Southern telegraph., 1838-02-06
CONGRESS- Debate IA the Senaf.

MR.. CALHOUN's RESOLUTIONS.
| The Senate having resumed the coneide-
ration Of the resolutions offered by Mr.. Cal
| houn, the third Of the series beng before
| them,
MI. NORUELL rose tn move that so much
Of The third resolution of the honorable Sen
ator from South Carolina, Mr.. Caihoun) as
pledged this Government to give "ircreas-
ed'' stability and security 10 the domestic
institutions Of the States. and as pronounced
it to be is duty 10 strengthen" them, be
erased from the resolution. 1t would then
read, ''.hat this Government was Instituted
and adopted by the several States Of this
Union as common agent, i'm order to carry
into effect the powers which they had dele
gated by the Constitution for their mutual
security and prosperity; and that, in fulfil
mcnt of This high and sacred trust, this Gov
eminent is based so as to exercise is pow
rot tn interfere with the stability aed
security OF the domestic institutions of the
Suites that Compose the Union; and that it
is the solemn duty of the Government to re
sist all attempts by one portion of the Union
to use 1t as an instrument to attack the do
mes.'c institutions of another, or to weaken
or destroy such institutions" He said that
no member of ;his body entertained deep
er adherence of the whole abolition move
ments in the North and Northwest than he
did. IL not intended TO bring about dsso-
luton of The Union, they were well calcula-
ted TO accomplish that disastrous result
They were unconstitutional, a breach Of
faith towards our Southern fellow citizens.
and contrived to spread all the horrors of
serviie war among them. Under the pre-
text ct being religious duty to extirpatc
slavery from the face Of the earth, the in
ccndlary leaders of abolitionism had enlist
ed even women and children to petition for
the olJect which they haG IN view. AS II
men were not adequate to the task of ac-
comp!ishing their cruel purposes, women
had been invoked TO seize the dagger of abo-
iitlonism, to complete The work Of death and
desoia ton IN the South, begun by more tim
Id man, ''too full of the milk of human kind
ness 10 carry out his murderous intent.
In yielding TO this misguided spirit, woman
''anseyed" herself
"Stopt up the access and passage to remorse
That no compnnctious visitIngs of Nature
Shake her fell purpose.''
Was it religious duty, sir, to violate the
relle ious duty to commit breach of faith
toward our sister States? Was it religious
duty to lnsiigaie the slaves of the South to
rise up to slaughter their owners; to perpe-
trate murder in itsl worst aspect-the mid
night murder, which spares neither age nor
sex, OF which female honor and HELPLESS in
fancy are equally the victims? Sir. this is
the same religious spirit which bound the
human body, the shrieking mather aud The
innocent child, to the stake of persecution.
and consumed them to death amid fire and
lime, Tor = mere difference of opinion on
sectarian points. 1t was the Christian spir-
It that prompted civilized Europe to com
mence the slave trade, for the purpese of
converting the pagan African TO the know.
ledge OF the true and living Ged. 1t was.
this religious spirit that, in the earlier ages.
mpelicd half civilized Europe, in mass as
1t were, led on by fanatcisn and frenzy. III
engage in crnsades to the HOLY Land. in or
der TO recnnqner from heather idolators the
city OF Jerusalem, at the expense Of the sui.
ierings and blood of countless myriads of hu-
man beings. Il was, sir, PROCLAMATION Of
the name, an insult to the character of tho
Savior OF mankind, to call this n s.el;e:e..-
spirit II wus me spirit OF Abo!itionlsm. |.
was demoniac spirit, which ins;igates the
destruction .. the enlightened half of one
great section Of the Union, in the frail hone
OF rendering the other ignorant and denra-
ded African half fit subjects for the eniov-
ment OF liberty; in the more wicked hone Of
rendering them fit associates, companions.
husbands, AMI wives, Of our Northern and