The North-Carolina standard., 1849-07-18


consequences [Itwould be for them, and not for
you, to count the paAle IF the Union. w ithout your
rights it would be svorse than uselessa s,vOrd to
assault, and not shield 10 defend you.''
The most significant of these phrases were struck
out, doubtless because they than squinted-in
fact looked sraight-at idisunion. The striking out
of these passages shows that the majority of the meet
ing dissented from Mr.. Calhoun's views, and caused
to be expunged from his address the anti-union pas
Esages The majority doubtless were in favor of pre-
serving the Unions but that the present inquiry.
The present inquiry is into Mr. Calhoun's designs
his design in his resolutions of February, lS47; and
everything that occurred in heneeting, and especial
ly the passages expunged from his address, show that
his deliberate design what his resolutions hypo-
thetlcally lmported-the snbversion of the ~ Mon.
The paragraph assimilatng the condition of the South
in relation to the orth that of the colonies at the
Declaration of Independence, was awfuly significant
and dreadfuly false. No wonder it was. expunged.
Compare the list of grievances which he drew up,
and the staple his address that
published-com pare this with The list of grievances
against Great Britain, drawn by Mr.eJefferson and
prehxed to the @Decaration of Independence-and
then see what truth there was in Mr.. Calhoun's
reckless comparison. According to his assertion, the
southern grievances not only equal, but greater
than those enumerated by Mr. Jefersen.1-fThe Dec
araton of independence is in every house but there
is another place where the list is perfectthe
preamble to constitution Of Vignia also drawn
by Mr.. Jefferson, and where item suppressed in
the National Declaration of Independence, to gratfg
its vigor by his natiYe State That item this ::
By prompting our negroes to rise in arms among
us-those very negroes whom, by-an iphuman use of
his negative, he hath refused permission to eTctde
by La1D." What contrast The Kings refusal to
authorize the exclusion of slaves from Virginia, then
one ofthe of separation, inserted in ter deca
ration OF wrongs, prefXed to her constltution--the
nominal exclusion by law Of slavery from territory
where 1t is not and cannot be, now cause of sepa-
ration of the southern from the northern States!
Surely the Father of his Country had in his minds
eye this address of Mr.. Calhoun when, in his fare
well to his children, he warned them against the
misrepresentation of designing men, who, for their
ends, would raise up sectional differences for the
purpose of alternating part of the Union from an
other. His prophetic vision foresaw the present
state of things when he wrote this paragraph:
'\ln contemplating the causes which may disturb
our Union, it occurs, asa matter of serious concern
that any ground should have been furnished for char
acterizing parties by geographical determinations
northern and southern-Atlantic and western-whence
designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that
there is real difference of local interests and viws
One of the expedents of party, to acquire influence
within particular districts, is to misrepresent the
opinions and aims of other districts. Iou cannot
shield yourselves too much against the jealouses and
heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresen
tations they tend to render alien to each other those
who ought to be bound together by fraterna affec-
ton Y. Elt =. -,t ..s = s1.s.Ef &c - -s4
The maledction of the Father of his Country falls
upon Cahoun-falls upon the twenty years. promo
ter of hatred and alienation between the North and
the South But, why multiply proofs From the
fuilness of the heart the mouth speaketh, and for
twenty years the mouth of Calhoun has poured forth
the language of disunion. Surely the Holy Scrip
lures are right; and deadly enmity to the Union
must be In that heart from which its death kne is
daily sounded. b7s, .-ss. = '..sz ..sttr-. af,
Mr.. Calhoun is balked in5his mode of proceeding.
He finds difficulty in the frst,step. The expert
of the first notification has convinced him that
one State, and that small one, is too narrow foun
dation to build upon He needs broader foundation
fhofH A
he has maneuvred for Southern Convention, in
der unite all the southern States underhs control
He wants convention. He is- great upon small
body, where he can work upon individuals in detail
and by units. He is great then. A Southern Con-
yention was his plan at the rejection of the Texas
treaty in 1874; contributed to break up that plan.
At the passing of the Oregon bill in the summer of
1914 he tried for the convention again land sub
scrpon paper was cautiously circulated in the House
of Representatives for signatures. 1t was :.no co..
But few subscribers Were got, and the paper was
suppressed. This brings to the last winters work
the meeting convoked of the members of Congress
from the saveholding States. It's object has been
stated. and do not repeat it. / only nameta a
part OF the machinery for getting up Southern Con-
venton. 1t was in fact sort of Southern Conven-
uon ltself-a caucus conventlon-intended to pave
the way for the real convention, and to call it.
was intended to combine whigs and democrats, and
bring the whole under the control ofthe1head con-
triver. 1t was failure. The wings hauled off from
it: only partof the demoetacy remained, and many
OF Inen Ior innocent ana IauddDle purposes Nothng
came from the Congress convention but an emascu- |
lated address, deprived of the venom in its head and
of the sting in its tail, and proposing nothing The
for the Southern Convention had, failed
again: and his last in State legislatures
and county meetings. Thefirebrand resolutions were
adopted in State Legislatures, and county meet
ings got up to stimulate the people. omit other
States. The resolutions were adopted in.Missouri
after the failure of the Congress caucus,
and after the publication OF the address-about
soon as they could be known. The resolutions had
laid in torpid state all the winter. They slept DUR
ing the time they should have been awake, and in
my hands at Washington, if they were intended for
my guidance They were passed after Congress adj
ourned and the county meeting Immediately start-
ed. This in accordance to the practice elsewhere
and, if they still go en-, should conform Accomac,
which have at least the nerto of doing wrong thing
IN the right way. They propose Convention of the
State, to be called special session of the General
Assembly, to decide fundamentally on the course of
action. That at least is consulting the people fairly,
and giving them chance to decide undersapdingly;I
This is their resolution ~. - -.
s' ResofUed That the danger of the State, and the
safety and welfare of the people of Virginia, call for
allure pass bill for that purpose, to determine
1pon the whole question of encroachment By the fed
sral government, and by the "eesoi States and the
people of the North the institution Of slavery in
he States, Territories and districts of the United
States that it is full time for the State to decide
what will be its Sovereign action finally this sub
ect; and to inform its citizens and subjects whether
hey will be authorized to resist, if they are required
~ federal legislation to submit to the oppression of
majority in Congress, and that State convention,
organized according to law, best settle the rule
If conduct for the seitizen.' es sbiltsjI5si
. The sAccomac meeting reports its proceedings to
Mr. Calhoun and that is right again. He is the