The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-03-30

Of each member required i'll writing
when the issue ant all its threatening conse-
quences hung upon their decision. 4 contem-
pcFaheons letter from Mr.. Monroe 10 General
Jackson; and the diary OF Mr.. A dams Of Thai
day recording the transaction, prove that Mt.
Calhoun concUrred with the rest Of the Cabia
nesin approving the act OfCongress III imposing
the restriction. Mf. Calboun's written opinion
has disappeared from the files Of the depart-
ments; bu. the separate and written ~OltestO-
tiOns left by Mr.. Monroe and Mr.. Adams es-
tabltsh the fact trtt ii once existed.
A mote recent act OF Mr.. Calhoun throws
on him again, as member oil Mr.. Tyler's adj
minisiratioa, a!stitl moi inStdious respOnsibiii-
tyi as giving new force TO the principle assume
cd to sustain tie power Of Congress in res
tricting slavery even in States where the in
s%titdliOn existed. By his suFrep,itious despatch
Of the annexation resolutions containing this
restriction upon Texas, Mr.. Calhoun destroy
ed the legal capacity there existing to employ
slave labor north Of $50 80, and cut off a vast
region from the occupation Of Southern plan
threatened schism Of the Union, as in that Of
the Missouri compromise, 10 make it a sort Of
necessity. Mr. Calhodn had an alternative
proposition IN his hand, which it ID known the
president elect (Mr. Polk had agreed to adopt be
%causein giving aCommissiOn to I'D justine temrs
of annexation, Il was at once more Just to the
interests aud mote Iiattering to the State pride
OF the young Republic in the act Of blending
itself with the Conlederacy. Yet Mr.. CAL
hOun chose rather, by an act Of superer ogatiOn
to apply a restriction Of COhgtess not meant
to be executed, and mutilate a Southern State
and suppress in u large portion Of it the do
nestle institution sanctioned by its laws
Nevertheless. he condemns the Senator from
Missouri and myself for asserting to an ac'
Of Congress simply confirming in a Northern
Territory the government organized there BY
the people themselves excluding slavery, &C.
cording to the principles and precedents which
every Territory similarly situated had before
adopted, with the universal %saction of the Rep
resentatives in Congress Of every State in
the Union. If asserting to the organization
of Oregon, and reconizing the right which she
asserted under the ordinance Of 1887, makes
me an offender against the South did not 1.-THE
Senators and representatives. from that quarter
offend in the same wOy,'in regard to Wis
consin and Iowa? And most Of all, Mr., Cal
hot1 himself, who twice a Cabinet officer, anC
again d senatOt representing South Carolina
had admitted The constitutional power Of Com
gress to repress slavery even in the TetritofieI
where it had legal footing? ss
But it any one be surprised at the relapse
~intolwhich Mr.. Calhoun has suddenly fallen OF
the subject Of slavery, let him look for a par
allel to the previous excuses in an opposite d.
rection on other great matters to which his
Wild ambition had hurried him. The SLAVE
question is one Of Immense import to the South
1t not only involves millio ns Of property, bu.
' Of lives: Every fibre Of the heart Of thos'
among whom slavery exists may be tortured
BY apprehension and jealotsnessi through
suggestion Of an emitent public man, whC
takes upon himself the character Of sentine
to watch and avert the lurking dangers that en-
viroh II. The man who stands guard over 1
! ma gazine in POpulOus city may sasfiite thu
most innocent, against whom he Can point
suspicion of a plot to FIRE its Mr.. Calhoun
! takes on himself the charge, in regard to th'
explosive mater liz of the South, for such sinh
ter purposes alone. This viIigant Guardian o
Southern rights, who, it has been seen; wa
ever ready to barter them to attain his sel6sl
ends, is now laboring to make more intens,
than ever the excitement on the question o
slavery, by %agitaiing the right Of extension
both at the North and South, upon the sub
\ lect, introduced since his surrender Of one
third Of the State Of Texas TO the Misssur
restriction, the right Of extending slavery int
all the territory Of Tie United States is boldly
i. assumed, in defiance of all his previous act
) in Congress and the Cabinet. He cared moth
A ing for consistency principle or precedent
He wanted to create a new excitement al tn
North, to reproduce II a. the south. His ab
stract resolutions for extending slavery ever,
|. where not being sufficient; the new question
\ about the introduction Of slavery into CalifoF
a MIA, a question which will be settled by tn
smigrah.s to that region for themselves,
seized upon to create and i%nflnnte a state {
incurable discord between the two sections {
the Union, by the arraguiment OF the Mort
. upon charges made by a sout 'crn caucu
!. which he ould have tried before q SOutl
!" en convention. To embody this engine G
revolution, has ever been in The scope
MIR. CalhOun's Remembering Vaccinations.
The papers have been calling Mr.. Chase, tt
newly elected Senator from Ohio, a nephew
Judge Mclean. II is ascertained that II