The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-12
~ From the CAarLeaoa Mercury.
Remarks Of I. W. HAYND, Esq,
Al the Meeting At Hibernian Hall, Thursday Even
ing, October 3, 1850.

QUESTION Of which she has expended more than
her fair share of blood and treasure; but we have
as a people, been ignominiousy excluded from
every part OF its SOIL And the miserable shifts
and bald devices by which il has been attempted
20 reconcile her to palpaple injustice and manifest
degradation, from position Of equality in the
community of States, have aggravated the insult
of the "oppressors wrong" Never in the Halls |
of Congress has slavery been more bitterly de- |
nounced, never has the spirit of Abolition agita- i
late session at Washington. Not only has the |
slave trade, by Federal act, been abolished il: |
the District Of Columbia, but instead Of visiting
the offender with penalty, the slave introduced
is on account of the masters breach of the law,
to be emancipated by Federal legislation. Not
only are we excluded from all new soil acquired
but part of Texas is purchased for free-soil pur-
poses. VBut we are spared" il is said, q the
gratuitous insult OF the Wilmot provso'' And
whys Not that they admit that we have any
right to claim such forbearance not that they ask
to be understood ms waving on their part the IN
tention TO enact 1t whenever it night be necessary
TO secure TO themselves foot of soil which other
wise might become ours; not that they regard our
threatened resistance as more than the empty
ratings OF impotent discomfort, but because say
they-they openly proclaim ii--'' We can effect
the self-same results by other means, and we viii
generously afford you an excuse to Submit
''We cannot alter things they say,
g But by C. wei! change their names, sir. !"
I'VE will drop the Wilmot Provso 60 nomine---
we will call 1t 'non-nervention.' 1t is true you
lose all you commended for, but you had better
make virtue of necessity-we will call this u
Compromise and be assured it is the best you
can get" And Southern men have echoed the
craven cry: sit is the best we can get"
Other means have been adopted the end has
been attaired, we cheated out of still more ter
ritory. And have we by the ignominious conces-
sion, bought even an inglorious peace No, mo-,
npnokn doJ IL 1. ID 4
our heels Seward and his pack mingled their dis
cordant barklings with the loud hozannas which
Souther men served to swell in rejoicings over this
notable Adjustment
Thank God this adjustment, " as they fondly
the South Unl these have we a eoviss
IN the degradatian We claim still to be the equals Of
the North.
feel, however, that detain YOU from villa. is
better than speaking. We have already chad
something too much Of this" In these times
true eloquence does indeed consist to use the
language Of the Grecian Orator, but in a nobler
sense-in action, action, action" Ii is the be-
ginning OF I" action, we propose this night Let
US organize. Let us prepare for that consultation
and concert which alone can render action etfec-
tual What means more potent for this purpose
than affiliated societies throughout the South
embodying the sentiment of each locality, acting
and reactlng on each other and affording at all
times facillues tor rapid and easy communication?
A friend present has constitution prepared,
after consultation with other friends and careful
comparison with the constitutions Of similar as
sociations elsewhere. 1t is simple ard compre-
henslve, and doub, not viii meet with the con
currence of all who have the great object at hear
Of eventual deliverance.
Fellow-citizens, a very few words more and
have done.
For myself, confess see no Ultimate remedy
but disunion; "to this complexion it must come
at last" But, can speak but for All individual.
from the response just heard, may assume that l
speak your sentiments, but we cannot speak for
South Carolina. And were South Carolina in po-
sition to speak for herself, she would, trust, re-
grievance with herself and alike pledged to re-
sistance. South Carolina would be willing, pre-
sumo, to resort to any remedy which the other
States, in like circumstances with herself, might
in good faith deem effectual, even though she
herself believes it to be nugatory She will try
anything, lis prepared for any thing but submission
Sir, twenty years ago, the great statesman of
Massachusetts threatened us witha a" Hemp tax, -
and pictured jeeringly the ignoble fate of death
without touching the ground" The great
Kentucky statesman has renewed the cry ofSouth
Carolina treason and the threat Of the I" trail
tors DOOM" Aye, and it was called forth by
words uttered in this hall near this very spot.
Sir, proverbially, " catching comes before hang
ing, +" and whether it be attempted in person
by proxy, these gentlemen might be practically
g
Sir, "treason, y in my vocabulary, implies false
hood, betrayal of some trust reposed, the use
for selfish ends of power conferred in opposition
TO the wishes and interests Of those comforting it.
Let the great kentuckan look TO himself and
some Of his coadjutors, representing slaveholding
States, whose rights, interests and honor they
have sacrificed in political manoeuvring and the
game Of President-making. Sour wthers UNI
wrung., We betray no trust. We true to
our kindred, our homes, and hresides. We
not found Boosting that we would tread with hos
tile foot the soil in which rest the bones Of our
ancestors, and where live those to whom nature
has bound MS by hottest ties. We have not lost,
in unbounded admiration, for the distant Govern
ment which confers Presidentships and Foreign
Embassies and Secretaryships, all respect for that
nearer and more pervading power which has pro-
tected our persons and property-the persons and
property of our fathers before us-and to whose
protection We expect to leave our children after
us--our Government at home, which has never
threatened or oppressed us, but which fosters and
cherishes us, and, exhibiting mothers love
challenges the best affections Of her sons Sir, in
this question Of allegiance, "the head may learn q
useful lesson from the heart" The Tories OF
the revolution who plundered and burnt the
dwellings and massacred the sleeping families OF
their nearest neighbOrs, could have presented M
argument in favor Of their notions OF allegiance
which Mr. Clay would in vain attempt to equal
They belonged to the same expansive school o
loyalty, and philanthropy, and yet they have
met the excavations OF all posterity. we have
faith in those affections whose circumference il
no extended that cannot find centre to tn
circle. South Carolina is our centre, and we in
sist that it is treason "to love her." evei
though it should be "death to defend.' "A fel
ons death" forsooth! Mr.. Chairman, the incar
nate God himself died the death of the cross, dice
between two thieves, and the charge against hin
was treason. Do these gentlemen imagine tina
eloquent and elevated as they are they can attach
stigma to the fate of Russell and of Sydney.
Fellow-citizens, there may be danger in disun
ion--aye, there ia danger; brave that; bu
there is no diserace. have peculiar right tt
despise this taunt, and to hurI back on thos,
who utter it, my scorn and defiance. Whateve
Of pride Of ancestry possess, rests upon my rev
erence for one who died upon the "gallows ION,
who paid Mr.. Webster's ''hemp-tnx," who die,
that awkward death in the air, without touch
ing the ground' one Of Mr.. Ciay's "traitors,
who met that "doom" which he now threatens
and here pledge myself that when South Carroll
ma commando, that traitors grandson will no
shrink from obeying her, though "trenson " ant
.seallows" were Missed iron, the mouths of forty