Speech of Hon. C. C, Clay, Jr., Of Alabama
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. C. C, Clay, Jr., Of Alabama: On the Contest in Kansas, and the Plans and Purposes of Black Republicanism, Delivered in the United States Senate, April, 21, 1856 The Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, having under consideration the bill to authorize the people of the Territory of Kansas to form a constitution and State government, preparatory to their admission into the Union when they have the requisite population - Mr. Clay said: Mr. President, this debate, on the part of the advocates of insurrection in Kansas, has been worthy of their cause. Prom its inauguration by the Senator om New Hampshire, Mr. Hale, in his furious onslaught upon the Presidents annual message, down to the attempt to foist upon the Senate the spurious memorial of the amateur Legislature at Topeka, they have displayed more personal, partisan, and sectional asperity, than I have ever witnessed on this floor. They seem not to desire to restore peace, to preserve order, and sustain the laws, but to increase dissension, create disorder, and subvert the laws of that Territory. They appear not as impartial arbiters; of this great controversy, but as zealous advocates with contingent fees Testing on its decision. Determined to know and to present but one side, they concede no violation of law, order, morality, or propriety, by their clients. Instead of exhibiting the impartiality, dignity, and sobriety of an Areopagus, in whose justice and judgment contending States may confide, they have betrayed the rancorous prejudice of sectional bigotry, and the blind passion of selfish partisanship. They have assailed the reputations not only of those who have appeared as prominent advocates of slavery in Kansas, but even of those who have espoused neither side, but have striven to stay the hand of violence and to do justice to both parties. The newspaper contributions of hireling and anonymous writers have been gravely paraded as testimony on which to decide this great issue, and with which to defame men whose integrity and patriotism have been hitherto without reproach and above suspicion. When challenged to give their author, they neither name him nor indorse his statement; but admit their high esteem for the man whom they aid in traducing. They seek to injure, and to shirk responsibility - "Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike." The President has been assailed with a bitterness characteristic rather of personal enmity than political antagonism. The Missourians have been spoken of as foreign and barbarous enemies, rather than as fellow-citizens, descended from a common ancestry and devoted to the same civil and political destiny. The South has been assailed as aggressive and overbearing; acquiring territory, or giving it away to aggrandize herself, and appropriating federal property and offices to her own use and to the exclusion of the North. The North has not escaped detraction by her own sons; for they allege that she has always had venal men in market, ready to sell themselves to serve the ambitious purposes of the South. Those who proclaim the infamy of their own household must share the shame and endure suspicion; and when they wantonly and maliciously charge members of their own family with) selling themselves, people will suspect that they; have escaped that debasement only for want of a purchaser. The President needs not the shield of another to protect him, against the missiles of their malice, and is more honored by their censure than their praise. Covered in the complete panoply of truth, he has no vulnerable point exposed not even a tender heel which the curs that bay at him can, wound. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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