Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1850-03-12


the only way to make Southern insh'u-
tons anything like secure. He tells US
tina, the Missouri Compromise leVelled
blow at the South. If then he and his
colleagues knew this, why did they moi
improve their knowledge by wise ac-
TO the altered state OF al
fairs They have knowingly let the evil
90 unremedied for 80 years, and then
hope to shift their weighty responsibility !
It is poor craftsmanship 10 see create vllr
and do no more than sit down and grum-
BILE at it.
Mr.. Calhoun further murmurs because
the equilibrium once subsisting between
the South and the North has been dcs-
troyed! Where is his knowledge of polit-
ical dvnamics Can he effect or maintain
an equilibrium between bodies permitted
to become of unequal momentum He
he has permitted the North TO outstrlP
his section in both bulk and velocity, what
infatuation then TO suppose that an
Equilibrium can be preserved! But this
Whole doctrine of an equilibrium is false
and heretical it is essentially that idea
against which Washington IN his Fare
wellAddress so pointedIy admonished his
countrymen. tits inrinslcalIy geograph-
ical and sectional, and whether actually
intended or not for that purpose, 1t tends
directly 10 disunion. The rights of 4 SIN
Gle state, the smallest in the Union, are
under the Constitution as sacred as those
of the remaining SO, the latent idea then
in this much talked of equilibrium is
exceedingly mischievous. The tue theory
is to know no North, no South, no East,
no West under tie constitution.
Mr.. Calhoun seems obliyious of some
things in regard TO the rise and progress
of abolitionism. He dates its first organ
lied movement in 1885. But he does not
say what first produced this open organ
ization or what lent it subsequent impor-
lance. In this he falls behind the form
ula, in not telling "the whole truth.
This is not to be wondered at, however,
as we shall find.
So early as 1890 we know that the Sci
zure of Texas engaged the thoughts of
many of the restless spirits of the South
and Southwest. President Jackson HIM
self was notunapprized of this. BY 1884
the idea had got so far matured that en-
istments of Bulfalo-hunters, &C., for
service in Texas, then department of
Mexico, were common all over the Union,
not excepting the Federal Metropolis it
self. Armaments and expeditions left
New Orleans and elsewhere for Texas,
and by and bye the battle Of San Jacinto
put an end to Mexican dominion there.
Now without undertaking TO assert that
the Texas revolution was first secretly
contrived and then consummated by what
has been known as the Southern party, it
is historically true that the annexation Of
that country to this Union at length be-
came a favorite measure with Mr.. Cal
houn and his allies. Unable TO introduce
it by treaty, they hitched it on by joint
resolution, so determined were they to
have ii in some way. The eagerness for
the acquisition of Texas was pre-
tended to be grounded on the fear that
England wanted it, but really ii was de-
sired as new virgin field for the eXpan-
sion of the South which longed 10 transfer
its Penates from It's own exhausted region
to an unimpoverished soil and a genial
cline.
The measure of the annexation Of Tex
as was in itself not palatable to the North,
but was at length worked through. The
part which Mr.. Calhoun played in this
business was well calculated TO blow up
the flames of Northern Anti Slavery feel
ing, even if the Abolition fanaticism had
been, as it was not, extinct. Mr.. Calhoun,
not satisfied with defending the annexa-
ton of Texas, o'erdoes termagant, and
pens and publishes most extraordinary
and correspondence with the
British Envoy, in which Slavery was put
upon the highest grounds as an incompa-
rable institution, as one in fact that if not
already existing ought 10 be Immediately
established and forever perpetuated. Of