The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-09-10

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Sir beg leave ip coll l'ui 'lt-hN'L 10
a few little penersions OF truth, used 10y you
lately 10 impau -iaccuousness 90 the remarks
with which, IN your capacity Of bully, but-
l51u. and bore to the Senate, you were pleas
ed 90 honor me.
have baeu waiting 20 see your report Of
vour.e,fiu the Union but not having been
able. as yet, 10 obtain %, ! am obliged TO re-
fer 10 other papers.
You attributed TO me the solemn decla.
muous Il refer, for convenience, 10 a sort OF
summing up, in the report OF one OF your
nnumerable aud iutoIerabie speeches, made
on the Sd of August, and published IN the
Southern Press and other papers,) chat If
Congress shall undertake to admit Callior-
MIA into the Union at all, South Carolina
will secede from the Union, and seize upon
California, upon the mouth OF the Misslss-
ippi, and blockade the Western States.
made no such declarations. The report
ofmy speech at Camden, which served you
for a text, contained no sach declarations,
And YOU, If course, know perfectly well,
that You were perverting the truth.
The report Of my speech was prepared
without consulting me, by the Secretary of
the meeting at Camden, was never seen by
me until after its publication, (Which was
unexpected to me) and being brief, has en-
couraged you to use your petty articles of
distortion. But the report, in its actual state
is sufficient to convict you of ~disingenuous
practices, as was rendered evident by a Sena-
tor from Missouri, of a misstatement into
which, trusting to your version, he had in
adverlently fallen.
What did say on these points was, in
substance: That if California, with its pre-
tended Constitution and usurped boundaries,
should be admitted by Congress as a State,
or should be left in its present condition,
excluding the South from all share of the
territory, the slavehoIding States ought to
secede from the present Confederacy, and
form a Southern Confederacy. That if fore
ed into a war by the injustice of the North,
the slaveholding States might rely on sure
elements of success, amongst which would
be the power, by closing the Mississippi
against the commerce of the Northwestern
States, to bring that section to terms. And
that the injustice practised by the non-slave-
holding States, in attempting to exclude the
South from all share of California, and to
rob Texas Of its territory, would Justify the
Coufederacy Of the ~sIaveholding States in
taking possession, by force, of the whole OF
of any pant of California.
The Northern man, who %denounces this
as treason, | would meet simply with def
ance-the serviIe Southern sycophant, who
raises the cry, provokes inexpressible scorn.
BY way of apology for undertaking to ar
raign me before the Senate, you asserted
according to a report which | find in the
Baltimore Clipper that 1t seemed to be rem
dered necessary by the very particular men,
ton had made of you. This is not merely
a perversion, like the statements alluded to
above, but a fabrication Of your fancy, | did
not say a word about you in myspeech, that
! remember. AT all events, there is mo- a
word about you in the report of it. But
perhaps, with the instinct of "Scrnb' in the
play, you felt that if had spoken o fyou, i
must have been in terms of contempt.
Permit me now, sir, as you are in the habi
of lecturing Senators and citizens, in or GU
VI IluCC,l Dul 1 Ia lClluCb q lbib VI rs -
preston, | do not know that you havl
ever had sufficient sense of d~ecency to do i
IN place. to offer you a very short lectur
for the amendment Of your manners.
To pervert the language of Others into
sense not intended by them, is not regarde
as re~prehensible in a clown at a circus, or
lester over a couvivial bottle. But it Is nc
very becoming to use this trick for effect o
the floor of the Senate, even in these days
I Senatorial decline, when Scrub may be
r Senator. | have pointed out your perve
f sions of the language III which my speec
a was reported. You will make the prop
acknowledgements or not, according as yo
e may, among the Compromises to whic
q you are addicted, have compromised ava
g what little of the quality you ever possesse
You bantered a Senator from South Ca
DINA with the offer, that You would, iflnv
e ted, come to Charleston Or Columbia to di
cuss the questions which have been befoI
the Senate.
When South Carolina desires instructio
in the doctrines of the Federal and Consol
dation School, she can send for some state
man worth listening to, MIR. Webster for il
stance, who could perform the task wit
some ability.
of But it would not be generous to hold 70
TO your offer. You will need to exert a
: your powers such as they are, includin
y your acknowledged power Of brass, to excus
~ or paIIlate to the people Of Mississippi tn
deliberate treachery to your State and to tn
s- South, so long premedltated by you. and fc
81 a time concealed under the disguise of vic
le leat Southern feeling, impelling you to Draw
Id loundly with the AboIitionists, and to bull
is Col. Benton until he turned upon you an
:, out-bullied you.
!, With the hope that this letter NAV prov
an acceptable addition to your curious epi,
II to'ary collection, on the subject of the Con
promise. l have the honor to be sir. &c.
- MARCY GREGG.
~ L. S.-Not being quite sure that vo