State of the Union Speech of Hon Robert Hatton of Tennessee in the House of
State of the Union Speech of Hon Robert Hatton of Tennessee in the House of
Robert Hatton
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From the weakness of our national Government a feeling of insecurity would arise, and capital would take the alarm and leave us. But it may be said, •• Let capital go!" Totliis I reply, that capital is the life-blood of a modern community ; and in losing it, you lose the vitality of the State. " He could see no profit in secession-^nothingbut ruin. The leaders in this movement in the cotton States, and others who are aspiring to position with them, tell us that they " loved the Union as our fat...hers made it. " What is it now. ' Just what our fothers made it. If not, in what has it been changed . ' We have the same Constitution. There is not a law — not one — upon our Federal statute-book of which we complain. The adjudi- cations of the Supreme Court, upon all questions affecting southern institutions, are precisely as we would have them. The statesmen of the South have dictated the entire policy of the Federal Government upon slavery since the formation of the Constitution. If there is an exception to this rule, I would ask to be informed of it.
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