The daily national Whig. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1847-1849, 1849-06-09

and ceding part OF the valley Of the Mis-
sissippi, was then the most efficient ally Of
the restriction lists at that time, and deprives
him Of the ri ght Of setting up as the cham
pion Of the 81 ave States now. denounced
the sacrifice Of Texas then, believing Mr..
Adams to ha We been the author Of il; de-
nounce It ne w, knowing the senator from
South Carroll ma to be its author and for this
--his hagrar Il recreancy 10 the slave interest
in their hour. Of utmost peril hold him
disqu Allied for the office Of champion Of the
fourteen sla' ,e States, (ior Delaware cannot
be counted, } and shall certainly require him
to keep out Of Missouri, and to con6ne him
self to his wn bailiwck, when he comes TO
discuss his string Of resolutions. -
In these terms, reproached him to his
face for his recreancy to the slave States,
when he W as catering for free soilvote He
was forced to answer, and to admit the vote
IN Mr.. Nj, mioe's cabinet, in favor of giving
away Tes as, and in conformity to which
vote the Il eaty was made but with respect
TO the MI sour compromise and the aboll-
lion questI on, he gave an answer which APP
peared to be plausible then, but which has
turned out to be one Of the most unfortunate
OF his life. He said, in his reply to me:
shave now met, and, | trust, successfully
repelled, d the charges made by the sena-
tor from n issourb except those relating to
the Misso nri compromise, and the abolition
question that period, for which | am in no
way respo Dsible. was not then in Con-
gress. filled the office Of Secretary Of
War at th time, and had no agency or con-
troll over t.o
That as the answer--the whole that he
chose to 2 i've. did not then know of the
proofs OF he cabinet consultation, and Of his
opinion at the council table in answer to Mr.
Monroe's two questions, The proofs had
not then come to light, and he was safe for
the time, in disc!aiming all responsibility for
the Miss 'nri compromise, andthe consequent
abolition Of slavery by law Of Congress,
in npwar d of one-haf Of all Louisiana; he
was safe IN taking refuge under the decara-
ton that he was Secretary of War, and not
memb er Of Congress, and consequently
had no gency in this act, or any control over
lit. This was plausible answer at the time;
and he $ TODD acquitted for the moment The
discover OF the proof the next year, (lS4s,)
reverses the acquitta establishes his agen-
cy in tn e Missouri compromise act, his con-
troll owe it, and his responsibility for --true, 4
he was not member OF Congress in 1920,
to give vote amounting to but little among
two or three hundred others, for or against
the Mi ssourl compromise, but he was cabi-
net minister to give heavy vote, one in five,
for or against its approval. He was not
"a part Of the Legislative power, but he was
Of the veto power; and he gave his vote for
the approval, and against the veto. This
shows that he had agency in the question,
and control over it, and is responsible for it.
Considering his position as a southern man,
and his weight in Mr.. Monroe adnfinistra-
ton, and he is the responsible man for that
act, The majority Of the cabinet were
southern, and if he had made the stand then
which he does now, he must have vetoed the
act--on the contrary he went for it, and
passed it--passed the act Of Congress iegis-
lating upon slavery in territories, and abol-
lshlng it over million of square miles-and q
now treats such law as violation of the
constitution, and an insult to the slave States,
for which notification, disunion, and civil
war are the proper remedies
lam mortified TO dwell upon Mr.. Cal
hodn. II is neither my habit, nor my plea
sure to speak Of men. In near thirty years
that have been in Congress ! have never
brought the name Of any man before the
public. ] am now forced to do it. Mr.,
Calheun's resolutions are those of the Mis-
souri, Legislature. They are identical One
is copied from the other. When the origi-
glnal IS nvalidated, the copy is Of no avail
am answering his resolutions, and chose to
do It, II is Just and proper that should do
50. He IS the prime mover and head con-
trver. have had no chance to answer
him in the Senate, and It will not do to al
low him to take snap judgment upon me
IN Missouri, and carry disunion resolutions
in my own State which he has been forced
to abandon in the Senate. Duty to the
country requires me to answer him, and
personal reasons reinforce that public duty
He has been nstgating attacks upon me for
twenty years--ever since | stood by jack
son and the Union in the first war Of nullif-
cation. His Duff Green Telegraph com
menced upon me at the same time it did
upon Jackson, and for the same cause-be-
cause we stood by the Union! Last sum
mer, in his own State of South Carolina,
where ] never was, he dragged my name
and that OF General Houston before his con-
stituents, and denounced us in a public
speech, and held US up to public reproba-
ton. He accused US of detection 10 the
south--the Interpretation being that we
would not Join him in his scheme Of south
ern convention, to array one-half of the
Union against the other, and form a south
ern confederacy. II was an audacious at
tack upon two absent gentlemen, and who,
as senator's, were entitled to senatorial cour-
Iesy from him. Neither General Houston
nor myself thought it right to suffer such an
attack to pass with IMMUNITY, but we did
not think the floor of the Senate the proper
,lace for replying to an attack made out Of
lnnrs The forum Of 1nr raanaciipa Cfata.