Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1849-10-04

hOselwhO aided you them. You
people for what they have dOnei and without mixing
selfish calculation with honorable feeling you cannot
northern votes Behold the gigantic enterprise Of the age.
that highway e ons which is realize The sublime
conception Of Columbus. aud make the West the
the East! The ancens had their OF deSe
modeTns their ships II The high seas The present age its
ship Of the land, Ianscendng and eclipsng other ships
and destined to produce AsiaIic aud
Erandest revolution. ST Louis and San FaucIsco aud
straight line between them. that line suits Europe and Asa
the Of the United States the heart Of Miu
Il suits London Paris Ans erdam; suit Pekin, Canton
Nankn. Ii suits all the Commercial cit Of the Atlantic,
and all those Of the nieor. aud suits yourselves above all
You want il! and how TO get W By n"rthefn votes
helped out by few fom the nth # Mason aud DIXon's
line few! You have the nuliihei's etieI-Cal-
houns letter to Memph-and how he expects oh strange
and contradictory Opera M unite the south against you,
in road by Of the identical slavery sgta
ton by which he binds you the against the north.
He is dexierous architect of mischief accomplishes
himself but he is death the Of others
He will hight the Memphis road against ST. Louis, killing
he defeats St Louis. He will draw off The southern vOes
Northern votes WILL then, again be wanting; and, even II
honor and justice silent in bOs0ms which they
will not be- selfish calculation would proclaim gratitude
Tor past benefacIiJn.
As az appendage to Senator Benton's speech above,
and to justify what he therein says of the origin Of
the null fcatbn war. we add the extract from the
Charleston Is c. Mercury of 1885, from which il
Will be seen that all that is going on, and all
that has been done by the nullifers since that time
''in picking quarrel" with the north about abolisng
slavery in the States, is only pretext for that south
ern convention, and southern cOnlederacy which
then fully resolved upon This extract will appear
in publication of Gen. Houslon's reply TO Mr..
Calhoun where it appears with appropriate remarks;
but 1t will be convenient TO the reader to see it in
connexlon with Senator Benton's speech:
Extract from the .'Crisis''
The proper tine for convention Of the sarekoldiHg
States will be, when the Legislatures of Penn vsBs Ma
sachusets aud New York 81 n have adjourned without pass
ing laws for the suppression of the abolition societies
Should either of these States such laws would be
well to wait till their efficacy should be tested. The ad
joumment of the Legislature of the Northern States with
out adopting ectually put down Carlson
Tappan, and other associates will present which
must be met by the South OF will be vain for US ever after
to any thing further the provide
for her safety by defensive measures Of her f
The issue presented, i 10 be met II only be done by
convention the Gggriered SGfe the proceedings Of which,
10 be of value, embody and make known the
tmenfS Of the Uhofe Sonh and contain the distinct aannn
citation of fixed and unsteTed determination TO obtain
the redress Of grievances be the consequences what they
may.
awe must have clearly understood that, in framing
constitutional union with Northern BRETHREN the slave
holding States consider themselves liable any
more interference with their domestic concerns than if they
had remained entirely Independent Of the other States
would among independent nations be just Of
place The several States in the relation towards each other Of
open enemies To up in few words the whole argu-
ment this subject would
only be put down by legislation IN the States IN which they
exist and this only be brought about BY the embodied
opinion Of the trhoe South, acting public opinion
the Morrill, which only be offered through the instrument
tally of convention Of the sdrehOiding States For this
believe the public mind yet PREPARED especially
/ our sister States"
Let it be remembered this "criSis" was written IL
1885. charging the Northern States with design e
abolish slavery in the States; and that it just
years after that time that the Platte country add
ed TO Missouri by the help Of Northern voiesi and
free territorial soil made slave State soil! and ths
largest of the slave States, made still larger! On
shame, where is thy blush! oh Calhoun, where is thy
shamel