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from Buchanan's special message in December last, to show that they stood alike upon the Constitution. And yet because Lincoln had expressed his constitutional views of the action of States which he (Mr. C.) believed were in open rebellion against the Government, Virginia was also to be dragged into rebellion and civil war. He was not here as an apologist for Mr. Lincoln, but believed that he would not have dared to acknowledge the right of the secession of States. He next alluded to Mr. Goggin as a member of the Whig Convention which adopted a platform for the preservation of the Union and the Constitution — and he believed the gentleman from Halifax (Mr. Flournoy) stood there also. They backed up Mr. Fillmore, as he did, in enforcing the laws in Boston; but now when they were to be enforced on this side of the line, it was a very different thing. His people were a law-abiding people; devoted to the institution of slavery, because it was, as they and as he believed, the bulwar