Speech of Hon. A. P. Butler, of South Carolina
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. A. P. Butler, of South Carolina: On the Bill to Enable the People of Kansas Territory to Form a Constitution and State Government, Preparatory to Their Admission Into the Union, Etc;; Delivered in the United States Senate, June 12, 1856 Mr. Butler said: Mr. President: The occasion and the subject upon which I am about to address the Senate of the United States, at this time, have been brought about by events over which I have had no control, and could have had none-events which have grown out of the commencement of a controversy for which the senator from Massachusetts (not now in his seat) [Mr. Sumner] should be held exclusively responsible to his country and his God. He has delivered a speech the most extraordinary that has ever had utterance in any deliberative body recognising the sanctions of law and decency. When it was delivered I was not here; and if I had been present, what I should have done it would be perfectly idle for me now to say, because no one can substitute the deliberations of a subsequent period for such as might have influenced him at another time and under different circumstances. My impression now is that, if I had been present, I should have asked the senator, before he finished some of the paragraphs personally applicable to myself, to pause; and if he had gone on, I would have demanded of him the next morning that he should review that speech, and retract or modify it, so as to bring it within the sphere of parliamentary propriety. If he had refused this, what I would have done I cannot say; yet I can say that I would not have submitted to it. But what mode of redress I should have resorted to I cannot tell. I wish I had been here, i would have at least assumed, as I ought to have done on my responsibility as a senator, and on my responsibility as a representative of South Carolina, all the consequences, let them lead where they might; but instead of that, the speech has involved his own friends and his own colleague. It has involved my friends. It has involved one of them to such an extent that, at this time, he has been obliged to put his fortune and his life at stake. And, sir, if the consequences which are likely to flow from that speech shall end in blood and violence, that senator should be prepared to repent in sackcloth and ashes. Now, I pronounce a judgment on that speech which will be adopted by the public. I am as certain as I am speaking that it is now condemned by the public mind, and by posterity it will be consigned to infamy, for the michievous consequences which have flowed from it already, and such as are likely yet to disturb the peace and repose of the country. I said nothing, Mr. President, at any period of my life - much less did I say anything in the course of the debate to which he purports to have made a reply - that could have called for, much less have justified, the gross personal abuse, traduction, and calumny, to which he has resorted. When I was at my little farm, enjoying myself quietly, and, as I thought, had taken refuge from the strifes and contentions of the Senate and of politics, a message was brought to me that my kinsman had been involved in a difficulty on my account. It was so vague that I did not know how to account for it. I was far from any telegraphic communication. I did not wait five minutes before I left home to put myself within the reach of such information - and garbled even that was - as was accessible. I travelled four days continuously to Washington; and when I arrived I found the very subject under discussion which had given me so much concern; and it has been a source of the deepest concern to my feelings ever since I heard of it, on many accounts - on account of my country, and on account of the honor and the safety of my kinsman. When I arrived here I found the subject under discussion. I went to the Se
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