New England has, at times, so argues the gentleman, held opinions as dangerous as those which he now holds.  Suppose this were so; how should he therefore abuse New England?  If he find himself countenanced by acts of hers, how is it that, while he relies on these acts, he covers, or seeks to cover, their authors with reproach?  But, sir, if in the course of forty years, there have been undue effervescences of party in New England, has the same thing happened nowhere else?  Party animosity and party outrage, not in New England, but elsewhere, denounced President Washington, not only as a Federalist, but as a Tory, a British agent, a man who in his high office sanctioned corruption.  But does the honorable member suppose, if I had a tender here who should put such an effusion of wickedness and folly into my hand, that I would stand up and read it against the South?  Parties ran into great heats again in 1799 and 1800.  What was said, sir, or rather what was not said, in those years, against John Adams, one of the committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence, and its admitted ablest defender on the floor of Congress?  If the gentleman wishes to increase his stores of party abuse and frothy violence, if he has a determined proclivity to such pursuits, there are treasures of that sort south of the Potomac, much to his taste, yet untouched.  I shall not touch them. * * * The gentleman’s purveyors have only catered for him among the productions of one side.  I certainly shall not supply the deficiency by furnishing him samples of the other.  I leave to him, and to them, the whole concern.  It is enough for me to say, that if, in any part of their grateful occupation, if, in all their researches, they find any thing in the history of Massachusetts, or of New England, or in the proceedings of any legislative or other public body, disloyal to the Union, speaking slightingly of its value, proposing to break it up, or recommending non-intercourse with neighboring States, on account of difference in political opinion, then, sir, I give them all up to the honorable gentleman’s unrestrained rebuke; expecting, however, that he will extend his buffetings in like manner, to all similar proceedings, wherever else found. * * *

Mr. President, in carrying his warfare, such as it is, into New England, the honorable gentleman all along professes to be acting on the defensive.  He chooses to consider me as having assailed South Carolina, and insists that he comes forth only as her champion, and in her defence.  Sir, I do not admit that I made any attack whatever on South Carolina.  Nothing like it.  The honorable member, in his first speech, expressed opinions, in regard to revenue and some other topics, which I heard with both pain and surprise.  I told the gentleman I was aware that such sentiments were entertained out of the Government, but had not expected to find them advanced in it; that I knew there were persons in the South who speak of our Union with indifference or doubt, taking pains