Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1848-01-01

as the Government could possibly commit. Such is subsa-
tally this proposed exclusion Of slavery from all territories here
after 10 be acquired Will the slave States acquesce in this
Of things would they suppose that Government
which capable Of this would stop short of ncng
any other wrong Would they acquesce in this radical
change Of the constitutions change the leading object and
effect OF which would be to degrade them from their present
position Of equality
Rufus King Of Massachusetts, said the debates Of the
Convention, when the subject of slave representation
under consideration auson the position Of the Southern
States If they threaten TO separate now, in injury
shall be done them, will their threats be less urgent eec
tua when force shall back their demands Even in the
intervening PERIOD there will be point Of time at which
they will not be able to say, Do justice will sepa-
rate" What will they do in this emergency II is most
unreasonable time for you TO expect TO acquesce in such
decree Of political and social degradation, now, when
Of the best blood of the South has been poured like water
that territory will not sir undertake to tell you what
they will do because have not been commissioned by them
to announce their purposes and would not wish to be the
first to anticipate painful intelligence to your You Mr.
Chairman, Judge Of this well asI You remember when
Great Britain claimed theoretically supremacy the colo
Mes what those thirteen slapehong colonies did Do you
suppose that the enjoyment Of liberty for than
has rendered Indifferent to its sweets or if you please
that domination for that period slaves has made
willing to change places with them Though will
tempt tell you what the Southern States will do yet sir
is my privilege, republican and freeman, disclose
frankly my own purpose,
am for maintaining present constitution OF government
as long any amount of human exertion uphold it.
Whatever Of courage and patriotism induces the hardy
Switzerland Cicassa struggle
the sword Of the invader in defence Of the snowy mountains
which shelter hmhatever Ahenian felt due liberty
the plain of Marathon the Spartan king owed his
country when he devoted himself to death Themcpya
this and than all this hold be due from every Amer
lean citizen to the constitution Of this country But when
great organic change made in that constitutional change
which to degrade those who have sent represent them
herehen, sir at whatever Of feeling personal ha
zad will stand by the white race the eemen Of the South
Should be forced away, will control best the
inferior which Providence has placed under charge
We shall deal better by them than Enganddoes with her Irish
East India population We may find it safe to npart
them the highest degree of intellectual culture if they
capabef receiving it, Many the Roman slaves
learned in physc and other Sciences but when propos
ed to distinguish the slaves by peculiar Dress the sagacous
Senate refused, fearing thus teach them their great superior
iy of numbers. Nature has given slaves gab which
distinguishes them from u.s. and places barrier social and
political equality Should they by these other be
driven instructions may be forced to destroy many of
them, Rome did in hersee Ishardy possible that
any contingency would render Unnecessary for the white race
defence, oexteminae Them the New Enganes did
the Pequod and other Indian tribes whom they found in the
way that territory. But, happen what may, shall
be degraded the level of such liberty and equality
prevails in Mexico much less reduced the condition
st. Domingo. The North if she is satisfied with the
present constitutions may go search Of such system
has never yet existed She may with her progressive
deocracy Rome did after the days Of the Gracci she
may till she finds such equality prevailed in France
when Mrabeau orator and Robespere magistrate
Whether she will then find Caesar Napoleon, whether
only can disclose.
would be vain however for us on either side to hope
such prosperity have hitherto enjoyed If the stream
Of national existence should be divided each branch must
roll diminished volume and would be able only bear
lesser burden. Such separation would be the saddest OF all
partngs We should feel that way was lonely, like that
of Hagar the desertdesolae the wanderings of our
first parents when crime had Just begun. Like the exile OF
Bongbroke, should have the revolution Of the
sons the and moon, and azure vault and rongpanes
above heads but not The mind and the same feelings
The constitutional cdfcc reared by ancestors and
which they fondy hoped would andke those marvellous
pyramids the of forty centuries, would, like
the tabled palace Of Aladdin have melted away 10 the m of
the morning. Hwou1 be difficult and most painful TO realize
situation. Our fleets and armies in other lands
would find themselves suddenly divided into aliens possibly
enemies each other When the Scott should chance
TO my path, am because he is resident Of free
State, TO gaze on him only as would Wellington
Sou IF the gallant Worth shoad come in my way shall
not take him by the hand countryRdn? If Taylor
should 60 the North will be be regarded alien And
those that stood under him at BCena Vsaare Lincoln and
Hardin 10 be separated from Clay and Mckee and Yell, by
whose sides they lived and died defence of the honor Of
/ common country
Great however as are the perils which bese US we have
powerful allies TO resist them. After the adjustment Of the
painful difficulty in the days of notification known in
France, Lafayette the friend of America who had looked
with intense anxiety, the first public occasion gave
sentiment the g Good of the American people which
enabled them wisely 10 settle all domestic difficulties. We
have abroad among people, of strong, clear coed
sense, which, times of trial and DANGER has always sus-
tanned and controlled the action OF the Government We
have community of interest," which il would seem that
party madness could break up We have too ecoecons
of the past which, to American feelings stronger
than calculations of interest Our immediate ancestors, in
the establishment of independence and in the creation of
this constitution, performed such deeds the world never
and have fresh n minds the recoectons Of their
common counses, suIengs struggles, and
common tumphs There Adams and jefferson in
sci together there Bunker Hill and Yorktown there
the blood Of Warren, and Montgomery, and Pulaski and De
Kalb the genius Of Franklin and the great Of Wash
ngton the daring of Paul Jones and Decatur the broad
blue water, and the dying words of Lawrence. These cco
l0sons Of the mighty dead stand like giants of the olden
time to defend their constitution. If with all these proud
collections OF the past and such ancpaon for the future
nation had, destroy this bond Of Union, then
shall deserve apoion low tmay otherwise be high
We learn from the Yazoo Wing that fatal accident
red the plantation Of Col j. j. ID. White, in Issaquena
county, (Miss.) the LIST instant. The Wing says
+" The circumstances can learn these
Col White and Mr.. A. Hornsby practising at mark
with revolving pistol and after having, they both thought
discharged their pistols six times COL w. remarked TO Mr.
H. that il he about attack him. he would do thus and
the time levelled his pistol and snapped il when it
went of, the ball entering the abdomen Of Mr. H., which
used his death the same evening"
Difficulties TExAs.-We have learned with regret
says the Houston Telegraph Of the % insan that the Ger
settlers in Fayete county have lately divided into