Southern shield., 1850-10-12
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from thirty thousand down b eight thous- and, retained all his officers, Ind found that he had full grown generals 10 every two hundred men. [APplause.
 All the senate bills of compromise and settlement have passed boIA Houses oi Congress, have been approyRd by the EX ecutve, and are now the lays of the land; and as a constitutional ard laW-abldlnG people we are bound to recfve, submit to and sustain them. If we oflthe South did hot participate more largely in iashioning the institutions of California alter the South ern moddle it was owing to circumstances beyond our reach 10 alter low. If other sections of our common coutry more en- terplising than Southern slae owners had gained the first possession, whose fault was it that they made laws to it themselves! Do the people of California n ed any lessons of repubcanism from Us?
 What of the Texas boundry but com pete and satisfactory ttEment on just such terms and between justuch parties as had right both 10 offer anf receive them. In the Fugitive Slave Bill he South has gained all it ever asked if. Without a shadow of dishonor 10 the $ pth the Union was preserved and the princi les of the con Isttution preserved intact, ltFolate. What more could be said in favor of the distin- guished Senator, the Hon. ' 1AU 5. toote, tthan what was implied in IT meeting ot so large an assemblage to sustlD his course oi action, and do him honor; ald such an hon. or, so warmly and heartily Iestowed, would make amends even for theunmeaSured tor rents of abuse rolled upot him by an un- scruplous and most lnbashingiy imPudent press.
 What is the meaning of the attempt of the disunion press to array those born in the South against those born in the North; 10 brand Natchez and Nev Orleans as free soil cities and reasonable tCSoulhern rights; 10 awaken popular odiun and suspicion against our teachers, preachers, mechanics, merchants and traders!
 What were the "35 90 br fight party'' proposing to do in all this utless it were 10 dissolve the Union by driving tie hot spars into the Hanks of the jaded Southern chiyal- Try! What was it but preparing for war of disunion when minute calculations were made of the war resources of the South. But why omit the details d the navy Of the South Was it becaJse the oaks to build it were yet in the acorn. Why all this contempt thrown upon trade, commerce and cities unless the intention was to dis .trov all, set up a military dlspolism and pastoral life.
 The disunion faction was enleavorlng tc create the idea that the north was intend flag to attack the instilu'.on Of slavery with lin the slave States; but he would tell them that it would be long before tht free State. had the power 10 make any such outrage ous attempt upon the constitutional right: of the South and longcl still before they had the disposition 10 do so.
 Judge Veazie concluded by q glowing panegyrc of the blessing of the Union un der which he enjoyed the larg&t .reaioa ,ofaction; Of .hlch he was part; snare lin it's honor and gIories; under which ht hoped to live and die;-sentiment5 WhicI he would teach his children 10 remember along with the instruction of piou5 moth Ter. He said that when secession come, i come it ever does, Mississippi, Alabama Florida, South Carolina and Georgia would form the pentagon States ofdisunion. Col. BINGAMAN was then tumuituously called for, and rose 10 second the reSolu lions. After glaring introduction eXpros sing the feelings of eradication that should burn in every patriotic bosom on account Q the bills of peace and compromise had be come laws of the country precisely in ac cordance with the views expressed and tho principles laid down in the great Ra'I! Meeting in Natchez On the 9th of las March.
 The great meeting assembled to-day said he, showed that all party ties were a, ways laid aside when the Union was | danger. It was sheer nonsense to talk of constitutonaI party opposed to the Union the constitution was the bond and cemen of the Union and none could be based uPol it or abide by it without being friend [ the Union.
 He declared that Mississippi was sount and immoveable on the doctrines of th, Union at the time of Jachson's ProcIama ton against the disunion measures of Soul Carolina; he, at that time, having been Pres Ident of the State Senate and wrote the res olutions which passed that body Il to , t sustain the proclamation which the Stat would have with arms. The only question now that the laws have been passed is, shaI we obey, or shall we rebel? He would
 
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