Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1850-12-14
SPEECHES AT NEW ORLEANS.

the great Union Meeting at New Orleans, (which
were published in our last paper,)-
Senator Downs was introduced to the meeting
The shouts of applause that broke forth on his ap.
pearance (says the Bee) were perfectly terrific, and
some time elapsed before even the band, which had
struck up Yankee DOODLE" could be heard
When the music ceased, the honorable gentleman
spoke as follows:
Fellow citizens For the kind in which one Of the
resolutions just proposed you appreciation OF
nv public services and for the and hoptabe
in which have been received during my recent visit
among you, beg express my profound thanks and graft
tude To such marks Of appreciation, from such
people, in such place. and under such circumstances, is
ordinary compliment This demonstration is the more graft
flying me- from the source from which it Il is
party triumph such thing is Of daily But to
whole people, divided usually by strong party lines rise
up spontaneously and by impulse hail with
probation public who has, during most Of his pub
lie service been decided party man, and subject to all the
excitement opposition, and reproaches incident to such
position ordinary occurrence and springs from no od
nary motives and deserves, you it receives
ordinary consideration from The humble individual who the
object Oft But he not vain enough to suppose that this
originates in any peculiar merits in him, any services
dered BY him. No; it comes from a deeper Your
love and for the Unon--that Union which the
Father Of his Country and his compatots secured by their
lives, and legacy to their posteriy He has been ortu
enough unfortunate PERIOD to be your exponent
and representative in endeavong to protect that sacred ns
tuition, and made the instrument OF your expressing,
only your undiminshed attachment it. but yeur admit
ration for it, greater than from the dangers through
which it has, hope, safely carried US. [Cheers
After making explanations of matters appeainng
to himself personally, for which Mr. D. deemed the occasion
not inappropriate he returned to the subject Of the meeting
follows:
come to the more immediate objects Of the meeting.
[Cheers regret that objections have been made in
quarters to this assembly, and that sinister motives have
been attributed to it ascrbng it to Wing influence, and
others assigning Democratic reason. conceive the charge
to be utterly groundess there is indeed, color for it.
Why should a meeting composed Of Wings and Democrats
be objected to Has not this whole question been discussed
without any reference to party The interests at stake in
deed far too weghy to be mixed up with politics. It
only by the union Of all and Of all parties that adjust
men Of the delicate questions could be brought about, So
momenous the objects view tina. absolutely forgot
party Mr. Clay, Mr.. Cass, Mr.. Webster Mr. Dickinson,
Mr. FoOte forgot party, and entered upon the settlement Of
the great questions like Americans heart and soul. Nothing
could have been Obtained by party every
coupled with this eaven would have been ndsceet and in
eecua Then, citizens is futile it is unwise to
find fault with any gentlemen because great an occasion
they forgot party. Cteers Such accusations and innuen
Does they from what quarter they may have terors
for They endeavored to deter at Washington IN the
discharge Of my duties by saying that, persisted in setting
and Clay would be President Webster Or somebody
else. answered, let it be So l am party man IN the
up shall finch but when travel over ground,
yet struck by party and where the mixing up OF party
elements could only be productive Of mischief am tor dis
cardng it, Cheers If sucoeel in my late course, and
if evenuates my credit only expect the appreciation
Of my party, but Of nay country lcheers III fail lie. me
sink solitary and alone.
But am told il public print tha, am running my party
In the first DO not beeve do not believe that good
Injured by good act, and think have an
indisputable right here and with and con-
fuIe Lat afr al
told again that my party will be FRUSTRATED by the course
am pursuing do not fear il. But if did, what then
My party my country. III fall to-day twenty Others will
arise in defence Of the principle my party falls other
who shall rebuild it, The great architects that framed it
Washington, Franklin, Hamilton, &c.-mouded it as no
other human hands mould and the edce, once pulled
down. be replaced by structure Of equal mate
rails. Cheers @a#
will now very briefly, for feel somewhat feeble devote
few words what called the compromise measures
embracing five different subjects viz the admission OF Call
fornia, the Territorial bills for Utah and New Mexico, the
Texas boundary the Fugitive Slave Law and the Suppression
of the Slave Trade in the District Of Columbia.
When the bill for the admission OF California was first pre-
sented opposed it, because thought the boundaries ought
restricted but when in conne1on with other
measures the whole OF which forming plan OF adjustment
which deemed essential for the salvation of the country
could not object And now when these have pass
ed they ought be acquiesced in Surely there is no con-
stituonal objection to the admission Of California Those
who object brought stand when they attempt
to prove any unconstuonay. You told the South
excluded from Californa. That is the fact Southern
going there every day. and reapng equally with the
North rich harvest from their abors. The South has nc
participation in the measures, say they Who called the
Convention Why, gentleman from the State of Msss
pp Who the Senators 10 Congress but two Southern
gentlemen, Of whom from this very State They have
made their way n this country they indeed do
any where. But will not dwell on the subj any longer
There many other arguments could adduce, but shal
only instance one, because is that and smoohs tn
natter straight of and comes, moreover endorsed with to-
high authority Of Mr. Cahouo, 10 his celebrated resolutions
where he that States choose their consu
tons, &c. [Cheers. When Southern friends in Sou
Carolina and elsewhere rail against for the admission
California will rebuff their assaults by quoting Calhoun
them.
As regard. the next question, viz the Allegation Of th
slave trade in the Dntrict Of Columbus it mighty sma
natter mere municipal regulation such exists in othe
States Why, the slaves have nearly all disappeared from ID
District Formerly many negro traders had their arts there
but since have been at Washington have only one
in which probably six slaves changed hand
during the year. Nobody seemed know any thin
about it. and conceive that the whole action in Congres
i simply to shut that house up. lCheers The sam
ordinance In force 10 this city; and now, because tn
6ve-me three ornered concern wishes have sim'
municipal enactment thing too insignificant to be thougt
Of, find gavey opposing the adjustment because
this tIihing affair. [Cheers.
These are the measures which considered unfavo
able 10 the South, and now for the others.
Mr.. Downs rapidly reviewedahe bills for Governments
Utah and New Mexico showing hat the South surely gs
cd something by ngng back the Wmot provso in the
Of the Northern Free-Soiles Surely this somethn,
At the opening Of Congress there scsrcey Souhe
man who hoped il could b rejected but still it don
lslavery not excluded from those Territories II Is w