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srivpn bv I resilient Jiincotn, yielded him
their ready and ciricicnt support. What
were some of those pledges ? First in
liis oiitli of office : '! will support tlie
Constitution of the Unitoil States, so
help me Oml." Then in his Inaugural
Address, nml with this solemn adjura.
tint) fresh from hislip, he said :
T do but quote from one of my speeches
when I decline that "1 hare no purpose
iireetj or iniiiree.tit, to interfere with
the, institution of si avert in the Stairs
,chrre it exists. 1 lSELIKVE I II AVE
NO LAWFUL KlfrMT TO 1)0 .SO
AND 1 II AVE NO INCLINATION
TO i O SO." Those who nominate 1
id el"
tli full know
c
to amend the (.'nt in 'tn proposition by
striking out all iho material provisions
certainly Jill thai eon! iii;e 1 the olive
blanch of pe;:ee. and p'sorting ft single
.revolution breathing v.'ur and threats to.
ward the. South. This amendment was
carried by a vole of 'l'y in favor, till Re
publicans, against 2-J Democratic voles.
IJut, (inys the address of the Republican
Committee "six Southern Ketmrors re.
lused to vote at all on the proposed
amendment ;" mi l then, with a degree
of cool assurance remarkable even in
these times, it goes on to tell the people
of Pennsylvania "that bad these six
Southern members voted against the
Clarke amendment, it would have been
ideated, and the Crittenden Compro-
liise illicit have been taken up and
:arricd by thesamc majority." General
Cameron, who puts forth this address,
lannot be very prou 1 of his own share
in this record, or' he would not have out
if view the fact that he himself veU-d
for this very C'ark amendment, and the
ame day moved a reconsideration ; and
then, when this question was called up
inly tiiroo days afterwards, he voted
fi iinft hi own motion to rernnsi:h r. It
was carried, however with the aid of at
loasl two ( J ohnson and Slidell) of the
"six" named, and the Compromise was
again iu statu quo before the Senate. It
was Dually tak 'i up on the .!d ot March,
and defeated many of the Southern
Senators bavin; withdrawn from the
Senate in the interim, theii States bav
ins; seceded from the Union.
Now. General Cameron, who issued
the address, knows just as we'd as did
Senator Cameron, who siv-tained the
Clark amendment, that it required a
two thirds vote to 'give vi'lli'y to the
Ciiiten ljo Comniomi-e. i To ko nvs
too, that every IvpubM
liillg hi- O-.V l '1 ! !
agtiin-it the m i i i o
to list. II-. ....
publican Sena--'. - j.-:'n
ler's proposal i n:' :'::
a vote ot I tin ; ;
Congress. IF-- !.!!,-;
Clemens, of Virj.ni.i.
February. Iief'n : hat S
cession, ende iri r
rocntative i' . i-oio
similar ai'poig ok nt in
.'o'e.
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H'ven
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Mr
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I in the House of Rep-
r 1 1 1 . to olitain a
that body to test
the question il' i: liiipromise before the
people, and it wis voted down by 112
Republicans a.'iin-t 8) Democrats
every Republican in tho ll-mso voting
in the negative.' They woiil 1 not
they did no! ibire to tni;t the p-o;lo,
the logitimato sjurc.i d power, o;i t':is
j question .
At tlia litziri ot tariU).n ig unueers.
sary wo d on this, point, we beg attention
to the clear au 1 explicit evidence of
Senator Pugh a coteiiip.irary of the an
ther of the AdilresH, iu the Senate of tho
United States. In the course, of his
speech in the Senate, iu March, 1S J1,
he says :
The Crittenden proposition has been
endorsed bv the almost unanimous vote
of the Leilature of Kentucky: It has
been endorsed by thenoblcold Common,
wealthof Virginia. It Ins been petition
ed lor by a larger number of the electors
of the United States than any proposi
tion that was ever before Congress. I
''iiitoiy, and the d.;Jetvcd and iuvul-ibS.
