The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-11-02
HON. JEFF. DAvrs,s SPEECH.

HON. JEFF. DAvTs's SPEECH.
Senator Davis addressed His fellow -citizer
at this place on Tuesday last. The numb
present was not large, though respectable, an
the meeting was graced by the presence Of
few ladies.
The Hon. gentleman began his address with
out any exordium Of a character calculated t
excite tho minds or enlist the sympathIes Of hi
heaFers-a trick generally resorted 10 BY dem
ngogues. He went Immediately to The qres
lions ne came 70 discuss, and dwelt upon then
for some two hours. His speech was in sub.
stance about the same as that delivered herr
last Monday week BY Col, McWillie, barrina
the pG0tos and the lachrama which The latte
always brings to bear on his audience. Col
Davis said In the outset, that he had not come
TO tell his constituents what he had accom-
pllshed for them, but 10 tell them that he had
utterly JAILED to accomplish any thing. He had
asked much-had received nothing. lie had
demanded that Mississippi should have her
equal rights under the constitution, but thew
mad been utterly denied her. This was m
assumption, and as many Of the ablost men in
the South differ with the Hon. gentleman on
this point, va must be excused if we can
not see the matter in the same light that he
does. Mississippi, in her October convention.
demanded that Congress should not pass Inc
WitnOt PrOyisc. II has not been done. The
FrovisO was introduced several times during
inc. sessiOn, and was as often voted down bv
decided IMPURITIES lobster, Cass. Dickinson.
Dodge, and other patriots Of the NORTH. aidi / !
promptly in its defeat. Mississippi demanded
'oae there should be no Legislation BY Congress
either prohibiting or establishing slavery a
the newly acquired territories. Well. tariff
rial governments were given 10 Utah and New
Mexico, with a clause expressly declaring that
those territories shall be admitted at III rrono.
time w'th or wtttOut slavery, as their nao,fo
might determine. Could the South demond
mOfet ls 1t not the very doctrine that Geo,I
OaSs advocated when he received The vo,o !,
mississippi for President, in l848? Did 10,
M'ssisslPpi endorse the doctrine them win
Sne tepudlate her own well matured o-niniona
upon . constitutional question in two short
years! Were not all the electoral candida,
VINO stunped !. through the State in 1913. botb I,
wing ana Democrat, in favor Of the doctrine Z.
u non-intervention? Tfit was sound doc,r;n (.
'nen' why is it not SO now? The Question l
men discussed and settled by Missis.;nn; !; (,
,'sw Of the application Of this p[rincinIe j !,
'"ese very territories. Can Mississioni ,bon :
any show OF consistency, when bey doc' :
i.n' . non-lntervontiOn has obtained the sane i
'On 2 congress, complain that her rights b,vs :,
20" 'samPled upOna The thing seems 10 ~ i
Q be absurd. ' 70 US y
-Ru, ~ hi
'Ae admission Of California was the
- mostly complained of by our souator. Ho ]
a'u 'ae' ~ ts admission, oil the barrier. or 6,
SnSAsution had been broken down ond I,
rights Of tho South shamefully disreoa,dod !
upOa this question, too, there i the eras,ss, !
s's"0s p opinion. The gentlomou,s own
$3.50 = me Senate, and Judge sharkev. Il
.vse opinions upon constitutional law 10 Il
~'1 en.l'ed to as much weight as his-apd il
aFpl Towns Of Louisiana, and Cobb and i
u4spkla aad WeIlbOrn, of Georgia. all demo-. I.
40 osd hst Ae constitution ,cas not ,~solo,o5
ss espa''Hon Of California. But for ann.
'4'Snse We will Fsbnt Senator Davi.,s views y
: '''is subject with those Of the Hon. Roh, .L
sOu's' q Georgia,-he who was The bodies,
'au'P e Of Southern rights, in the fast Con. +"
VINO broke loose from his party h ,bclsr
sS'lOn 81 Speaker, because Of the slav.,v Ge
.ss'tOnTwhO, 10 the stormy debates that took "
pending that election, amidst evory ego,f :,
w paH Ot northern members to put him !
held the floor for an hour in defiance ~ u
Z S0ulh, and whose clarion voice waa heard in
.vss sne gin and confusion and whose soeech hi
! exported N full-he, who no one will d.ro "a
'Eand az . submissionistt 10 ncons,i,u,ion MI
s,s,sl0n IN q late address to bis cOns,j,u.
u me gentleman says. g
Ae admission Of California into Tho I1otor ra
~ % Pc the master grievance of tba ~. nc
last legislature Of Georgia, accordino - R,
". iowna, deslnred i suficient cause 5
sls1ans' 70 the Federal Government. ~ =
eoncufi n this opinion, and souobt ~ or
~. ~ uisoF 'ts announcement By The Ieoia. OF
! explain ny dissent from Il, II nv it, Sc