The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-08-04

qualities OF head and heart which his friends may al
tribute 70 him only say there y treason IN that head
sad heart q 1 sad q l re-. And
be is well entitled to regard, when We are nqpfing into
the actual condition OF public sentiment the State OF
Ssa ns SeS y
Would any man in the Old Dominion use or Justify such
reasonable language But Col Gregg then went on to
say:
ton Of new government thar We had tie tight 70 secsds;
and II Were necessary and advisable, It did becone
MEN TO be deferred from exercisingit
Col Gregg goes on to say:
Besides, IL should come, II terminals fvors-
byito the South Il do SO, because were more
warlke people than our opponents, and would have that
valor % Moreover. We were an agricultural people,
while our opponents were engaged in aud
il prsraeisd Struggle This he a as.rssd
BY reference TO the Carhagenisn Very classical u
They have got the mouth or the Mississippi liver IN South
CAROLINA! Gaughter) did not suppose that Two hun.
that noble river at all
To repeat. he says:
Besides This, hare the mou of the DIississpi river n
sn . BY his means can blockade ths Whole n@ih~af0a
Yes gentlemen OF the Northwest you are in Imminent,
danger Of armed blockade, be on foot BY South
Carolina major or colonel. Il do not know exactly
which, and you ought q once TO prepare yourselves for
the process OF having four OF egress herneri.
cally obsracted by the chYalry OF South Carolina
[GIeat laughterl
This j. really. Mr. President, about the most laagha-
BILE speech lever read and it's power Of awakening lud
crous emotion rs greatly enhanced by the fact that the
orator one OF the remaining great men Of South Caro-
lima Mr. Gregg talks as fippantly about Selling the
mouth OF the Mississippi river, and blockadng the
northwestern States, AS some urchn would Of spin
ming his top or miss in her teens Of hemmng her
moh ns aog q ss1 upon and holding
nations OF Europe could do by conunctiye action and
would like to advertise good friends Of South Caro-
Y that those who dwell upon ;hs Mississippi and
Those Whom God has Joined together traitors rsnd
dsunder. Mr.. Gregg says that 1.-THE issue might come
This sagacions suggestion should enforce upon the
importance Of immediate adjustment Of This delicate
move the only remaining petext Of the least pausiby
tor the perpetrahon OF treason. But Mr.. Gregg con.
tinues:
The stfegglc woald then become general one and we
territory and IL say where the people Of South
Carolina and the Kefshaw district would be day,
since the exhibition given during the war with Mexico
II seems that Colonel Chestnut then addressed the
meetings and more atulent bombastc speech never
delivered even in the Kershaw district South Carolina
The gentleman is really all bounce, and bravado, and
billy goat audacity He raves like bedlanite squeaks
like luckless pig between two sturdy fence rails,
and pops like very chestnut when thrown into the fire
withoufs previous splitting Of the hull On reading This
speech OF Mr. Chestnut, 1t really distressed me 10 think
that had never heard OF him before con-
ectured that there might be some gentleman somewhere
ary parsonage. too and is undoubtedly OF the real
ctiUary Listen you please, to the account given Of
him and his speech:
Colonel Chestnut then followed in speech of great in
eres and much briancy defending the convention from
the charge OF being reasonable meetings which charge
had been made at the North while the people
pose, without being liable any charge, He ihen
spoke Of the which had rendered convention
no fla fhern Sta.
had proved recreant To the reposed BY the
feat the binding oblgations Of Solemn treaty, nads aad
ratified Voluntarily, between them how they had by this
bow s
government had been violently and faudnenly wresied
machine ia their lands advance and subserye hess
purposes how, by the fiscal action OF the
South, and proinsely avshed on Tue North, by which
means she was robed in borrowed magncence; that
the divisions prevailing 81 The south and among The south.
representatives in Congress that the South had
contribution. eveed aud held sacred by her, protection
from These aggessoas bur that these though strong,
nsufcientfo defend her against the anatcal spirit of
F5ofs, u Co. SO, Sc.
surely ought to be very grateful ~ to Col Chestnut
Tor enabling me to ascertain my precise standing in South
Carolina l. who aided the senator from Virginia Mr. MA.
SOM IN getting up the southern meeting eighteen months
ago-l who have assaed in my own feeble way but zeal
ousy aud iearessy, every champion OF abolition on this
floor whether potential feeble to the best OF my strength
IL who have been formerly commended even here by j.
e. Calhoun himself for good intention and extreme devo
ton 10 southern inerests-l who have incurred more OBJ
loquy and malignant dcue than any southern man ever
did on account OF my erce and fcvd yndcaton OF the
rights Of the South from assalment, with whomsoever
orignatng-l, wh0 for undertaking TO vindicaie the
character oil South Caronas greatest statesman after be
had passed from the stage OF earthly action have been
thrown for four months past into sort OF parliamentary
C0venby--l am now associated in South Carolina with
one Tor whom South Carolina chershes more hatred and
contempt than Tor any man living or dead Well this
Is the sort OF reward that human Justice commonly be-
slows, and / am content with IT, will only say that
some oil the good people OF South Carolina as much mis-
understand me they do the questions now before The
country for decision.
Mr. President, gentlemen now speak OF the Missouri
Compromise as an ufinafum. SO the honorable sena.
to consult the honorable senator from South Caro-.
lima who sits nearest 10 me, Mr. BARSwELL,l who was
member OF the Nashville Convention, when be first came
here, regret that be is not in his place. TO
whether the Nashville Convention looked upon the Mis-.
sour Compromise line uitimafum He said prompt
y that il was not 30 recognised by him consulted with
the president Of the convention [Chie Justice Sharkey
all the delegates to the convention who have yet reach
ed this city, with whom have had opportunity OF con-
versing. And yet honorable gentlemen here and cham.
pons oil sedItion elsewhere, insist that the Missouri
Compromise line, adopted al Nashville, is an ultima
fum and that there is alternative 10 its adoption by
have always voted for the line OF 80 deg 30 min when
have had opportunity, confess that never yet in my
life thought for single instant OF making II ultima
ttfm nor can easily perceive how any person. being
possessed OF the ordinary quantum OF reasoning power
could think OF such thing praefcai proposition
The truth is, II is chiefly insisted with view to
disunton, and that the whole country will shortly nm.
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