attack upon her institutions. She never would acquiesce in the acquisition of territory from which her sons, with their ^:>?'q29er^y, were to be wholly excluded. In contrast with the effects of that law (the proviso), the question of the prosecution of the war, of the acquisition of the most extensive territories, shrinks into insignificance. It is to involve the momentous issue of the Union of these States."
Mr. Dargan, of Alabama, was exceedingly frank : " Say to the South that they are only fighting to make FREE TERRITORY, that it is Only for this that the brave men of Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama, are perihng their lives ; and they will demand the settlement of this question noiu, preliminary to anyfurther prosecution of the war,"
Said Mr. Leake, of Virginia : " If the present attempt to impose limitation with respect to the extension of SLAVERY should be persisted in, and should prevail, the South must stand in self-defence ; for they could not and would not submit to it."