The North-Carolina standard., 1848-07-12
0 Mr.. NENABLEs spEEcHg !

we are pleased to have it in our power to Law be-
lore our readers to-day, the eloquent and able Speech
OF Mr. Nenable, of this State delivered in the onse
Oh Representatives on the question of aslayery in
the Territories" The Washington Union, in pub
lshlng this Speech, pays the following just and well
deserved compliment to Mr.. Venable: er Is
T" We publish to-day an able speech of Mr.. Vena-
bic, of North Carolina, recently delivered in the
House OF Representatives. Though our columns are
SO nuch crowded as to prevent from publishing
the speeches of our friends freely as we could
wIsh yet we feel that this publication particularly
due to Mr. Venable, from the fact that in our con-
gresslonal summary of the day when the speech was
delivered inadvertently misstated in some measure
the character of Mr.. V.'s remarks. We commend
the speech as now given to the attention of our read
ers' 1t ls worthy OF the man who has devoted his
whole political life to the principles of the republican
Party-who has supported them with superior energy
and aDlllty-and is worthy of the confidence of his
enlightened constituents
1t will be perceived, from Mr.. Venable's remarks
that Senator Badger of this State has Welded in the
Senate of the United States the Constitutional
e to Congress to enact the Wilmot Proviso! Mr..
Venable says: ,. -...
4" but, sir, We meet with embarrassments on this
suolect "nicn are exceedingly annoying. We find
Southern statesmen surrendering this great consti-
tuuonal question, In the admission of the riGht of
Congress to egslae authoritatively and without limit
upon the admission of slavery into the Territories
ourselves LnOSe VINO give up the last
hopes of the South and surrender the citadel to the
beslegsrs. Precedent is invoked to establish the
right to disinherit The evil not only of being
dlslnherted but the penalty of crme the forfeiture
OF felony Is fixed upon u.s. and we are required, as
suPPllants, to ask that as mercy which we should
claim as right. A distinguished Senator of my
own State, MIR. Badger,l a gentleman of high at
talnmens and extended reputation in recent speech
on the Oregon bill, admitted the right of Congress
to eglsate for the exclusion of slavery in the Terri
tories, but placed the South upon the principle of
expedency and the sense of justice of the Federal
Legislature. Gracious Heaven are we reduced to
this Is our only, our last hope, the verdict of a
jury whose interest whose feelings, and whose Or
ganlzation fix that verdict against US ~
| Will the people of North Carolina endorse Mr..
Badgers conduct in this respect! Mr.. Mangum,
we are glad to see, stands up like true Southern
man, and denies the power of Congress to enact this
Proviso but his colleague, Mr.. Badger, YIELDS THE
POWER. Which is right! Will the Register say
Mr.. Badgers term will expire the 4th of March,
l849, and he will probably be candidate for re-elec-
ton. We respectfully ask our Democratic friends,
who candidates for the Legislature in the various
Counties, to call upon their Whig competitors to
know whether they, if elected, will vote to re-elect
Mr.. Badger to the Senate. Put the question, and
make them The first step is, to yield the
power to Congress in regard to this Proviso and the
next is to to question the erpediency Of its
cisc. People of North Carolina-Whigs of North
Carolina, those of you who have been transferred to
the support of that Wilmot Provisost and Abolition
| ist, Fillmore-BEwARE! -....