The Charlotte journal. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1835-1851, 1850-04-24

e'e' cdPidi LOT Inc purpose. But u needed,
! II would come in from abroad. English cap
lla!isls have filled b, ium with factories
Why did this occur Simply because pro-.
visions were cheaper and taxes lower than in
England. TIE same motives would bring
them into tho southern country, since both
the reasons assigned are much stronger in
our case. J, has already been proved that
IRE can manufacture some kind Of goods more
cheop'y thau fhe North"
What would the free trade y gentlemen
OF tbs South say TO that! w Would no, South
: Carolina 10 orpo-ee 10 :a-i Would not
South Carolina oe oppressed by that taffla 7
But We are 10 have English capiial."-
Eng land is too we'll satisfied with the tariff of
40 10 lend Us money to enable us 10 impose
duties on "ober foreign Countries" Eng.
land who forbid our iorefathers Ia manulac.
'ture- who punlshes any man Who induces an
artisan TO leave her shores-iend US capital
ln loi4, my colleague had I" no reliance on
the sincerity of the British governmen,."-
Then he said: England, who had abolished
slavery in her West India islands, was seek
ing to interfere with the institution in other
countries" do no, believe our people will
be in love with this idea.
My colleague spoke Of the &" other ac
qusiion. Of territory" TO be made "a after the
next Presidential election"
/ | do not understand what this means.
hope he does not mean that we are 10
engage IN foreign war again, as was intima.
ted IN the Baliimore convention by Mr.. Han.
negan-lhat we should annex Yucatan and
Cuba. thought the defeat Of General Cass
had secured US from the dread Of such horrd
consequences. advocated General TBy
lor's election upon the ground lha, he was op
posed To foreign war. Are we to forbid New
Mexico 10 become free State if she prefers
III! How far are we TO 60 before We consent
to allow free State 10 exist south Of us =
Must we have every mau's land ha, adloins
our own"
There is but one other Of my colleagues
remarks TO which will advert:
Hare not prominent northern politicians
of the highest po itions and The greatest i,t1u.
tnce, uhOSe names are NEIL knorn TO the gen.
iemen on this floor, already declured that
there is nothing in the Constitution of the q.
nited States rhich obstruets or ought TO oh
struct the abolition Of slduery by Congress in
the St0tes?'
Ny colleague is better acquainted with
politicians than am. But do no, know a.
ny northern politician who has avowed such
an opinion. Even the Buffalo convention did
not 60 that far. Again, he says: In twenty.
five years, il we are surrounded by free States,
the condition OF The South would be "thal of
Ireland; and soon, by the destruction of the
remnants of the white population, become
that of 81. ID DJmingo." And he adds -
Northern men not only admi, it, but con-
stan'y 10 their public speeches avow i, 10 be
their purpose to produce this very state Of
things" Sir, | must deny this. Nv col.
league is greatly mistaken. Since read his
speech have inquired and | am proud to
say have been unable to learn when north.
era men, or one single northern man, ever
avowed so strocious sentiment. can hear
of no such man. Surely such a wretch never
contaminated this place.
never heard of but one man so wicked as
to think withou, horror of insurrec.ion in the
southern States: and he was Van Buren,
Democrat from Ohio, (Benjamin Tappan,
former Senator.)
My colleague spoke with contempt those
who uttered the "insane and senseless cry Of
,, Union, Union" He was +" di.gusted at it.
This DISCUS, is but two years old.
Iu December, lS47, thus spoke my col,
league
"It would be vain, however, for US on eli.
ther side 10 hope for such prosperity as we
+ have hitherto enjoyed. the stream Of our
national existence should be divided each
branch must roll diminished volume, aud
would be able only 10 bear lesser burden.
Such separation would be he saddesl of all
! partings. We should feel that our way was
lonely, like that Of Hagar in the desert-des,
olate as the wandering of our fiis parents,
when crime had jus, begun" &C., &c.
Very handsomely in the same train:
i owe have community Of interest, which
J. it would seem that no party madness could
a break up. We have, too, recolleclions of the
o past, which, TO American feelings, are s,ron.
v ger even than calculations Of interest"
u This was neither insane nor senseess; bu
a RATIONAL and sensible, and well becoming {
o Representative of the old North State.
h A single word as to California. This vii
/. be "test question:" The California pro
II viso" one gentleman from Alabama Mr.
,. lnse) denounced. What is it but declarn
: that the people Of each State shall have
Of right 10 decide for themselves We hav
&c high southern authority for this. Mr.. Pol
IL said, in his message, in lS4S: "W hethe
d. Congress shall legslaie or not, The people c
to the acquired Territories, when assembled |
convention 10 form State constitutions, wi
tn possess the sole and exclusive power 10 de,e
e. mine for themselves whether slavery shall {
ngl shall no, exis, within their limits. If Coz
Oh Ill he,a ipto with ~