The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-10-02

deOIgesoWll, so as 70 enable them TO control
it in such manner as may most conduce to
their welfare and safety Thisis a true and
fair statement of my whole conduct in con-
nection with the two questions in voting up
on which 7 am charged by Gov Brown with
having votedin conjunction with abolitionists
and free sellers.
But the Governor has been still more un-
just and unkind towards me in the conclusion
of this extraordinary pamphlet Speaking
of the plan of compromise reported from tho
committee of 10, and now the law Of the
land, after the adoption of such amendments
as were deemed necessary by its most judi
ciOus friends, he says: II opposed the Com
promise with all the power I possessed. I
opposed the admission of California, the di-
vision of Texas, the abolition Of the slave
trade in the District of Columbia, and l vo-
ted against the Utah bill Top
posed the Compromise. Thought with Mr..
Clay, that Fit gave almost every thing to the
North, and to the South nothing buther hon
or After one or two additional sentences,
drawn up in the same pointed style, he con-
tends: 81 thought at the last, what General
Foote thought at first, that it contained none
Of the features of genuine compromise /"
I beg the Governors pardon, but I must say
that he has taken the liberty of putting words
into my mouth, that 1 never used in my life
in regard to the Compromise. am panied
at being thus compelled in self-defencc, to
set the Governor right upon point to which
he seems to attach some Importance, but 1
again deny that [ have uttered syllable
which would at all justify him in imputing
language to me which, coming from man
occupying my attitude, would be little worse
than ridiculous. The only foundation for
this unfoundcd and absurd charge seems to
be certain remarks which fell from me sever.
al months before the plan of adjustment had
been reported by the committee of Is; yea sew.
eral months before the committee was ever
raised, upon Mr. Clay sresolutions, introduced
near the beginning of the session. Refer
ring to the resolutions, said, on one occa
sion, in a somwhat excited debate, in response
to the distinguished author of them: "Anc
what are these resolutions? why one of then
is formally declaratiye of the hated Wilmo
Proviso principle; another brings in Califor
MIA; another by inevitable implication, assert
the power of Congress to abolish slavery i
the District Of Columbia; another propose
to abolish the slaBe trade in the District {
Columbia; and all this is to be conceded b
: the South ,rittout any compcnsatiag odro,
) tagcs whatever" After continuing for a fer
minutes more in the same strain, said q
shall certainly always be unable to perceiy
in his resolutions the features Of a gcnui,
Compromise" Upon whatprinciple Of 10!
zeal fairness it is that Gov. Brown considcl
himself justifable in altering the very Wort
spoken by me, and applying them to SUI
ject wholly distinct and different from that
= reference to which they were alone employc,
: how he has come to confound Mr.. Clay IS re
+" olutions, several of the most prominent fe
lures of which heis known by every intel
gent man to have nobly given up, in order
- secure the ultimate pacifcation of the cou
try, and the salvationof the Union, the Go
o. ernor himself, it is hoped, will yet condo
!" cend to explain. lam disposed to hope tn
: the Governor has not deliberately intend
to do me the gross injustice which I shou
: be half inclined to charge him, with almc
= designing to commit, but for the very rein
: and truly orthodox notions of political NOR
y ity to which he has thought proper to 81
- expression in another part of his pamphl
~ when he breaks forth, somewhat in the pc
pous and semi-sermonic style of DIR. Johns
:. in the Rambler, enunciating his sentimel
- in this wise: "It ought to be borne in mi
- how easy it is to misconstrue the acts a
49, speeches of public man. Taking into
- count the length of time that have been
10 the public service, it is rather a matter
=, surprise with me thatr my enemies have fou
% so little to carp at. The circumstances
III der which I have spoken or acted, are
a. course, very conveniently forgotten, and No
of ing is remembered, but such words or acts
ant may be turned to my disadvantage. Th
IA are eagerly seized upon by my enemies,
of held up to public gaze; and, if the public
un- dignation fails to rise, they then torture
ion words, and give them forced constructic
had 50 as to make me say what indeed ! ne
ude thought Of saying. No man ever spok'
YES explicitly as to escape the misconception
) to the weak, or the demonstrations Of the
ion rupt and designing. Noteven the insp
that writer's have escaped this common fate.
ton Atheist proves to his own satisfaction,
lner there is God, and taking the Bible foi
8 a. text, he undertakes to prove that the Bib
vet, affection Volney, Voltaire, and Tom Pa
Jew have each made bis assault upon the div
hich of the Savior; and each have had his /
q to elytes; and each based his argument, |
onal the words Of inspired writer's These th
med being true, what folly Il Is for an orli
dis man to hope foE escape from false interp
this tons and misrep atoms have