The examiner. [volume] (Louisville, Ky.) 1847-1849, 1849-03-03

Mr.. CalhOun's address is reviewed by the
New Orleans Times with grea; frankness and
with equal power Of discrimination. IL Is de-
clared TO begin with an error and TO terminate
in notwithstanding with an appeal to section
Of the country, instead Of the whole country,
and ending with entreaty TO a union which
already exists. The South has never been
otherwise than united on the point Of defence
of its rights.
But the ground is taken by the Times, and
very Justly, that an aggressive attitude does
not belong to the South-does not become her.
Her position Is that Of defence, a conservative
| position. She stands upon recognized rights.
upon constitutional guarantees; and her as
sailants must attack these, and PROSTATE them,
before they can reach her.
alt is impossible TO conceal the fact" says
the Times, "that Mr.. Calhoun is, in this, as in
many other cases, the maker of the crisis he so
lamentably bemoans." The raking up OF old
qusrrels, the recapitulation of past discussions,
the minute specification of matters of offence,
from the time Of the Missouri controversy TO
| the present-these indicate anything but pa
triotic desire TO avert strife, being calculated
rather to stir up the angry passions both Of the
North and Of the South-the one by accusatory
denuneistiOns, and the other by the aggravated
enumeration of alleged indignities.
With regard to any mode proposed for an
amicable settlement Of the slavery question, in
connection with the territories, il is declared
that Mr.. Calhoun and his particular friends have
always been found adverse to an adjustment
Mr.. Clayton's bill Of the last session, the Ore
gon bill, recognising, the principle Of the Mis-
| souri, compromise, the bill Of Mr.. Douglas, now
| before the Senate, have all met with opposition
from that quarter The Times affirms that il
is not for men who have pursued the course OF
Mr.. Calhoun and his peculiar supporters. to
come forward and complain that they have
been badly treated-they, who have never
manifested any disposition TO conciliate; they,
who have uniformly abjured compromise.
The course Of Mr.. Calhoun is characterized
as quite deficient in tact as IL Is in ratio nal
spirit of patriotic fraternity. He is, in fact,
charged with being unwittingly a co-operstor
| with the violent abolitionists, in producing the
very agitation in which the latter have their
very principles of existence. Without a fur
ther recapitulation however Of this article Of the
| Times, we quote its conclusions:
"But when the address has exhausted the
past, il turns TO the future, and pours out
prophecies ON the probable results of negro
emancipation in the Southern States. II does
not dismiss SO disagreeabe subject with sem
tence OF a short paragraph II seems to delight
in holding up before the eyes of the Southern
people, all those pictures of woe and desolation
which disordered Imagination creates in its
moments of melancholy and despair. II gloats
| over tho miseries Of Jamaica, and tortures us
with jeremiads on our own future prospects
and condition. Such prophecies as these we
| regard as vsgaries of the heart no lees than of
the head. They stir up bad passions; they
kindle the demon that turks within the breast
of humanity. As errors Of the head they are
only worthy of ridcule. They are triiing;
unworthy Of grave Senators and Legislators;
and are the products Of vain and shallow po-
litical philosophy, that fancies itself profound
because II affects the rigid forms of scholastic
| logic. As errors Of the heart, they are deser-
wing Of the severest reprobstion. Such fore
bodings not often uttered by the good men
OF the race; If felt, they are concealed, for their
mere uttsrance may help to work out their full.
fllment. They are spoken Of, and dwelt on, by
the evil prophets only--those whose passions
are supreme and whose higher sentiments are
obscured. For ourselves, we have no fear o,
the future-at least no such fears as those ex.
pressed in the Southern address. And as for
the sentiments Of the Southern people, we be-
lieve there is not a man among us who does moi
re-echo In the depths Of his soul. the immortal
words, liberty and union, now and forever, one
and inseperable.'