Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-07-05
Mr.. Wise. hise plo. sprung upon n. Sou,b %

MT WISE. Is u ptot sprung upon the SOuft."
III VIII thus be seen," continues the Wing.
"that the Southern Democracy, by combination
with their Northern allies, not only admitted the
right OF Congress to discuss this matter, which had
always been denied before, but put the gae upon
all who felt any disposition to rebel against the
mandate. We'll did MIR. Wise describe these re.
solutions as "a plot sprung upon the Sou,h' We
hope the Enquirer will forget that this gentle
man Is no,o Democratic Eicctor. On the occa-
sion now before US, he asked to be excused from
Young, because 1t was matter which did not
belong 10 congress. or to any other body, but to
the States In their sovereign capacity"
call attention to that portion of the third reso-
luton, which is as follows that the agitation of
The subject of slavery in the District of Columbia
as means and ,cih The cie,c Of disturbing and
orcrfhrotoing that institution in The sercraI States,
IS against the true spirit aud meaning of the consti-
ta'on, NC. No Interpretation can be- given to that
clause other than that Congress has the power to
abolish slavery in the District of Columbia lift is
not done 'as means and with the view of disturb
Ing that institution in the States"
'Nhen the last resolution came I'D a quote A.
gain from the able article in the Whig) MIR. Wise.
inns sell same Democratic Elector, wished to know
IL IL was IN order TO move to strike out the words
''~'th The rie,cs aforesaid; O request the reader
10 GO back and read that resolution in this connec
lion } and when the Chair said it was not he re-
marked ',ceU these are the ,cords that sold the
South" and MIR. Dawson, of Georgia, voted for
Inc resolution, explaining that he must not be under
stood as voting for the words objected TO by Mr.
wise, for, said he, Congress has no power for
'hese views or Tor any views, TO interfere with the
! question:"
when the third resolution came up, Mr.. Wad-
| dy Thompson begged leave to be excused from vo-
'lng, because no vote by him would express his
real opinion; because while he positively asserted
what ne believed 10 be true, that Congress had no
right to abolish slavery in the District of Column
ba, Nth uie0 TO abolish il in the States. it implied
by the strongest negative pregnant, that Congress
has power to abolish slavery in the District of Co
lumba Fit is not done ,cith pie,c TO abolish II in
the Stdtes-a proposition in which he denied Con
gresS has no power, he maintained, to touch the
subject even in the District"
On, but MIR. Fillmore voted against the first re-
solution, and certainly that contains sound Southern
doctrine, say tho Democracy. These resolutions
were introduced a body-as a whole that re-
solution, grant, if the others are suppressed en-
presses the sentiments, IN part, of the South. 1t
declares that Congress has no jurisdiction whatever
over The institution of slavery in the several States
1t does not go far enough lit does not declare that
Congress has no jurisdiction over thai subject in the
District of Columbia That resolution when link
ed with the succeeding resolutions is exceedingly
odious TO every man who resides South of Mason S
and DiXon's Line.
An extract from the Petersburg Intelligencer and
! have done
The ATHERToN RESOLUTIONS AND Caucus.
swell do we remember the excitement that this
Caucus occasioned among the Wings of the South.
At meeting In this town, assembled for the pur-
pose of nominating Gen. James w. Pegram for
Congress, gentleman, then Wing, hut now a
prominent and deservedy influential member of the
other party, introduced resolution which was unap.
lmously adopted, denouncing this Caucus in the fol-
lowing emphatic language:
"Resoved, That this meeting highly disapprove
OF the conduct of those members of Congress who
wen. into Caucus on the subject of Aboiion-a
subject of vital and common interest to the South
from which Southern Wing members of Congress
were from party feeling alone, excluded"
"We mention this merely for the purpose of
showing the feeling which then existed in this
community on that once famous subject, and not
for the purpose of ripping up old scores''
Should MIR. L.. OF any one Of the same party at
tempt in future to gull the people of Augusta as he
did IN his speech of the Goth Of June, on this sub
ject, may ne heard from again
ROUGH s. READY.