The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-04-25

ysoy ,;,on IN their favor This proper occasion,
and hone there will be full expression OF opinion upon
il hope my friend ron Eor'q !" NJ
his notion and no! press H. Let US meet ms ques'oi
a' Mr. DOUGLAS. have listened to this debate with
good deal of interest But while nave seen ,sn
bls excitement exhibited on the part OF lew gentlemen
around me- confess that have not been asie 10 w1rh
myself into anything like passion think tlat, pfooa
BIZ the senator IRON New Hampshire has done muIn 70
ACCOMPLISH his object His bill is very harmless thiig
in itself; but being brought forward at this me ana UNI
der he present circumstances it has created COCA uea
Of excitement among gentlemen on TINS SIDE Oh TIC ''a
Mr. CALHOUN, lin his seat) Not the bill--the &C.
Mr. DOUGLAS On the occurrence desire to say a
word In the first place, must congrau,a ts no.
from New Hampshire on the great triumph when he mas
achieved He stands very prominently beloxe me
American people, aud is, believe, the only man VINO
has national nomination Tor the presidency
firmly believe that, on this floor, to-day, by the AID
oi he senator from South Carolina, and the sena
tots from Mississippi he has more than doubled ms
vote at the presidential election, and every man IN nus
chamber from free State knOwsH! looked on win
mayement for time to see whether there could be an
UNDERSTANDING between the senator from New Hampshire
and his southern friends, calculated TO give him encour
agement strength and power in the contest bul know
,6a those distinguished senators from the SOUTH to whom
have referred are incapable OF such undertakings yet
tell them that if they had gone into caucus with the
senator from New Hampshire, and. after nights study
and deliberations had devised the best means to manutac-
TIRE aboonsm and abolition votes in the north, they
,uoud have fallen upon precisely the same kind Of proce
dre which they have adopted to-day few such exciting
scenes sutced 10 send that senator here mean no dis
Tssnect to HIM personally but say. with his sentiments,
Nth his principles he could never have represented
free State Of this Union this floor, but for the aid Of
southern speeches is the speeches OF southern men,
enrpsentng slave States, going to demonstrating
tanalicism as wild and reckless a. that OF the sena
for from New Hampshire, which creates abouonlsm In
the North The extremes meet 1t is no other than
southern senators acting IN concert and yet without de-
tb,tn rodu ahO
Mr. CALHOUN. Does the gentleman pretend to say.
,ha, myself, and southern gentlemen who act with me
upon this OCCASION are fanatics! Have we done any
thing more than defend our rights, encroached upon at
the north Am | to understand the senator that we
make abolition votes by defending our rights! II so
thank him for the information, and do not care how many
such votes make.
Mr. DOUGLAS Well, will say to the senator from
South Carolina and every other senator fIom the SOUTH
that far be it from me entertain the thought that they
design to create aboionsts IN the north or elsewhere
Far be it from me to mpute any such design Yet as
se that such is the only inevitable effect OF their conduct
Mr. CALHOUN, Tin his seat) We are only defending
ourselves.
Mr. DOUGLAS. No, they are not defending them
selves! They suffer themselves to become excited upon
this quesiion-to discuss it with degree of heat, and
give an importance, which makes it heard and ieit
throughout the Union 1t is thus that abolition derives
its vitality Ny friend from Mississippi IMr FoorEl
in his zeal and excitement this morning. made remark
the Invitation which he extended TO the senator IRON
New Hampshire to visit Mississippi, which is worth ten
that senator would not allow my friend to reac that re-
mark for ten thousand votes
Mr.. FOOrE. Will you allow me
Mr. DOUGLAS. Certainly
Mr. FOOTE. II the effect OF that remark will be to
give that senator all the abolition votes he is fairly
titled them Had the senator from Illinois lived where
have resided he seen instruction exhibiting It's
fiery front in the midst OF the women. and children
Of the communicated he had to believe that the
machinery OF instruction at such time in readiness
for purposes of the deadly character involving life,
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witnessed such scenes and believed that movements like
that Of this morning calculated to engender feelings
out Of which were to arise fire, blooa and desoation,
the destruction finally of the South, he would regard
himself traitor 10 the best sentiments OF the human
heart he did not speak out the language of manly de-
nunciaion. can use no other language. cannot but
repeat my conviction that any man who daTes to utter
SHIRE and attempts to act them out anywhere in the
ny south, will meet death upon the scafold, and de-
serves it! H.s
From New Hampshire the accession of five thou
sand votes Sir, do not blame the senator from Mis-
sssppl for being indignant at any man from any portion
Of TINS Union who would produce an acendlay excite
would incte negro instruction, hazardlng the life OF
any in the southern States. The senator has, an
aware reason to feel deeply this subject But am
not altogether unacquainted with the peculiar circum
stances Of the sections of the country to which he has
alluded have lived good portion Of my life upon the
immediate borders of slave State. have seen the
speaks upon both sides of the line can well appre-
cate the excited feeling with which gentlemen in the
south must regard any agating movement to get up
instructions amongst their negro servants.
Mr.. DAVIS, of Mississippi. do not wish to be con-
dered as participating in the feeling to which the sena-
tor aludes have no fear OF instruction than
have OF my cattle. do not dread such incendiaries.
Var slaves are happy and conented They sustain the
happe relation that labor can sustain to capital It is
paerna institution. They are rendered miserable only
by the unwarranable interference Of those who know
nothing about that with which they medde rest this
ease IN no fear OF surreclion and wish il to be dis
hncty understood that able take care Of
selves and 10 punish all ncendares 1t was the insult
offered TO the Institutions which have inherited that
provoked my Indignation.
Mr. FOolE. Will the honorable senator allow me to
make remark! ,~t
Mr.. DOUGLAS. With great pleasure
MIR. FOOTE. If it be understood that expressed any
lear OF an nsuTecion which might grow out of this
movement, 1t is mistake said that such an audacous
movement as this could not be tamey submitted to- with.
owl encouraging IFS authors proceed; and in that
think, all who have spoken on this side of the chamber
concur.
MI. DAVIS of Mississippi. did not intend to imply
Una! my colleague had taken any such course thai
:, Mr. DOUGLAS All that intended to say was, thai
e enecl OF this excitemeno all these harsh express
Sons-Wlll be the creation of abotOnists at the north
Mr F0OTE The more the better
MT DOUGLAS. The gentleman may think SO bu
some OF us at the North do not with him in tina
uann'on VI course, the senator from New Hampshire
VIII agree with him. because he fan the fame of
'emeht so as to advance his political prospects. And
can also well understand how some gentlemen at the
Soaln may quite compacenty regard all this excitement
ey can persuade their constituents 10 believe that the
,.stunon OF slavery rests upon their shoulders-tha
hey are the men who meet the Goliah of the North in
M great contest about abolition. Il gives them strength
nome But we, OF the North, who have no sympathy
WIN Tue abotonists, desire no such excitement.
=, M CALHOUN. must really object TO the remark: