The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-06

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cussion, that State was admitted, and the
Missouri Compromise passed-that is, when
the people, authorized to form con-
stitution, having all the constitutional rights
to be admitted into this Union, presented
themselves with their constitution, they
were refused admittance, until the South
consented to establish the imaginary line Of
! SO deg. 80 min, north Of which they for
ever bound themselves and their posterity
not to 60 with their slaves, while their
Northern brethren might go north or SOUTH.
There was the fatal error of the people Of
the South. They should never have conce-
ded the jurisdiction to Congress on the sub
ject. They should have resisted, at every
hazard, Gas they must do at some time or
other,) every attempt to prevent them from
going, when they please, where they please,
and with what property they please, into any
and all the territory Of the United States,
every acre, every foot--ay, every spoonful
,Iof which--was the community property.
The country, however, 4remainad compa-
ratively quiet until about fifteen years ago.
| Still there was no great uneasiness felt, until
the admission Of Texas into the Union.
You, Mr.. Chairman, and ], were members
of the twenty-eighth Congress, and recollect
! the discussion that took place. Let me read
an extract or two from the speeches Of
Northern men upon this subject:
eyes, sir, ! repeat, hypocritical pre-,
fences! What, the ministers Of the liberty
loving Government Of Great Britain, so i'm
pressed with the horrors Of human servitude
in Texas and the United States, as to inter-
pose their benevolent policy in our affairs,
as an acto Of pure philanthropy! No person,
at all acquainted with English history and
policy, and whohas learned even 1.-THE of
the suffering Of the millions upon millions
OF human beings held in abect and intolerable
slavery throughout her vast dominions,' can,
fail for moment to read this painted hypo-
critic .'s .,s...rs ~ VI ID, ,.... 49,.
Through the disguise she wears. ...s.
Iook at England herself. In the dis
lance, like the whitened sepulchre, she looks
splendid--beautiful. Approach her; enter
her cold and dismal mines; then behold sla-
very--half-clad half-starved, pale, emaciated
slavery--in the shape Of human beings,
compelled to ceaseless seryitude, the doomed
and wretched vassals of the very lords and
earls who prattle SO loudly upon the floor of
Parliament about the horrors of American
slavery. Enter her manufacturing towns
and cities; see the ragged and wan husband
and father, struggling early and late for
mere pittance. Visit the wife and children
in the miserable and dirty .hovel, enduring
all the horrors bordering upon nudity and
starvation; and then call to mind, that all
this is the direct effect Of the oppressive and
| grinding policy Of these pretended philanthro-
4 pists for the negro race in AMERICA. Butwe
need not stop here. True, she freed her
slaves in the West Indies. For what pur-'
pnsaa not of hatred to .slauaryl - Ernm "a
! sincere desire to relieve human suffering?
4 Or was it to foment the spirit of political alb
oiitionism in the United States, to array the
North against The South, and thus to
weaken the ties that bind us together, and
finally consumnlate her long-cherished de-
sires, by a dissolution Of our Union, and
PROSTATE forever her great and rival antago-
mist in commerce, manufactures, and the
4 arts.n .Et ~
II You, Mr.. Chairman, heard all that discus
!, sion--you saw, all their fre-brand resolutions
! voted down and denounced by Northern
men. / need not say to you, that was the
way the Democracy Of the North, and many
!, of the intelligent Wings, voted You know
who stood by the Anterior resolutions, and
all such resolutions as would give peace and
i quiet to the South Let me show the COM
mittee how Northern States-at least North
ern Democratic States--acted. While the
/ Texan annexation was under discussion, a
member Of this House, from New Hamp-
shire, wrote and published a long letter to
his constituents, assigning his reasons for de-
serting his party on this question, and put
forth an anti-slavery manifesto. You recol-
lect in what unmeasured terms he was de-
nounced by one Of his colleagues. l will
not offend the committee by reading the in
4 situations made against theyeracity Of his adj
dress Suffice it to say, that no gentleman
born and brought up south Of Mason and
Dixon's line, would ever have preserved
friendly relations afterward,. without some
satisfaction.
The author Of that address had been nom
mated as candidate Tor recollection to this
body by the entire Democracy of the State,
i because, at that time, New Hampshire
had not adopted the district system Of elect
ing her members of Congress- and though
4 it was within few weeks, if / remember
accurately, Of the time Of the election, and
at an inclement season of the year, a con-
!, vention was called for the entire State, the
nomination was cancelled, another person
was substituted in his place, and from that
day JoHN, p. HALE has ceased all connec-
ton with the Democratic party. True il is,
that by union Of the Wings and Abolition
lists, he was elected a. Senator; and the col
league who denounced him, and the author
Of the speech, the extract Of which | have
just read, is---who do you suppose, Mr..
| Chairman why, Moses NORRIS, his CO.
! SENATOR -r. .....s.. 49,.
Where are the eloquent defenders of the
South--no, sir; not of the South, but the
fearless opponents ofthe Constitution? Where
\ are the Brownsi the Ingersols' the Ather-
4 to,,c, tho Norr,sas and fbe E,llisesS and erin