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BELLEFONTE, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. FEB., 28 1861
NO COMPROMISE WITH REBELS
Speech o r the Hon- Mr. Conklin. in the
House of Representatives, Jan. 30.
The House resumed the, reconsMtratlon of
i
the report of the Committee of Thirty-three.
Mr. CONKLIN, (Rep., N. Y.). ia openißg
' his remarks, said that from the first advent
of this secession movement he had po hope
| that any concessions they might offer would
! stem the current of the revolt, knowing that
it had been long smuldering ar a festering in
| the Gulf States. The people of these States
ware the dupes of wicked and designing
men. It was said that the leading mission
1 of the Republican party was to subvert the
j constitutional rights of a portion of the peo-
I pie of the eountry, and tkat Republicanism
was only another name for Abolitionism, and
; that upon the first accession of power on
their part they would liberate tho slaves by
an armed intervention of the Federal
ernment. These charges were sown broad
cast thoughout the land, and were sent forth,
like snow storms, or clouds of locusts, to cov
er the entire South. These charges wero
founded upon the sayings of Republican pol
iticians, torn from their context, and which
were as near the original as a shred rent
from the canvas of the picture would present
j the conceptions of tho painter. But they
abounded in another thing, infinitely more
j detrimental. They abounded in scraps cut
I from Northern newspapers, which assailed
: throughout the political contests the motives
end principles of the Republican party. Ten
] thousand springs of falsehood and perversion
I had opened and filled the very atmosphere
| of the South with noxious vapors, which
were turned persistently for years by South
ern politicians iato a current so mighty that
it had broken over the safe props of order, so
| that the South believed the great party of
| patriots in the North, the lovers of constitu
| tional law, were reduced to a minority so
hopeless as to be utterly extinct. lie was
constrained to believe that every avenue wa9
cloeed to everything except what was calcu
lated to lash the ptiVlic mind througout the
South into fury. If the avetiues of compro- :
rniee were still open, ha did not believe, so
far as the Union vas concerned, that any
compromise they could offer would have any
perceptible effect. Dupes were never lead
ers, and the men of the South who were de
ceived with regard to the sentiments of the
j North, were not the men who would head re
: bellion or instigate revolt. Those who sow
ed the whirlwind would direct the storm. —
Those men. however, who had succeeded Old
Boreas, and who had let out in this South
I wind, were not deceived, for they knew well
; that the party which had recently prevailed
in the country had no idea of an invasion up
i on constitutional right, or intended any nov
el application of its doctrines with regard to
Slavery or any other subject. They knew
well that the mission of that party was to re
store fce anoient policy of the Republic—a
policy which begau with Washington and
; carried the Govrnment successfully down (
1 the stream of time for sevonty yearB —seven- j
tv pure, prosperous, and peaoelul years. — j
I These men well understood the Heedlessness |
iof all these 6chcmps of compromise. They ;
' knew what harmless things the Personal
I Liberty bills were, if tbey conflicted with j
| the Constitution or with the law. They bad |
an example of this in South Carolina, where
they had already learned how harmless a
thing was legislative usurpation in the States
before the beak and claws of Federal rower.
