The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent. (Port Gibson, Claiborne Co., Miss.) 1848-18??, 1850-06-21

to by me with pleasure, but on the contrary with
great pain, which will render it impossible, am
afraid, for that bill 10 pass
What will be the condition of this country?
Let us suppose that Congress does nothing
Let us suppose that it fails to furnish remedy
for any one of the evils which now aflct the
country, and that we separate and 60 home under
those natural feelings of dissatisfaction and DIS
content which will arise out of the failure of
Congress to adjust these great matters. say
nothing of the repfoach and opprobrium which
will be brought upon us by all Christendom. ]
say nothing of those who are looking upon us
with anxious solicthde under the hope that we
will fulfill the high destines of this great repub-
licS say nothing of that large portion Of mankind
who are gazing with intense anxiety upon this
great experiment in behalf of mans capacity and
mans freedom; say nothing of all this matter
of our vainly endeavoring, after the lapse of six
or seven months, to reconcile the distracted and
divided parts of the country.-You 60 home fill
ed with passion and wrath, and urge one section
against the other, each TO agtate its portion
against the opposite portion.-Sir, can the coun-
try-can the republic endure under such state
of things? Let US suppose, however, late, that
you reject this bill and pass the California bill,
and we go home in that state of things. What
will not the South say? What ieproaches will
it not level at the North upon this subject? They
will say to the North: "You got all you wanted;
YOU got the substitute for the Wilmot proviso;
YOU have got clause more effectual more eff
cious than the Wimot proviso: you have got the
inhibition of slavery in the constitution OF Cali.
forna; YOU have got all you wanted, and you
have refused all that could be granted to the 9TH
| er section of the Union. You have got all you
| wanted; and you mean hereafter to take all that
remains and to appropriate it to yourselves. In
this condition of feeling, of mutual evaporation
and excitement-wth heated members-with
heated capacities-wth heated lectures-with
heated fninds-how do you expect to come back
here cool and calm and to dispose OF all the diff
cuties which six months of earnest, anxious la
Dor have shown ypu to be incompetent to accom-
plish."
Now, sir, allow me TO call the attention Of the
Senate TO very painful duty which am con.
strained to perform, but which shall perform
nevertheless, let it subject me to what interpreta
ton it NAV, here or esewhere-I mean that Of
contrasting the plan proposed by the Executive
of the United States with the plan presented by
the Committee of Thirteen; and if the Executive
has single friend here q do not mean exactly
that, because feel myself to be friend of the
Executive, and most anxious 10 cooperate with
it aitogether)-but if there be friend here who
prefers the measure of the Executive to that oil
the Committee, let him stand up here and meet
{ me face to face upon the argument which am
about to offer. | challenge the contrast and
comparison which am about to make here.
What is the plan Of the President? In the
first place, Mr.. President, let me say, that it is
most apparent that every friend of his country
must be anxious that all our difficulties should
be settled that we may once more restore concord
and harmony 10 this country. Now what is the
plan of the President? ] will describe it by {
simiIe, in way which will not he easily misun
derstood. Here are five wounds, bleeding, ant
threatening destruction to the country.-Wha
, is the plan Of the President? To heal all thos
wounds? No sir-no such thng-it is to hes
one only Of the FIVE and leave the other four bleed
ing. even if it produce death itself? | say fiv'
wounds are bleeding: there is California, the first
there are the territories, the second; there is th
question of the boundary of Texas; the third
there is the fugitive slave bill. the fourth; ther
is the question of slavery in the District of Go
lumbia, fifth. The President proposes-instea
D Of a plan comprehending all the diseases of tn
: country-a plan which looks only at one, an
recommends, it is true, bur the recommendation
. does not embrace the fugitive slave BILL or th
district bili-but he recommends the tRo other
e to remain untouched, to cure themselves b
some law Of nature, or some operation which b
l. does not deign to disclose.
/ have seen, with surprise and regret-persis
h tanceAfor so am compelled, painfully. to re
i card it-from the Chief Magistrate of the cour
y trv ii his own peculiar plan. think, in spir
r. Of compromise, the President ought to have com
!. to us. and not we to him What was his plan
). The admission Of California We were willin
/ to admit Califorda, and it comprises part of tf
"A general scheme which we have offered to tt
is country. In the spirit of compromise which,
ID trust, does, and which know ought to animal
l. both ends Of Pennsylvania avenue. we had rig
:. TO suppose the Executive would be satistie
At We went as far as he went, bnt Thought be d
{. not 90 far enough to heal all the wounds OF tt
.: country and therefore offered him our measure
S. to close up the four remaining wounds. thin
Ie in that spirit of peace and concord which oug
d to animate the different departments of the Go
D! ernment, the President should have hailed wi
of pleasure the plan which we offered, embracir
). as it did the very plan which he proposed as
,e part of ITSELF and that there should have been
is dissatisfaction expressed in his name or by b
le authority
re / Let us look little further into this compal
h Eson, which make most painfully. When a
9. dressed the Senate some time since, was
II, hopes that there would have been recprocatil
ne Efrom the other end of the avenue, if not an
/. proval Of the entire scheme, rather than Of tf
III part Of Il only, which Of itself would exaspera
r. and aggravate, instead Of harmonising the cou
"a. try. j did hope that we should have had sor
sign, in some form or other, OF the Executl
II satisfaction with the entire scheme.
os Let us look at the condition Of these Terril
,;s ries and of the country endeavor to dscriI
% inate-and, BY the BY, it is discrimination e
or sential to tie public mind in ajust considerati
of of the subiect-between non-action in regard
n. slavery and non-action as it respects the Cover
an ment Of people, who, BY the ordinance OF Pro
IN dence and the course of events; have come
in our hands to be taken care OF.
lot Here, sir, let me pause moment to recall
is. topic TO which ought to have adverted beio
les | mean the question of there being nothing do
nd for the South in these territorial government
on What, sir, is there nothing done for the Sou
No when the statu quo is left for the South? WI
". has she been complaining OF all along2 i
ch Wimot provso; the proviso Which. IT It be "a
NO Etened upon this measure, as. trust it may no
ne fear, will lead to evil results, and increase,
in. difficulty of satisfying Southern men. Fh
in great effort their sole am almost, was to esca
~ fro,, This nroviso The urovisois not in the b