Conciliation and Nationality! Speech of Hon.
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Excerpt from Conciliation and Nationality! Speech of Hon.: S. S, Cox, of Ohio, Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 14, 1861 In such a time, the bitter crimination and vain threats and insults of party and of sections are out of place. They should not turn the people of the North from doing their whole duty to the South; nor the South from a more deliberate review of its past, and a more prudential view of its perilous future. No man has the right to say or do aught that will further exasperate the public sentiment of the South. No good man in the North can oppose any measure of honorable recession from wrong. I cannot speak of South Carolina in the tone and temper of some. She has been a part of our national life. Her blood is in our veins; her Marions, Sumters, and Pinckneys are ours. Eutaw, Cowpens, and Camden; are they not a part of that glory, which no more can be separated from the Union than the dawn from the sun? Whatever may be our indignation against her, or our duty to ourselves, let us remember that public sentiment is not to be reached by threat or denunciation. Our Government depends for its execution on public sentiment. To that sentiment alone, in its calmer mood, are we to look for a restoration of a better feeling. When that feeling comes, it will be hailed like the sea-bird which visited the sea-tossed caraval of Columbus as the harbinger of a firm-set footing beyond. Other facts of a similar perilous character will soon transpire. Georgia, Texas, and Louisiana will assuredly follow the erratic course of South Carolina. This fact must soon be encountered. South Carolina has been singing her Marseillaise, and the waves of the Gulf make accordant music in the revolutionary anthem. It but echoes the abolitionism of the North and West; for scarcely had the song died away on the shores of Lake Erie, before South Carolina took it up with a wilder chorus! Extremes thus meet. Extremes north have aided, if not conspired, with extremes south, in the work of disintegration. That work will go on. I know that we are very slow to believe in any sign of dissolution. We have faith in our luck. We have trust in a certain inventive faculty, which has never yet failed us, either in mechanical or political expedients. Our politics are plastic to emergencies. Still I must warn the people of the North that it is the well-grounded fear, almost the foregone conclusion of the patriotic statesmen here, that the work of breaking up will go on, until the entire South shall be arrayed against the entire North. In view of these facts, I will discuss these propositions:1. That secession is not a right in any possible relation in which it can be viewed; to tolerate it in theory or practice is moral treason to patriotism and good government.2. That while it may not involve such direful consequences as other revolutions, still it is revolution.3. That every effort of conciliation should be exhausted to check it, before force is applied.4. That if the North does not do her part fully iv recession from aggression, it will be impossible to unite the northern people, oany portion of the southern people, in repressing secession.5. That if the South will make a patient endeavor, equal to the great occasion, to secure her rights in the Union, 1 believe that she will succeed; and if she is then repulsed, it will be impossible for her to receive any detriment from the North; but she will depart in peace.6. If she go inconsiderately, as some States are going, the com-try may incur the fearful hazard of war.7. If the South press the one hard over-mastering question upon the North, and follow it up with seizure of forts and revenue, cannonading of our vessels and other aggressive acts, without giving an opportunity for conciliation, there will be no power in the conservatism of the North to restrain the people. No sacrifice will be considered too great to make in the protection and defence of the Union.8. That, in the pr
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