Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1849-07-02

Soal nus LO Wooi tnS4sto puts was aDOl
: nothing. So it is ofthladispute among u
: about excluding slavery from New Mexic
, and California. THERE'S mono there t
exclude, and the sdisrs now raising
about nothing.
|. The Missouri Resolutions were cope
from those ofCalhonn and I do not be
ieve there exceeded halfa dozen member
in the two Houses, all foadwho were in th
secret, either Of the origin or design of tha
proceeding. Theyssgafs copied from Cal
houn; and toasee their Design you mus
know his. f1is weEe sned.at the Uniel
ts-at the harnony and 1be Umol
@sasss hold
ing States who would not follow his Leaf
myself especially. This makes it ny
duty to speak of him, and to show his de
sign in bringing forward the resolution:
from which he was so suddenly backed ou
in the Senate, and which some half doz
en- members have succeeded in passing
through the Missouri Legislature. This
carries me rather far back, but will make
rapid work, and short work. "
Mr.. Calhoun came into public life to bs
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sisters, in the shape Of the old man thai
taught him grammar. had whispered in his
ear thou shalt be President. Upon thai
oracular revelation he commenced his po.
litical career, and has loiled at its fulfil
ment for forty years-at first openly, and,
it may be fairly. by putting himself at the
head OF all the movements which promised
advancement in the public favor. In
l8l6, protection of domestic industry was
popular-he put himself at the head Of
| the protective policy, ard went for the
minimum provision-the cotton minimum
which was the father of all the rest, and
the only real injury to the cotton growers,
by suppressng for thirty years that class OF
cotton goods which was Of most universal
use, and Of the largest cotton consumption
the corduroys and velvets, SO universal
ly worn before lS16-so totally suppressed
under the Calhoun minimum of that year;
and just beginning to appear again under
the tariff Of 1916. At the same time
Iel6) a national bank-the State banks
having failed, and brought odium on the
State institntions-was much called for:
Mr.. Calhoun put himself at the head Of
the call, and carried through the bank char
ter. About the same time internal i'm
provement, by the federal government, be-
came popular: he seized upon tho subject;
and, in 1923, as Secretary Of War, made
an elaborate report in favor of q general
system Of roads and canals, pervading all
parts OF the Uuioh.=- ff1arfe 9a20 the Mis-.
souri, controversy ragged, and the whole
north stood up as one man for curtaling
the area Of slave soil: he took the free soil
current, and exPunged slave soil from all
the territories Of the United States by join
ing in the abolition of slavery in U pper
Louisiana, giving Texas to the King of
Spain, and giving the rest of Louisiana to
the Indians. At the same time Jackson
became the favorite Of the people for Pres
ident: he withheld and postponed his own
preteasions to the Presidency, became the
advocate Of Jackson, went upon his ticket,
and was elected Vice President with him
But this was the end of his popular move
ments to gain the Presidency. He ex-
pected to succeed Jackson, and that he
would only have to wait and serve eight
years. That was only one year longer
than Jacob had to serve Laban' for Rachel.
But oh! the disappointments in love and
politics! Like Jacob when he woke up,
he found it was Leah! q little magician Of
the north had got into the bed, and was to
be Jackson's successor Unlike Jacob, he
could not wait and serve another long
eight years, and determined to clutch the
prize at once. Then came nuilification
No. l, (pretexted by that tariff Of which
he himself was the main author and that
scheme for dissolving the Union which
Jackson's proclamation put down. The
tariff failed to bear him through; more
lnttamable subject was wanted-and was
found In the sensitive question of slavery.
Then came that long succession of aboli-
tion plots in England for blowing up the
protestant religion; the gun-powder, rye
house, meal-tub, and other plots, so tormi'
dable in their day, were tame and impotent
inventions. First, there was the London
abolition plot of Ashbel Smith, John An
drews, and Lord Aberdeen, for lighting the
train of abolition in Texas, and thence run
ming it into the United States, where it was
to explode and blow all up! and to prevent
which it became q case of e:self-defence,"
admitting of no delay, to jerk Texas in
stanter, by treaty out of their hands, before
the plot was ripe-something like jerking
the fuse out ofthe loaded bomb before it
would explode The treaty did not stand
the jerk, and was broke; and the plot evap-
GRATED without harm. Duff Green had
been paid thousand dollars, by the Tay-
lor administration, out of the United States
Treasury, for bringing that plot from Lon
don; but it was money lost. Then came
the Worlds Convention plot, also located
in London, for the abolition of slavery
throughout the world-the u S. inclusive
ly, but it came up feebly, and had no run.
Then came the incendiary transportation
mail matter plot; and thas, for a while,
threatened to break up the transportation
of the mails, and leave the two halves OF
the Union in state ofnon-intercourses II
ripened into bill for searching the mails,
and then expired. Then came the incen.
diary petition plot, that occupied the time
Of Congress for several years and consid
erably alarmed the country, until every
body saw that it was game, prformed by
two sets of players, playing into each 9TH
ers hands, for their own benefit at home
and getting up an agitation of which the
public peace and the public business was
i the victim tt then died ont Tins nj