d States, in the canvass of 1860. Some passages of this
speech seem peculiarly appropriate for insertion here. General Lane was
replying to a speech of Mr. Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, afterward
President of the United States:

"Mr. President, the Senator from Tennessee complains of my
remarks on his speech. He complains of the tone and temper of
what I said. He complains that I replied at all, as I was a
Northern Senator. Mr. President, I am a citizen of this Union
and a Senator of the United States. My residence is in the
North, but I have never seen the day, and I never shall, when I
will refuse justice as readily to the South as to the North. I
know nothing but my country, the whole country, the
Constitution, and the equality of the States--the equal right of
every man in the common territory of the whole country; and by
that I shall stand.

"The Senator complains that I replied at all, as I was a
Northern Senator, and a Democrat whom he had supported at the
last election for a high office. Now, I was, as I stated at the
time, surprised at the Senator's speech, because I understood it
to be for coercion, as I think it was understood by almost
everybody else, except, as we are now told, by the Senator
himself; and I still think it amounted to a coercion speech,
notwithstanding the soft and plausible phrases by which he
describes it--a speech for the execution of the laws and the
protection of the Federal property. Sir, if there is, as I
contend, the right of secession, then, whenever a State
exercises that right, this Government has no laws in that State
to execute, nor has it any property in any such State that can
be protected by the power of this Government. In attempting,
however, to substitute the smooth phrases 'executing the laws'
and 'protecting public property' for coercion, for civil war, we
have an important concession: that is, that this Government dare
not go before the people with a plain avowal of its real
purposes and of their consequences. No, sir; the policy is to
inveigle the people of the North into civil war, by masking the
design in smooth and ambiguous terms."--("Congressional Globe,"
second session, Thirty-sixth Congress, p. 1347.)

[Footnote 130: See letter of Hon. S. K. Bingham to Governor Blair, of
Michigan, in "Congressional Globe," second session, Thir