The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-03-04

Free-Soil in Connecticut, where the SEN
ator is ''omnipotent." So infatuated is he
with abolition in that State, that he doubt
less encouraged the combinations there
between Democracy and Free-Soil, which
returned to Congress three Abolition Lo-
cofocos and Locofoco Abolitionists, to OPP
pose his Administration-instead of three
good Who's to support it.
Under the joint influence of TRUMAN
SMITH and the PRESIDENT, it seems that
some late State convention at Hartford
has adopted the following resolutions:
"Wc concedc that the General Government has
no power over the subject of slavery within tho
States. and that within those limits it can DO
. reached by the State Legislatures alone.
eve insist that Congress has full power legis-
late in and over the District Of Columbia and that
the immediate abolition Of the slave trade within
that District is the duty of Congress- that the ORR
ginal compact between the several States did not
contemplate the extension of slavery beyond its
original limits; that obligation rested on the
free States to consent thereafter to the admission
of new slave States; and as full power was given
to Congress by the Constitution to legisate in and
for the Territories Of the United States the proh
bition of slavery within those Territories where
II has now no existence is the right and duty OF
: Congress-"
"This," says the Union, els another
irresistible fact, going to show the pur-
pose Of the Administration to excite and
foment the anti-slavery sentiment of the
North to acts tending to irritate and Of
fend the people of the SOUTH"
The proof is certainly getting to be
overwhelming. If Connecticut passes
such abominable resolutions, and TRU-
MAN SMITH comes from Connecticut, and
TRUMAN SMITH is confidential with Gen
eral TAYLOR, does not it "follow as the
night the day" that they are all conspir-
ing against the peace of the Union A
southerner whose blood would not course
Indignantly through his veins, who would
not become irritated and infamed at read
ing such resolutions, would remain cool
and undisturbed if vile agitator should
declare that in his judgment the oysters at
New Haven were. superior to those at
Norfolk. Is there son of Virginia so
recreant that an intimation of this kind
would not irritate him to the last pitch of
frenzy
We do not intend to decide any of these
"inAammatory" questions. There is a
good deal to be said on both sides. The
oysters are well enough for their respec-
tive neighborhoods. The point is an alb
straction, not contemplated by the Consti.
tuition, and not touched in the resolutions
of '98 and we therefore think that Con-
necticut and Virginia may be permitted to
differ upon it without hazarding the peace
of the republic.
But now let US look at the consequences
which are to flow from the passage of
these resolutions-consequences so OBJ
viously contemplated by the PRESIDENT
and TRUMAN SMITH when they instigated
this Connecticut convention to adopt these
incendiary and diabolical expressions of
opinion. After quoting an extract of a
letter published anonymously Sin one of
the northern papers," (the name of which
is not given,) which suggests that if "the
South takes active steps towards a dissolu-
tion," General TAYLOR has "the navy"
and the irregular army''-the Union pro-
ceeds to say:
"This paragraph will give the reader correct
view Of the whole plan Of operations devised by
the Administration plan Aagitious, cold
blooded, and really reasonable against the safe
ty Of the people and the integrity Of the Union a.
was ever concocted by an Arnold or = Burr. IL
10 10 erciis, through its northern tools and allies che
fanatics Of The North TO continue their attempts 10
flame e people of The South, and then, II tie lat
Ter do not patiently submit, 10 aibjugak them BY
arms.
"The safety Of tho Union, and the lives and pro.
perty Of the people Of the South, are the dice with
which this desperate and atrocious game for polit
ical power is to be played by the present fallen
and discredited Administration. Let the people
Of the South contemplate seriously the enormity
Of wckedness and atrocity which IL involves, and
let them wake up TO the sad and astounding real-
ty, that this Administration has no sympathy for
their cause or their rights that, in its desperate
schemes for power, 1t 10 ready TO excite them to
acts Of hostility against the Union, IL possible,
and then to put them down with FIRE and swsrd.
This 10 the wicked purpose Of the Administration,
If we can judge Of It's designs by its acts; and
there no truer Interpreters Of human motives
than actions"
Was the like Of this ever heard ! Is il
possible that t. SMITH and q. TAYLOR
can sleep o'nights, with all these horrible
notions of blood and carnage running
through their headsl And can T. RrrcHrr
sleep soundlyi for the proofs are stronger
against him of undertaking to create this
horrible state Of feeling at the North and
South than they are against either of the
distinguished conspirators whom he thus
arraigns before the American people.
Take the stand, Messrs. CHAUNcY p.
CLrvrLASD, LOREN P. WALDO, and WAL
TER BooTH, members of the House of