The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-18
F,o,n tAO .uissls.ippian.


iHE MousrAN LAnoREp AND nRor6f1r FORTH
A MOUSE -" Bht III Che foregoing extract, it is
also asserted that the essental part OF the reso-
| lutions is contained in the second, which you
say none but political fanatics would be found
! to dispue' This Is not true; the third resolu-
ton il far more important. II DENIES TO Cox
GREss THE POWER TO LEGIsLATE ON SLAVERY
IN THE DIsTRIcT OF COLUMBIA, and 10 prohibit
the slave trade betWeeH the several States, or To
prohibit the introduction Of slavery III the terri
tories Of the United s ates.--Judge ShdrkeyS
Letter 10 The National IatetLlGencer.
One of the bills passed ut the late session,
! abolishes the slave trade in the District OF Co
fiumbia Here Is u palpable interference with
slavery ia the District" aud yet the Ju tge, we
are informed, said in his Vieksburg speech, that
Congress has given us all we could desire. The
Judge further states, in that letter III.
" This is the very gist of dispute, and yet it is
passed over us of no Importance. This is the
controverted question Of right, asserted on the
one side and denied on the other, out ~ Uh,ch
ell The danger 10 The Union has arisen"
Judge Sharkey has certainly vacilIated on this
Southern question. When resistance TO the
North WAS first made, none bore higher the b.l-
ner of the South and then, again, when MIR
CLAW and MIR Foote started of in favor # the
COMPROMISE Committee, aud n new phase in the
political skies was appearing, the Judge writes a
letter to Foote, evidently showing himself to be
thrown from his balance, and almost ready to 60
off also. Some, vt that time, thought, III fact
that he was SO fearful of our ause being defeat
ed, that he would not go to the Nashville Con
ventun When however, lie reached that body,
and found circle of Southern men around him,
strongly and warmly imbued with II love or
Southern right,, he bee llne suddenly biologised
with the old feeling; and stood up in their MUM
tenance us straight as most of the Delegates
He came home, Too, determined TO adhere to the
address and resolutions of the Convention. In
a short time, however he is on Il pleasure trip to
the North. lie goes To Washington city-hears
the speeches OF the submssonsts, and, crcula
ting in 80 bad All atmosphere, becomes suddenly
boogsed in f,vor of the Omnibus Bills, and after
swallowing n sarslparilla dose, presto. he
changes once .innrc-cvmcs hOme-rushes into
the eubr. cps -. the suhnisSunSiS, aud makes Il
speech in Vick,burg, ii opposition TO all his
former views.
The public position of Judge Sharkey has
thus been like the oscillations Of IL pendulum.-
First on one side, and then on the other, while
the lockers on have acted like the man in the
story of--"Iie,e she goes, and there she goes."-
Sometimes the Wing press followed out that
they had him, sometimes the Democratic PRESS.
but he has stopped his gyratons since the race
has been run i'll Congress, and he now turns up,
as before, Il g0Od Ffltmorem Wig.
Judge Sh;srkry may show us that he is good
honest maIl--that We know already; but he will
never make the people believe that he has not
been guilty Of gross and palpahle Inconsistency
on the Southern question.