The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-06-19

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they would not get it by sticking into this
amendment this abstraction, which the same
gentlemen avowed they meant finally to strike
out. What was the use Of all this CANNON?
He could not understand the consistency Of
gentlemen voting for the Missouri Colnpro-
mise, when they said it was unconstitutional.
He ridiculed the idea Of Northern gentle
men being so stimulated by fear that the
South would misapprehend the vote of yes
terday, which, it was said, had been carried
on the wings of lightning over the entire
South, as by way of pacifying the South
and giving peace and quietness to that Sec
ton to vote an amendment to proposition
and then to vote down the entire PROPOSE
ton. Was this the Committee of the.
Whole Of the House of Representatives. or
was it place where they were distributing
sugar-plums and bonbons9 This amendment
had nothing to do with the subject under con-
sideraton. He should vote against it, as
he should against any other proposition
which was not necessary to perfect the bill.
He went for California alone, by itself, and
he would even vote against proposition Of
amendment embodying the Buffalo platform.
He wished it was legitimate case for
offering proposition declaring that any peo-
pie emigrating from any part of the United
States had the right to convert free terri
tory into al slave territory. He would like
to vote against it, and he would like to have
the gentleman from Pennsylvania MIR. Bur
LER) v.te for it, and have the gentleman's
constituents, understood it. He would like
to know how many men there were from the
free States ready to declare that free terrific
ry might be converted into slave States.
The gentlemen from Illinois (Mr. BrssELL)
spoke about little segments Of parties, and
said that the great parties" of the North
were not in favor of such things. There
were very few men of the North, he could
tell the gentleman, in favor of the "great
PARTIES" they were separated, and you
could never get them together again, unless
you got them into an omnibus.
Here the Chairman's hammer fell.) MIR.
X. withdrew the amendment.
Mr.. MORSE renewed the amendment.
He said: Mr.. Chairman, thank the gem
tleman from Ohio { Mr.. RooT) for withdraw
ing the amendment, and Irenew it; and
thank him again most sincerely for helping
US to smoke out Ito borrow his own striking
expression) some Of our pretended friends,
North and South; and if he and his brother
Free-Soilers will only give us their help, we
shall be able to show to our constituents at
the South what is the public sentiment at the
North in relation to the vexed question of
slavery Twas astonished to hear the gem
tleman from Illinois (Mr, BIssELL) make it
matter Of reproach TIT the result of yes
terday's vote on the resolution Of the gentle
man from Kentucky, (Mr. STANTON
should have been transmitted on the wings
Of lightning and by lightning itself, to all
parts of the South without the explanation
accompanying it. Well, sir, we heard the
explanations Of the gentleman from Illinois,
Mr. BIssELI,) the gentleman from New
Jersey, (Mr. VAN DYKE and the gentle
man from New Hampshire, lMr. HIB-
BARD and the gentleman from Pennsylva-
MIA, (Mr. BUTLER and what does itamount
to? Why, an abstract proposition was pre-
sented which; at the proper time some Of
them were in favor Of, but which some OF
them did not choose to vote, and which all,
!. believe, would vote to strike out Of the
bill, some for one reason and some for an
ether, and yet we Of the South, who tell
our constituents that the Free-Soilers speak
the truth, and that the entire North is hos
tile to our institutions, are denounced daily
as ultra men, factionists, dsunionists, &c.,
&c.
Sir, do not want any of these peace
offerings in the form of an amendment to an
amendment, and then vote to strike out the
whole. want true, substantial votes, and
tangible justice. shall never remain quiet
as long as any distinction is made between
slave property and any other property, either
in the territories or in the States; and YOU
may rest assured that the agitation will never
cease, as long as that odious distinction is
kept up. II we are equals, we should be
allowed to travel peaceably and unmolested
with our slave property not only in every
part Of every territory, but in all the States
of this Union. The States of the South
have made slaves property in fifteen States,
and we should have the right de jme and
de fdcto to go with them wherever we please
AS long as citizen Of Massachusetts can
60 to every Southern State with his horse,
his dog, or any other property, and be pro-
tected in the enjoyment of them, and citi-
zen Of Louisiana cannot go into every other
State with his slave, there is no equality,
and no man doubts, that if the slave States
had SO insisted, such provision would have
been inserted in the Constitution But be-
fng in large majority, they never dreamed
that such right would have been denied
In fact, it was the case until few years
since. When was at school and at college
at the North, my father brought his servants
with him in Boston and Cambridge, and
there was no disposition to modest them or
him.
For myself, Iwant no paper compromises,
no new compromises. II you will not keep
the old one,I am willing to part company
now; and hope the South will reject indig-
nantly every wishy washy, milk and water,
ridiculous compromise, and resist to the last