That none pretended to invade the relation
ship of master aud slave these Scuthern lead
! ors well knew. Ihey knew that tb6 decla
rations of all political parties were against
it, and they knew also that if any party de
sired any amendment to the Constitution to
giye them this power, it could not be effected
in any period of time which human prophecy
could foresee. They knew that, whatever
his intention might be, the President elect
would be harmless to injurs them, as harm
less as a child, with a majority against him
in both Houses of Congress, had the repre
sentatives of the South been but true to
themselves and remained faithful at their
posts. Thev cry out against Territorial in
justice and usurpation, and yet they knew
that they bad more Slave Territory than they
could ever hope to people, not by tho law of
Mexico, as it was said, but by tho Territori
al law', which they would have been unable
to pass under the organic law but for the
yotes of Northern people as well as South
ern. lie understood the list of grievances,
but yet considering, while apostate Ameri
cans were plotting the ruin of this country,
tor such was their ayowed reason. While
this was go'mg on, the great mission of liber
ty, which filled Christendom with light and
hope, was shriveled like a parched scroll.—
These apologists were attempting to throw on
the wave of revolution over our free, institu
tions, warning the nations of tho earth to
keep aloof from the mighty ruin*
Mr. IIINDMAN, (Dem., Ark.) appealed to
the chair to know whether the gentleman
was in order in using and applying such
language as "apostate Americans." Ho
would inquire of the gentleman if be inten
ted to apply that language to any member of
that House or to their constituents ? If such
language could be used there, then the time
had come for the dissolution of the Union,
and for the secession of the Southern States
from it, He would ask the Cbair to decide
&|f. - v_ 'I
i whether or not such language was? in order. '
Mr. GROW (Rep., Pa.) said the point ef
order was not debatable. The Chair reque9-
' ted gentlemen to keep themselves to a fair
argument of the question before the llous#,
I but unless gentlemen made their remarks
' personal, he had no power te interfere.
Mr. CONKLIN was not addressing his re
marks to the gentleman from Arkansas, nor
did he desire to say anything offensive to any
gentleman on the floor. But this was a time
which imposed upon every man the duty of
speaking unreservedly on this subject.
Mr. IIINBMAN again rose. lie said that
the wcrds "American apostate," bad been
used for some purpose, and he desired to
I know to whom the words were applied, and
! whether it was proper to apply them in that
House? It was better to meet the question
now than at another time.
Some interruption followed.
Mr- CONKLIN, resuming, said that he
was about to say that these grievances of
which he had spoken were the rtvowed rea
sons for this reyol:—pitiful, contemptible ex
cuses of designing and desperate men. lie
believed them to be sufterfuges, makeshifts
of an unholy and vapid ambition. The true
reason of this revolt lay deeper than those
reasons which had been assigned. The true
reason wa, that by the sentiment of an'over
whelming majority'of the people of this Re
public, Slavery, as a moral poison, was out
lawed, and abhorred. It was because that
Slavery, as a policy to b* fostered, had ceased
' to be natioral in this country. It was charg
ed on the North that at all its social assem
blies it was held to be a moral, a social, and
political evil. The charge is true, every
word of it. It was true that the vast major
ity of the peoplo of the North, all political
parties alile, looked upon Slavery as an in
' etitution as a monster of the worst kind, in*
| satiable, and destructive to the victim, to the
; master, ar.d to the land. In (hat respect the
' North agreed with all tie rest of the civilised
' world, that slavebolding wss the worst of
! wrongs, the liberty founded, model Republic
! alone excepted. The jurisprudence of the
! world was against Slavery, the civilization
of the world was against Slavery, the litera"
ture of the world was against
Webster once said, "Lightning is strong the
torrent is strong, the earthquake is stroDg,
but there is something stronger than ali this
—it is the enlightened judgment of man
kind." And that, too, is against Slavery.—
There was no'one to blame for that. No, it
was one of the enactments of that "higher
law" which was recognized by all people,
and to which Coke had givn utterance when
he said, "that the law of Parliament, when
in conflict with the law of God, was to be held
utterly at nought." He affirmed that that love
of liberty, that detestation of oppression, that
unquenchable hatred of tyranny, which lay
at the foundation of Republican institutions,
was the seDtiment of the earth, and was a
law which lay at the foundation of Republi
can institutions. It was the sentiment of the
1 earth, and was a law which could not be
; suspended by Congressional compromises,
! nor repealed, except by that great Legisla
i tor whose enactments enter into the subtle
' essence of human life. He repeated, that
! this Anti-Slavery sentimcut lay at the bot
-1 torn of Southern diecontent —not while it lay
| dormant and slept, like passion, in the breast
j of infancy— not while it was silent, did it
provoke this terrible angor, but when it
found a voioe in the politics of the country.
