The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1850-02-13
EXTRACTS PROM THE
Speech Of MIR. Clingman,

VI N0RA k@AAAA<As
r, IA. H.uss ef Representatives.. Tuesday. JIM
,.nrv 22f, o. ne quasiioas iarokrrd n ne pro
pssiieus rslafius 70 re Rev Territory.
Mr.. Ciiasman said. that lhe committee
was we aware that he had. on yesterday.
ia,imaled parpsse 10 discuss the ques.
inns insaised 10 The propositions relating
I, the Mexican ierrilory. That subject
was rpgaIsled hy The whole country as
enc Of such immense importance that he
offered no ap,l.gy lar Debating il. 10
prevent mi-concepiion. (.aid hr.l | say in
alsance. that ! have great confidence In
tie judgment. integrity. and pairiolism of
,he President. further admit fully The
r..hl Of The citizens Of each State 10 settle
far themselves all such domestic questions
as that referred 90 in the message. But
who are the prople entitled so 10 decide.
as well as llfe lime aud manner of admis-
sion aud boundary OF new States, are in
themselves questions for the judgment OF
Congress unler al lae circumstances of
each ease. The territory Of Louisiana.
our FIRST f'reign acquisition. was retained
nearly ten years in that condiIion before
il was allowed 10 form Stale consiiiu.
ton. Ia sha ease of Texas-her people
being composed almost entirely OF citizens
Of the United States. and having had
Stale government of their own Cor ten
years--she was admitted at once as STATE
INTO The Union. In The present ease. there
are considerations Of The greatest iInpoI-
iance connected directly and indirectly
with our action on this subject. While
aiyening to them as fully as the time H..
miied by our rules will admit, y ask The
attention Of The House.
Sir. the force and ex,en, OF The present
anti slavery movement OF The North is not
understood by The South. Until within
the last few months had supposed ihlt
even if California and New Mexico
should cone in as free States, the agiis.
iaiion would subside so as TO produce no
further trouble. A fes months travel in
the interior OF the North has changed ny
opinion. Such is now the condition of
public sentiment there, that the making Of
iie Mexican ieniiofy AZ free. in any mode.
would be regarded as an an:i-slavsry tri-
umph, and would accelerate the general
mcvesa~ns snrain@t us. II IL NOT difficult
q perceive how that state Of public senli-
merit has been produced there. The old
abolition societies have done good deal
10 prison the popular mind. By circuIat-
ing an immense number Of inhamn,alory
pamphlets, filed with all manner of false
hood and calumny agains, the South, its
institutions. and its men, because there
was no contradiction in that quarter. they
lad created high degree Of prejudice
against us. As soon as il became proba.
bic that there would be an acquisition of
territory. the question al once became
great practical one, and the polliirians inn
mediaiey took The matter in hand. With
a view at once ol strengthening their po>
silion. they seized upon all this matter
which The abolition societies (whose aid
both parties courled in the sirnggle) had
iuni he'd from time 10 time, and diliused
aud strengthened il as much rs possible.
and thereby created an immense amount
OF shosiIliiy 10 southern institutions.
Everything there contributes To this move
ment candidates are brought out by the
Caucus system, and if they fail to take
that sectional ground which is deemed
strongest there, they are al once discard.
csl. The mode Of nominating candidates.
as well as of conducting The Canvass, is
destructive Of anything like independence
in the representative. They do not, as
gentlemen often do in the South and West.
take ground against the popular clamor,
and sustain themselves by direct appeals
10 the intelligence and reason Of their con-
siiiuenis. Almost the whole Of the norih-
ern press cooperated in the movement.
With The exception Of the New York
Herald. (which with lis large circulation.
published matter on both Sides and a
few oiLcr liberal papers, everything Iavo-
rable TO The South has been carefully ex-
tluded from The northern papers. by these
combined efforts degree Of feeling and
prejudice has been gotten mp against the
South. which is most inense in all The in
terror.
| was surpris d last winter 10 hear a
northern Senator say, that in the town IN
which he lived il would excite great as
ronlshment il il were known that north
ern lady would, at the time of The meeting
oi !he two Houses, walk up TO The Capt.
tol with Southern Senator; that they
had been taught TO consider southerners
generally as being so coarse and rufiianly
in'manner that lady would not trust her
SELF in such presence. This anecdoie.
sir, does mol presen, lao strong picture
1 Of the condiiion Of sentiment in portions
Of the inlelier Of tie northern coun-
try. How far gentlemen ON this floor
are to be influenced in this action BY such
a state Of opinion, ! leave them 10 de-
eide.
The great principle upon which the
northern movement rests, whichj is alrea-
,sy accepted by most northern politicians
aud 10 which they all seem likely 10. be