Speech of Hon. A G. Brown, of Mississippi
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Excerpt from Speech of Hon. A G. Brown, of Mississippi: On the Slavery Question; Delivered in the Senate of the United States, December 29, 1856 The Senate having under consideration the motion of Mr. Rusk to refer so much of the President´s message as relates to foreign affairs to the Committee on Foreign Relations - Mr. Brown said: Mr. President, when the President´s message came into the Senate, and was read by the Secretary, the first proceeding that followed was the rising of the senator from New Hampshire [Mr. Hale] to make a violent attack on the President and on the sentiments of his message. He based that attack chiefly on the ground that the President had intimated a purpose in certain quarters to attack slavery in the States. This speech of the senator from New Hampshire was quickly followed by speeches of a similar character from the senator from New York, [Mr. Seward,] and others on that side of the Chamber who sympathize with them. These assaults have fallen here as they will fall elsewere - harmless shafts. They have inflicted no injury on the President, and they will inflict none on the great cause which he so manfully defended. While assailing the President in coarse and unseemly phrase, these gentlemen have not failed to cover their own positions. In all they have said, from the hour that the message was read to this, the most casual observer will not have failed to perceive that, on some account, their tactics, have been changed. The bold and defiant air of the conquering hero has given place to the subdued manner of defeated soldiers. Senators now read us long speeches, indignantly denying what I had supposed, up to within the last few days, was an admitted proposition everywhere, to wit: that when the proper time came, slavery was to be assaulted in the States. There seems, however, to have been a falling back from this position; why, I certainly do not know, but I have a strong suspicion that gentlemen have found themselves, even at the north, in advance of public sentiment, and it has been found prudent at least to fall back on more tenable ground. While we have witnessed this exhibition in the Senate, elsewhere an exhibition not less remarkable has been going on. Politicians who certainly express no open sympathy with these gentlemen, seem to have been advancing from a position which they occupied heretofore, and taking one in closer proximity to the gentlemen on the other side of the Chamber. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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