The Daily spy., 1850-03-08
MR.. CALHOUN'S SPEECH.

1t Is Moiere, five mistake not, who gives us
good, easy electrified and rather eated by the
information that he has been talking prose all his
life without knowing it. We think the mass of our
Northern People will be equally astounded by Mr..
CaIhoun's averment that they have for fifty wears
been plotting and aboring for the downfall of Sla-
very.
Certainly, whoever has been familiar with North
ern sentiment and impulse through the last quarter
of century must know that the predominant ankle
y and effort In this Section has meditated any thing
rather than the overthrow of Southern institutions
We have had mobs after mobs to egg, fImigate,
leel-hau, silence and murder speakers and writers
against Slavery, while no single champion of Slavery
has ever been mobbed or slenced throughout the
Free States, however Incorporate his denunciatons
or unsparing his abuse Our Governors have often
denounced Abolition agitators, seldom the counter
agitators. Ant-Slavery halls and presses have been
burnt and torn to pieces in Free States, while no
press or hall employed to oppose Abolition has ever
been molested. Our legal and mercantile respecta-
bhtles have held meeting after meeting to preserve
the Union by 'double-damning' the Smooth Qua
ker rascas' who don't admire Slavery; our polite
lans Ofnote have almost uniformly lifted up the heel
against Abolition In no Presidential Convention of
the sham Democracy has the Southern influence
ever been baked of It's demands, however unreason-
able; in no Wing Convention but one was major
ity of the Southern Delegates. ever overrued, By
Northern votes in Congress has the Right of Petition
been struck down. the Public Mails almost given
over to the prying scrutiny of pro-Savery jealousy;
by Northern votes was Northern Representative
elected from Congress for presenting respectful an
tl-Slavery petition, while another, though an illustri-
Gus ex-Presdent, barely escaped the same fate
Northern power has united in buying and Northern
money in paying for Louisiana, and then Florida /;
Northern votes (New-Yo ork contributing two of
them) annexed Texas and thus brought on War
with Mexico, which cost the country Ten thousand
Lives and Sixty Million Doars-and Mr.. Calhoun
has told officially that the chief end of that An
nexatlon was the fertilization of Slavery. The South
has had nearly all the Presidents and at all times
majority of the Federal Offices Here have been the
predominant majority of the Northern People, doing
all they could for their friends customers and pary
compatriots of the South for thirty forty years and
at last Mr. Calhoun tells them that all this is nothing
or worse-that the North has been all the time un-
dermlnng or overthrowing Slavery-and that, unless
we turn over entirely new leaf, and actually alter
the Federal Constitution to give the Six Mil
lions ef Free Persons in the Slave States at least
equal power with Fourteen Millions oflike people IN
Free States, the Union must go to wreck
Mr.. Calhoun is great man, but he has not produc
ed single new argument in favor of Slavery Exten-
sion, and we the general circulation of this
Speech will widen and deepen the popular abhor-
rrnce throughout the Free States ofthe cause it is m
tended to subserve. ". Y. Tribune