Excerpt from Speech of Hon. Milton S. Latham, of California: Delivered in the U. S. Senate, February 1, 1861, on the President's Message, "the Message of Peace From Virginia" It cannot, however, be doubted that there is a strong conservative feeling in many members of the Republican party3 and that ground may be shared, to some extent, by the President elect 3 but it is to be feared it may be confined to a very strong desire to preserve the Union without surrendering any of the cardinal points of the Republican faith. All such conservatism, it is needless to say, at this time, is by itself of small practical value. The southern States are not willing to trust their destiny or that of this great nation to such conser vatism. They require more than a mere promise to feel sure there will be an abstinence from wrong doing. They ask a public recognition of principles, and an agreement which will render injustice impossible, or at least highly improbable 3 something which shall not grant to our brethren of the South, from political charity, what the Constitution secures to them as a right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.