The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-02-23


The ashingtOn Union Of the 4th instant,
contains the address Of Mr.. Calhoun as origin.
ally reported, which we find differs materially
from the official publication, attributed 10 Mr..
Calhoun and set forth with the signatures Of
less than one hall the Southern members Of
Congress. The original address is much the
more bitter Of the two, as may be seen from the
TACT that many passages, similar ii tone ana
spirit to the following we're stricken out;
"It would be for them the North) and moi
Tor US to count the value of the Union. With.
out your rights, 1t would be worse than useless
"a sword toassOult, and not a shield to defend
YOU"
A paragraph in the original, telling the truth
about the Oregon bill If the last session ana
containing a severe though covert, thrust at
MI. Polk tor his assistance In giving that.
"new and powerful impulse to the abolition
ists"-is left out Of the official address 10 make
room Tor the following false statement:
VAT the last session Of Congress bill was
passed establishing a territorial government for
Oregon, excluding slavery therefrom. The
President gave his sanction to the bill, and
sent a special message to Congress, assigning
his reasons for doing SO. These reasons pre-
supposed that the Missouri compromise was to
be and would be extended west OF the Rocky
Mountains to the Pacific Ocean. And the
President minated his intention in his mes
sage TO Wte against any future bill that should
restrict slavery south Of the line Of eompro.
mise. Assuming il to have been the purpose
and intention Of the North to extend the Mis-.
souri, compromise az above indicated, the pas
sage ofthe Oregon bill could only be regarded
as evincing the acquiescence Of the South in
that line. But the d%evelopements Of the present
session Of Congress has made ii manifest to all
that no such purpose or intention now exists
with the North to any considerable extent"
Every man knows that all attempts made BY
Southern members TO afix direct or even a
remote recognition of the Missouri compromise
to the Oregon bill, we're Indignantly voted
down by the Northern majority under circum-
stances which made the object too plain to
leave President Polk or any body else a reason.
able hope that it@as the purpose and intention
OF the North to extend the Missouri compro-
mise west of the Rock. Mountains 10 the Pa.
cific Ocean. /" II nothing had been eaid in he
address about The Oregon bill, the omission
might have been permitted to pass without re.
mark but when we BEE in the striking out Of
the original and truthful paragraph, and in the
insertion Of such a wilfully and entirely false
statement as the above, a deliberate attempt to
defend party trickery in a document addressed
to Southern men irrespective Of party, we must
be permitted to call tIings by their right
names, and to condemn the motives which
prompted to the concealment of paltry ~partizan
purposes beneath a v%aporing show OF patrlot-
ism.
In order to mark the difference, we publish
below the original paragraph;
SAT the last session, they passed a bill to es.
tablish a territorial government for Oregon,
containing a provision 10 exclude slavery, un-
accOmpaniedby compromised by making any
concession OF equiValenr,w atever to the South.
1t was so passed prOfessedly to assert the UNI
limited control Of Congress over the subject.
II wal the first bill Of the kind ever passed,
and makes an important stage in the progress
OF aggressiOns and Entertainments in reference
to slavery in the territorial aspectOI the subject.
It has givena new aud powerful impulse to the
aboIitionists. Instead Of resting satisfied with
so great a step IN their progress, they are now
urging with greater zeal than everIOwards the
accomplishment of the object they have in
view"
That is truth-deservedly and pnintedly told
and as such directly the reverse Of the pas
sage on the san subject which forms part of
the published address.
1t shames our past confidence in Mr.. CAL
houn 10 state that his original address, as
printed in the Union, is prefaced BY a letter
from him to Mr.. Venable. stating that all the
alterations in the original we're made with the
authors consent Now, as before stated, If
the original we're correct in the important par.
ticularto which We at present refer, the alter
atoms are equally incorrect: and it is very hard
to believe that Mr.. Calho nn's integrity is not
at fault in this matter. Heretofore his manis
Test imprudence has been ~palliated in the
minds OF many BY a firm belief in his uncom.
promising honesty of purpose; hereafter lie
must stand among those mere politicians who
are farther from nothing else than from that
which sometimes makes mems property or
fame or lives, a sacrifice to trnth.-Y Whig.
VERY FAR.-We heard a story yesterday, Of
a man who had retured home from California
with gold to the amount Ofsixtysfpur thousand
dollars, whichhe deposited in one of the mlnts
He took off his old tattered unmentionablee,
and was about to throw them away, but his
wife, good prudent woman, took them and with