nment," or at what time she had ever been "an independent
and separate community," Mr. Yulee evidently preferred not to inform
the Senate. His colleague, Mr. Mallory, implored the people of
the North not to repeat the fatal folly of the Bourbons by imagining
that "the South would submit to the degradation of a constrained
existence under a violated Constitution." Mr. Mallory regarded
the subjugation of the South by war as impossible. He warned the
North that they were dealing with "a nation, and not with a
faction."

Mr. Clement C. Clay, Jr., of Alabama, boasted that in the convention
which adopted the Ordinance of Secession in his State there was
not one friend of the Union; and he resented with indignation what
he termed the offensive calumny of the Republicans in denouncing
slavery and polygamy as twin relics of barbarism. The action of
Alabama, he said, was not from "sudden, spasmodic, and violent
passion." It was the conclusion her people had reached "after
years of enmity, injustice, and injury at the hands of their Northern
brethren." Instead of causing surprise, "it is rather matter of
reproach that they have endured so much and so long, and have
deferred this act of self-defense until to-day." Mr. Clay's speech
was insulting and exasperating to the last degree. His colleague,
Mr. Fitzpatrick, a man of better tempter, showed reserve and an
indisposition to discuss the situation. He contented himself with
the expression of a general concurrence in the views of Mr. Clay,
adding no word of bitterness himself. He said that he "acknowledged
loyalty to no other power than to the sovereign State of Alabama."
But for the pressure brought upon him, Mr. Fitzpatrick would have
been glad to retain his seat in the Senate and wait the course of
events. He was not in his heart a Disunionist, as his colleague
was. He would have accepted the nomination for the Vice-Presidency
on the ticket with Douglas the preceding year, if the whole political
power of the Cotton States had not opposed his wishes and forced
him into the support of Breckinridge.

VALEDICTORY OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Jefferson Davis expressed his concurrence in the action of the
people of Mississippi. He believed that action was necessary and
proper, but would "have felt himself equally bound if his belief
had been otherwise." He presented an analysis of the difference
between the remedies of nullification