It was charged with a design to accomplish
unconstitutional ends, aud to grasp at un
constitutional power. That tbey didn't
themselves believe ; but it had controlled the
election, and there was the rub. It had
come, like a chilling frost, to nip in the bud,
personal ambition, and to frustrate tbe deep
laid plots of sectional aggrandizement, and
had changed the balance of political power in
j the country. Its mission was not of to-day,
but was to prevail; nor would he dsny that
it ushers in a mighty reformation.
There must be no more Mexican Wars for
Slavery or ambition, traveling along the
crimson way of military conquest. The arms
of the Republic should no more go forth to
chaDge realms into deserts, or to sack cities,
or to subdue Territories in order to people
them with Slavery and endow them with
slave representation. The embassadors of
the Republic in Europe will never again dare
to assemble at the tomb of the great Charle
magne and proclaim an Qstend Manifesto.—
Henceforth American Slavery was not to be
enlarged. No longer was she to be the feast
ed, pampered chili of American destiny, a
thing to bo fondled and caressed bv the Gov
ernment, No, but from this time out it wo'd
be a simple necessity in the country, having
defined constitutional rights, and having no
more. All this had long been foreseen by tbe
far seeing eyes of Southern politicians, and
who predicted the very year when thsy wo'd
come to pass. In that same hour when tbe
horoscope loretold the political reverses of
1860, a child was born which has already
grown into armed rebellion. From that hour
to this, revolution had been premeditated and
prepared, and that, too, by the very men
who, as officers of the Government, were
sworn to maintain the Constitution and the
laws, but who had thrown off the mask and
revealed themselves as conspirators in this
Capital of the country. With this view of
their predicament, of its origin, cause, histo
ry and authors, he from the very outset saw
how little they could do beyond abiding the
issue which awaited tbero. Upon the Presi
dent and his Cabinet, grave responsibilities
had been cast, responsibilities for which they
would be held deeply answerable before more
than one tribunal. By the Constitution, it
was the duty of the President to see the.laws
faithfully executed. But be had offered an
excuse for non-fulfillment byjcbe fact
that as all ministerial and federal officers had
resigned in South Carolina, bis power wa
practically paralyzed to fulfill the law. That
point was one of grave importance, but it
had been swallowed up by an~event of still
vaster magnitude. The President was Com
mander-io.Chief, and he was charged with
the duty and vested with to pre
serye on land and sea the national defenses,
and for the full executiou of that duty no
Judges, or Courts, or.Marsbals,'.were needed.
Nothing was wanted but firmness and integ
rity. This he had made no attempt to'do ;
but, on the contrary, bad left the country
" naked to its enemies," and left brave men
in fortresses UDgarrieoned, and refussd to
send them succor and support, but if it
were said that to have sent ships and men to
these forts would have precipitated bloody
outrages, then he answered that it should
havo been done before tbe first muttering of
the storm—done early, gradually, when sa
gacious politicians and citizens had advised
and implored him. But it had not been done,
and the Executive of this great country stood
petrified by fear, or vacillating between de
termination and cowardice, while rebels tore
from bis nerveless grasp the insignia of the
Republic, and in its place hoisted tbe ban
ner of secession and rebellion. Congress was
powerlees to control this. The Constitution
had given them no power to interfere. They
had voted the money to cany on the Govern
ment, and what else eould they do ? Noth
ing but to take their share in that issue
which remained—the paramount question of
the country. As to the secession movement,
that any one State had the right to go out of
the Union he did The Constitu
tion showed no such right. Their fathers
would spurn the idea of secession. It would
be spurned by those statesmen who believed
that they were not making of vol
untary affiliation the eternal wedlock of tbe
people. There were three ways in which a
State could cut itself looseTrom Federal al
legiance : By the amendment of the Conati
tution, as provided in the Constitution itself;
by the concent, not of the State going out, or
of the remaining States, but by the universal
acquiesence of the American people ; and by
that right or power which inheres in man
and not in State, that option which all men
had to defeat their governments, and if they
succeeded to livo in peace as patriots and
