Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1850-03-08
NO. 24} OTTUMWA IOWA. FRIDAY MARCH 8 1914
Washington and the elder Adams wera

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} carried exclusively by Northern counsel
, they could not have been-but mainl
by the ascendancy which Northern coun
sells had obtained in the affairs of the ma
ton. So, sir of the latter riod-lo
: the last fifty years. do not mean Il
say that Southern counsels alone hay
carried the measures which am abon
to enumerate. know they could no
exclusively have carried them. but sa,
they have been carried by their prepon
deraiing influence, with the cooperation
1t is true-the large cooperation in some
lnstances-of the Northern section of tn,
Union. And what are those measures
During that fifty wears, or nearly tha
period, in which Southern counsels have
preponderated, the embargo and othe,
commercial restrictions of non inter.
course and non-importation were i'm
posed; war with Great Britain, the bank
of the United States overlhrown. protec.
tion enlarged and extended to domestic
manufactures. | allude to the passage
of the act of 1918 or 1916. the bank oil
the United States re-estabIished, the
same bank put down, re.establshed by
Southern counsels, and put down by
Southern counsels, Louisiana acquired
Florida bought, Texas annexed. war with
Mexico, California and other Territories
acquired from Mexico by conquest and
purchase, protection superseded. and free
trade established, Indians removed ives,
OF the Mississippi, and fifteen new States
admitted into the Union. Ii is very pos
sible, sir, that in this enumeration may
have omitted some of tine important
measures which have been adopted dur
Ing this latter period of time-he last
| hfty years-but these | ID eIieve to be the
most prominent ones. MI
| Now. sir, ! do not deduce from the
enumeration of the measures adopted by
the one side or. the other. any just cause
OF rcproach. either upon one side or the
other; though one side or the other has
preaominated in the two periods to which
| have referred. These measures were,
to say the least, the joint work of both
parties. and neither of them have any
just cause to reproach the other. But.
Sir, must say, in all kindness and sin
ceri'y, that last of all ought the South to
reProach the North, when we look at the
long Esi Of measures which, under her
sway in the counsels of the nation, have
been adopted; when we reflect that even
opposite doctrines have been from time
to time advanced by her; that the estab-
lishment of the Bank of the United
States, which was done under the admin
istration of Mr.. Madison, met with the
cooperation of the Soulh-I do not say
| the whole South-I do not, when speak
of the South or the North, speak of the
entire South or the entire North; speak
of the prominent and larger portion of
Southern and Nothern men. II was
during Mr.. Madison administration that
the Bank of the United States was estab-
lished. My friend, whose sickness,
which very much deplore, prevents us
from having his attendance upon this oc-
casion, (Mr. Calhoun) was the chairman
of the committee, aud carried the meas
ure through Congress. voted for it
with all my heart. Although had been
instrumental with other Southern voters
in putting down The Bank of the United
States, changed my opinion and coop
of 1916. The same bank was again
put down by Southern counsels, with
General Jackson at their head, at later
period. Again, with respect to The poll
cy of protection. The South, in 1915
i mean the prominent Southern men,
the lamenled Loundes, Mr.. Calhoun.
and olhers--uniied in extending certain
measure of protection TO domestic man
ufaclures as well as the North. We find
4 few years a(terward the South interpos-
ing most serious objections TO this policy.
and one member of the South threaten
ing on that occasion dissolution of The
Union, or separation. Now, sir, let US
take another view of the quesiion-and
would remark that all these views are
brought forward, not in a spirit of re-
proach, but of concilialion--not to pro-
woke or exasperate, but to quiet, to pro-
duce harmony and repose, if possible
What have been the territorial acquisi-
lions made by this country, and to what
interests have they conduced! Florida.
where slavery exists, has been introduced;
Louisiana. or all the most valuable part
of the State--for although there is a
large extent Of territory north of the line
SO degrees 30 min., in point of intrinsic
value and importance ! would not give
The single State of Louisiana for the
whole OF it-all Louisiana, | say, with
the exception of that which lies north o
SO deg. 80 min., including Oregon, to
which we obtained title mainly on the
ground of lis being part OF the acqni
si,ion OF Louisiana; all Texas, all the
territories which have been acquired by
the Government of the United States
during its sixty years operation have
been slave territories, the theatre of sla
very with the exception that have men
toned of that lying north of the line 81
deg. 80 min.
/ And here, in the case of war mad,
essentially by the South-growing out o
the annexation of Texas, which was
measure proposed by the South in th'
councils of the country, and which lie,