Daily Richmond times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1849-1850, 1850-07-29

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President, nil tn 8sSidancies Of Sa5 tlaas
to say, are towards disque4ade, { no nor
consequences, Waen before, in The midat
found peace with tie nations ot the eeFtl,
we seen convention, representing consider
portion Of ora great part Of the republic nees8
gether to deliberate about measures * fet4a
safety in connexon with great interests os tl,af
quarter Of the country? When before psye ns4
| seen, not one, but Inore--some half do2s
| Legislative bodies solenniy resolving ha'
one of these measures--the admission Of ts'N
sllssSSsgsthe adoption Of the Wilmot Plov4se d 81
sabolition of slavery i.ssthe District oil CouEote
Eshould be adopted by Congress, sneaaufes Of sn
extreme character, for the safety Of the seal
erests to which refer in the particular section n
Ae M country, would be resorted tog h1a ysls
subject of the abolition ofslayery oyoa within
ItlG District of Columbia, small o. IS the number
Of slaves here has been source of constant irri
taton and disquet So of the subject of the re-
eogery Of fugitive slaves who have escaped from
heir lawful owners; not mere border contest
as has been supposed--althought there undoubtedly
it has given rise to more irritation than in other
portons OF the Union--but everywhere through
the sayehoding country it has been felt as great
evil, great wrong, which required the interview
ton of congressional power. But these two sub
iects, unpleasant as has been the agitation to
which they have given rise, are nothing in compa-
rison to those which have sprung out of the ac-i
qusitions recently made from the republic of
Mexico. These are not only great yahd leading
causes Of just apprehension as respects the future
but all the minor circumstances of day intimate
! danger ahe1d, whatever may be its final issue
and consequence. The establishment lof pa
tper in this city--a sectional paper-and | wish
could say that upon all occasions it propagated
truth with more attention than in particular in
stance it has done-a sectional paper is established
here TO espouse, not the interests of the entire
Union, but the interests of particular section
The allusioD made with regard to departure
from the truth, which has incidentally come to my
notice. was called forth by an assertion recently
made, that in the State of Kentucky there was
great difference and diversity of opinion upon the
subject of the adoption of this measure, and that
the constitutional convention of that State had UNI
animously, or nearly unanimously, rejected pro-
position in favor of the Compromise. Why. di-
rectly the reverse is the fact. l should not have
observed it at all had not noticed on yesterday
| that it was copied in paper In Mobile, and was
spoken Of as an undoubted fact that even in the
State of Kentucky there was great division on the
subject OF the Compromise. l will say in my
place. with the authority which appertains to my
position, thai for fifty years have never known so
much unanmity upon any question in that State
| 1t is State from which received Il letter from
gentleman formerly Democratic member OF Con-
gress, known very we'll to my friend from Indiana.
now On my eye, from the county of Henry, one of
the most populous counties in that State in which
there is a majority of Democratic voters, and of
which majority of 1900 votes, this gentleman
an honorable gentleman, am proud to say, though
| differ from him in polilics-says that as far as
he knows or believes, there is not solitary indi-
vidua to oppose it and the constitutional con-
vention of Kentucky, instead of opposing by an
unanimous vote of the body, expressed its appro-
baton Of this pending measure. One OF the mis-
fortunes of the times is the difficulty in penetra-
| ting the northern mind with truth, to make It SEN
sible to the dangers which are ahead; to make i
comprehend the consequences which are to result
from this or that source to make it give Just APP
probation to all the events which have occurred,
are occurring, or which must evidently occur.
said minor as well as major circumstances and
events were all tending, rapidly as fear, to ia
tai issue of the matters in controversy between the
different portions of the Union.
have seen pamphlet-and it has been ciTcu-