The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1850-03-20

SUfu adruit them az slavs, States That yyas ~
Ds,saegg Dang o. ths compact made BY tho Northern
IN ms could not exist I'm Calif,r
tSea Dt9xico nc ienst us II exists In tf;a
shsps hy q s WIS !, % as impossible TO carry slavery
u ity.SMr w. described tho soil and character Of NJ.
country, and held that no snveholdcr would o. n,o 70
,a ms ,sn, saves 70 such country !. fixed
tinSd 70 be free, and that too by the arrangement,
OF things by the power above. Ifa law now bc'
iore me Ssnate providing territorial government,
OF slavery. iie would make no effort to carrv mn,
by law an ordinance of nature, or to roennct the
VIII OF God. lie would not vote for it in such n
case, because 1t was wounding to tho feeling. or
Southern gentlemen, who hold opinions thai thav ~,
slaves there.
He would trea. the wilmo. Proviso, n. far aa
New Mexico was concerned, rs Mr.. Polk did Il
win regard to Oregon, that il nugntory act
ana In that case a sensclcss nct ANY man who
would vote for the Wilmot Proviso for New RIo1.
leo, should feel himself bound 10 protect tho c,crn
al SHOWS Of Canada from slavery, by the same
oVerthndowing wing of nn net of ConS,ess When
any thing practical was to he effected, he might
vote Tor It, but he would give 10 vote to disgrace
his own understanding.
In these times ofexcitemcnt il liz but natural that
muiuni examinations should take place, and that
each side should have n list Of grievances with
those OF the South. One ofthcse was founded up-
on true grounds. II IL that the North have shown
disinc:inalion to carry. the obligations of tho
Constitution in that particular requiring that fugi.
| tives slaves from labor shall he rendered up In
this particular the South was right and the North
was wrong. He considered tha; by the terms of
the Constitution II was made the dnty Of the
| Stntcs and their Legislatures to give UP these
slaves. Every member Of n S,ntc Legislature was
bound by his oath TO support the Constitution and
had no right TO consider any excuse for not carry
ing all That Constitution into effect. There wns n
| bill now before the Senate to carry into effect this
provision ofthe Constitution, and hc would vote
| for it. The South was right in its complaint of
| injury on this point and the North was wrong in
| being unmnfu of what the Constitution pcrcmp
| torily required of them.
Another subject III complaint the resolutions
sent hero for instructions to members of Congress-
some about slavery in this District clsewllcre-
He thought that these resolutions by .Stnte Legis
lnturcs were hcconc Of too common occurrence.-
| lie greed with some sentiments uttered n few
| days ago in the Massachusetts Legislature by
young member, who snid he would for no
resolutions 10 be sent 10 the members of Congress.
lie saw no propric,y in one get of public Hervunts
'nsriicting another set; they wcre NIL public ser
wants, and alike responsible 10 their constituents
tic would be no more willing to listen To nstruc-
tons from Massachusetts point where ne
was only rs much interested my o,hc. State
than he would, If appointed OH arbitrator in n
question of private right listen to the instructirns
OF the man who appointed him.
me Abolition societies ut the North was anoth.
er subject Of complaint. He had no sympa,hics
with these societies. They had had the effect of
preventing any favorable schemes nj tho South
III behalf OF emancipation. Within the last TWEEN
~ ycaas he had no donb, that money enough had
been contributed to Abolition prsses and societies
to purchase the Freedom Of every slave in Mary.
land and send them Iiberin. He had We, to
learn that Abolition philanthropy had taken tla,
turn.
The South complained that the press of tho
North was directed against the institutions of
South. II was true tha, in the Northern pa
pars, such cllargas and accusations were made |
but in the South it was equally rs bad In
of ,i,n a Il.
Congress were but little improved and better
thin the lone of the press Every sentiment
uttered by the Southern pross, or by Southern
mon, high or low, which roflcctcd upon The
North, was copied into tho Northern papers,
and sent forth to reading people, and produ-
ced a bad feeling. 1t was the same ut tho South.
tic saw no remedy in the power of Conrrcss
for this grievance. There were remarks in
tha speech Of the Senator from Louisiana, (Mr.
Towns, } where he conlrusted the laborsrs of
ES sS2sIsih yfsFE tic iiIt' SSfsf fis Ths5 Fist
HIwnod four-fifth of the properly ut tho North.
They were an elucatSI Class, and any com
Is,rison such as that male by the Senate Vyould |
ro much to feed the excitement.
Hc would rather hear Senators all declare
the inpnssibi!ity oi dis.,alving this Union, than
that any one should say it cou,,! be dcne lie
Ind heard of secesson--poaceablc secession !
Ii was impossible. You might as well at
lcmat 10 disturb the OCEAN to its depth without
Ruling the surface. II; was surprised to
h,ar.a,y ono foolish cnougl, to suppose there
could be a secession or dissolution without vio-
lcncc. Did Senators suppose this Union was
like SNOW under II vcriial SuE, 10 bc melted |
gently away? That these States were to part
pcacctully-mlkc concurrent agreement to
Soparatr-with amony on both sides He
wanted TO know where the flag was TO 60,
where the cawlc WAS to stand, or was he 10 cow
cr and fall TO the ground ?
How was each State to protect itself? He
had heard that Southern Contctlcracy was to
formed. He did no, charge any one with think
inr Of it. II was ut!kcd about. He was sor-
ry il was talked about; he was sorryit was
dreamed about. 1t WAS impossible to form II
limo between the slave and the FREQ States. A
line could not be drawn that would Inc s;,,is-
factory 10 five men in the Union. He had Il
d. sg,,Si for this subject. lie would rather hear
o! blight, mcw, scourgc--would rather
hear Of war, pes,ilcncc; am, famine than scces-
sion. There wouldbc no disrnion, no scrcs-
sion; but the Union would last, he hoped, forcv-
II had heard of the Nashville Convention
IL supposed, from what had been said that il
would be n Convention To recommend Concili-
aiory measures to the South and to the North
II not, and they were to meet with purposes
adverse To the Union ard tho Constitution, then
they were singularly inappropriate in their Sc
lection al a place of meeting. After the treaty
Of Amirns, member OF the British House OF
Commons, commenting upon it, said: Tint if
King Willium could know what the treaty was
he would turn in his collin Ii this Convcn-
ton was TO meet to take measures against this
Union, the same emphatic remark might be-
IN, hat hey u n
place, when they held such counscis over the
soil Where rcpoac the remains OF Andrew Jack
son.
| He thought that il TrXoS would agree 10
ccdo 10 the Unlcl States all her territory
North of the thirty fourth parallel, for u money
consideration, tho proposition should be con-
sidcrcd.
lie would say to the gentlemen of the South
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