Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-08-17

that resolution must be opposed because Il canDotbs adopted
Sir, this has been the doctrine which has ma Southern
Senators retire from the assertion Of Souhsn rights. and
driven from those Of our Northern friends who you'd
willingly have supported After Southern mm have
fused support Of Southern right how they
expect support from Northern men It is onE when the
south united and when she speaks In terms which show
at least that section Of the Union requires s measure,
that the Northern justify thsmseIvs for departing
from the policy which their constituents have indicated, and
Tor granting 70 the South than they herwise would
eoncede Surely we cannot got this any thing else We
90 not assert our rights and msintain them. -
: Mf Ffeadens, 1t was this same course which divided
Sosnem mon when the ats compromise bill was before tho
oenas wac that constant endeavor tho part Of South
they should have that species Of cavassing every where
ese except within mans Judgment 10 find the rule Of
ms mat species Of eanyasng which regret to
o,ners adopt and which for myself resort to.
hat compromise bin was supported by Southern men, not
because was all TO which they entitled but because
was all could gst We who adopted different principle
and under it, guidance opposed the soad compounds bill
lately rejected by the Senate have been reerred TO y having
acled with sbolitionss When the friends Of that
spoke under the excitement Of disappointment whilst their
anguish esb that allowance made which Was due
to outbreak of feeling Bu when the plant ID continued
beyond reasonable limit and sccu.aions renewed which
always unoundsd in truth, shoad have ceased il they were
not Withdrawn after the excitement Of the occasion had passed
away becomes proper to answer BY the facts and the
history Of the case. What YVES the position Of Southern
who opposed that bin We stood upon the convictions
of our duty and the rights Of our constituents. We met
conferred togehsr and pursued that which to us
seemed best calculated to sustain hose rights and we with
portion Of the Northern Senators defeated the BILL What
tho position Of those Souths who advocated the
bill They met end held consultasions out Of the Senate
with Northern Senators whose opposition slavery prac
tcally the same as that Of those who voted with The
difference then, this; We, without holding private
frence voted in the Senate with those Northern Senator'S
who chose to vote with They consulted in secret concve
with other Northern Senator's occupying the only question
at issuethe rights q the saveholdng States in the Terrific
Tho and sko
Senate. To illustrates ask what the difference in the
creed of the Senator from Maine who sits my left (Mr
BRADBURI,) and that of the other Senator from Maine,
(Mr HAML1S , One taken into the association Of the
*omnbus" and became leading member. He il was who
came forward with amendment to resuscate the
when seemed to be in errem The other steadily oppos
ed It, The other. therefore. SUPPOSE among the persons
called abotionists What is the difference between them on
any question relating 10 slavery. Is there any have
never the evidence of it in their votes And what is
the difference between the Senator from New Hampshire,
who sits before me, (Mr NoRHIs9 and the who sits
upon the other sde Of the chamber, (Mr. HALE One is
called aboitionist the other perhaps But upon
every vote have bad touching the slavery question,
should like 70 the difference pointed ont Which Of them
is willing to allow the South extend the institution Of sla-
very into any territory Of the United States Which Of them
is willing recognise the right Of the South to introduce
slave property into the recently acquired territory Neither
Of them and he who sits upon the other side Of the cham
Der is more vehement in anasey decaraiion he is also
more good-natured in his The difference is
which have not been able estimate all important to
the South. What, then, is the value Of all this Where
is the essential distinction between the classes On whose
shoulders does the heaviest responsibility rest any attach,
to acting with Northern Senators the socaled compromise
b-the Southern Senators who. opposed those who sup
ported it We held no with them acted on
own Judgment We had meetings, SO far We had them
out of the Senate, with Southern Senators alone and
voted here with whomsoever chose to vote with us.
had hoped that when that bib which had drawn many
Southern men TO its support dead, should have
more dissension in our own camp-that should have
given, that upon this proposition, upon which the South has
stood with unusual unanimi,y from the beginning propo-
sion which recognises the Rio Gande the boundary Of
Texas the division which has heretofore existed
appears. One would suppose from the argument that that
proposition rested for its authority the Senator from Viz
GINA alone, instead Of beginning it did from the date of
the annexaon instead Of being sustained principle in
every Southern State instead Of being the basis which
went to with Mexico, and the distinctly Recognised
feature Of the treaty by which the closed instead Of
being the position sustained and emphacay avowed by the
late Southern Convention at Nashville. a-
shall not for one because there majority against
abandon the position which have maintained from the be-
ginning of the question shall not from dread of being
in the minority, surrender what think the right Of Texas
and the right Of the South will anish the fair fame
Of country BY presenting and maintaining for the United
States agains. Texas claim for boundary, the assertion Of
which by Mexico led into with that republic The
United Saies far they extnguished any claim Of Mex
TO territory east Of the Rio Gande must have extnguish
ed for the benefit Of Texas Even if the United States in
their right had acquired all the claim that MEXICO had 1t
could rot be used by them against Texas. They would
stand iied before the worddisgaced by the assertion of
such claim against State of the Uno in whose defence
and for whose benefit they waged with Mexico, and vim
dicaed the territorial right how Psoposed to nvadate
Mr. FOOTE. II is with great reluctance that rise say
any thing the subject which my colleague has referred
but cannot be silent without suecng myself the danger
Of being misunderstood among my constituents have this
morning asserted principle which has been assaied have
said that deem 1t expedient understand such amend
ments offered here the adoption ofvhich In some
FORM in my opinion necessary to the public repose and
to the avoidance Of those OF blood and civil
strife which all acknowledge seriously threatened
When proposition is brought forward which 10 my Judg-
ment emnen,ly calculated to defeat an adjustment and
bring about these consequence Think am authorized yea
bound 10 look to those consequences am bound 10 look
the history Of the proceedings of the two houses OF Con-
gress and to PROFOUND myself the question, " If this
position shall be adopted will it not have the effect of defeat
ing the adjustment Am authorized to suppose
and am not bound so to conclude have announced that
as nv principle Of action That principle, understand,
has been called in question, and it has been suggested that
this course Of legislation will have the effect aish the
honor Of the Republic. Sir say again that sent
here for practical purposes apd the country requires at
the present time to adjust this question, and adjust equ-
table principles and in such will give repose to
and the honor of both sections Of the Union To say
that he who desires to have plan Of adjustment
agreed upon that may tend these desirable results and who
is not willing at the present time keep this conflict
in regard to the boundary question alive, and in mis-
chevous progress disposed take the best that he
obtain rather than those which right in themselves,
to do such person great Injustice have uttered
such sentiment have protested willingness to
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