The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-03-02


ration cannot bind another, and ask you, sir.
now much money we eoulI borrow? Could
we gei dolar2 Gentlemen have sookon Of
war, but with this suicidal doctrine. H. orm
OF patriotism would iall neyeress by The side,
But the eisanother question connected win
! snS debate, and thatis the appropriation Of $3.50,
W to meet supposed emergency in the fed
eFal relations, to be placed at the disposal of
Tue Governor. ! Om opposed to it because
believe to be wholly and absolutely un-
necessary. II istoo small for war. and loo
creation any pacific purpose. do not believe
the emergency will ever arise. If il should.
millions could be raised at moment,s warainn
AS an earnest Of what we viii do. /, is to5
smalI--as threat it is ridiculous. Our safe
~ does not depend on the passage Of this
amendment, if il did would add million in
Its space. Threatening is not our true policy.
Let US re-establlsh confidence in our faithful
compliance with our obligations, and then
should the emergency arrive, we can borrow
sum OF thousand fold greater. Let us pay
what we can and wipe out the stigma that
rests upon u.s. a.a
Morris this appropriation necessary to sun.
port the action IF the southern convention
for nothing like this was contemplated. Dele
gates to the Nashville Convention were an.
pointed, and the suggestion of the proper
course lett TO thcm.i Taig measure is in con-
travention Of that inasmuch as it leaves il to
the G9yernorto determine upon the emerren.
cy and the remedy, and for that am opp0sed
to it.
Besides doubt the propriety Of leaving
such great issue to the judgement Of one
man. l have a natural jealousy of the one
man power. | am unwilling in,-lhis free and
enlightened republic, to make a military die.
tator who might commit us to the worst posi-
Bile course ofpolicy. One rash, one false steL =,
might cost US all we hold dear. |. do not wish
TO be committed, nor to see the people Of the
State committed, to the lead Of any one man
The people of this country are creators of
heir institutions, and are the proper destroyers,
! they are to be destroyed. They, and they
ilone can build up and put dqwn at pleasure.
The time has happily gone by when a knot Of
can overthrow the institutions Of
'ur country. The people and tho people alone
hould be consulted as 10 the proper course to
'e pursued, and moi the Governor, nor any one
nan or any set Of men.
regard the appropriation altogether uD-
necessary upon another ground. Cal
fornia will 40 doubt speedily come into the
Jpon as State, aud supercede tho action of
Congress. fiji saouId come in, even with
he prohibition of slavery in her constitution,
Who can object! Is it not the settled republi,
an doctrine that the new State must deter
nine on tn is SUBJECT for herself! Neither Con-
.ress nor the States have the right. The
overeign people of the new State must decide
his for themselves when making the constitu-
ion.
California exercising right acknowledged
y southern gentlemen, when they supported
certain distinguished author Of the Nichol-
on letter for the presidency, to belong to the
errtorial Legislature, has restricted slavery in
er constitution and asks admittance into the
Jnion. Surely if the same people had the
right to regulate their own affairs in their
wn way the same people have the same if
ot higher right to regulate their affairs in
heir own way when about to assume the at
ltude ofa State. 1t seems strange and absurd
or those who advocated thelrght of mere
errtora government to forbid the existence
f slavery, to deny the exercise Of the same
over to the same people, when taking step
eyond that, and doing what no republican
yer denied to any free people before.
Morris it necessary for Congress to take the
Initiative step as some suppose Kentucky,
ermont and Michigan, presented their res
ectiye constitutions without that formality
this undoubtedly republican right,
nd demanding admission as State, who
prepared to refuse California a place a.
long the States? Regrcttng her choice as
e do, yet, if she comes in, who that loves
would be willingly to dissolve
le Union for this? Who is there that sells so
ght an estimate upon the nestimable bles-
ngs it bestows, as to destroy all our proud
Opes for the exercise Of known and uni-
srsally acknowledgedrepubIican principle!
IL Is not necessary, because we of the
'uth, of all men, should feel perfect safe,
pom all subjUctsIailecting our peculiarinsti-
ltion Ofslavery. We have president, wise,
rudent, and firm, who is identified in interest
18th US, and who will be ever ready to arrest
blow aimed at the South. OF all men living
is the mansof my choice for the tines
0 emergency can happen, such as some
oppose, whilst Zachary Taylor is at the head
afiaifs have every confidence, and not
zen the shadow ofa doubt, that he will trans
it the Union with all its blessings unimpaired