The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-13

did, acting for Anthony and Augustus Defend
him from triumvirates-f the plans Of men
coming from different quarters, all for them
selves, and the . devil take the hindmost."
There was mischief brewing and one of them
will be thrust aside, and never be heard Of Au-
gustus had his province, and Anthony his, and
they left something in the hands of the stake
holder to be played for "When rogucS fall out
honest men may come to their own What
had these men in common! Had they not been
vituperating each other for years He did not
know what Mr.. Clay and Mr.. Webster had be-
tween them, but he thought Mr., Webster knew
why Mr.. Clay had not been the candidate of his
party repeatedly awhile the grass grows the
steed starves" What said the prophecy some
four thousand years ago, sDan shall be SER
want by the way-he shall bite the horses heels
SO that the rider shall fall backwards" There
was not man on earth whose heart bowed
down more reverentially in the presence Of true
greatness than his own, whilst he abhorred man
worship. 1t was natural for man TO look up, 10.
seek for something between him and divinity
to make an idol of almost any thing Under
the healthy influence OF this passion, we raise
our eyes to Washington. Others look up to
some bull, Apis! Some in the political church
found II in Clay, some in Cass, and some in
Webster In Mr. Clay he did see something
to admire, in Mr.. Cass something, about Mr.
Webster--nothing. He could understand why
they should reverence Clay, but in the "god-
like" they call him at the North, he could not
see anything Even in Jubiter Tonans when
his character was debased by debauchery and
protligacy he could not see anything to com
mand admiration. There was Cass! When
Achilles was going to the Trojan war, he receiv-
ed from the oracle what meant ons thing or
another. The Nicholson letter was such a thing
1t meant something for one side---a different
thing for another. He was glad that his friend
had stricken from the Adds IS Mr.. Claws name,
for he would have nothing personal in that doe
ument. s ,ass ,.frsTa ra ge ts et "a. .
He was sorry to wear ont his poor voice in
talking of these matters. He had said that Mr.
Websters menace was a mere brutem titlmen !!
lie would put ia case. Suppose Florida, Geor-
gin, South Carolina, Mississippi and Louisiana,
should form Southern confederacy? Suppose
they, driven to it, should be compelled to secede!
Where was the power on earth TO lift Il hand
against it? Would New England! Every one
knew that her necessities for cotton would CON-
pei her to be quiet. Every body knew that she
had taken from the South some seven hundred
millions Of dollars, and had not left it to be idle
She had realized it-had put in factories, ships
and palaces. What became of these, with the
cotton cut off? Her marble palaces would be
open for those who chose to occupy them, like
those of Venice, and her merchant princes would
skulk in obscure corners. Every man in Eng
land was interested in this question, too, and we
should have her capitalists swar,ning over here.
The impossibility of having any resort to yio-
lence was plain. Ii New England interfered,
England and all the world would cry out, stop
to enable the South to- go on and make cotton.
What would coercion do? Could the South be
coerced back into the Union! Could You get
back South Carolina, il she should GO out! The
attempt would be such suicidal folly as was
never heard of. You might as .,ell say, that if
Orpheus had been the only man in the world,
the women would have killed him. He did not
believe that Tennessee and Kentucky would
permit their Northern neighbours to cross their
territory to attack their Southern friends! s
The moment that secession takes place, the
moment breach is made,-that moment the
word Union loses its charm. Suppose North
Carolina on this question, was met with an in
vitation to join the Union would she not stand
| by her sister States He begged leave to sup
pose case Virginia is crowded in the tobac-
co market by Kentucky and Missouri Sup
pose such n confederacy--that Clay could keep
Kentucky, and Benton Missouri! The South
ern States would only have to make some slight
commercial concessions to England to get five
| or ten cents knocked off the duty on tobacco.
and Kentucky and Missouri could not sell a
pound in the English market. People under
stand these things. But suppose the confeder-
acy embraced all the Southern States, a country
from the Chesapeake to the Gulf of Mexico and
the Rocky Mountains; and what could she
want! There would be ahomogenous popula-
tion--ties OF blood, and a harmony .uninterrupt-
ed. No nation has ever existed with so magni-
fient prospect, as would be presented by this
view of the case. What would be wanting?
Anything in commerce--manufactu Vir-
ginia included, coal and water power in abund-
ance.- What could they want! Suppose this
thing done? Where would be Pennsylvania
She had now TO sustain herself against the COM
petition of all New England and was always
CRYING out about the tariff Yet she had the
Southern market. Take away the tariff, and
she goes to the markets Of the world, in oppo-
sition to New England, and she would at once
be the workshop of the South; and instead of
being on the margin and contending for the
markets with New England and New York she
would have it all to herself. There was Ohio,
Illinois and Indiana. What Ohio would do he
did not know--she was a sort Of nondescript
She had industry, skill, wealth, commerce, and
all that. But when you go ashore at the "Queen
ClIy, you WOULD tillilk Sfe was imported from
Germany. There was little of the Irish brogue
to be sure She had all the elements Of great
ness, but she was problem. One of the most
beautiful features of the slavery system, was
that the association of the whites and blacks
had elevated the latter. Associations between
equals would generally elevate one class mt the
expense OF, the other. Our system had made
the negro pretty much Of gentleman The
Ohio man has nothing to elevate but the hog,
and he cannot make ANYTHING of him. There
was. one thing Ohio reminded him Oft was
green and standing pool---aye, cess-pooi.s 4
He was conscious that he had tired the pa
thence of the audience A tired man speaking
to a tired audience, was like a tired man riding
a tired horse. He had not said tenth part of
what be had meant to say! He came here with
his mind charged, and he might as well attempt
to drain Lake Erie through goose quill as at
tempt to bring out all in his mind through his |
speech. He had said nothing of compromise,
but he would say he was sick of them. We had
always lost by them and they had all come from