Excerpt from Defence of the National Democracy Against the Attack of Judge Douglas, Constitutional Rights of the States: Speech of Hon. J. P. Benjamin, of Louisiana, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 22, 1860

Has been no inconsistency 1nlh1s cbursefand that if haand his brother: Demohratie Sen ators are at issne nponcany int, it is We, and not he, whofchave 'prove incodsistent. I shall return to thht, sir, iii a moment. Rlhe1next1p11oposi11ion of 1the' honorable fienatcrs from 111111018 was, that 11111 Twas fthe embodiment of? The Democratic arty, a'nd that all, whoi dissented) from S modest propositiomwere rebelsn He next arraigned {all his Democratic brethre'n' in this Cham ber1f0r daring-a5o ofi'eru resolutions toi'the Senate declaiatory 1oi iconstitutional princi pies and she calledzthecresolutions now h fore us a caucus platform; which he Said the Charleston convention, ' 1. Which 1'represents him1 treated with the Scorn and contemxpt that they memited. Next he sa1d 'that seventeen Democratic States, of1this Union, afidiall his' brother Democratic Senators who did inot agree with him, (were disunionists, andlhe' arraigned 11115111 1113 Wench He 1841111111111 They were trax elino' on the high road td 1the2 dishm'on Qi theee States.1 l'hen, 111 the pl nitud'e oil his i11d11lgence',1he told us' 'that we Weie sin ning, th1ough ignoranice and. Did) not kriew what road1we were tflavelingr, and, with p'rippely magnanimity, tendered his clemen and his pardon to those who, lefter being endigbtened1 by rhis counsel, lshouldltendfier gremntgnca '1 And after having done 11111 that -having attacked every Democratic State.

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