The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1849-06-24

mass onlv the emgran,s from the slaveholdng parts OF
the United Staies-in itself the smallest branch OF the
emigration, and it divided the queston--many going
for the express purpose OF getting rid of slavery. and
few far in love with IT TO go that distance or ihe
pleasure OF having law suit with hls own negro ana
with the certainty of coming out second best IN The con
test There is then slavery at this time, either IN New
Mexico or California, in law in fact and will never
be either IN law or IN TACT Mha 'en nas % ah 1 II DO
ing what cannot be done the insult to the sovereignty
OF the States where there is no insult All aosuacoh'
and no reality, substance, or practice IN IT. .
The Romans had GLASS of disputes which they called
de lana oaprina that say about goats wool; and as
the goat has wool, the dispute was about nothing 30
il is OF this dispute among about excluding slavery
from New Mexico and California. There Is none there
to excludes and the dispute now raging is about nothing
The Missouri resolutions were copied from those OF
Calhoun; and do not believe there exceeded half
dozen members in the two Houses all told, who Were IN
the either of the origin design OF that proceed
ing They were copied from Calhoun; and to see their
design, you must know his HIS were aimed at the
Unonat the harmony and stability OF the Union, and al
the members of the slavehodlng States who would not
follow his lead-myself especially This makes il my
duty to speak of him. and 10 show his design in bringing
forward The resolutions from which he suddenly
backed out in the Senate, and which some half dozen
members have succeeded passing through the Missouri
Legislature This carries rather far back; but will
make rapid work, and short work
In his new born ZEAL them to please the North he shot
ahead-he must always be ahead-beatng Woodbury.,
Buchanan and other northern senators IN his votes and
speeches the northern side of the question Some
view of this may be my speech the AshburtOn
treaty But the subject requires separate examination
and shall receive it, but II will be curious
episode, and will place Mr. Calhoun a second time
where he in ls9-20 on the northern side OF the
slave question; but only for brief space. Mr.. Van
Buren, preferred to try TO be his and the
Texas treaty having gone over without making its
author President, and the Mexican promising large
crop of popular presidential candidates, new political
test became necessary, and, the tariff question being set
tied by the act OF 1885, recourse to slavery and abo
ton became Indispensable. Hence the hrebrand resou
tons of ls47-a frebrand which has had the singular
Fatao IF IyinQ yyh Of a
fagratiOn thousand miles OH.
The design of these resolutions is the question
and that design apparent the character and words oil
the resolutions themselves; in the previous course OF
Mr. Calhoun, which have just family sketched and in
his subsequent conduct which is yet TO be exhibited.
The resolutions, then, point directly to the snbverson
of the Union-iti is then anguage-and for what cause
For absurd and uniounded, so contradcled
BY his own conduct and BY the whole action of the
government from Its foundation to the present day. that
being confronted with his own conduct he has never
dared to ask a vote upon his resolutions.
have opinions TO express about the design of
those resolutions: gave my opinion of them at the time
they were introduced, and IN many ways, and among
the rest in letter to the people Of Oregon and another
to the people OF Howard county The people of Oregon
had formed provisional government and inserted in
their articles OF government fundamental for pro-
hibon Of slavery copied from the Jefferson poviso Of
1857. The House OF Representatives had passed bill
session of 464 establish territorial government
for Oregon, sancioning their articles of government with
the provso against slavery in it, This bill defeated
in the Senate, Just twelve days after Mr. Calhoun brought
in his hrebrand resolutions and in giving OF
that defeat to the people OF Oregon, letter which
then published, | said:
from the ordinance Of l7s7-he work of the South ia
far less northern than yourswil be abrogated Nor Is
that the intention OF the prime mover OF the amendment
the author OF that amendment; but so the fact That
committee is only midwife it, It's is same
mind that generated the frebrand resolutions of which
send youa copy and the amendment is its gtma,e deri
yao, Oregon is the object The rabd propa-
gsadst of slavery cannot plant
rae Pacific, the latitude of Wisconsin and the Lake Of
all sSs nsnds by r ra se aa
< inrust in again, we will scourge it out"
home agitation for election and disunon purposes i.
what told them the object OF these resolutions Cass
and Butler were defeated upon tests framed of these
resolutions; but the election part of the object was
against all northern men, and to bring forward MIR Cal
houn himself as the southern candidate Failing in this
object to get himself nominated, the design Of the
resolutions came into play; and this brings to the
meeting OF southern members of Congress, got up and
conducted by Mr. Calhoun 1t was meeting with
closed doors Every ciiZen not an actual member from
a slaveholding State, was excuded--cven Mr.. Bbb of
Kentucky former SENATOR and who was turned out
under the special decision of Mr. Calhoun himself.
Members came upon invitation was moi invited, and
would not have gone if | had been. Gen Houston was
not nvited but went without invitation, and moved the
opening Of the lac, doors !. the public which was voted
cussed and that would seem to Aow regular conse.
qqence from the fundamental proposition OF the original
address, drawn up by Mr.. Calhoun and assmilang its
importance to the declaration wrongs which separated
the American colonies from Great Britain, and giving
higher Importance to the present crisis going beyond
the former and involving not merely rights, but life and
property-every thing the safety of the South, and all
The paragraph which contained this declaration this
"Wc. whose names hereuno anne xed address you
in discharge OF what believe be solemn Csy,
the important subject presented your consd
Grafton not accepting the declaration chich separated you
and the other united colonies from the parent country Thai
nUoived independence 6tst this ALL ercyfine
yonr safety We aude the conflict between the
great sections Of the Union growing dlffe nee
OF feeling and opinion in reference relation existing
between the two the European and African which
nhab the southern SECTION and the aggression
encroachment to which il has led"
From this strong language, exating the crisis above
that OF the revolution, it would naturally be supposed
d, rtood by many and the words struck out The same
conclusion would seem naturally to result from con-
GLIDING part of the address, in which unanimity was
invoked consequences dsregared the Union treated
alphabetically worse than useless called sword to as
saut, and not shield to defend; and in which it wa.
lett TO the North to count its value This is the paragraph
which contained these expressions:
"As the assaed, you would stand justified by all laws
human and Divine, in repelng blow dangerous, with
s,y for that purpose Your assaans and you, woult
be responsible for consequences lii would be for them
and not for you to count the past OF the Uaion. Withou
your would be uselessa snord
sault, and not a shield to defend you."1
The most significant of these phrases were struck out
doubtless because they more than squntedin fact look
ed s'raght-at dsunion The striking out of these pas
from Mr., Cahoun's views, and caused to be expunged
from his address the anti union passages The majority
were doubtless in favor OF preserving the Union; but
that is not the present inquiry The present inquiry ID
into Mr., Calhoun's designs-his design in his resou
tons OF February, 1S47; and everything that oc-