Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-11-30


obeyed and executed Let take courage and that sort
courage which prompts resolute discharge OF their
duties. We will the Union for own sakfs or the
Of the country, for the honor Of free Governments and
even for the benefit Of those who ready, with ruthless
hands, TO tear It asunder.
am, my dear sir, with true regard your TREND ana oOe
dent servant, DANIEL WEBSTER.
B.F. Arra, Esq.
These letters having been disposed Of the Chairman read
the following resolutions
l. Resolved That attribute the unparalleled pFosPeIy
we have hitherto enjoyed nation to the union Of sne
States under the constitution When consider be inse-
cuy Of property person, and e and the Tesrcns upon
freedom opinion under the monarchca Governments Of the
old world, when look upon the neighboring rePuccs
Of the world distracted by civil dissensons and struggling
maintain feeble existence, cannot feel TOO sem
rica citizens and believing with Daniel Webster that if
present system s destroyed he noble idea OF
liberty, liberty such fathers established IT, will pc
extngushed forever led by every dictate OF our un
and every emotion Of heart, 70 adopt be
sentiment and the sentiment Of another distinguished sat
man our own sci not struck with Judicial blind
meas Gods chosen peops Of DID, We shall cling 70
this constitution the mariner cngs TO The last plank when
night and the tempest close around him. Let stand by
the constitution it s and by country as IS one,
united, and entire let be truth engraven on our hearts,
let it be borne the flag under which ray in every ex
igency that we have COUNTRY, ONE ONE
DESTINY!
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based upon compromise Framed BY convention pre-
sided by Washington and composed OF the wsest men
at time that tried mems souls, assembled from different Sec
ons Of the country and representing all its various conflict
ing interests il the offspring Of reciprocal conceson OF
mutual respect and Of sincere affection and as It was SO
framed only upon the basis Of compromise conces
sion, respect, and affection can it be sustained and per-
petuated.
ern uraism and Northern fanaicsm beloved souny
recently brought the verge of dissolution and ruin and
gratitude Justly due to those patriot statesmen
whose counses through the dark
est hour of our peril in safety that cordially approve
those they have passed. which settle forever the
vexed questions growing of late territorial
and that recognise in their action that spirit OF conciaon
and compromise by which aone In so dangerous cs the
Government our fathers could still be preserveda Govern
ent established by their common dangers, sufterings and
success"
Resolved That in common with the people Of the entire
North, look upon the institution Of slavery with
other feelings than those Of regret yet as citizens OF the Uni
tod States mindful of constitutional obligations We are
content leave the matter where the constitution has len IT.
to the States wherein it exists.
s. Resolped That the fugitive slave law recently enacted
Congress- based upon and supplementary to the act Of l73
passed by those who assisted in the formation Of the constu
ton and signed by the immortal Washington is in the opin
ion of our wses and most profound urists cons
tuona and accordingly binding upon all the people OF the
nation and while recognise, to the fullest extent the
right Of the people call for the modification repeal Of this
or any other enactment yet awabng and orderovng
citizens encourage any irregular opposition to its
acknowledged authority, countenance any 70
ss its execution that entertain no respect Tor the sen
those zeaos enthusiasts who set up or affect to
up their private conscences paramount the con-
suon and laws Of their country that we are opposed to
notification at the North well the South and that we
know Of security for @ liberty, property but in the abb
solute supremacy Of law. ,
g. Resoped That inasmuch as fanatcism is striving to
enknde sectional animosity and designing and mis-
guided men, sezng upon every plausible prete1 are crlt
cisng harshy and unusty our glorious consltuon and
speaking with contempt Of the Union, and forseu OF oil
those ideas of enlarged patriotism that gowed brightly in
the breasts of the founders of Government endangeT
ing in the pursuit Of idea, the peace and harmony Of
these States this time Of all others when should re-
member and observe the sentiments and advice OF the Father
of bis Country, that the of American must always
alt The just pride Of patriotism than any aPpellaon de-
rived from local Determinations" that the American People
should cherish cordial, habua, and immovable attach
ment to the Unon watching for its with jealous
anxiety iscounenancng whatever may suggest even sus
pcon that any be abandoned and indignant
frownng upon the dawnng of every attempt to sen-
ate any portion Of country from the rest or to eneebe
the sacred ties which now link together the various parts
During the reading of the fifth resolution some
one cried out No such thing" but the Interrupt
ton was promptly silenced.
The Hon. IcHABoD BARTLETT, of Portsmouth,
was the first speaker called upon, and his address
breathed a truly paternal spirit Turning to ban
the platform bearing the inscription "The Constitu-
ton and the Unon he read it, and said that though not
young man. under that banner he would cheeuy enlist and
fight till he conquered, fall with it, if unhappy it should
fall In the contest which parties pursuing course
provoke. In the call for the meeting he perceived that it
addressed all who in favor Of obeyng the laws
and sustaining the constituted authorities of the and-a call
which contained ominous implication that there were those
who opposed such obedience and giving such sup
port. This There newspapers and public
speakers Of high standing who had urged ocble
sstance to the laws and the constituted authorities and he
asked if their would be tolerated in this community
Without submission the law of anarchy must fol-
low. The only objection urged against some OF the laws
passed under the constitution and demanded by it. was that
they bore oppresvey peculiar portion of the people who
were subject to them But there was no novelty in the law
most objected ono display Of injustice. It had been
existence since 793 and for sixty the zealos had
lost good chance for rebellion they had just at this
time discovered. Were to give up every thing we have
most valuable earth set free the slaves with whom we
have nothing do The evil existed and fully acknow
lodged such when the constitution formed, and re-
ceved the anxious consideration of the best and wise
men Of that day. But now set Of young men set them
selves up above Washington, Roger Sherman, Hamilton,
franklin Jefferson and Madison If those venerated
had been such engine abolonss have sayed
themselves against the law, should have had
stuion or enjoyed the blessings which have eaped un-
der It, In the fugitive slave law without trial BY jury, he
saw no greater hardship danger to the personal liberty Of
any freeman than existed in the Of fugitive from justice
He referred TO the letter Of Josiah Quincy senior,