Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-04-13


he impeled to il by what had come to his knowledge
namely that II her admission urged separate mea
sure opposition Is created which may result IN the defeat
Of the admission and hereuPon he declares his own deter
minaon urge the separate Now, this strikes
exactly in the contrary Threats are not good ar
guments with me, when may be going little wrong
much less when am going precisely right II Is nent 70
consider the admission Of California separate measure
1t is right do upon parliamentary principles II Is night
de upon the principle of fair legislation IS ngnt 70
do upon uniform practice. All other new States have
been admitted and it is ndgnty to California to make
her an exception We have right under the constitution,
upon parliamentary law and upon sixty years practice to
give separate consideration and are we TO be de-
tered from it by threat BY threat Of creating an oppo
siton which may keep the state out OF the Union we per-
sist in doing what have clear right to do Are we 70
capituae that threat Sir, let Washington answer that
question. This is what he says Of it:
" All distractions to the execution OF the laws all combs
nations and associations under whatever plausible
with the real design CONTROL counera or awe the
deiberaon and action of the constituted are de
srucve to this fundamental principle TO the esa
bhed Governmen and of fatal tendency serve 70 or
ganze acton give artificial and extraordinary force
put the place of the delegated will OF the nation the W
Of party often small artu and enterprising minority
Of the community and according the alternate trumphs Of
different parties make the public the mirror
Of the and o. iaco rather
organ consistent and wholesome plans dgested
common counsels, and modified by mutual interests.
After an impressive pause, Mr.. b. continued:
Sir this threat under the ban Of the Farewell Address
of the Father of his Country have often read that address,
casion to produce any part in the American Senate That
time has now come and produce this clause against comb
nations defeat public measures or to overawe the cons
tuted authorities the part which the statements OF the
Senator from Kentucky EFFORTS from He yields to that
threat do not On the contrary, additional reason In
it for adhering what deem right course in legislation
The threat is indeed, serious otherwise the Senator
from Kentucky would not have felt himself mpeled to
municae il the Senate and present argument
to influence our deliberations. The of the opposition
is explained butit obliged to be combination in some
minority in Congress to control the majority and il
connect itself with that approaching convention at Nash
vile, Of which the want Of clearly object and many
deplorable indications permit and justify the most unhappy
suspicious. Connected not, each in tse, and much
both together fall under the ban OF Washngton Fare
well Address and the spirit of the address, and the character
of the man. forbid surrender the part Of the constituted
authorities such combinations to control them
cannot surrender cannot captulate No garrison, not
even the weakest will surrender until it the force Of the
enemy and learns the terms OF the capiulaion. Some will
not surrender a-w resist at all hazards and to the last
extremity and that hold to be the duty of the Senate in the
present crisis Sir 1t may be temperament it may be
reason that governs my resolve but, be which may,
adhere to it with the tenaciy Of religious conviction that is
our duty resist this attempt to II is among
the first Of such ATTEMPTS and should resist at the begin
ming All history tells that confederacies are ruined BY
anarchy among the members rather than by tyranny in the
head and this threat connects itself with the Nashville
Convention have the Of anarchy among the members
against which impressive numbers Of the Federast
prophetically warned u.s.
ing all these subjects together is that all aiming at
compromise and the restoration Of peace and harmony to
distracted country Certainly these desirable objects,
and already near about accomplished. The Senator'S
speech-hs frank, manly noble speech delivered on
this Aoorand for which hank him from the bottom Of my
hear-has done much to quiet the public mndar more
than any work that he could do in commit
tee could accomplish His own great speech and
the speeches Of ohers-I name him because am addressing
myself to hmhas already done the good work Of queng
the country The public press, ALSO has done its part
many papers have done nobytoo many to be enumerated
but there is which, from its position its presence here
among u.s. its long standing and wide crcuaon and lis risk
Of losing friends in the very quarter Of its greatest support
and the firm stand which has taken in favor of the UsIoS
single out from all the rest and entitle 1t to be named
is the National Lntevigencer.
The Senator from Kentucky speaks Of compromise. He
says all aiming compromise, and to look to
the committee of thirteen for the desirable work Certainly,
the spirit Of compromise is good and where there room for
it, the thing itself is good The compromises of the consi
tuition good they fundamental permanent, and obi
gatory upon ALL But the little patch work Of statutory e
gsaon, though dgnfed with the Of compromise and
celebrated when they brought forth for all the virtues Of
the genuine Brandeth pills. yet in the end they
be quack medicines and often produce diseases than
they Intended to have faith in such patch
work. can have in any thing that the committee Of
thirteen shall produce, if it is raised. But have faith in
open manly responsible declarations and votes in which
every Senator speaks for himself and stands for Senator
barring his heart and letting the people see what in it.
There is no hugge mugger in thatno leading or being led
i n
for himself He shows what is in him. And fully believe
that if this Senate this moment permitted to vote,
by man, each and every Of the slavery questions
which distubs the country, would kill Dead
by showing that there is no foundation for it, that human
power could not resucitate it during this generation.
am for open and Independent voting upon every point
| and against any connection Of committee am against
letting be supposed either home or Europe that the
preservation Of this Union depends upon the consultation
political doctors the sick body of the Republic Its
walton is not there-nor herein committee room, in
this chamber in the hands of politicians but in the
hearts Of the people, who home attending their
affairs and who will attend the public affairs also when
and who know that they themselves have enjoyed
and enjoying, blessings under UNION thar
fell to the lot Of upon earth and who deter
mined that their children shall have the right to the
blessings Of civil and religious liberty, and the equa
chance for the wealth and honors Of the country which they
themselves have had There where the salvation Of the
Union lies and in the contrvances of politicians, the
incubatiobs of committees.
the admission Of California Let her in Let vote,
after four months talk The people who have gone there have
done honor to the American Starting from thousand
points, and meeting strangers far removed from law and
government they have conducted themselves with the order,
decoru and justice which would have done honor to the
Oldest established and best regulated community They have
carried institutions the farhes verge of the lando the
Of the Pacific and lit up with the lights Of religion,
liberty and stience-Gghs which will shine the broad
ocean, and illuminate the dark of benghed Asia
They have completed the work of the Pilgrim Fathers.
Would to God that those who landed the Rock and the
banks of the James river than hundred years ago.
and who crossed the stormy Atlantic 10 search of civil and
gous liberty, and who did much for both their day and
generation, could what has been done in day
could look down from their celestial abodes and the spark
which they struck from the flint blazing with light
which fixes the gaze of the wodsee the mustard seed which