The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1850-10-17
nm. spesch OF Mr.. soule--EIis attack on
- r,ltirnns of Nexv Orleans.

she citizens of NewOrleans.
The speech Of Mr.. Soule, on Tuesday night as |
reported by his friends of the Delta, is very GU
r;ous niece Of rhetoric. 1t is decidedly compli- |
mentary to the citizens of Neworleans in general,
and to the Yankees in particular He defended
his vote against the admission of California be-
cause Louisiana had repeatedly expressed her
sentiments against the admission of State without
a constitution embodying the Wilmot Proviso.
Will the learned Senator point out any instance
where Louisiana has given such expression! Last
winter the Legislature refused to interfere wththe
action of Congress. The principle embodied IN
the resolutions of Mr.. Calhoun is assented to, we
believe, by the entire population OF the State
European Frenohmen, Creoles, Yankees, and all
We quote from Mr.. Calhoun:
In 1s47 Mr. Calhoun introduced series Of resolutions on
this snhet in one which he announces the fundamental
right Of the people of State, coming into the Enon to
T." and aasp ecu e heir OWN liberty aud hap
ness tat in conformity thereto, no other condition Is I'M
admitted this Union, that lis constitution shall be
epabcap and nat the b ay %9G Gy oSn n
direct conflict with the principle on which our political ss
tenn rests. "
Texas whose Southern feeling no one will deny,
on March 1s 1s4S, throughthe Legislature, adopted
the same principle in resolution in these words ::
THAT we deny the right of the Congress Of the United
States to pass law prohibiting State that may here
after be admitted into the Union from coming n either with
with the popular voice Of such State may
determine This principle zee Dau not yietd''
Mr.. Soule, speaking of the constitution of Cali
fornia, says;
That constitution was made by SPECTATORS who had nc
interest IN Catornia but who thus undertook to x in al
had been occupied by them He had also voted
Of Texas In fine he had sustained the rights of Louisiana
qnd the south stand equality with the other States
Of seventy i've out Of hundred millions Of The cost OF tn
Mexican war, and, at the Iime exclude them iron
all the advantages OF that war.
The formation of State Government for Cali
rornia was forced on the American citizens (cour
teously styled spectators, who had no interest il
California y by circumstances. Congress had LEI
them without any government; they were com
PEELED to make one for themselves, or live in a stat
of anarchy endurable only by French Jacobir
Both Mr. Polk and Gen. Taylor recommended thi
course. Mr.. Folks opinion is made known by Nj
Lumpkn of Georgia, who, in recent speech a
i Rome, GA, stated that the bill introduced by MI
Douglass of Illinois, authorizing California to forr
a constitution to be admitted State, was frame
in consultation with Mr.. Polk, and met his AZ
proUal." The institution of slavery was exclude
from the constitution by Convention, majorit
Of whose members were Southern men. Undo
that constitution two Southern democrats no.
n the Senate.
Mr. Soul6 then complinented the press of I'll
ID | city at the expense of the people.
He was very severe upon the journals which, instead
nlightenng the people the matter, had involved the In
OTtant questions which tated the country IN such o
md darkness that, although ne Compounds CdS on iatl
4 eee,y bOdy he doubted i there 1oc dozen men IN
II | ctty nhO hHsI0 Uhdt Il todS
l. "The dozen men in the city " who knew VIII
It The Compromise means, ought to be marked vii
n he Soue brand that their superior Intelligent
y may be known. We do not consider any porto
ic Of the compliment as intended for the Crescent
y we published the speeches OF Webster and Clay
h jul. We published, too, synopsis of Mr. Ca
!. nouns great speech, with coplous extracts al
" so, too, of the speech of Mr.. Cass. Mr. Sou
ID saved US the expense of publication by doodir
I'd the State with his lucubratons As the crowd
as friends who visited Mr. Soule exceeded dozen,
suppose the greater part of them not enligh
aned but will wait for his commentary. As "Bla'
le Dan " cannot look after him, we anticipate rio
10 treat.
He then referred to a calumny, in which twas attempt
show that he proposed cOwaTdy to evRde the respOsb
which would attach 10 him in Of conflict between
orth and south. When that time should come, he
who would be before him Obeying the call OF
which had made him all he was, and for which he IL
I an ardent affection.
II We certainly shall not assume unnecessarily Il
e responsibility of contradctng the Senator, lor
4 as can place his published speech, ranked
Il himself over the State, between ourselves and da
ger. We quote Peter SoulG in the~Senate again
4 Peter Soule in Ramparf