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s ere long to light up the flames of civil war. The property and lives of Southern people were to be put in jeopardy. He deprecated the sentiments of the gentleman from Rockbridge, contemplating party issues on this floor. To the Democratic party he would say that it had been swept down by the power which had swept away the old Whig party. They all went down before the antislavery party of the North. History would bear to after times no sublimer record than that of the gallant band of Breckinridge men, who refused at Charleston to sell their birthright for the spools of party. He denied the position of the gentleman from Rockbridge that the Cotton States sought the aid of Virginia for a selfish purpose. It was a question for some days where the gentleman from Rockbridge would like to go; but on yesterday he defined his position. He believed it was now generally understood that he would not go with the South. He would sooner see Virginia go down among the breakers than have