condeinmatiori of a betrayed peopl-t
The controlling spirits ef the Republican
party never meant peace u?ver sought
peace from first to last, at any time or in
any from, save upuu the one drear and
dovilisb condition of turning loose upon
our land three and a half million of
black semi. barbarians under the specious
pretense of freedom: while in reality, it
was only to tear so many of these poor
e eatures away from their homes of com-,
pari'.tivo happiness and peace, to find
starvation, misery and death in au iu
hospitable clime 1
'resident Lincoln has but lecenl'y de.
clared, in very definite terns, he will
listen to no proposition of peace which
does not inclado this African millennium,
notv. iili-Undine those plain constitution.
al prohibitions of all riht on the part ot
the (jeneral tiovernment thus to inter
veil.', which be himself, with tho oath;
of ofiioe fresh upon bis lips, declared
he "h ni no l-jcdrijht and no inlmtion''
to ilisvrtjartt.
If we were to credit the ravii.gs of tha
chief advises of the President, or, at
least, those who seem to influence him,
most fully Sumuer, l'eccber and Phil
lipshuman reason has been making
such rapid progress in theo latter days,
that the haven of human pcrf'ectiou must
be near at band- liut alas! when W6
look hopefully for the blessed gale which
is to bear us onward in iu course, w
hear nothing but the loud breath of th
tempest; sec nothing all around us but
the ar.sry and troubled s.a, everywhere
sparkling with foam aud surging in it
mudticfs; and we arj tempted to ask, car
this indeed be-
"The wind and the storm fulfilling
liis word!"
These men arc mistaken and mad, op
are traitors of the deepest dye, dcscr7ii)
a traitor's darkest doom. This equality
ef the black and white races which they
are Kcekiug to establish in this country
is an absurd and idle dream, which
brier cotitrast of their progress and pecu
liarities must dispel from every thought.
(;1 mind.
A little more than two centuiies since,
when our fathers lirst planted a few
ge.iuis of out race iX scattered points
aloir; the North American coast, the
whnie number of that race in the oM
world did n"t exceed six millions. Eng
land. Scotland a.. . Wales then number
ed fewer inhabitants than New York,
j lYnii'ylvania nod Ohio do now. Mark
the progress: in North America at this
time ( including a wholesome Celtics in.
i'u-i ei,) there are at least thirty millions,
and in the whole world (crnfcisiu theru
' also the .--.iino inlu-iou.) from eighty to
nine'y millions of people, rubstantially
1 Anglo-Saxon in their orgiir Wo ara
everywhere thus displacing the wore
s'n:ji'h races, or hemming them in on
evorv side ; and at this current rate of
iocivas in one hundred and fiity yaars
from this time, will run up to eight hun
dred millions of human btiugs all
speaking the finie language, rejoicing
iu the same high intellectual culture,
nod exhibiting the same inherent and
inalli uiable ohoraelerictics ! '
On the other hand, the African raco
has never, auywheie. given any proof of
its capacity tor a self-sustained civilliza
tioii Since the sun first shone on that
continent it has remained in the samo
i state of mental gloom. Cruel, brutal,
voluptuous, and indolent by nature, tho
African has never advanced a single step
beyond his owu savage original. S!u.
