The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-03-23
ILL.,, SATURDAY, MARCH "a. 1850

pear that the amount Of duty Ia lao roiJ d., H.
people Of the West and Northwest 10 lie "SoutI,
ern confcderacy" for the privilege of payy,tn,
the Mississippi river has vet been fyed il nv,.r
theless does appear that such a duty i 10 me- on
, acted. | alludc to these things sir 10 show III,
minute calculations that have been entered int,
IN reierance TO the altered condition of thiny
, conscqent upon the meditatcd dissolution of m.
, Union. They show an advanced STAGE in IN,
! progress of this movement, which, in my iudr,
ment VIII astonnd the country.
. Now SIR let Us see if We can clean from thos,
gent!emens speeches the shadowing forth Of an,
, plan by which this movement is Ia be commence,
and carried out first quote from the speecL n
the gentleman from Alabama (Mr. Inye
VIII the Representatives oi tie North at
tempt, by the power Of numbers. 10 OUTRAGE ia,
Constitution and degrade the South by the ad
mission Of this territory (Califrnia IA a State
without the offer Of some equivalent suyrcs,
TO them to remember that We are sworn To sun
port the Constitution, and could scarcely sit IN
tame nc1ulescence and witness il. open and
shameful violation The attempted consumm.
ton of such All act would be the overthrow oI
the Constitution which the people we represent
would resist to the last extremity Weare hero
as the Representatives Of the people, bu. are ouI
Obligations to the Constitution and the South les,
than those Of other individual cizciis, who in the
aggregate, are the people We assume qREtion
~ obligations when we come as Representatives
but are We relieved from those which rested upon
us as private citizensi Ny individual opinion is
that II the Southern people ought to resist meas
ure OF aggression, after its contamination. We here
are under the same or higher obligation 10 resiqt
It's consummation. These suggestions are made
not IN the nature Of threat or menace 7 ,Ioro,
7 rat iIa 4 Al
ter of discretion !, i oI,ro,,s ,.,,,,. , " '','
that vour autoporis, !, frr o,r,,, f:s ~
InrLitJ '.,l 10 . nm e'e" !, 'ic i"'t oe
on, o,J o,o.' VI. .ouiso p'Vlcr 70 oe pursued IN
Sn,,Iar w.! went - lor 'nc , determination OF
if nv, cnrao We, "li ",''lhS 70 suggest ana
Of b1por ,I;,i i''';eu' " i"i''" any PAIN
arc oldor any ,,.;."y " o'".'I out oy ,hoSe VINO
to,,,,Lor ~ u u9' 'h"' We si'ul STAND
tbe sbieJ ., to "r'' ANU present our breasts as
ynis I,n..,,,',a G,''s'''u u'iVl'
ful constrietinn - au'Ii''7 oI uouot
the nentI.ra t''I 70 mean 'lS mat
err, Ro,soa '.i'i''v'i "'il o'her south
nocity r., a' , q, I.',''s mere IN Gounie ca
Ter tIey oro ,a F'',Iu'''l'e'' III which eharac-
tpti,,n,i I,, .''c passage "L an uhcohstl'
ior,, into a ' 'G' "''aiyc, one admitting Cai
f,rn,, 80! NI ',''ll W u.e manner ana by the
rulos * III - ~ '"e CONSTITUTION ana 'he
III "i"th characters they are bound to re is: Tie
ps''6c "t an aggressive law in the same way
GHt pfl'Hle citizens Inay resist aggrossions upon
"''r nights ieel quite sure that | have not
i',L''hen Tie proper construction to be put up
on u:e He'tIemaae language But as have Civ
[n ,,, 'ne entire paragraph let il speak for itself
" ".'p' s' "'uot> there may be aS to the proper
construction OF that paragraph there can be none
A., ..S ~ '''e U''e "H,.h now quote from
,,rq n ~ I .'gi' i IN ,,Grtil,s
of tlefur.b.rn rrn.s ,bIt thr ncn,I,cr. fam tbn.
-r,uu ur ir ~ expci suci, rs Interrupt tneir pro
cociings Let them try the experiment tell
gentlemen that this Is our slave holding territory
We do not intend to leave il. If they think
they can remove Us it i, Il proper place for trial.
In the present temper of th public mind it is pro.
babe that a collision Of the kind here might elcc-
trly the country rs did the little skirmish at Lex.
ington the colonies in their then excited state
Such a struggle. whoever might prove the victor,
in it, would not leave quorum here to do hu,i.
ness. Gentlemen may cal this treason. high
,reason--the highest treason the world ever saw
But their words are idle. We shall defeat their
movement against us"
If this does not sufficiently show where and how
the revoutioni is to commence, lie, us turn again to
the speech of the gentleman from Mississippi, (Alr
BRowN) and read aanthcr extract;
All -.