Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-08-24

me- to treat the claim which she sets with any oner man
the highest consideration and respect oPPosea ING n
alton Of Texas to the United States well as the war Win
Mexico with whatever of ability and energy coua ePoy'
as you both we'll recoect But the war mas been Psse
cuted and Texas has become part OF our common county
have no sympathy with the who does not experience
emotions of urde at the success of or who would
seek to dim the use of that " lone star which snohe so
brightly when by ITSELF and which now LENDS It's rays 70 ne
common banner Of the nation With feelings sucn as es
could approach the question OF he BOUNDARY "
in any ether than spirit Of beay and compromise, and
would therefore not cav with her about degree OF TWO OF
latitude longitude hut would adopt Amos. any PROPOSE
ton of compromise price which would wilngy pay io
the peace Of the country, and the safety and security OF Inc
Union .
would 60 further and she evidently regards her title
pad would give her any reasonable amount Oh money
quiet her claim And would find much additional argu-
support Of this policy, arising out OF the TACT ha up
ON her we appropriated all her revenues from
the support OF the Federal Government would
not stop to calculate the worth Of few dollars and cents upon
any question where the peace and safety OF the country was
involved Nor would be intmidated by the cry that The
would benefit the holders bonds for the same
argument may be used against every loan Dill that passes
Congress would take In whatever course pursued
lay myself liable to the impuaon OF entertaining mar
and sectional views Of the question, but would YIELD IN
every step LIBERAL enlarged, and fmertcan spirit OF
concession
This is not fit occasion for explanation Of all the rea-
which would induce me to vote Tor MI clay pllls
but refrain from saying that there no one OF them
that would support willingly than that which provides
for the Of fugitive slaves. Without the provision IN
the constitution which gives this right Of recapture every
body knows, who is familiar with our history tha .ne
Union could not have been formed Congress has nothing
do with the policy which led its adoption 80 long as
remains part Of the constitution i no less binding han
any other part Of it. There those, know, who insist
that there law higher than the constitution, and that ns
is the law of epey conscience. No man. trust
highly than do the law OF God OF mas
user appreciation Of his obligation to obey it. by that law
have learned that is "not eDery that SAITH Lord
i Il a.. Lao.a Inpn
of this day who continually appealing to this law TO JUS
y them in setting at defiance the plain provisions OF ne
constitution, and the cleares duties Of the Citizen can re-
gard in other light than dStbers Of ne puo'c peace
If the affairs of the country placed in their hands, they
would very resolve the Government into state Of con-
fusion and anarchy The doctrines they advocate are nose
Of the mob Under the pretence that they are 20
do by the religion Of the bible they encourage the slave
flee from his MASTER although they know that by dong so
he violates the law the State in which he held bondage
They deny the the right Of recapture Or what
quite bad they admit the right and resist the enforcement
Of the law which intended make effective, although
they know that this right expressly provided for by the
guarantees of the constitution They tell the slave that ne
has the natural and inalenabe right to take the life Of his
MASTER it be necessary to his freedom, although the
law of both the slave and free States denounce this crime
murder have been unable to find any such doctrines as
these taught within the lids of the bbe There is certainly
license given to them in the law Of Moses-for that law
required of the servant obedience to the master, and recog
missed perpetual bondage where the slave not Iaete
Nor the doctrines proclaimed by the prophets for they
less than Moses enforced the necessity Of this obedience
Nor in the teachings Christ for he required all to be as be
was himse subject to the powers Of the Government and
the authority of the law where he dwe other words
he directed those who followed him to rdr unto Cesar
the things that Casnrs DC Nor in the preaching of
Peter and Paul. for they eoned the srctest obedience at all
times the civil authority. am very that there can
be found single of the bible which nculcaes
the destructive and revolutionary doctrines which these gen.
emen teach, and that it filled from beginning to end with
the strongest denuncia.ions Of them And it seems to me,
that the and Of the whole country
equally condemn them. Certainly it requires but little
gacy to see the consequences that would follow if they
generally adopted The weak would become the Of the
strong the laws which protect property character and
other personal right would be ramped under foot and the
desperate and depraved would dispense the law
corng their conscences An oath to support the const
tuition Of the United States would make impression
upon such than would the weight Of hair upon the
| surface of the hardest adamant.
The constitution is neither more nor less than compact
of government to which all the States and all the people of
the United States parties. Its very terms impose upon
the Federal authority the performance Of those and the
Of those principles that necessary to pepe
tuate the objects Of its creation But does not stop here
carries with it obligation upon euery citizen that he
will fulfil his duty to it, in the form in which it is by
adheng to its principles and by making them the rule Of his
conduct in all those matters which the public policy
Of the country This high obligation cannot be discharged
BY rejecting disobeyng its provisions nor is the failure to
discharge it. justified excused by the miserable pretex that
the constitution might have been ought to have been diff
erenty made IL enough fof any COCA ctzen 10 know
what the constitution is, and knowing this he will always
consider the highest discharge of duty to perform whatso
ever it shall require Of him. He who will not do So but
heedessy violates dsregads its provisions because does
not suit ms conscience to obey them. necessarily traitor
to the constitution He may not it is true, be guilty Of
act OF legal treason he may pursue peaceabe, quiet and
moral life but there is such depraviy of heart about
him. such utter restitution of all that patriotic in feeling
and all that is useful in the practical duties Of citizenship
that he cannot be safely trusted any Of the public relations
of society. II be be public man, and has sworn to sup
port the constitutions he is guilty Of perjury in bis heart
before the God to whom he appeals If he be private citi
zen, he may profess but cannot feel those home sympahes
and virtues Of the heart which teach obedience the law
necessary to the quiet and peace Of his own iresde.
The party advocating this doctrine 10 this country look
the most dangerous and destructive that has been yet
produced by the many changes in public affairs II is
composed several classes Of men, generally off from
the other parties and who confederaed together bring
about revolution in politics and society by constantly APP
peang the passions and selshness Of men, They have
no true and correct ideas of regulated progress but pursue
that only which gives license to violate the law and invade
the rights Of others They look upon as mere
machines, to be pushed forward backward their oto
or feelings require and without reference the
great principles Of morality upon which they founded
They have no faith in the past but would blot every page
Of record, that the future might be without law without
end and without morality. They Of the dei and So
cdst schools Of France-he infatuated followers of Fourier
and Proudhon. They mnge together, in their political
creed all the sns Of the day, and delight in nothing
but novelty change, confusion, and excitement consider
the duty of every good and vuous minded man 10 resist
the progress OF this dangerous and unpnciped party by
whatsoever means be honoraby employ. For myself
shall act upon these convictions without stopping inquire
or caring know whether they have heretofore been Wigs
or Democrats care nothing for the gab in which man
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