The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-27

tile South are me SEXUAL causes OF the evils
now exsting--all these Mr.. Clay oniits.
Mr.. Clay attempts to hold the South response
bic for resisting aggression IN any mode. lf the
South would only submit without complaint to
every attack from the North, the country would.
be at peace and Mr. Clay would not be subject
to the trouble of making omnibus bills and omni-
bus speeches The South win of course have
great confidence in the justice and impartality Of
Compromises who complains OF her alone, and
complains that she has been so unreasonable as.
to defend herself by Legislative resolves against
Legislative resolves, by Nashville Convention
against the Buffalo Convention, and all the Con-
ventions of the three parties in the North for two
years, and by newspaper and pamphlet against
the united periodical press of the North and a
host of pamphlets. And yet Mr. Clay says
One of the misfortunes of the times is the diff
Guilty in penetrating the Northern mind with truth;
to make it sensible to the dangers which are
ahead; to make it comprehend the consequences
which are to result from this or that source; to
make it give just appreciation TO all the events
which have occurred, are occurring, or which
must evidently occur.
MIR. CLAY has made grave and offensive
charge against this press.
"The establishment of paper in this city--a
sectional paper-and wish could say that upon
all occasions it propagated truth with m re aten-
ton than in particular instance it has done--a
sectional paper is established here to espouse, not
the interests of the Union, but the interests of a
particular section. The ausion made with re-
gard to departure from the truth, which has in
cid entax m IN nv was call cd forth hu
an assertion recently made, that in the State of
Kentucky there was great difference and diver
sity OF opinion upon the subject of the adoption
of this measure, and that the constitutional con-
yention of that State had unanimously, or nearly
unanimously, rejected proposition in favor of the
Compromise. Why, directly the reverse is the
fact. should not have observed it at all, had
not noticed on yesterday that it was copied in
paper in Mobile, and was spoken of as an un-
doubted fact that even in the State OF Kentucky
there was great division on the subject of the
Compromise. will say in my place, with the
authority that appertains to my position, that for
fifty years have never known so much unanimity
upon any question in that State 1t is State
from which received letter from gentleman
formerly Democratic member of Congress,
known very well to my friend from Indiana, now
in my eye, from the county Of Henry, one of the
most populous counties in that State, in which
there is a majority of Democratic voters, and Of
which majority Of 1900 votes, this gentleman
an honorable gentleman, am proud to say,
though differ from him in polites--says that, as
far he knows or believes, there is not solitary
individual to oppose 1t and the constitutional
convention of Kentucky, instead of opposing by
an unanimous vote of the body, expressed its APP
probation of this pending measure.
Now what we did say was as follows: sa
4. In our paper of July 3. rs M b.ia$
KENTUCKY ON THE COMPROMISE. have
seen letter from well informed gentleman in
Kentucky, denying most positively that the peo-
pile of that State are in favor Of the compromise
plan before the Senate. He asserts that the late
Kentucky Convention, instead Of approving it,
refused to pass the very resolution in it's favor:
We have already given this statement before,
in an extract from a letter Of another gentleman of
high authority.
We were amused at the terms in which Mr.
Clay introduced those resolutions to the Senate
terms that would make the impression on any cas-
ual observer, that they were favorable to that
measure. The editor Of the Union went further
He said, referring to those same resolutions, that
Kentucky spoke trumpet-tongued in favor Of the
Compromise, when the only thing the resolutions
themselves said was to approve the motive of
the Comnttee--a thing so unusual as to cause
the inference, very naturally that the measure it.
self was not approved, and if any thing were want
ing to confirm that inference, the fact stated,
on good authority, that the Convention actually
rejected the resolution in favor of this Comprom-
Use is conclusive. s n,
''Mr. Clay stated in the Senate, on Thursday,
that during his life, which is not very short, he
had never known the people Of Kentucky so
united, to degree almost amounting to unanim-
ity, as they are in favor of the Compromise re-
ported by the Senate Committee Of Thirteen. -
.alerandris Gazette. asrs a
Mr.. Clay was correct. There is not, we be-
lieve, newspaper in Kentucky that opposes the
compromise, and, if there is an individual in the
State who opposes it, we have not heard of him.
We presume, Of course, there are such individ-
uals, but, if so, they are few and quiet, that
theirsvery existence is a thing unknown.
The Southern organ at Washington city ex-
presses the confident belief that full threefourths
of the citizens of the slaveholding States are OPP
posed to the Compromise. We have only to say
that an editor who can believe this, must be pos
sessed of the very convenient and comfortable
faculty Of believing whatever he pleases.-Louis-
vile Journal. ssa- wg
We have seen but few of the Kentucky news
papers on this plan of compromise. But we
have seen, as it happens better evidence of public
opinion in Kentucky, than her newspapers, and
that is, that the Constitutional Convention, of
both parties, lately rejected resolution in favor
Of this very compromise. Now, he who can say,
as the Journal does, that he sshas not heard" of
an individual in Kentucky opposed to it, must
have ga convenient and comfortable faculty" of
hearing only what pleases him. We receive,
probably, three times the number Of Southern
papers that the Journal does, and more than
three-fourths Of them are against the compromise.
And again, on the 10th instant
KENTUCKY ON THE Commemorative are in
debted to an esteemed and distinguished friend for
copies of the precise resolutions offered in the late
Constitutional Convention Of Kentucky, on the
pending Compromise bill Of Mr.. Clay.
The following is the resolution reported by Col.
Thomas p Moore, to the meeting of the delegates
Of the Constitutional Convention recently held in
Kentucky, to "consder Mr.. Ciay's plan Of compro-
mise. .
RESOLVED, That to this end the result of the de-
liberations Of the Committee of Thirteen of the
Senate Of the United States, Of which our distin-
guished felIow-citizen Henry Clay, is chairman,
is entitled to the most favorable consideration Of
the people of the United States, and that zoe do
most cordially recommend that compromised Congress
for their adoption.
This resolution was rejected by the meeting,
and the following adopted in lieu thereof.
RESOLVED, That we cordially approve Of the pat