The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-25
ey- We lay before our readers this morning,

w We lay before our readers this morning,
to the exclusion of much other matter, the pow
erful and eloquent appeal of Judge CHEvEs to
the South. 1t is characterized by eloseness
of reasoning, lucid order of arrangements
glow and fervor of patriotic devotion to the
honor and liberties of the Southern people
which prove that age has but matured, instead
of impairing the vigor of his intellect and the
energy of his will.
Never in the palmiest day of his high public
career, did he produce. more mastery ex-
position of the real nature and functions of this
Government, never did he more clearly demon
strate its duties, or more strongly denounce its
assumption of undelegated powers.
With the scoruful strength ola giant, he tears
to shreds and tramplcs under his feet the himsy
fallaces of the ompromisers-and exposes the
real features of their miscalled compromise"
in all their unreieved deformity. Equally emf
nent as jurst and statesman, he analyses the
consttutionality of the lawless proceedings in
California, and towards Texas and the entire
South, by the lights of both and his argument
on these topics may be abused and perverted,
but cannot be rebutted.
The sole remedy he suggests is secession
hopeless Of returning sense of justice on the
part Of the North--or a proper appreciation of
their own interests.
The correctness of his conclusions on this
point, few weeks now will test decisvely-
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clusion must be adopted also by all determined
to maintain the equality of the South in the
Union, or out ofu.
Our own position has been too distinctly and
too often defined, to.neei any additional expos-
ton now. In reply to n direct interrogatory
we have stated, what we waut," and what Gin
our judgmenD would prove satisfactory to the
majority of the Southern people.
The opinions of Judge CHEvEs are too
fully, frankly and openly avowed to need any
commentary of ours, and the force and sufi-
cheney of the reasons he gives for the faith that
is in him, every intellect and heart must decide
for itself Both friend and foe, however, must
admit, that like his mighty compeer now num-
bcred with the dead, the vertean statesman
has proved himself equal to "this great argu-
ment," and that while he is spared the South
mas still left her champion able to bend the
bow of Ulysses-and strike terror and dismay
into the souls of those who had hoped to entomb
the great cause for which he lived, in the grave
of CALHOUN
Against the honorcd head of CHEvEs malice
will cxpend its shafts in vain: his purity of pur-
pose and integrity cannot be questioned, his
whole life and career form his buckler against
all such poisoned shafts. Ambitious aspirations
he has long since discarded, rejecting the highest
honors repeatedly and urgently rendered him.
The crisis alone has called him from his retire
ment, and his voice falls on the ears Of this
generation like warning from the sages of the
older and better days of the Republic, admonish-
ing them not to yield either to force or fraud
the precious heritage Of equality, transmitted as
sacred trust to their hands.
But few days since we gave the admonitions
of a Northern sage, concurrent in many respects
with this appeal of Judge CHEvEs. If the two
combined fail to convince the doubling, and
confirm the waverng-if humidity and treachery
are destined still to sap Southern strength, and
destroy the hope Of Southern union-then in.
deed are we about to launch on a sea of troubles
such rs never before threatened shipwreck to
the hopes of those, DESTROYS of still preserving
these States United.