The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1850-03-09

friend Keatinge may abundantly prosper,
for So he deserves.
Mr.. CALHoUN's SpKEcH.-Mr. CAL
houn's long expected speech on the slavery
question, was read in the Senate on Mon
day-he being unable from sickness to
deliver it. 1t is cool, premeditated dis
union speech-but Of no dangerous ten
dency; for 1t has only startled the North
and the South to cling more closely to the
Union. Who is John Z. Calhoun that he
should rise and speak for the South and
say what will cause her to secede and
what will induce her TO remain. His tall
ents give him no such authority. He
cannot speak for the wing party, for they
have no fellowship with him--he cannot
speak for the locoioco party for they new
er trust him. And his personal views
cannot receive much attention, for as a
friend of the Union he has, never been
worthy of confidence.
He is all wrong in his assumption that
there should be an equilibrium between
the slave and free states, it IS new doc
trine not found in the constitution, and
against which there is physical lmpossi-
bilitv. The man who thinks the slave
states can populate new territories as fast
as the North with all the immigration from
Europe to back it, is either overcome by
some strange blindness, or is wiliully a
fool. Nor is it at all necessary to the in
sttution of slavery in the South, that such
should be the case. II every state in the
Union except South Carolina were to
abolish slavery, the constitution would
guarantee to her, her rights in that behalf,
and the general government would be
bound TO protect her
We are solemnly OF the opinion that
there is not shadow OF necessity for the
present excitement on the slavery ques-
ton. 1t is false and useless uproar "born
out of due time" The South has its rights,
and they cannot be taken away by all the
petitions that can emanate from all the
meddlesome fanatics north OF MaSon's and
Dixon's line. and il would have comport-
ed better with southern dignity, if 1t had
calmly planted itself upon those rights and
there maintained its stand. The late laws
OF some of the free states preventing their
officers from assisting to retake absconding
slaves, IS the greatest cause Of complaint,
and for this-lf the states in which they
exist do not repeal them-Congress is
bound to provide a remedy, and we are
not sure that the constitution, strictly
speaking, would not oblige non-slave-
holding state to pay out of its treasury,
for all slaves, proved to have been decoy-
ed away or hidden by its citizens.
The South-particuIarly the southern
"Democracy" should remember that they
caused Texas to be admitted that they
might have additional slave territory
that annexation as prophesied by Mr..
Clay, ultimately, led TO the war with
Mexico, and that war to the acquisition of
California, out OF which all this agitation
has grown. They should remember this,
and be less severe in relation to it. And
they should remember, also, that that sys-
TEN of revenue, OF which Mr.. Calhoun
complains, (unfoundedly,) as having robbed
the South, is child of the South and the
Wllmot proviso, they should remember
did in TACT originate with Mr.. Jefferson,
and is also Of Southern origin. a
Mr.. Calhoun long ago SAID "we are
III the midst OF volution''-which ex-
clamatlon has been supposed TO be more
the Expression of a predetermined pur-
pose, than Off spirit OF prophecy. He
f,i would have II ca now hut he Is now