Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1848-08-31

49, SS't'SS '% NAV So'shSi SioNild, lit
quoted the extract commencing "we have neither
the right or power to touch it Slavery where it ex.
lists, Mean assertion which had nothing to do
with the question, and which the rankest aboIitlonis
would not deny, After commenting some time on
this phrase, he proceeded TO the consideration oil
that wherein Gen. Cuss leaves this question to the
decision of the people of the territories under the
general principles of the constitution and argned
in effect, for he could argue nothing else, that under
those principles, the people Of the territories would
have no right to decide. After reading and com~
mentlng on all that portion of the letter, which ar
CUES that under the constitutional grant Congress
has no power over the tioes and persons of the peo-
pie of THE territories, which by the by only showed
more strongly that Congress left this question to be
decided by those people; and after skipping all the
balance of the letter, and advocating in a very SEM
sible butrather anti Cassish manner, the we'll known
pamphlet one portion Of a speech of Gen. Cass,
AMI from the Globe, another portion of the same
speech delivered in March, 1847, in the Senate, OPP
posing Mr.. Uphams amendment. on grounds of en-
pcdiencg alone; and ifone will.further take the trouble
of procuring the Union of March Cd, AZ he will see
that Cass, when charged with abandoning Tue Pro-
vso, endeaUoredt to rJutc 1t. Mr.. T. then passed to
Gen. Taylor's position. emitting all notice of Mr..
Jones argument OH the Baltimore Resolutions and
Mr.. Yancey's. Among other things he compared
Gen. Taylor to a man who would deliberately stab
one in the street and say he did mt intend it," and
said that if he had a boy twelve years old, who
would write such a letter as the Signal letter, he
would chastise him.
MIR. Jones then rose to reply, ahcn Mr., Talbot
picked up his hat and left tile room. tauo,oed by e1ery
except toRr or flee. Mr.. T. afterwards ex-
cased himself, by saying, that being in feeble health,
(he certainly didn't look to beg he had gone out to
breath the fresh air. Whether he found it in the bot
and dusty s~treet-whether he might not better have
in the cool gallery adjoining-and whether
the balance of the party were influenced by the same
notive-are questions best left to themselves.
Mr.. Jones remarked that his opponents had a,
east left him ia possession of the battlefield, and
asked his friends if. they thought any reply neces-
'ary. Mr.. Stewart rose and stated they did not.
Thus ended the morning discussion, and we were
soon afterwards RECALLED by a sumptuous dinner at
The Buena Vista.
In the evening. about4 o'clock, a discussion took
place between MIR. Jones and MIR. BaIch, on the
position of Fillmore. 1t was agreed that they should
speak three quarters of an hour each; that Mr.. B.
open in fifteen minutes offering all his proof
IF Mr.. Filmore's abolitionism. Mr.. Jones should
,eply, and MIR. Balch should close.
Mr.. Balch occupied his whole time in saying that
ical speeches, and in commenting on the Ather-
on resolutions alone. Mr.. Jones rose to reply, and
he Democrats made a spontaneous rush at the door
o breathe the fresh air. Mr.. Jones, nevertheless,
proceeded, though the four or five Democrats left
we're rather unpromising subjects for conviction.
he produced the Democratic pamphlet, so foulIy
that even Mr.. Balch was compelled to dis
lain knowing anything about it. He demanded
0 know where was the first resolution, and mhere
cas- the uote on the fourh-the only two which did
lot directly attack the right of petition-a right
the Democrats themselves had established by
e~pealing the 2lst rule, in 1874, when they had a
majority of two-thirds in the House. He took up
he case of the Creole, and showed that the records
lad been even more UNANIMOUSLY distorted. He prov
d by the exhibition of the uhole record, that Fill
more had acted with a majority Of the House, and
he ,oholc Louisiana delegation, in treating Giddings
the most whitening scorn. He then passed to
he resolutions of the New York Convention, at
Mr.. Fillmore did not assist, and whose cair>
idate he had been fer an office having no more
with political subjects than that of She
and compared them with the abolition resoIu-
Gus of the Legislature of Michigan, nominating
Cass President, which resolutions he prov
d that Gen. C. had assisted to compose, by correc-
ons and interliaeations in his o,on hand, and which
e had himself presented to the Senate, avithom dis
from their doctrines. He read extracts from
he speeches of Northern abolitionists, denounclng
fillmore as opposed to the North; aud concluded
y appealing to all Southern men to desert a party
lat would use such detestable means to effect a
iumph.
| sat down, Mr.. Editor, to state facts and not to
deductions. For the argument of the speak
rs, | am indebted to a tolerabIe memory ;-as to
e fact that the democrats most unaccountably
fl, almost to a man, at each inc that Mr.. Jones