Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-01-12


senon with the rights secured by the constitution, aud
for the maintenance of which your fathers soemny and de-
beraey pledged their faith Surely these are not hard con-
tions. Nothing but the most determined spirit Of inter-
but the most reckless disregard OF conse-
queHces the profound contempt for all the warnings
have gven could induce the Northern people persist IN
the mad career they have been running for the last fifteen
When the historian records the events OF ha
period in no matter how truthful and simple language, will
posterty believe the story Will those who are to come
after bseve it possible that whole people, from mere
spirit of aggression without motive apart from the pleasure
which the tyrant always feels In the nkcuon OF wrohg
may the most glorious fabric ever erected
human hands The miserable plea that you are
by desire improve the morals OF the South, ana the
equally miserable actaon OF special devotion to the cause
Of humanity will be forgotten, or remembered only as
evidence of the deep hypocrisy OF which human nature Is
sometimes capable Your acts and your motives must both
be reviewed by tribunal which cannot fail to pronounce
them something than insane. When the fountain rst
dubbed into day its supplied by ioly but the
has gathered in its much OF hypocrisy ana
wickedness that constrained to detest what at ht
only despised ..
The value of the slave property in the ,outhern States ex-
ceeds niue hundred millions OF dollars No people ever ex-
sted or ever will exist who would Consent to the destruction
of this wealth without long and desperate struggle and
be possible that you dream of eec!ng its destruction
by peaceful MEANS when you have to deal with
utionay brave to rashness and prone 10 resent
ment the sparks fly upwards Or do you indulge that
other deusion that is in power to compel submission
either these ances have taken of the Northern
mind take advice and be in some haste to expe it. he
dangerous gnis atuus that lued wanderer by
night into deadly quagmire harmless when compared with
| such guide
Suppose we had no motive resist abolition agitation
the powerful of protecting property would you the
picture hesitate moment aboutthe adoption OF
the most extreme Would you have borne what we
have already submitted to What would your conduct if
year year, flooded this hall with petitions to burn down
factories IT, year after year, lnsulted you with re-
solutions passed by State Legislatures declaring that the
system of white slavery, which undeniaby exists your
nuactores and elsewhere is offensive to the moral Of
the South, and from which it became Christian people to
divorce Themselves Suppose we reminded you OF the pau
perism and crime in your cities OF the bands OF juvenile
vaga pfeng whenever opportunity offers, and begging
when hey steal of the parents driving their children
forth the commit feonie and the daughters to pros
tuition All these things might urge with far more JUS
tce than belongs any of your complaints against But
would you bear Would you tolerate such petitions or
listen with patience to such resolutions If you did, you
would belle the character which the world has gwen TO the
Yankee States. ~.
The Senator Ohio says that he is not to be deferred
by of dsunion from pursuing the course he has
marked out for himself. have wish to deter him.
him and other Northern up boldly, and do
what they tell US their constituencies have demanded make
menace but insist that the Senators from Vermont obey
the instructions of their Legislature, and introduce the bills
they there required Introduce borrow the language
of member in the other end Of the Capitol and tell them to
up and face the music Do dodge the question
Do attempt get rid of by ndection, but stand up
the representatives of feemen ought do, and look the
lace you are right or believe yourselves so, persevere
you wrongs but yet believe you commit that wrong
with impunity, keep We have lesson in store for you
which may be severe, but will certainly be useful.
The South, Mr. President, dscams the language of
but it nevertheless due all parties that her deliberate
purposes should be plainly announced We do not intend to
stand still and have threats cut because the butcher
chooses soohe under the operation with honeyed words
You deceive longer by the catcwords concla
ton and harmony Nor voices be stied by the
fear of mourning the epoach of iprudence. said the
other day, and repeat that the time for prudential
ton has gone by this prudence of which have heard
much, that has brought the situation in which
1t is this constant talking about prudential action
which has induced the people of the North to believe that
do not intend to resist. '....
There is point which prudence changes from virtue
vice. and often happens that used only another
name for cowardce. 1t is not to be wondered at if our
good brethren of the North have mistaken the for the
other to have thus found courage persist in crusade
which promised to be unattended with danger know not
they will thank for undeceivng them, but it is my
habit to deal plainly with all men, and proclaim that
you have reached the utmost limit to which you 60
There is line beyond which you must not pass You have
marched to it, and it if you dare do not say
this to ntmidate. do not believe it will have that effect
On the contrary, believe with the Senator from South Caro-
lima (Mr. CAIHorS) that this wWrun lis course,
and end, all similar things have ended in blood and
The demagogues of the North have raised tempest they
not control 1t mpeng them EDWARDS with irresistible
foce-they neither recede, stand still and, however
fearful may be the path before hem it they must tread
For miserable partisan purpose they have excited and kept
alive bitter sectional eaousies, and burning haed which
are now bringing forth deady fruits. "They have the
wind, and must reap the whrwnd In the history of
lons there frequently periods when the statesman feels
himself borne along upon turbulent tide to unknown
port curtain is drawn between him and the future which
his utmost sagaciy fails penetrate But that period
with u.s. Fold after fold Of the curtain has been rolled away
and the view beyond neither dim indistnc He who
cannot trace step by step each successive event of
the future has learned but little from the past history of man
kind and is i'll fitted to be the lawgiver of a nation The
North will not the Union and the South cannot unless
indeed we submit ndgnes and wrongs of degrading
character would almost make fathers bur the cere-
mens of the tomb" and among de-
and dsown the degenerate descendants who had
dsgraced glorious ancestry. We know well what have
to expect Northern demands have assumed form which
it is impossible for misunderstood First our ex
cluson from the territories Next abolition in the District of
Columbian the FORTS asenals dock yards sc. Then the
prohibition OF the slave trade between the States and finally,
total abolition These results certain, unless the first
step firmly resisted that the will rise and
the night will follow his going down. Heretofore has been
pretended that not the purpose of any considerable
body the North ntsre with slavery in the States but
that is illusion which these resolutions have in good
time dispel. awaysknew was false, but did expect
the cloak thrown aside But if true
would still do not choose place myself your mercy
will not exchange the Notifications which the constitution
has thrown around my rights for a reliance your ge
nerosy your orbearance Concession yet satisfied
anacsm, has the march of the wrong doer been
stayed by the suPpeaions Of the sufferer. Situated we
the impulse of manness is the dictate OF prudence Our
duty and our obvious policy alike demand that should
meet the dnger the threshold and fall conquer there
consequence by what you choose designate
aggressons When aprnc established which must bring
not only poverty but desoaon and death the South, il
mmacral whether you call it abolition, free soil, or
he phrase Of the Senator from Ohio free democracy the end
the and should be the resistance also When the
all Of the outwoks must be followed by the fall of the ca
he is n apda uhn vieL