The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-14

Oy your tnNucnSe ana uetccttVu' IL eoou ooti1o
in collision with the State Of Ohio, by boldly
assuming tho right to establish branches ia a
State without the consent OF the legislature and
without being subjected to taxation---The
State Of Ohio denied the right of the bank thus
to act, in derogaton OF State authority, and
stubbornIy asserted the sovereign right To tax.
The question thus raised between the bank aud
the State Of Ohio, involved the great issue Of
State Sovereignty The field which you had 30
long sought was open before you, and the means
of acquiring gold and popularity ut the North
burst upon your view. You resigned the speak
ershlp Of The House OF Representatives, under
the false pretence Of the pressing nature OF your
private affairs, and accepted fee as the attor-
ney Of the bank, and in the character and office
of a mercenary hireiing, struck your first mortal
stroke at the sovereignty of the States. la this
character, sir, you pressed your schemes MS the
attorney ut the bank.--You had won the title of
skillful diplomatist, in engrattng the tenth arti-
clio upon the treaty of Ghent--You outgener-
allied Ohio. The right to establish branches in
State free from the burthen of taxation, was
conceded without conditions. The bank tri-
umphed, and State sovereignty was vanquished.
Your recreancy to your own section, and your
union with the North was now cOnsummated.
You were no longer free agent
A willing captive, the slave of avarice and sell
fish ambition, you swore allegiance to your se-
ducers who bound you with chain of gold to
the car of abolition and New England monopoly.
The treaty which made you foreign enemy to
the South, and put you under bond to betray
your section, was ratified and you entered upon
the fulfment Of its stipulations. With the
moose of the Northern asso around your neck,
you have, from that hour to this, traitorously
piped the minstrelsy which gnided the robber
AID 4nr into fha
citadel of your country. You had practically
taught your abolition allies that il they desired
to abolish slavery, sustain the bank and plumber
the South, the best means TO accomplish these
objects, was to enlist you into their service, and
strengthen the arm of your influence andpower.
You had demonstrated your willingness to
trample your fidelity to the Constitution under
foot, whenever it opposed barrier to your pro-
gress, and you was impatient for the opportunity
to cover up your delinquencies, with the public
admiration of the magnitude of your achieve
ments. The Missouri agitation began, and you
entered upon your grand career of abolition and
public robbery, under the specious name Of
compromise" by which the South has been
despoed of her territorial sovereignty, and the
indefeasible right to the occupancy of her lands.
You was well aware that these lands constituted
the outposts of African slavery, and that to de-
prive the South of the right of eminent domain
in them, was the most fatal blow you could strike
at the institution of slavery. The mother who
gave you life stood before you with another life
in her bosom, which must, according to natures
law, expire with her own; and yet, Nero-ke, no
sentiment of humanity could soften the obdu-
rate heart which was steeled to the commission
of crime, deemed impossible in more bar
barous age. You had, sir, accepted the office of
headsman and executioner of your countrys
veal and your country's honor. The blow de-
scended, and the mother, pierced TO the heart
by the hand of her son, fell victim at your feet;
and the waters Of the ocean cannot wash away
the bloodspots from your hands, or remove the
mountain of guilt which rests upon your head
In 1908 you made your debut as the advocate
of your American system of Southern tribute to
Northern monopoly, by which a system Of
wholesale plumber was to be perpetrated upon
the South, to feed the graspng avarce of your
| Northern clients and by which you achieved adj
dilonal claims upon Northern confidence. And
you won for yourself the immortal honor of
being the discoverer of two new postulates in
political economy lst "That universal free
trade, If could al once be adopted By all nations,
soould be destructive of American freedom ID,
Thai protection should be afforded by high duties,
aol hom regard 10 The amount Of rerenue phich
then might uieM" Will it be credited in future
times, that statesman in the ninets enth century,
possessing abilities of high order, could seri-
ously lay down propositions like these, so pre-
posterous and absurd, and yet escape the humane
process, de lundtco inqu,rendo, and his lands be
not delivered in trust TO the lord of the fee? 1t
proves, sir, the miserable subterfuges to which
you have been driven, to defend the injustice
and rapine which you bargsined to nflict upon
the South. And yet these postulates constitute
the pillars upon which your American system is
based. Let your sec nd postulate be reduced
to practice, and soon the whole currency Of the
country would be in the vaults Of the public
treasury and the whole property of the Union
be held at the mercy and disposal Of the govern
ment Your code needed one article more to
perfect it. The money thus raised must be ex-
pended at the North, and your system of internal
improvements was brought forward to empty
the bloated treasury into the bosom Of the North
and your work Of Southern spoliation and
| plumber was complete
When the Missouri agitation, which constitutes
the era of your land piracies began, you posses
| sed the following items of claim TO the confidence
| of the Southern people You was the avowed
friend Of the abolit on of slavery, and opposed
TO the extension and existence of African slavery;
you had affixed your name to the treaty of Client,
which, according to the construction of your
colleague, and doubtless your own, placed the
| United States under the obligation of treaty
stipulations to prohibit dealng in Slaves you had
avowed your preference for the institutions of
the free States, and had united with John Quincy
Adams and Wherefore, to carry out the scheme
of emancipation in America you were the feed
attorney of the United States Bank, which you
rechartered in violation of the Constitution, ac-
cording to your own authority, and you had ac-
II Il. II =. O.
ereignty in Ohio; you had brought forward your
American system, by which you sought to rob
the South of millions annually, to feed the ava
rice of Northern capitalists, of whom You were
| the acknowledged agent. The South, sir may
well be astonished, when by retrospect Of your
political history, the truth appears, that although
Southern man, you have illed your purse with
Northern gold, MS the price of your country's be-
travail that you have leagued with the Adolf
tionists of both England and America, to eman-
| cipate the slaves of the South, and part OF
| the abolition policy, to rob the Southern people