Weekly national intelligencer., 1847-01-16


bill attempted to be introduced by the gentleman from New
York. Had he not known that the gentleman had introduced
it he would have supposed that might have been the work
of desperate political gamester the web whose power
crumbing under his feet in whose the triumphant
shouts Of his victorious foes yet ringing whose friends
eacheousy undermining him and who, being deter
mined to make last desperate struggle for lost power
endeavoring recruit his broken columns from the ranks
of desperate hnatca faction whom, in the day of his power
prosperity he had sconed and despsed in short
who had determined to fire the temple of liberty if he not
allowed to minister at its altar But the gentleman from
New Yok faered the bill, he supposed he must dismiss
from his mind these suppositions. At all events the
question had come and Mr. T. not certain that it had
noppouney, if must ALL though he believed
that the Executive and his organs and his echoes here
might think very bad time If the question to breed
mischief the peace and safety Of the country better
to understand it now, while was capable of control But
this element Of dscod and discomfort was TO take different
direction II only remained that those against whom
be directed should look first to the preservation Of the Union,
and next to their rights
Mr. II. was actuated in this matter by no ntempcrate
zeal He should indulge in denunciaons against gentle
men who situated amidst circumstances wholly different
from his own, and who cung to what they believed, however
eoneousy to be the interest of those territories to which the
bill related He pretended to such sort of philanthropy
He did not much believe in this usve patriotism He be-
ieyed that the whose love for his did not begin
bis hearth sone and then spread into his neghbor
hood his State his section Of the Union, did not
love any of them half we'll himself Mr. r. stood up first
for the rights of all who inhabited his section of this
broad Union. He went for the Union it If gentle
men tired Of unless they could carry which
was inconsistent with the equal rights Of ALL let them
The gentleman from Indiana, (Mr q. b. SMITH, who
addressed the committee days snce and to whom he
had listened with unmnglsd pleasure and satisfaction had
IN Mr. III Judgment taken the ground OF justice and Of right
But to the gentlemen who had exhibited such newborn zeal
for the acquisition Of free territory, Che called it newborn,
for he well remembered the time when their natural allies
IN New FORK were pointed the ark of safety for Southern
institutions, he might well say E tn Brute" An attack
from that quarter was he confessed most unexpected The
bado relic York olaias
on Northern with Southern principles; but he per-
ceyed that their zeal in behalf of Southern interests they
had been acuaed only by desire for power and spos
Then they could make what found have been but
bare and concessions those who stood firm
the basis of the constitution.
But Mr.. T. would tell gentlemen, under excitement,
but as his candid onion if the policy of that faction to
be adopted by the Househe meant threat, for he
scorned to threatenhe spoke the calm and settled
vcton Of his mind-ha the whom he represented
here would take measures to provide new safeguards for
their future security"
The gentleman from New York Nfr. GnovER) asked how
the South could complain of the proposed poyso
pany the admission of territory, when the arrangement
was perfectly fair and put the No tn and the South
footing perfect equality The North would go there with
out slaves and could the South. Well Mr.. T. would
try the principle the other way Suppose the territory be
open to all then the South could go there and carry slaves
with them, and could the North Would this be Just
as equal Much laughter.l Mr. T. said he would not
for the strength Of the argument but good
as what he what he got. [Renewed laughter
The South would remain in the Union ground Of per-
feet equality with the the Union or they would not
stay in all They asked for honest and honorable unon
they did not ask would they put up with less To
ask them TO be content with position of nerorty would
degrade those who made such proposition as much il
would those who could accept of it. The South asked only
for even handed Justice.
Mr.. L. had listened atenVely to the gentlemen from Vir-
gnia and from Alabama, and he endorsed it all They had
faithfully represented the opinions and feelings of all who
lived at the South with fewer exceptions than there had been
Tories in the days of the Revolution. Then let put
check upon this lust of dominion We had territory enough
Heaven knew. Why should we seek to bring in by
force OF arms Let improve what had let
it with Industrious enerpsng population, who should
spread over its mountains and its valleys till the wilderness
was subdued and covered with waving harvess Then might
safely defy the world in arms, and then should the
time exert moral force which would spread its control
over surrounding nations But he against this frateni
zing policy It much like that pursued by the French
In the days of the Directory, whose armies into all the
weaker countries of Europe with the proposal
Let us be brethren--or we'll your throats."
If that the policy be pursued here Mr. T. warned
gentlemen that he should resist to the uttermos He would
call upon all the people to resist it. Such policy destroyed
the Republic of Rome and might follow in the path
Let us then, provide beforehand against such fate.
The Missouri question: which to the great joy and salts
faction Of the whole country had slept for quarter of
tuy, had been raised again by the bill Of the gentleman from
New York. A gentleman from Ohio (Mr. VISToS) had
said that the Missouri compromise applied only the terri
tory we had obtained from France This Nigh be But
the universal belief of the South that that compro
mise she had sacrificed her rights the sake OF the
and harmony of the Union for that territory had been open
to alas open to the OF the South of the North.
The North yielded nothing the South which yielded
that equal right which her citizens possessed under the cons
tuition OF going wherever the laws of this Union wen-wher
ever the American flag waved American soil go
with their focks and their herds their maid and their
men servants
The territory got from France up high 400 north
but much Of the country which their equal right extend
cd was unsuted to slave population and they had been
willing 10 make the for the sake Of peace and of
union They yielded to the memories and associations Of
the past, and TO brighter hopes Of glorious future
craven fear That compromise grew out of desire for
Northern aid They had fears the Of their own
institutions They claimed right to slavery not under the
constitution their right long ant to the constitution
they held IT under their sovereign right Let gentlemen
who sought to destroy il the constitution atoms, and
how much would they be their object Destroy
the constitution still the South held her slavery by her own
municipal right Their institutions in the slightest
dangernone in the world. The only benefit the South had
got from the constitution he right TO have ugves from la
bor up) had been lost and ered away by
able stand up against the pressure from without
and who shrank from and evaded their duty satisfy fac
ton In Of the largest States that right had been
fused and fered away against the express provision Of the
constitution.
But gentlemen conended that the compromise had done its
work, and was now fancfus oFc If so, then the
South were entitled equally with the North share in
those far lands OF which the gentleman from New York
had spoken with much JUNCTION and so gentlemen would
lind they should attempt to carry out what they now pro-
posed They would find the who had that terrific
y by their arms little harder drive than the Mexcans
this Government retained IT, Much Of the blood by which
these territories had been had flowed in Southern veins
The volunteers OF the South had first been called out and
had first marched not because they Drawer more