Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1849-07-24

is there another instance oil such an outrage 10
he found in The history of any CHER Government
| that ever exisec3
HIS avowal Of The doctrines OF the Adolf.
tonsls will have an effect he little suspected
when he mate il. | furnishes ample evidence
u snow that b. used deception in assigning his
reasons Tor declining 10 obey the instructions Of
his Legislature Il will be remembered he Of
fs.ed as his reasons thai their re oluiions in
sruc,iBc him were borrowed from mine, and
Thai niue were introduced for disunion pufno
ses, and that there was no difference between
;hem, except that mine aimed directly al dis
uuiop, and theirs ultimately al The same Thing.
fle added, IN cffect, that his devotion 10 The
Uaicn would net permit him 10 vote for resolu-
zoos so deeply tainted with disunioD. That
was al The commencement, OF his speech. We
now have in its conclusion conclusive evidence
from himself that all this vas mere f.tch
syaiagem 10 conceal his real motive for decin-
ing to obey them. His real motive, as il now
appears, was that he could moi vJte for Them
under any circumstances; for how could an
a5oli,ionist as he avowed himself 10 be, posi-
bly obey resolutions which are utterly al "a.
rance with their doclrinss7 To obey would
have involved him in bic contradiction, 50
much so that it could not fail to PROSTATE and
TO oYc!whelm him wi shane iuvulnerabc
This he saw, aad that he had no alternative left
bu, 10 resign or diGobey. He determined in
favor Of the later; bat this OF itself did not re.
lieve him Of bis dilemma. He knew we'll that
il would defeat his object to come out boldly
and say that he had atjured his former creed
and adopted that of the a5olil;oni.ts. And
hspce he was forced &c adop, some other expe.
dent; and for that purpose atop'ed The n,iser-
abe pSelext OF slsnderously charging me and
my resolutions and bis own Legislature and
their resolutions with disunion aud Of assigning
that as his reason i.r not obeying than, when
he knew that bis position made it impossible
ior him 70 obey them. But these are not the
only resolutions adopted by the legislature OF
bis Stat. TO instruct him. The previous Lie.
sislaturs adopted TWO others, OF which be says
iilal they truly express III. sense OF The S ae,
and that ae o5syed them, mol only in their letter,
but spirit. They are in The following words:
Resolved, That the peaeo. pcrmensncy, and welfare
OF our National Union depend upon slic, adhr,suce
10 lhu letter aud spri; OF the ST.. section OF tho act Of
Cong Of the United Sates, entitled "An act TO ou
toiIze the people Of the Missouri Territory 10 firm
such state into tbs Union an equal footing with tho
original States and prohibit slavery In certain terri
toIirs," approved March 6th 1920"
Resolved, That Senators N the Congress OF the
Casd states are hereby Instructed, and our Kepesen-
atives Icquested, in accordance with the pro-
visions and the spirit OF The said Sit section OF Tic SAID
ac on all the questions which may before them In
relation 10 the organization OF new Territories or states
out o the Territory now belonging the United States
or which hereafter be acquired either by purchase
by treaty, or BY conquest"
Il is proper 10 observe thai the Bib section 10 !
which they refer contains the Missouri Com.
promise, Which established S. degrees 80 mi. |