod
in tho native land of the African, and
whero they would find a still lower grade
or degradation. Surely, when they shall
have occupied those fields, and elevated
ti e native Anicau to tho condition of tho
descendants oT that country in the soulhi
em States, no one will object to their ef
forts to elevate and relieve the condition
of tho African slave in America. But it
seems to mo that true philanthropy and
humanity require that thoy should take
hold of tho di.caso whero it is worst. The
skilirul physician would do this. Tho
philanthropist ought to exert himself in
tho field whero suffering humanity needs
liis aid the most. Then let them labor to
bring tho 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 descendanti of Africa in Iho North
- the free negroes, a degraded and auffor
lering race, and sco what they can do for
them.
Sir, I do not wuh to bo understood as
an advocate for African slavery. I am
not; but I cannot seo tho cruelty or the
political or moral evil in it that men
on the other sido nttributo to it. Thoy
do not intend to givo the negro political
e.juulity in this country. Thoy will not
dare say thoy do ; nor do they intend him
to havo social quality. What then re
mains to him? Physical existence, and
nothing else. Such liberty isadolusion
and a fraud tho word of promise to the
ear, to bo broken to the hone. Sunuose
the proposition wero submitted, at point
in tne .orlh, whore large numbers of free
negroes are found, to appoint respectable
and responsiblo white mo ns guardians
for each family, to direct their physical
efforts for an animal existence; to Bee that
their labor was properly directed, so that
their earnings nviglrt bo applied to the
use of the family ; to talte care of the
aged, nnd feod and clotho the young:
would thalboavtry ruol propwitiou?
Certainly not; and yet stripped or occa
sional abusos or tho institution by the
violent separation of families, nnd the
recognition of a:i unploasant princinla
and thi is about all thero is in tho insti
tution or slavery iu the South. It is thn
application of a superior intellectual a
bility to direct the muscular efforts .r
theso men to secure subsistence.
JUit in tlod's name, if this agitation is
to go on, if a party ia ono section of the
country is to bo organized and derive it
vital spark of existence from this ngitalK n
let us know what is to bo accomplished .
what good end is to result from it j what
can bo done tor the white or black rn::.
by it? In what possible way in the con.
dition of either to be improved? wouh'l
you make tho slaves free men ? T'nloie
you mean this you moan nothing. If free
men, hrw. when nnd where? You ac
knowledge the restrictions of the Consti
tution ns to tho slavo States. But sup
po30 this wore removed, and tho southern
people were to say, hero are ourslavea;
wo set them free: they must bo clothod
nnd fed ; como and take them ; then what
would you do ? Nothing, gentlemen , ab
solutely nothing. The most aboli lionized
State in tho Union would not agree to re.
ceivo her quota of slaves in order to givo
them freodam. They could not be
brought North ;ard if such a thing were
possible, every sane man must know that
their condition would he infinitely werse.
They would not only be slave?, but mise
rable, starving, degraded slaves. As was
well remarked by tho Senator from Vir
ginia, the other day, in tracing the coma
quences of war betwoen two section, and
justly denying tb right nnd fOMihilityof
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