Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1842-02-22

| ooONNu ttlul uldtlhlud dIc ffoTS ulSpOStu. u
suffer while evils are sufferable, than tc
right themselves by abollshipg the forms
towhichthey are accustomed. But when
a long train' of abuses and usurpations,
pursuing invariably the same Object, evin-
ices a design to reduce them under abso.
Lutte despotislh, 1t is their right, il is
their dpiy,-to throw off such government,
and to provide new guards for their future
security:"
If thefe.w a principle CONTINUED Mr..
Adams sacred on this earth, Established
by tbal which had.just been read, it was
the right Of tie People to alter; ciangesor
destroy their Government whenever it be.
comes oppressive on them. : If they took
away, thet, from every individual of the
People the power ofcoming here and say
ing ''that is our present condition" where
was this. tight Of the People? It was total
iy.destroyed.
When he came to. answer this resolution
if the House should think. proper to act
uponit, he would show that one of the
great grievances of which the People com
planned was precisely the oppression ofthe
right of pstiIiony not only inthis case but
ihTumberiess Others; that they are now,
denledthe right Of petiionng, and their
petitions are turned out of this House, on
The very thing which the gentleman IS so
anxions.to susport and Sustain, and which
he makes a part Of the constitution of
this country, though it is not .such. He
wouldgo through the series of the oppres-
siens upon the rights of the People,. and
most especially the people of THE North,
which had beens carrying onin this House
AID the other for the last seven years.
He had seen, and.he was now seeing
that among those measures SO constantly
and 50 perseyeringly pursued, was the
project of smuggling this country into a
wlr with Great Britain for the purpose of
protecting tbe-sIave trade, African and
American, He had seen that that was
the deliberate purpose. And one Of his
reasons representing this petition. was 10
give the alarm lo.the people of that por-
lion Of the country whence he came. 1t
was time for -them to- take. the alarm, or
they would find themselves sumggled INTO
a. war for The ptotectionof the Slave trade,
and that the most absurd and false .princi-
pies ~of the laws-of nations had been asser:
teddy our Minister 10 England, all for
the purpose Of Smuggling his country in.
! to.a war with that Government under pre-.
tence obedience against her a5gressions.
He would show al this in the utmost de-
tailjf he was called onto defend himself
against this Charge.
II was, to- be sure, a matter Of. some
| importance to. him what the decision of
the House might be-upon THIS subiect al.
this-tlme.' Bur il was of infinitely more
imp ortance tothe portion Of tie country
whence he came 10 know the. conspiracy.
which IS exisiiag, in order TO jorce'the sys.
lem of slavei upon them. This was a
|. state of things which existed. and #. 1t
could not otherwise be femedied, he ssaid
that the course provided inthe Declaration
of Independence. was the course it was
proper thatthe people Of that portion of
the country should-fake, and which they
were bound 10 as a duty.
He said his opinion was that the time
for this measure had'not yet arrived. If
the petition was. received, and the commit.
tee reported why its prayer should not be
grapled, he Presumed the petitoners.them
selves would satisfied with it, and tlrat
the vast portion of the free people of this
Union, who are very near. agreeing with
these petitioners,would be propitiated, and
would sec that there are other remedies
10 bepursued; and among them, first and
foremost, was tie restoration Of The right
cfpetitfor; which had beenssuppressed for
tie last seven years, and which he had
been struggling to-restore for that. length
offime: : -
Mr.. Cooper said, before the gentleman
from Massachusetts concluded, ne wished
to correct a misapprehension under which
be seemed TO labor. From the remarks
of the gentleman, he mr.. c. judged. than
he supposed further time would ba given
him for his defence. If he understood
tie resolution Alright, TIE adoption Of it
was io~be the end ofthe matter; and any
defence. which the gentleman might pro-
pose to make must be previous tn the adop.
lion. 60
The. Speaker stated 10 the gentleman.
from Massachusetts, Mr.. Adams) that
the queston:before the House would be
on the resolution. of the gentleman from
Kentucky (Mr. Marshall.)
'Mr..Protiit hopedthe gentleman would
have an opportunity of being fully head
On this subject.
Mr.. Adams. said if twas the Intention
oftlis House now at once-[c cries Of NOV,
now" Ito proceed 10 the decision Of tins
resolution, he must submit. Was it ev or
known that, 10 man on whom charges
of this kind wee started of a sudden aud
totally unexpected, no time was to be a.
lowed for his defence. 1.-THE ofdinar course
of bus'ress in thishouse the printing ofths
resolution and fixing the time for its con.
Esnleratlon-was to be done away with,
and the Heuseto be taken between. wind
and wafer to decide this resolution, he
must submit. Hewas in power of the
House.
.The Speaker SAID if the gentleman
from Massachusetts Nr- Adams desired
further lime, he himself or a friend for
him, could Of right submit a motion to
postpone the further consideration of the
subject. -,
Mr.. Everett would merely state that
the Tesolutionof the gehtlemanflom Ken
lucky presented probably one of the most
! important questions that had ever been