Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-23

Of Representatives ash Congress- third session. page co. pass
ed yeas 1885, nays 65.
Il presented by a Northern man, from the State o.
New Hampshire The resolution discussed and adopted
yeas 1885, 65 more than two to one II declared
by solemn Of the House that the effort abolish sla
very in this District indirect TO abolish The
States. Northern voted with Southern men, and voted
the truth. How, then, Southern men be complained oil
for resisting this effort now And how can il be alleged that
the South is sensitive upon this question when eleven
years ago than of the House Of Representa-
ves declared that be the intention, and which the
South now feels TO be the fact
This question may probably be ocby brought to the
hearts OF Northern by supposng that, instead of Vir
ginia and Maryland cedng the District of Columbia to the
General Government, the Od Bay State" had ceded
miles square, including the beautiful city of Boston that
there for forty years the Representatives OF this nation had
liberated in patriotic councils for the happiness peace and
prosperity of great and growing country Suppose that
after this bgots in the South had discovered that the absence
of sarerY the greatest and its eristence u0d be
the greatest blessing the North and that this blessing
with The phianhr0pic reu OF forcing upon the North the
institution Of slavery Suppose the bgots in the South had
inocuaet men, women and children with the feelings
and that the SCuh had numerical superiority the ballot
box, and resolved TO make the North prosperous
and happy at all hazards with what spirit would such in
suit and outrage upon Northern feeling be met by the de-
scendants of the Pilgrim Fathers They would point to the
Heights of Bunker for the The voice of the entire
last extremity"
But how far short Of the actual case would this supposed
come How much malignant and gross is the in
suit The supposed would, accomplished, compel
man to purchase slaves would not be to deprive the Nonh
of their fertile fields, rich manufactures and noble cities
But, in the of the District Of Columbia millions upon
millions Of property is sought to be destroyed, fields
desoaed our homes invaded and every thing pered which
makes life desirable Will not every candid man say that this
sad grievance to the South Who say there undue
sensbiity upon this subject
Permit me 10 read an extract from the speech of the
great Of the age if The of the age read from
the speech Of HENRY CLAY
Sir, in the habit Of speaking lightly OF the posi-
bty OF solyng this happy Union The Senate knows that
full event The country will testify that if there be any thing
in the history OF public worthy of recoecon it
the truth and sincerity of ardent devotion to m lasting
preservation But should be false in GNegiGce
did not discriminate between the imaginary and real
dangers by which it may be assailed. Abolition should
longer be regarded imaginary danger The aboonsts
let suppose succeed in their present aim OF uniting the in
habants OF the free States against the Inhabitants
OF the slave States Union the side will beget union
the oher and this OF reciprocal consolidation viii be
attended with all the violent udce embtered passions,
and mpacable anosities which degraded deorned
human nature yirral dissolution Of the Union will have
taken place whilst the forms Of its existence remain The
most valuable element Of unonmuuai kindness the feels
ngs Of sympathy the aternal bonds which happily unite
us-wl have extngushed for ever One section will
stnd in menacng and hostile array against the other The
collision Of opinion will be quickly followed by the clash Of
arms. will attempt to describe which hap
PLY lie concealed from view Aboonists themselves
would shrink back in day and horror the contemplation
Of deoated fields eonfasated cities murdered Inhabitants
and the overthrow Of the arest fabric of human
that animate the hopes of civilized Nor
should these abolonsts aer themselves that they succeed
in their object of uniting the people Of the free States they
will enter the contest with numerical superiority that
victory All history and experience prove the hazard
and uncertainty Of war. And admonshed BY Holy
Writ that the the swift the battle to the
strong But they conquer shom would they con-
quer A foreign foe One who had nsued our flag, in
vaded our shores and laid our country waste No sr no.
he oil
SELF suicidal conquest conquest of brothers brothers.
achieved by another portion Of the descendants
tunes and their sacred honor had fought and bed side by
side in many hard battle land ocean, severed our
country from the British Crown and established national
| independence.
The inhabitants Of the States ara sometimes accused
by their Northern brethren with displaying much RASH
and sensiby the operations and proceedings OF abo
onsts But before they be rightly Judged there should
be reversal of conditions Let suppose that the people
OF the slave States form societies. subsdze
make large pccunary contributions send forth
sionarie throughout all their borders and mach
nations to burn the beautiful capo destroy the productive
manufactures and sink the the gallant ships OF the
Northern States Would these ncendiary edngs
garded neighborly and friendly and consistent with the
raterna sentiments which should be cherished
portion OF the Union towards another Wcsd they excite
emotion occasion manifestations OF dissatisfaction,
lead OF reaatory violence But the supposed
case as tar short Of the actual essential cir
cumstance In contingency could these captols manuc
tories and ships rise in rebellion and the inhabitants
OF the Northern Stses-t. Cay's Speech Senate L. s.
1889. .1aNoy's Life and Species Of Henry Clay, rot .,
page 273 .".. ...,
We here that Mr. Clay incuca,ed the idea that is in
vain to say that there danger this Union from the abo
on movementhat union upon side would beget union
on the other side And commentary upon that, which
Is the true sentiment, let tell you tell the nation,
the grand secret OF the peril in which placed. We
have been told by Northern that the aboonists were
looked upon with scorn and contempt the North and
had the assurance of the North that they nccnsi
derable in numbers to peril position We believed it,
and have believed 1t in former times but although they
were small IN number and still may be small-would TO
God they may become less until they vanish from the earth
yet they have become sufficiently decide the
elections OF the North, and both political parties Wings ard
Democrats, have courted The aid of the aboionists until
Northern opinonso far Judge Of Northern opin
ion from elections, from State resoutons and by the posi-
tons of Northern Representatives upon this hoo-stands
as man, say man, though there may be, and
believe there few excepons) pledged support
measures which consider fatal to the South. Tell me
not OF man not being an aboonist who for Fastening
upon the country the abolition of slvery in the Dtc. OF
Columbia and fer the passage Of the Wilmo proviso he is
as dangerous enemy to the South as the distinguished
gentlemen from Ohio (Mr GTDpIsGs) himself
And this sectional union at The North which achieved
by both political parties courng the of the abolonss
led to union on the part of the South and that union of
the North satisfied the South tha; she had rely on herself
that the Northern allies would desert her. and desert her
ever If che would tamey ANONYMOUSLY submit have every
thing swept from under her II deuson on the part
of Northern on this subject
But, Mr.. Chairman said had confidence in the Union
have, because there Is too much of patriotism Northern
hearts, there too much intelligence in Northern mnd for
them ever to these that would result
in destruction to the Unon in wreckng the bright hopes of
the world. They believe that the South is in earnest,
and means resist this aggession every hazard and
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