"All must see that the course of the senator from New
Hampshire is calculated to embroil the confederacy--to
put in peril our free institutions--to jeopardize that
Union which our forefathers established, and which every
pure patriot throughout the country desires shall be
perpetuated. Can any man be a patriot who pursues such a
course? Is he an enlightened friend of freedom, or even
a judicious friend of those with whom he affects to
sympathize, who adopts such a course? Who does not know
that such men are, practically, the worst enemies of the
slaves? I do not beseech the gentleman to stop; but, if
he perseveres, he will awaken indignation everywhere,
and it cannot be that enlightened men, who
conscientiously belong to the faction at the north of
which he is understood to be the head, can sanction or
approve everything that he may do, under the influence
of excitement, in this body. I will close by saying
that, if he really wishes glory, and to be regarded as
the great liberator of the blacks,--if he wishes to be
particularly distinguished in this cause of
emancipation, as it is called,--let him, instead of
remaining here in the Senate of the United States, or
instead of secreting himself in some dark corner of New
Hampshire, where he may possibly escape the just
indignation of good men throughout this republic,--let
him visit the good State of Mississippi, in which I have
the honor to reside, and no doubt he will be received
with such shouts of joy as have rarely marked the
reception of any individual in this day and generation.