heroes,'and if tbey failed to die asrebels'and
traitors. But, as to this question ol coercion,
it was not the coercion of States, but indi
viduals. States did not commit murder and
other such crimes. Men did such things,
and men were punishable, not States. It had
been suggested that suppose eight States se
ceded, what then ? That was the old puzzle,
the old proplena, solyed by every Government
that ever demonstrated the power of self-per
petuation. In the crime of one man ten
thousand may have been eLgaged, and tbey
are equally guilty, but not all punishable
practically, because the wheels of Govern
ment, in inflicting punishment on all, would
roll axle deep in blood, and so clog. But
the principle remained the same. As to the
question of waging war. In this material
age, war was a humdrum thing. The bat
tles fought by the knights and Crusaders, and
sung of by the troubadours of old, had all
passed away, War was no longer a ques
tion of personal valor and individual achieve
ment, but a mere question of murder—of who
could indulge in most iron and lead. Ic was
no longer regulated by the law of honor, but
by the law of trade ; and if he had the bad
heartr imputed to men of the North, he might
indeed be anxious to let secession take its
course, and he would willingly crown every
absconding State with instantaneous inde
pendence. There would then he no more
rendition of fugitive slaves, no General Gov
ernment to quell servile insurrection, no more
foreign Pcwers to interfere with the Govern
ment. Slavery would of itself die out. The
cotton statistics of the world showed that
American slave-raised cotton is not to reign
as king forever. These statistics, the weird
sisters which attend the ring, proclaim that
his reign shall be but short, and that his
scepter should go into alien hands, " no son
of his succeeding." But the quostion was,
what was to be done ? lie believed that a
more unjust rebellion, and mere perfidious
as regarded the relationship, of tbe men of
the Government they seught to overthrew,
was Dever known. And his difficulty was to
see how any branch of the Government could
with safety and propriety euter upon nego
tiations at all.
For the Government to conciliato in this
matter was to evince that they were either in
the last extremity, or that tbey possessed a
magnanimity entirely sublime. Could it be
supposed that they would change tho laws
of tbe land at the armed behest to those en
gaged in resisting tbem ? To do so would
demoralize and jeopardize any Government.
How could they offer terms to insurgents
with uplifted banners of revolt in their hand?
To do so would be not only to confess their
impotency to execute the laws, but would be
offering a bounty to popular clamor and in
surrection. lie never saw a mob less deser
ving to be leniently dealt with than that
which had seized the possessions of the F d
eral Government, and taken the property and
money, and who had fired upon an unarmed
vessel bearing its flag. In the view of ttiese
thins, and as long as they continued in their
preseDt condition, let there be no compro
mise, or if there must be let bitn be " coun
ted out" as OD9 all the way to the end. Not
confining his views to the Executive, and the
people who had raized the standard of rebell
ion, be thsy many or few, he had no compro
mise to offer, and DO terms to talk about.—
None. Never, until they had doffed their
cockades and hauled down their Palmetto
and their Pelican flags, and wore, not the
livery of rebellion, but the habiliments of
citizenship, of men subject to the laws. Da
struction reigned in these very States where
a majority of the people are loyal to the Con
stitution and the Union. There were other
States, however, ths people of which bad the
strongest and most obvious incentive to
launch is the tide of secession- They are
connected sooially, politically, geograph
ically and commercially, with a community
agaiust whom an irreverence to the Comti
tution and hostility to the Union had gone
so far that fealty to the General Government
had beD made punishable with death. In
those States two parties existed, one in favor
of disunion, and the other persistently oppo
sed the conclusions, to go out or to remain
in, if they were waiting to be coaxed—if that
was so, if the people of any State were to be
raffled far tbe Government, be for one
would decline to take any part in such tram
action. lie would not see the Government
go info an auction room to bid for allegiance.
If they were to be coaxtd into wedlock, be
would profsr the feeling of tbe old oonqueror
with regard to his daughter, and of whom
the poet sung:
A warrior si ould her bridegroom be
Since maids were best in battlo wooed,
And won mid shouts of victory.
