Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-06-21
Daniel webster a National Man

Lately and we may say it is very lately, Daniel Web
ster has become to be considered National in the
provincial p0tos of the hour, Union 1t is very
recently that this impression has obtained the least
currency at the South, and to those who take the time
to inform themselves of his past and present history
is surprising that he should have any other position
assigned him than that of sectional characterutter-
y and determinedy opposed to the South and her in
stitutons We have recently received speech deliv-
cred at Buffalo, N. Y, by Mr. Webster. Were it pos
sible we would publish the speech If Union friends
are dlsincned to misead the people of the Soulful
they are disposed to show the people that there
turning of JUSTICE forming at the North they
will have Mr.. Websters speech published in every
submission paper in the State But they are deter
mined to misead and deceive the people, they will ex-
tract and publish such portions the speech as NAV
suit to achieve the end desired-that of deception
We shall give an extract two from the Buffalo
speech to show its tendency and will remark that the
speech was spoken not month since 1t is therefore
the deliberately enumerated opinions of Mr. Webster
no, uttered under the solemn sanction of the Presi-
dent of the u s., and shows pontedly what the ten
denotes of the administration are, and concusvely as
believe, what public sentiment is tending to and ma
turing upon at the North.
" Gentlemen, | regret extremely that slavery
exists in the southern states, and that Congress has
not power to act upon it. But it may be, in the
dispensation of Providence, some remedy may be
found for it,
We simply ask question here. What remedy can
be found for the existence of slavery and what do
suppose Mr.. Webster points the one sin the dis
pensation of Providence may arise that will give Con-
gess the power it-not in the States-but else
where
Here is the answer, plain, simple and conclusive
% shall concur, therefore, in no act no meas
ure, no indication of purpose, which shall inter-
fere, or threaten to interfere, with the exclusive
authority of the several States over the subject of
slavery, it exists within their respective limits
All this appears to be a matter of plain and mper-
alive duty. But when We come to speak of ad-
mltting new States, the subject assumes a new and
entirely different aspect. Our rights and our du-
ties then both different, The free States and
all the States then at liberty to accept or reject
When it is proposed to bring new members into
this political partnership, the old ones have right
TO say On what terms such partners are to come
In, and what they to bring with them. Inmy
opinion, the people of the United States will not
consent to bring in new, vastly extensive, and
slave holding country, large enough for half doz
en- or dozen States, into the Union In nv opin-
ion, they ought not to consent to it,
Can any man misunderstood this Mr. Webster is
not only opposed to the extension of slavery but he is
opposed to admitting States in which it is recog
nized. He says 81 contend, and have always con-
tended, that after the adoption the constitutions any
measure of the government calculated to bring slave
territory into the U. States beyond the power of
the constitution, and against its provision That is
my opinion, and it has always been my opinion
Again he says 81 never would consent that there
should be one foot of slave territory beyond what the
old thirteen States had at the time of the formation of
the Union. Never, never"