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


lie longer.
The Senator from Ohio before taking his seat in this body
addressed remarkable letter Of his constituents, and
has to-day reiterated the sentiments it contained. He
lams Democrat and that abolition constitutes
portion of the creed. Sir the Senator from Ohio and my
elf have studied il in different schools think know
hing Of the faith which Jefferson taught and Madison and
Jackson illustrated understand it to incucate strict
ucon of the constitution and total abstinence from the
exercise of any doubtful power This Is the whole creed
summed up in single sentences and needs elaboration
try the doctrine of free democracy by this simple
Where is the constitutional provision which gives Congress
power egsate upon the subject of slavery the Ter
rories elsewhere maintain that il is be found
hat instrument and that there Is no granted power from
which it can be implied Il follows, them that tine exercise
Of the power be an-iemocatc, and s democracy de-
generates into the puest federalism do not choose to
base argument upon this grovnd alone If Congress pos
sessed hc IT'S exercise oud be unjust and noutous-
SO un as,o call fopessance every hazard and the
las extremyp PIE Senator must pardon for asking
upon what principle OF natural equity aside from any
ton of conditional right, the Northern States rest their
claim exclusive possession of the Territories Did their
purchase the national domain Was their blood
alons poured out acquire it Or did it down an
exclusive inheritance Them Iappea 10 the history Of the
country from the earliest dawn OF the Revolution to the close
of latest struggle for an answer The money which has
been paid the Territories raised by duties upon i'm
ports levied VIGOROUSLY and desgnedly for the protection of
the North and paid amo entirely by the South Instead
burden you has been bonus How stands the Of
personal services was Southern who pointed out the
road from bondage independence; who led you umphany
through the perils Of years war; and serny refused
the dadem with which grateful sodey would have crowned
him. 1t Southern General and Southern soldiers who
breasted the British bayonets at New Orleans and added ore
of its brightest chapters the history of the Republic South
blood has watered every plain from the st Lawrence to
the capital Of the Aztecs The memorable fields of Pao Alto
and Resaca de la Palma by Southern General 1t
before the genius of Southern leader that the walls and
of Monterey cumbled into DUST and two Southern
gment struggling side by side glorious rivalry, snached
the lannon's mouth the palm Of victory In the narrow
g
and rolled back the murdeous charges of the foe On
the sands OF Vera Cruz another great which the South
has given 10 history and added TO fame already i'm
perishabe and wung from the reluctant nations of the Old
World paudis which they could not withhold AT Cerro
Gordo the story Of Southern achievements rewritten in
blood aud among the rocks and VOLCANOES of Conteas the
glorious old Palmetto State vindicaed her right the title of
chvaous and enced forever the tongues her deracors
Sir mean to indulge in dsparagemen of the North. She
has furnished gallant who have done their duty noby
upon the field would not, if could, single laurel
from her brow. But claim that the record gives to at
least equality of the dangers, the su
ierng and the common triumphs, and demand equs
participation IN the rights they have established The Sena
tor from Ohio considers this enormous preenson Why
is enormous 1t only be because, his view, repeat
ed submission has sanced aggression and the successful
preparation Of wrong fully ues another. Sir, how
ever enormous it may be, can tell the Senator it pre-
tension we do not abandon We have yielded time
alter time to Northern encroachment We have suffered
violation OF the constitution to follow another, until we be-
gan to lose our own self respect But thank God, differ
ent spirit abroad in the land and the descendants of
those who foueh at Euiaw at Guiford at the Cowpens,
and at Kings Mountain, inning manifest something
of the old revolutionary blood Repeated aggessions have
forced us to recall many things would willingly have for
gotten and new demands cannot fail to remind of what
has already been granted Perhaps may not be altogether
without Its uses to recall striking the history
OF the past suppose it has escaped the memory Of
the Senator from Ohio that the whole northwestern territory
now constituting the States of Ohio Indiana, Illinois, Mch
gam and Wisconsin, originally slave territory II was
coded by mao IF
and you have manifested your gratitude by fostering upon
bosom population who ready to sting death their
beneaetors la 1903 we acquired Louisiana, and of all
that vast region you excluded by the Missouri compromise
from something like fourhs of the WHOLE and appropriated
exclusively to yourselves. And this, be remembered
slave territory mot of it into the Coniederacy
ree In 1919 we acquired Florida and Oregon and of
this the South got 1000 square miles, and the North
3f 900 making in all something Ike 100000 of square
miles which the North has seized than the South We
submitted to this wholesale robbery with patience that
Job might have envied Acuated by anxious desire to
every bond of the Union unboken and every
~ OF the revolution unembttered, have pocketed the
wrong, and taken the wrong doors bosoms But this
OF christian forbearance part has
purchas2d the exemption intended to secure You
now claim the who!cterrtory acquired in the with Mex
and not only this but the half of Texas besides History
mr., has but one parallel 1t is that Of Brennus casting
sword and belt into the SCALE and for one, ready
epy in The language of Camlus cit is the with
Romans to ransom country not with god but with IRON
1t has become the fashion to every complaint made
L..
not wanting ready tongues and reader pens denounce
Ill those who dare to calculate its value. Without profess
to be any holder than other men, have yet enough
moral and physical courage defy all such senseess caum
lies The Union is valuable only for the privileges con-
ers and the rights it When the Government so
administered Cypress and grind down portion Of the
be object Of veneraon me- and
am ready to rend asunderts rmest bonds lfyou desire
to remain in the Union, deal with justly and fairly If
wish to preserve community of interests in such
to win back that kindly confidence you have done
much to forfeit Until this is done, it is than idle
talk to Of the gores of the Union That glory which
purchased by the degradation of the South and enjoyed only
mid insult and oppression, has charms for Yet /
would not have the Senate understand that nsensbe
all the advantages which we have derived and might still
erve, from such Union fathers contemplated Give
ne that Union Restore that constitution which has been so
nournfuy disfgured, and will follow its banner through
very peril humanity face But what reverence can YOU
xpect Southern man to entertain for Union which is
to him chiefly through the insults has anctonedand
he wrongs it has legalzed
The Senator from Ohio asks what grounds have of COM
liant The list of grievances is long one, and the PATIENCE
the Senate would be exhausted if attempted recount
hem all will, however, remind him Of of the many
lalms the people OF the North have established graft
ude They have established clubs throughout the North for
be dissemination Of pamphlets and other ncendary pubca
ions among slaves in which the foules bes upon our
itzens are mingled with the most terrible appeals to all the
worst passions Of the slave. Murder boldly advocated and
be burning of dwellings and the violation of our wives
nd daughters held up venia offence. They have form
combinations to steal and away our property They
ave hired lecturers whose sole business is iname the
ubc mind at the North against Enactment after enact
nent crowded into your statute books hinder DELAY and
eaud the Southern the prosecution Of his constitu
ona rights Your courts justice have been converted into
he vilest instruments of oppression and when other means
ave failed to accomplish robbery riot and murder have been