The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-11-21

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other words, an agitator within the Law
He described Modification as an attemE
to subvert law--as SYNONYMOUS with tree
son, and the Arch Nullifer as Traitor
whom General Jackson dete rmined /
hang. He designated the disciples {
Calhoun, in Missouri, as "a Bakers dc
zen Of intriguers, who were intent on
dissolution of the Union, with view 10
Southern Confederacy;" and although
few Black Jacks and Prairie Sauver
were following him from place to place
and attempting replies to his speeches, h,
was charitable enough 70 believe many o
them ignorant ofthe Interior motives b,
which their leaders were inf1uenced.-
Some Of those men he denounced as all
that was vile, and infamous; and others
who were now arrayed in opposition to
him, because Of his having detected and
exposed the plot, were persons who had
acquired place, and some no1oriety, by
committing his printed speeches to me-
mory, and by hanging to his coat tail,
while secretly in the service Of Calhoun.
But he now intended to play them trick
He would wear a roundabout in future,
and these fellows would fall 10 their ma.
tive element, to weep in despair, like the
Negro congregation who expected to
reach Heaven by cIinging other preach
er's coat skirts. AS dozen frogs make
more noise than hundred oxen, so their
dozen piglny politicians make more noise
than hundred substantial farmers. He
was very complimentary TO Wings, who,
he said, never slandered him as some De-
mocrats did; but his opponents in Missou
ri were not only the agents Of Calhoun,
but descendants of the Father Of lies, and
like dutiful children, they were improving
on the lessons Of their parent. He call
ed them liars over and over again, and
Showed very clearly that for all the "a
vors which Missouri ever received from
Congress, she was indebted to northern,
frec-soil votes, und not to the slave States,
who opposed her interests in many in
stances. The Wilmot proviso he treated
as a humbug, because the cxigences
which induced it do not now exist. He
denied that there was any desi ign in the
free States to interfere with slavery in
States, except among few canatical Abo-
|ilonisls, who were co-workers with the
NuIlfiers; but the application Of the JEFF
ferson prouiso to Territories, now free,
was uncomfortable, because Congress
had frequently asserted its right to do so,
whenever it thought proper, and the peo-
pie would apply it in such a manner as
TO remove all ground of cav,l. Gray
hairs and old age were respected in his
YOUTH. but it remained for him, who had
served his country long and faithfully
without reproach, to vindicate himsel: a.
gainst the little knot Of vilifers who were
to GUST him from the affections
Of the people, in order that some one Of
them may be selected TO fill his place in
the u. S. Senate-and pretty Senators they
vouzd make! lie threw the dirty, foul
mouthed charge Of Abolitionism into the
face ofhis slanderers,and he defended the
Hon. John P. Hale from like odium.
| fear, dear sir, that have wearied
your patience with my pueri'e attempt at
giving you an idea OF what he did say in
the course Of this speech, but know that
you will scarcely expect teint outline,
much less his words, from me. He spoke
until after o'clock, and it was conceded
that this speech was not like any Of those
which preceded it in print. Indeed, it ap-
peared TO be framed specially for that &C.
casion. He spared US from his usual
lengthy dispositions on the life and acts
Of "John Caldwell Calhoun" lie was
quite moderate on the slavery question,
and the subject O. the Pacific Rail Road
occupied but a few moments, probably be-
cause he considered that question sufi-
GENTLY discussed at the St. Louis Conven-
,ion. He said, however, that at the open
ing Of Congress, in December, 1924, he
introduced a bill for the construction of a
road from the Missouri River 10 Santa Fe,
and he wrote home to Mrs. Benton, in
Missouri, that he would pay her visit
after that bill had passed through Con.
gress. Mrs. Benton was then at the house
Of his friend, DR.. --, who he named
and who appeared to me to be one of the
audience. Mrs. BIS friends focked a.
round her, to condole with her on the loss
of her husband, when the purport of the
1ot 10 II.