Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-03-31
NO. 20.

lions watch My respectively represent, TO sianc
up AMI suppou them, Here il Is, At ibis poin'
Int ho mss-are ROW odere proposes TO inter.
tere, 4 po,oses to step in before the eonten1ing
rat.ss.eS, cut OIL all necessity ,or decision up
N 4 g c''estious in controversy between thern
/. cs.s ;be priv.!rge Of making ~ps new record
in - aztec, sad roirg 10 -tr1I ard Iudgnienl
ura- il,et. Il proposes. in oth1r words, to sink
Il wlolo Que ,ioa ga lerutorisl GOVERN ent
y Is lens in ei dilscutes, lonh,s. and lap
rs. ami 10 en,enain in place OF it su immediate
usnsucl Of State government with ito admitted
.'risd,. tigr. Opr -,holo emtroihaeai ~th one
eRo.her here, Relates TO the ezten, ofsae lcgisa,
tive authority whieh Congress LA constitution,
sly e-cr-ise owe. tSS "a Eilorle'r 'I't tbey are
sub e., IL c-ntrel. WA Lave No disR- ree.out
soicpiai n vhatsCs,err - TO - p>"eGs ssd rights
of,h: larri,ories over their owa ana:rl rom
al moileni their terilcf'-l CO iditlon IS reaonn-
ct1. and ,ioir Stats condition u 4ssnmed from
that m5ment, a y al sgres, thlysse absoluts-
~ cnl mtifsIy independent o.. lhis Government
IN iha reGnlailoa .ad control OF their own inter-
! nal ecpes.nl, end have the lnl aud soversiyn
rigid al perisl; State 10 establish just such sys.
ioni c. c,il institutions as may hamoat sgr( q.
be to themselves. The iAessure before US,
Wisely avoiding the round oiiucconciable and
aopsleis dispute, pels ITSELF upon hai Of our con
mo agreement ,end therefore, with great lrssice,
calls upca ~ all 10 cone IN sni support il there.
I ei:ta 10 neither ofthe antagonist parlieS, what
~ac't enc ofthem could doubtless nave preferred
tho triumph oi hi o,.a side. On the contrary
il m,,,iates, b.tween them in spiri, Of iraterna
and pliieci rdslity TO each, AID by melirng
/ H.. ~ A. and
e poets to.accomplish the wise and lusl and ma
tidnsl cGt otssulins the claims OF BOTH c0nsls'
t.nlly with the honor and the rights OF BOTH
tv0.ing at |, ia this light, cannot but regard II
! as reasonable and happy measure OF deliver
ance and relief, worthy fall acccptaton aud as
! sistauce. Take il, and our troubles are over
our reinsurance Of cordial and permanent broth. |
hood is complete. The uphcayng deep The
public feeling the surges Of which already break |
ri Ger very feet, will DO soolhed al once, and
will sink back again into n calm as smooth and
CLASSY as that Of a summer sea. But reject II, I
and follow up that rejection by y measure OF sec /
tional wrong enforced By he stubborn will OF a
sectional maloriiy,and amongst the wild and lear .
iul issues which such course will force into life
and which no mortal eye can foreiec, may open .
pit ior Us all, only less horrible than that d tho
lost
Since tho discussion of our territorial ques-
ton commenced in tins Hall, and the interest
and agitation OF II has extended TO tho country
at large, we have heard more than ever before
OF n certain mysterious but malignant and cor.
rup,ing 'sdue poucr," by which, it IS alleged
the free action Of hist,oyernment aud the liber
tics Of ou people arc lroddsn under foot -
"SIaye power" Oh, sir, how the truth Of his.
/ DRY, IN the very matter implicated and how the .
warm and kindly sentiment Of national relation.
snip which Flows IN the bosom OF every Ameri-
can, wherever his home, how are they alike
invaded aud outraged BY his offensive phrase
and The more offensive ends Of sectional ptelu-
dice, animosity and deception, to which it is so
often and SO wrongfny applied Tho free &C
ton OF this government and the liberties Of our
people stricken down by the "slayc power
" hy SIT, does net every one Of rs know, that
Of all the positive on governmental checks by
which the spread Of slavery has ever been 70.
slriCtcd, the most efiicacious aud comprehensive
OF all others, by thousandioId, is that which
was put upon it under the lead, aud with the
hearty concurrence OF slavehoijing statesmen
and slayeholdlng Statcsl Was it not tho re.
'irctyc Or anllslayery article Of the ordinance
o 1877, which, il not prepared at the suggc,
ton and by the hand OF Mr. Jefferson himself
vas certainly prepared with his assent, snd sus.
tanned upon the assent Of Virginia asol Was
It not this which has protected The finest terrific,
~ we ever owned from the approach oud the
presence OF the slavel--a territory OF larger ca
pabes for the growth, and sustcnancc and |
wealth, Of civilized man, than any other cqua
area It IS believed, upon the surface Of the globe,
md yet, c,zens coming iroo that very country, |
no less titan clti'cns coming from other place,
rise up in the midst Of 10 here, and brand with |
abusive epllhets the very men and the very 'pow.
err that gave this magnificent empire 10 free
hJor and 10 free soil"
The check Imposed by the government, which |
tue next in the order Of Importance aud Of /
| ine, IS the constitutional prohibition against the !
| importation OF slaves tom abload--1 prohibition |,
| Which wns introduced into the Constitution upon |
the votes both Of northern and Of southern States
| bur which would have gone into effect AZ early /
as 1900, iurtead OF 1903, the time nxed by tina |
Instrument, MAD MOI brcn Tor The stfcnn0Hs ana I
! unfeiAGnA reslstsnCs IN The convention oi thee
OF tho Northern Stdtes--M essachus.us, New
/ Hampshire, aud Connection. Virginia. the
great "slavc power" OF That day, aad the one
most reyiIed by this cpi,hc at thl. DAY, slJ6l up
ior the lnierdlct on the foreign Importation a taa
earliest. Massachusetts aud her colleagues al
the latest Virginia, disfrgardng her own IN
tefos was Wiling, al tue earliest hout 10 sweep
the traffic from the sea, and 10 leave those "hu
man cargoes" that we hear OF to the watched
land that produced them. Massachusetts and
her colleagues, banking at tn aydor 20
generous a, thi., dropped into the rear Of Vir.
gns, and chung, pcrseyeringy clung, to the
profits OF tho trade, 10 the las, hour that th,ir as.
socates in the contention would allow, Ind
thus, by different modes Of action on this one
subject Of sayery--tostering /, in tho carly days
OF the government, denouncng it in tho latter
our northern friends have contriyed, by aproccss