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The Daily Dispatch: January 3, 1861., [Electronic resource], Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis . (search)
Speech of U. S. Senator Benjamin on the Crisis.
Mr. Benjamin, (Opp.,) of La., rose to address the Senate.
He said he had supposed that, are this, he would have had official information of the position of affairs in South Carolina, but in the absence of it he should assume that he had such information.
The South, he said, had repeatedly warned the North that they were driving them to a point that would result in a separation, and for this they had only been sneered at and maligned.
He (Mr. Benjamin) wished to speak in no spirit of recrimination, but to perform his duty.
He would call attention to the speech he made four yours ago, predicting this result.
Mr. Benjamin here quoted from the speech he made in 1856, and in which he said the time would come when the South would throw the sword into the scale with all the rights of the South, because he did not believe there could be peaceable secession.
He said that the words he had then uttered had proved to be true to- day. He