This was the way he would prefer to woo
those States who stood wavering, and who
wanted to be ooaxad into the Union. Dan
gers existed in Deleware, Maryland, Virgin"
ia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Missouri, and
North Carolina. In those States public vir
tue still lived, and the patriotism and genius
of her eons was exhibitod during this debate.
And now, in this great struggle, thsy found
them not; only maintaining their own posi
tion in the storm, but inspiring others with
their spirit; and yet they promised to give
all the help they can [applause] to stem the
eurrent of revolution, and to roll back the
tide of sectional madness and egotism which
prevailed in other States. Not that he be
leived it would avert the spread of disunion,
or even narrow it. They would, however,
make what concession they might to show
that they had not stood idle spoctaters while
the ship was drifting cn the rocks, which
would show that they did not stand uninter
ested spectators while the harpies on shore
attempted to destroy tho eagle on the seas,
concessions which would s.iow that they were
anxious to avert civil war until after they
had exhausted every expedient and employ
ed every fair means to secure peace. But
who could compute the consequences, or
count the disasters of granting to Slavery all
the posessions hereafter to be acquired?—
Who could prediat the disasters which might
arise in inakiDg Slavery the golden promise
embodied in the Crittenden proposition of
further empire ? To do this would do to
make the Government tho armed missionary
of Slavery, and would amount to covenant of
war against every people and trihe and State
owing a foot of land between here and Del
Fuego. He would vote for all the provisions
declaratory of the duty to observe all consti
tutional pledges- He would vote for even an
amendment to the Fugitive Slave law, provi*
diug tbey could have two amendments.—
There was a provision proposed for transfer
ring from the Government of a State to Fed
eral Judges the duty of surrendering fugi
tives from justice. He could not vote for
that. Tbe blame was not that the constitu
tional guaranties were not sufficient, but
that the people would not observe them. If
they were not observed now, how could ihy
expect tbem to be observed whan altered ?
There would still be provisions as dangerous
as those new existing, and as accessible to
the Punic faith of the Free States. Ho would
leave the Constitution as it was. If they
should alter it, if the American people tam
per with that liberty-bestowiDg instrument,
some Gibbon, or, better still, some Dante
would immortalize tbe crime. Some limner,
with infernal penoil, would group in the
picture, horrible in th sir resemblance to the
actors of the day, and haog it in tbe sky, full
iu tbe view of those who shall hereafter tread
tbe corridors of time. The people of tbe
North were a boace-loving and brave people,
and would cling to tbe laat to the institutions
of their country, with an attachment almost
idolatrous, so would the people of tbe great
State of New York, with ber 4,000,000 of in
habitants. So did her Legislature, as testi- ,
fled in their late message to tbe Government
in relation te the action of these men, who J
were now embracing tbe pillars of the Re- i
public that they might tear dewu the temple
of liberty. These men would sustain the su
premacy of tbe Government, and defend it
against all new commere. The men ol the
North beleiy6d in this Government as their
EDITORS & PROPRIETORS.
NUMBER 8
fathers made it. They cherished it for all
its memories, its tliortyrs, its heroes, and its
statesmen. They cherished it for the shelter
it afforded against that storm which, without
it, would burst and desolate the continent.—
But above all they cherished it for its prom*
ises yet unaccomplished, its mission incom
plete, and its destiny unfulfilled.
O-ie Kind Act
When Mary and I were married, we were
young and foolish, for we bad nothing to be
married with ; but Mary was delioate, and j
thought I could take care of her best. I
kuew 1 bad a strong arm and a brave heart
to depend upon. We rented a chamber and
we jit to housekeeping. We got together a
little furniture—a table, bedstead, dishes—
but our monoy failed us before we bought
the chairs. I told Mary she must turn up a
tub ; for I could not run in debt. No, no.—
It was not long before our rich neighbor,
Mrs. M , found us out, and kindly
enough she supplied us ; half a dozen ohairs
were added to our stock. They were old
ones, to be sure, but answered just as well
for us. I shall never forget the new face
those chairs put upon our snug quarters-rr
they never looked just right before. The ta
hies are turned with Mrs. M and me
now—she has turned a poor widow; "but
she shall never want while I have anything,
never 1" cried the old man, with a charming
faee. "I don't forget those old chairs."'
