Weekly national intelligencer., 1850-03-09

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there can be none, at ALL to the which now
quote from the speech of the gentleman from North Carolina
(Mr. CLIsGmAs,) already referred to
ern press that the from that section ought to expel
such interrupt their proceedings Let the try experi-
men tell genemen that this slayeholdng territory.
We do intend to leave it. If they think they can remove
is proper for trial In the present temper Of the
public mind probable that collision Of the kind here
ngon the colonies their then excited state Such
gle, whoever might the ycors in it, would leave
high eason-he highest that the world ever
But their words idle We shall defeat their movement
against u.s.
this does not sufficiently show where and how the
luton to commence let US turn again the speech of the
gentleman from Mississippi, (Mr BRows and read another
extract:
My opinion is this that should the intro
resist by votes first and lastly by other means IL
cam al east force an adjournment 1pithoa her admission
This being done, we are safe The Southern States Con-
vention Nashville, will devise for vindicatng their
rights do not know what these iH be, but know
what they may be- and with proprey and safety They may
be carry slaves into all of Southern California as the
pery of sovereign States and there hold them as we have
right do; and if moested defend them, as both our
| right and duty
'We ask you give rights by sos-IsTERvEsrIoS
if you refuse, am for taking them by ARMED
Resist the passage of law admitting California first by
votes, ard lastly by "oiher eans Mr.. Chairman does
the consu ion which support or the rules
of this House, point out to any "oer means Of resist
ing the enactment OF law except by of votesi We
can adjourn But how adjourn without roting adjourn
ment g Force adjournment" says the gentleman
And that force is the ohe means by which the adms
sion Of California is to be resisted and resisted successful
iy." And what next Why, the Nashville Convention is
to meet Then what Carry slaves into all of southern
California the property of sovereign States and there
hold them, have right do and if molested defend
them is both right and duty" And thus is Cali
fornia to be taken" by EARNED occupation" Alas for
the 100000 men already there their way tbher from
whom California is to be taken by force and held by armed
| will
doubt not, Nr. Chairman that by this time you and this
commtee are satsed as am that unless the intentions Of
the people Of the slavehodng States have been mistaken by
some of their Representatives here, conflict of between
the Government of the United States and portion of the c
zens thereof is inevitable.
But have permitted myself to doubt the patriot
ism Of the American people AndI shall be slow especially
dsust that quality in the people of the generous South Left
to their unpreudced judgment and their sound
aections, shall have fear dare hardly answer, how
ever for the effect which the speeches. especially that Of the
gentleman from Mississippi (M BRowN,) may have upon
the minds Of gallant people, naturally ardent and mpusve.
Indeed sir shuddcr at the thought Of the effect which pas
sages like that which shall quote may, had almost
said must produce the feelings OF Southern brethren
Receiving tin good tah bound suppose they will
as faithful statement Of the cruees and enomes about
be visited upon them by the hands of their Northern BRETHREN
would be strange indeed if they failed to be wrought up
to the most intense degree Of excmept and evaporation
Our country is be made desolate. We be driven
from our homes-the homes haowsd by all the sacred
u
pie accursed of God wander through the land homeless
houseess, and endless or what ten thousand times
Gus and happy and ourselves wives and children de-
graded to social position with the black These these
are the ghtu terrible consequences would entail upon
u.s. Picture to yourselves Hungary resisting the powers of
Austria aad Russia and if Hungary which had tasted
liberty could make such resistance what may you
anticipate from eight millions Of Souhrons made desperate by
your aggre ssion ~
Do you know, Mr.. Chairman, of any acts committed or
meditaed by the North against the people of the
States that can by possibility justify such declarations
those have quoted know OF none, and am sure the
gentleman from Mississippi will find very difficult point
them out to bis constituents 1t is easy, indeed to deal in
general charges against the North and when requested to
specify those charges say the honorable gentleman from
Mississippi does 81 will the story of wrongs"
But will such course satisfy people, patriotic intelligent,
and inquiring Future developments will show.
And what sir are the causes assigned to justify the act Of
dssoving the Union They alleged aggessions by the
nonavehodng States upon the rights of the slavehodng,
in respect TO slavery All the charges put forth against the
nonavehoding States have reference that question sole
and they all comprised and compendousy forth in
single brief sentence which here quote from the speech be-
fore referred to of the gentleman from North Carolina, M
CLiSeMAN) After referring length 10 the benefits
and advantages Of slavery, he says:
SIN pte however ofthese great facts which ought strike
all impartial minds the Of the North has been constant
ly aggressive on this question"
Now, sir, on behalf of the North, repe the charge And
affirm that for any thing the North has done justify The
overthrow of this Government any attempt to do so naked
SIT course ol states peeH coi
stanty aggressive upon the South the slavery question
Let Since the adoption of the constitution seventeen
States have been admitted into the Union OF this number
nine slavehoding States and eight slaveholdng
Now, sir it has happened that at time when of
these savehodng Saes have applied for admission, the
North has had complete ascendency in both branches Of Con-
gress consequently the power exclude any all of them
They all admitted, savehoding they were with just
such constitutions they had chosen adopt fer themselves
Is this part of that aggressive the slavery ques
ton which the North has constantly pursued y
Again of the territory embraced within the seventeen
States thus admitted the free States comprise 259 square
miles and the slave States 730376 square miles Thus
that the of slave territory admitted into the Union
since the adoption of the constitution considerably
than twice great that Of the free territory Does this
look like disposition the part Of the free States pursue
course of Constant aggression towards the South the
subject of slavery
Again the of Texas peculiarly Southern
measure The necessity Of its acquisition distinctly
placed by Mr. CALHoUN-himsef the embodiment of ultra
Southern principles and the maser-spt OF the then Ad-
mlnsraon-upon the Of slavery. To the North the
measure dsasteu The North desired, for its
sake the acquisition Of Texas nevertheless the South
earnestly desiring it, and Mr. CALHoUs's great influence
being brought bear favor for the reason, chiefly, just
gven the North generously acquesced the though
possessed of ample power to defeat it. Texas acqued
and at the cost Of saDgunary and expensive we took
into the Union, at swoop amount of slave territory
equal in extent to the entire original thirteen States All
this the savehodng States might have prevented but
did not Is this Northern aggresson" upon the rights of
the South the slavery question Is this of the acts Of
aggression that subject which is Justify gentlemen Of
the South in dissolvng the Union
The power Of Congress abolish saveade and slavery
at the arena forts, and navy yards and in this District
will hadly by of fiepds