Sketches in North America; With Some Account of Congress And of the Slavery Question
Sketches in North America; With Some Account of Congress And of the Slavery Question
Hugo Reid
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(Laughter in the galleries.) He thought, under all these cir- cumstances, they had better separate. He should not have said anything, but for the remarks of the senator from New Hampshire, who threatened war as if to frighten the South. ' War is inevitable. Let the South take care.' Let the war come, and we will meet the senator from New Hampshire and all the myrmidons of abolitionism, and, in the language of the honourable representative from Ohio (Mr. Corwin), in regard to the Mexican war, we... will ' welcome them with bloody hands to hos- pitable graves.^ (Sensation.)" Next follow some of the ideas of Mr. Daniel Sickles, a member of the House of Representatives for New York; the same who killed Mr. Key, in Washington, in the spring of 1859. " One of these delusions is that disunion ean be prevented by force ; that the Union can NORTH AMERICA. 133 by revolution be brought to the verge of de- struction, yet at the last that the strong arm of power can stay the work. On the gall for force, come whence it may, no man would pass the frontier of the city of New York to wage war against a State which, through its consti- tuted authority, should, for its rights, interests, and honour, seek safety in a separate existence.
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