The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-08-26

various expedents, of considerable literary attain
| ments. not unacquan'ed with the workings of the
government, or the movements of political parties =
So far he is the exponent Of party said Mr. But
| Ter, he is the exponent Of the party with which
He held that the State bound to cast her vote
for one or other Of the candidates For thirty years
the State had cast her vote against democratic
principles, and had never voted for whig but when
she bad made her decision he would bow with the
implicit Difference. He would cay for himself that he
would not change his party relations and sympahes:
but he would cheerfuly acquiesce in the decision of
the State. But there should be no excitement ex-
aoerbaton There never was an occasion in which ex
citement upon such subject to be deprecs-
ted He alluded TO the manner in which candidates
selected by proceedings in caucus where trckery
and ma agemt mt not merit secured the nomination.
II the selection of candidate had been left to the peo-
pie, the choice would not have fallen on General Tay-
cessty or prolrety in getting up any excitement and
if heated political to ensue, for himself
| he would take no part in such scramble
MIR Burr expressed his thanks for the kindness of
his reception He alluded to the recent action Of Con-
eress and said If they had their honor they
had lost portion of their rights. Within another
twelve mont his their rights their equality members
of the confederacy, would be lost unless they
the rescue-unless the South by united nd energetic
action dc mands that equality which guaranteed to
them in the constitution, would BIZ degradingly
expelled from New Mexico and California, and con-
fined to prescribed limits that institutions might
perish, and we perish with them The conduct of the
Northern Senators and Represe ntatives had been
honorable exceptions Douglas, Bright flanagan,
Sturgeon, Cameron and Dicknson-who struggled
against the current for while but were eventual
| ings of the Senate the Oregon bill, where the
determination of the North to assert their supremacy
and to degrade the SOUTH strongly manifested.
So impatient were they for their victim that they
would not respect the Sabbath and upon Gods
holy day while the bells the churches were summon
ing the citizens of Washington to worship the decree
| Of os'racism and prescription was registered. The
North not prompted in this crusade by fanaticsm,
supposed by many. twas struggle for politi
| cal power and superiority Slavery was termed
Southern institution; but if there any institution
|
it the institution of slavery At the aking out
Of the Revolution it existed in ell the colonies and at
the adoption of theiConstituton fin all the States with
the excoptionof Massachusetts, They had seen at to
abolish II in the States where slaveabor unpro6ta-
bic, and have since INDUCED in series of unwarrana-
bic 8ggressons upon Southern States that but the
bonds Of this Union, would not have been endured
for moment 1t is supposed upon q moderate cacu-
lstion, that there at this time in the Northern
States and in Canada upwards of thirty thousand
away slaves, and this was property which, by justice
and comfy the NoItber States bound to assist
in retaining. The remedy for these abuses not
to be tound in the ascendancy of parties but it de-
pended on their OWL stout hearts and stroDg arms.
MIR. CALHOUN said that his colleagues had so fully
detailed the proceedings in Congress- upon the
tions involving the rights Of the South that he would
confne himself to what he conceived to be the
immediate object Of the meetng-the question of the
| Presidency. His attention had been early and
esly directed to this matter and the conclusion he
had arrived at was that the proper policy of the
from the contests and in this senti-
ment he had the of all his colleagues Of the
South Carolina delegation in Congress with perhaps
but exception. There several reason for this
determin ation-amopg them may DO mentioned that
neither of the candidates up to requirements
and heated political contest each party abusing the
candidates Of their opponents and prasng their
exempars of perccsion the State would be degrad
| ed to tie level which they occupied. He had
doubted but that when the time the State would
cast her vote but let cast it without heat, without
excitement and in the direction which the safety and
dignity Of the State requires that it should be cast
As to the respective candidates, many gave the pre-
ference TO Gen Taylor because he was planter and
Southern man others again preferred Gen. Cass be-
cause he member of the party with which they
| usually act These preferences natural and al
lowable If the division to which they led were con-
Quoted without asperty or bitterness but they would
be most if their effect divide us
this crisis when harmony and union among ourselves
were ore tbanever desirable. Since addressed you
last in this place a gr at change has taken place
in the position of parties at the North The abolition
| party which then q mere handful, has now
grown to be mighty party; a party above and be-
the candidates of the old parties and nominated the
Of their free soil principles, Mr. Van
States Such man would have consented to
be placed in that position unless he convinced
there was a firm foundation for the movement, and
that the North had determined to rally on this
great question Of sectional supremacy He referred to
| the action Of the Senate on the Oregon bill; and
| lamen table the defeat of the South on that
question it was still lamentable that it was &C
compished by the votes Of two Southern Senators
He would name them They should be known ana de-
served to be held in Reproduction oy every Southern
man. They were Col Benton, Of Missouri, and Gen.
Houston, of Texas Had they stood true to the South
#, ueIeat6u
eeptions, the Southern men had stood side by side
and shoulder to shoulder. And in this most crafty
ing contrast presented, with the condition Of
things existing at the commencement of the session.
At that time not corporals guard could be got
together to act barmoniousy. He had never wit
nessed SO much distraction. But at the close of
arduous session, and after of the abest debates
which he had witnessed, and in which the
South was completely victorious the entire South
to shoulder manfuly battling for their rights The
action Of the North in inserting the Wilmot provso
into the Oregon BILL was mere wanton assertion
climate and soil of Oregon untitled 1t for slave
population; but the North determined upon the asser
ton Of the right to exclude slavery from the Terri
tories of the Union, without conditions or restric
tons 1t the first time 1t applied, and the
in sSss be
annexed to our Union In the old Confederation the
ordinance for the government Of the Northwestern
Territory proposed for three years and was only
adopted then when the restitution of fugitive slaves
| to their owners coupled with it condition.
who urged it Congress- and sacrificed every north
| ern man who voted against it, But great change
they have grown in power they have increased in
their exactons, and at last have boldly avowed their
determination to arrest the further progress of the
slave States by excluding them Internationally
hereafter from all the Territories of the Union.
| With such struggle at hand, how important is it
that the South should be prepared to meet It with
united front Diversties Of opinion entertained
upon the subject Of the Presidency. Gen. Taylor is
preferred by some Gen. Cas- by others. All are
equally sincere and all, in his opinion, were equally
republicans. He did not ask that they should throw
away their vote or arrest the canvass. Things had
gone too far for that But he impored them, Care
lnians to conduct the with moderation, and
with kindly feelings toward each other Do not permit
the discussion to divide estrapge you from each
other that you cannot be reconciled imme diately
after its termination. The time is coming when
your united energies will be demanded for the
struggle. At the next session of Congress the
test will be renewed for California New Mexico,
and the territory between the Nueces and the Rio
Grande-for the North claims all that. If worsted in
| probability
| we have nothing to hope expect from the Federal
| government He had watched this question of
abolition for years and from the beginning had pre-
| dicted the result. There In the body poll
tic, as In the human system, diseases which, II
not promptly arrested become incurabe and eventu-
ally fatal and II his opinion from the first that
abolition, II strong and decided measures were not