The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-10-05
Hon. Marshall J. wellbOrn.

This gentleman, the Democratic Rep.
resentative from the Cd Congressional
District of Georgia, delivered a speech
on the subject Of the adjustment bills, re-
Gently, from which we make the follow
ing short extract. We take special
pleasure in pres nting the views of the
distinguished gentlemen from Georgia.
because that State justly ranks fore most
in the list of Southern States in agricul.
ture, manufac .urcs, and internal i'm
provmenls, and because she Is to take
the lead in the great SECESSION or reUOIG-
tion movement, if tho Counsels Of sonic
Of her unwise citizens and designing pol
iticians should prevail. In the Cdnven-
ton which has been called 10 that State,
Ito which the Legislature Of Mississip-
pi is TO be the echo-we afe fejoiced to
see that there will be no aid from her
Congressman, BerriSn, Cobb, ToOmbS,
Stephens and Wellborn. The fact is,
the Convention will be a fash in the
pan, and the Legislature Of Mississippi
will respond with a fit. Here is the
extract. Mr.. WelIborn said,
He differed very widely from the honorable
gentleman from Virginia (Mr seddon) in the
estimate placed on the other great measure
the Texas boundary and New Mexico bill. In
his Judgment, in the precise condition Of our
public affairs, q more necessary, reasonable,
and just, aye, sir, a more humane and Opp0r-
tune measure was never passed by any Gov
ernment. He held himself prepared to mSke
good this statement ON oil proper occasions,
and regretted that he could not go into the
subject more extensively Just now. He had
heard with much pain the combined measures
denounced as q purchase Of slaveholding soil,
and this, too, sir, with the purchase money Of
the seller. lie saw no free soil IN the New
Mexico bill at Least, he preferred to Took IL
the subject in its extensive and associated as
poets, and to him II bore a very different COM
p~lexion. Had he forgotten that Texas was a
vast slave holding domain, that had been added,
on the motion Of Southern politicians, to the
Union, it is true, yet, seCtiOnaIly, to the South?
Had we forgot that TO hold on to the connex-
ion, and perfect her claim to the full territorial
limits, by reducing it to possessIOn, the nation
at large has expended near one hundred mil.
lions Of dollars, and had gathered together on
the SAME battle-felds the kindred sons of every
of the country? Are we at liberty to
that we have diverted into our Golfers
constantly a%ccruing revenues Of Texas, ex-
%presslv pledged to her creditors? Is there
due to the necessities and wishes OF
herself, on this point! And finally,
have we, N our prosperity, lost all sympathy
for New Mexico, that we should subject her
to unnecessary, il not to ruthless dismember-
nIent? One word more, sir, on the subject OF
the purchase price, II, sir, New England and
the North, and the great Northwest, car come
to meet the South in a common expendi-
ture Of ten millions more on the sacred mission
Of extricating the complicated and %periIocs
issues involved, and rescue our common COun-
try from possibly a common ruin, is i; for the
South-is it, sir, for the honorable DentIeman
myself, shareholders and democrats as we
are, to stand out? No, sir, l voted for the
measure and / stand by il.