Speech of Hon. Lawrence O´b; Branch, of North Carolina
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Lawrence O´b; Branch, of North Carolina: On the Presidential Election, Delivered in the House of Representatives, July 24, 1856 The House being in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, Mr. Branch said: Mr. Chairman: A great and vital contest has commenced, and is now raging before the people of this country. If we estimate its importance by the magnitude of the results to flow from it, such a one has not, in my opinion, occurred since the establishment of the Government. The portentous flag of Black Republicanism has been raised, and around it have rallied not only the fanatical and political Abolitionists who professedly aim at the total abolition of negro slavery everywhere, but also a body of men far more dangerous, who would reach the same result by rendering odious and proscribing the slaveholder, and limiting the influence and checking the growth of those States in which negro slavery exists. Under the folds of this flag are found those who would refuse equal privileges to the citizens of the different sections of the Confederacy, and who seek to destroy the equality of the States of the Union. The party formed of such materials, and aiming at such objects, is, of course, and must always remain, strictly sectional in its organization. It has no existence out of the non-slaveholding States. But as those States have a large majority of Congress, and of the electoral college, its success in getting entire control of the Government is not at all impossible, nor, under the state of things now existing, at all improbable. I am no disunionist, nor alarmist. Nor is Mr. Fillmore. But he has warned us against the election of Fremont, and tells us that one of the consequences must be a dissolution of the Union. Mr. A. K. Marshall. I think the gentleman from North Carolina does not correctly state Mr. Fillmore´s position. He says that, if Mr. Fremont carries out the policy of appointing none but northern men to his Cabinet, it would cause a dissolution of the Union. Mr. Branch. My friend from Kentucky is correct as far as he goes. But Mr. Fillmore says Mr. Fremont would necessarily take all his high officers from the North, and that such a course would dissolve the Union. I understand him to intimate very distinctly that the South ought not to remain in the Union under such circumstances. Against such a party, openly avowing such a purpose, the friends of the Union and the Constitution should be indissolubly united. Certainly nothing less than the arrant folly of the madman could produce division in the minority section at such a crisis. The noble and patriotic citizen of the North, who, scorning the demagogue cry of "slaveocracy" and "southern domination," stands upon the Constitution and fights for the Union, regardless of sections, encounters prejudices which demagogues excite against him. fie maintains a cause which the ignorant and uninformed in his own section have been taught to believe hostile to their own interests. Ignorance, malice, and fanaticism taunt him as a doughface and a traitor. He withstands it all, because he is conscious of right, and fearless of consequences. But when he finds himself vilified at the North, and unsupported at the South - when he sees a powerful party organized in his own section, for the avowed purpose of giving that section preeminence over the South, and its citizens preference over the citizens of the South; and when he sees a large party at the South refusing to cooperate with him to defeat that party, because he cannot, consistently with the principles on which he has planted himself, advocate a discrimination between the foreign-born and native-born citizen, he may falter in his efforts. When he sees a large part of the South advocating a discrimination between the citizens of the country, therein differing from the Black
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