southern support. The people of the north still support, by their suffrages, the men who have truckled to southern domination. I believe it impossible that this total subversion of every principle of liberty should be much longer submitted to by the people of the free States of this Union. If they choose to be repre- sented by slaves, they will find servihty enough to repre- sent and betray them." On another occasion, he pro- nounced the northern~Democrats " The consistent Swiss guards of southern slavery." Nor was his notice of the northern Whigs much more flattering. They were thus characterized by him : *' The languid, compromising non- resistants of the north, afraid of answering a fool according to his folly, and flinching from the attitude of defiance flung in their faces by the bullying threat of readiness to meet them ' here or elsewhere.' "
He was as fearless in his assaults upon individuals, as upon classes. Congressional duelling excited his especial abhorrence, both for its wickedness, and because, as he contended, it was resorted to by southern members for the purpose of intimidating northern representatives. In REVIEV7 OF THE MEXICAN WAR. 303 a debate, referring to the subject, be spoke of the death of a northern man who had fallen in a duel, as " a de-' liberate murder committed on a member of this house," and alluded to a gentleman present who had acted as a second in this duel, and was supposed to have instigated it, as a man having come into that house " witjh his hands and face dripping with the blood of murder, the blotches of which were yet hanging upon him."
He as freely condemned what he thought wrong in the character and conduct of his country, as he did in parties and individuals. On the floor of Congress he declared, " You make and break treaties with the Indian tribes, whenever either to make or break treaties with them hap- pens to suit the purposes of the President and a majority of both houses of Congress." Again—" In the treatment of the African and native American races, we have sub- verted the maxims and degenerated from