Ah, now the secret was out. It was the
interest of the old chairs which maintained
the poor widow. She was living on the in
terest of a little friendly aot done years be
fore, and it sufficed for herself and daugh
ter.
llow beautiful it is to see how Ood blesses
the operation of his great and moral law,
"love thy neighbor," and we should often see
it, could we look into the hidden path of lifo,
and hod that it is not self interest, nor rich
es nor fame, that binds heart and heart. The
simple power of a friendly act can do far
more than they. It is these, the friendly
acts, the neighborly kindness, the Christian
sympathy cf one towards another, which robs
wealth of its power to curse, extracts bitter-:
ness from sorrow, and opens wells of glad
ness in desolate homes. We do not always
see the golden links shining in the chain of
human events ; but tbey are there, and hap
py is he who feels their gentle but irresisth
ble influence.— Merchant's Ledyev*.
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?— The Charleston
Mercury was veiy abusive of Gen. UoustoD,
because he would not call a special session
of the Texas Legislature. It quotes from the
patriotic letter just published by old San Ja
cinto, and remarks:
"Such is old Sam. We hope he will not
at last die like old Zack Taylor, of a pain in
the stomaoh."
We have often heard it hinted, in a quiet
way, that Gsn. Taylor was poisoned by some
Southern fanatic, because of his hostility to
pro-slavery schemes; is this reference of the
Mercury to his death a bint to some enter
prising Texan to put Gen. Houston out of the
way in the same manner ? If net, why re
fer to Gsn. Taylors's death at all I—Pitta,*
burg Gazette.
Mr. Lincoln on Compromise.
SPRINGFIELD, 111., Feb. il.
This morning's Journal contains an au
thoritative contradiction of a Washington
dispatch to the Associated Press, stating that
Mr, Lincoln had written to his Congression
al friends recommending conciliatory meas
ures. It says:
" The country may rest assured that in
Abraham Lincoln they have a Republican
President, one who will give them a Repub
lican Administration. Mr. Lincoln is not
committed to the border State compromise,
nor to any other. He stands immovably up
on the Chicago platform, and hs will neither
acquiesce, nor counsel his friends to acqui
esce, in any oompromiee that surrenders onq
iota ot it."— Cm. Commercial.
SUBMISSION IN KENTUCKY. —The Lcuisville
Courier a Democratic paper, in noticing the
introduction in the L-gislature by Mr. Har
rison, ot a resolution " requesting the Pros*
ident to witbdrad the troops from the foits
and fortifications in the seceding States,"
says :
" Before we would ever oonsent to get on
our knees to South Carolina in this sort of
Egging thequostion style, we would declare
the United States Government a nullity at
once; beg the rebel States to take sueh of
its remaiog lis might please them, and let us,
like underlings, dodge about between the
mighty legs ot King Pickens, seeking dis
honorable graves,"
We are opposed to coercion. We are for
letting the seoediog States alone. At the
same time we are tor having and making the
the seceding States let the United States
alone. While we are an American citizen
we will never acknowledge the superiority of
South Carolina & Co., oyer ths remainder of
the United States, let them never be lowered
to satisfy the caprice of a factious meb ef
Southern fanatics.— NEVEß, NEVER, NEVER."
ALL FIR THE BEST. —Dr. Johnson used to
say that a habit of looking at the best side of
every event is better than a thousand pounds
a year. Bishop Ilall quaintly remarks, ' far
every bad there mi;lit be a worse ; and when
a man breaks his Ug, let him be thankful
that it was not his Beck." When Fenelon'a
library was on fire, " God ba praised," he
exclamed, " that it is not the dwelling of
some poor man 1" This is the true spirit of
submission—one of the most beautiful traits
that can possess the human heart, flesolva
to see this wond on its sunDj side, and yoq
have almost half won the battle of life op tbj,
outset,