rr.rij has tier hern, unl to this hour con
tiniirs to be, tiis normal condition,
thruHijhout i en tiiiiic lie can call his
oir i .' An ly t tloy have had as many
opportunities of improvement as the
inhabitcnU of Asia or of Europe. Along
the shores of 'the Mediterranean was
once concentrated tne Literature and
Science of the world" Carthage, the
rival of imperial Home in all the arts of
comineroa mid civilization, existed for
m my years o:i tho African border. Tho
Saracen", the most polishel raco of their
believe in my heart to day that it would time, founded and maintained for een
carry an overwhelming in ijority of tho f uries a contiguous empire. Still, for
people of my State, ave, sir, of r.cr.rly all thia. the African has coutinued to
I every State iu the Union. I'efbra tho prowl on through bis long night of bar-
enators from tho State of Mississippi barisni : and thus, in all human protm-
i left this ihamber, I heard one of them, bility, he will contiuuo forever. Till
who assumes at least to bo President of m not that his want of progress in civ
(tie Southern Confederacy, propose to j ilizAtlou is id renult of Ling established
accept it, and minitain tho Union, if that bondage. So, for centuries, was ou:
proposition could receive tho vote it ! own race bound to earth under various
ought to reooivo from the other side of nnlilieations of predial vishI ige. IJut
the chamber. Therefore, all of your ' the white soul expandep, and mounted
propositions, all ol your ameu'luunts, above all its burthens an J trammels, ami
knowing as I do, aud knowing that th
s historian will write it down at any timo
before the first of Jaiiii iry, a two-thirds
, vote for the Crittenden resoluti ms in
r this chamber would have saved every
i St.ite in the Union except South Caro
; Una. UeorL'ia would he here by her re.
i presentatives, and Louisiana those two
'. great States which at least would have
'i brokcu the whole column of secession.
S G'oljf, pmje. 1:500.
r Upon the same point, on tho same day,
tho clarion voice of the patiiot l)ouglas
u bore testimony a" follows :
i-1 The Senator Mr. l'u.'li has said that
l if the Crittenden proposition could have
d beeii passed early in the session, it would
t have saved all the Stales except South
y Carolina. I firmly believe it would.
'. While tho Crittenden proposition was
t not in aecordiuco with my cherished
u views, I avowed my re-a liuc-san 1 eager
'.- ness to a'cept t in order to save the
i- Union, if we could unite up m il. lean
a conlinii the Senator's declaration that
i . i.: -H ..I i... ii ....
' e r enaior i 'avio h un -n, w nun wo i uu i "im
0 miitoo oi Tliii'tee i, was ready at all time,
d to eomproin so on tho Crittenden prop i
d sitiivi I wd; ' I'irthe and say that
! Mr. Toombs v.n also (i'obe., page
1 i:;rl.
.1 llotf prep irt -r ns ui this day then,
.-. this attempt ot'ooo ol tiu leaiin; eto-'.-in
that eventful .Iran i t i n to st.il 4 coo
i- fcoieuoe,, nn 1 s t seek to r c l ) his eoon
finally, iu this c motry, reached the full
ft'i'.tiou ol reimblieau IreeJom.
We gr.i i) this iu iiif.il inferiority of
tlu Alricaii (we forbear, in the spirit
of sobriety, any prysieal contemplation
or contrast) djes not give a denomi.
11 ant race the right to convey him from
his own beuightel bin 1 to a foreign
boo Jags, even uu ler tho forms of a
purchase from his African master. Rut
this nattir.il inferiority must be consid
ered by the statesman iu f'rainii:g laws,
aud adopting Constitutions for human
government. In Pennsylvania we have
always affirmed this inferiority in our
fundamental laws ; and tho same has
been dono in almost all tho free states
of the Union '.eaerally excluding 1I10
African from the right of suffrage. This
necessity of duly regarding the law of
races, is thus for-jiiily commented upi.'i
hy Lam it'tine (a sch .l ir and a state
n in. always iu favor of mail's largest
liberty) in a recent work :
Tho more I have traveled, the ruoro
I am ceivincd I'mt raeei-nf m-.n f irm
ijrerit secret of m n wul nitnntn.
I in is not so cap ibb of elocution as
diilos iphers iimgoio. Tha iuQuenea
of ;;overiinioi)t and laws has lc.i3 power,
i'ilically thau is siippjj-jJ, over thi
n inner aud instinct of any people.
While tho primitive constitution a:i 1
blood of tho race have always their iu
.lueuee, and manifest liipuijelvc-s thou-
i f.piraors from the recorded verdict of tiioda of yrlin aftorwardc in tho physievl