Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1851-07-05

approved in the other wing Of this Capitol is
must be sanctioned by both Houses o; Congress-
and that hold 10 be impossible
Mr.. Webster in reply says
Mr.. WEBSTER. There is nothing person.
Al the honorable senator from Mississippi has
said TO which take The eighties, exception. |
must only say that am quite incredulOus to all
tho predictions OF dsunion from any thing grow
ing out ofthe present coniroversy-quiIe incTedu
Ious. NV honorable friend from Mississippi
will allow me TO remind him that in the prophe
cies Of latter times there was certain SATURDAY
mentioned day went over and no pillar Of
the constitution was shaken--no bond otthe IN
ion was severed. The sun rose in the morning,
we all enjoyed sery agreeable day, and all
to bed at nigh, concious Of the integrity Of iae
GoveruneU, still subsisling.
! n seems that Mr.. Webster had not much con.
| fdence in the senator's priapte assurances, and
would not rely upon his statements. Let US see,
I then, what reliance southern senators placed up
on his pripdSe assurances and his statements that
| 35 40 could have been obtained as the southern
boundary of California, when he declared in the
Senate that he was going to tell the whole world
Upon like proposition by the senator who
occupies the chair, Mr. Cing,) we of the south
voted in tho affirmative and yet il was defeated
defeated by whom want to know, sir, whelh.
er honorable senators, acting upon principle,
can Justify themselves in the eyes of the country
for voting agains, an amendment to-day for
which they would have voted on yesterday. If
there was any good reason to defeat that amend.
Inent when il was proposed by the senator from
| Alabama,we were bound presume that the same
reasons would exist to defeat when il should be
proposed again. Let not the country, therefore,
lie deluded by assertions that has no meaning
We tried the question we lost il ; we were de-
fea,ed-defta,ed by whom The country will
not be at loss for an answer"
| But the senator assumes that Mr.. Soule is not
worthy to be taken as authority against him
! He wishes to cast reflections upon him as ma
tive IF another land, and says that he is a rery
rlewr gentleman, who cane over here few
wears ago from France, and this is the authority
which | produce agains, him. Mr.. Soule,
fellow. ci,izons, though stranger by birth is a
citizens by adoption, and in principle lover of
republican liberty. He has been honored BY
the State Of Louisiana as a representative OF the
sovereignty in the Senate OF the United States,
and on question of fact connected with senate
rial proceedings, hs statements are entitled TO as
high considerations as those of any senh.or, even
the senator himself will say to him there WAS
time when another gentleman came over here
| from France. Ofwhom il has been said by one
Of Americas most eloquent and gifted orators,
"Ile came when darkness hung over the land
When the prospects Of the revolution were most
| gloomy the heart Of the patriot sunk
! within him--when the plough.share stood still
in the field, ane Eriats numbered the garden OF
beauty This was Lafayette, the friend OF
! Washington, America owes him debt oil graft
itudc she can never repay, His name shall 60
down TO Immortality d beacon light to the friend'
Of freedom forever, The waves Of time shall
never roIl over il. "Obvion shall never shroud
it's splendid This was Lafayette, the friend Of
Washington he came TO assist hin in the pur-
chase OF America freedom. Soule ls the friend
of our own gallant jeff. Davis be has come to
a ssist ,m in the maintenance Of that freedom
which Washington and Lafayette won
And wha, did our own senator Col, jeff Da'
us, always as true to the soulh as the neeble is
to the pole, say to him On this poin, The fol.
lowing is an extract from his remarks:
,'But sir, in relation to this cur,aimeRt Of
1 California. Who voted for III Those South.
ern men who are accused Of defeating the 'com
promise" bill. They voted for II as restriction
Of the extended limits Of California. And
think il was sraining point TO &c, them to vote
for il /; for il was studied evasion efIhe line oil
IS deg, 80 m. lest that line should carry some
"impca.ion" with il But our friends were
generously retiring from that line, on which
think they ought to stand There was no con.
sideration in relation TO the public lands no
consideration Of physical geography which jusli-
fled the Southern representatives in recedng
one degree south. There was nothing, | say
in the line of IS deg 80 min, to commend itsel
TO any except TO those who had determined from
( the beginning 10 avoid the line Of 81 deg. 80 m.
lest il might carry an "mplcasion" with it,
We were then conceding great deal when W.
. took that line. But /, was voted down. Wher
, i. was las, offered, know no, under what aus
pices an amendment was proposed to recognise
. the rights of the South in the country below
IS deg. 80 m. That was voted down. Sc W,
{ could no, get our rights acknowledged in tn
8 Territories,
9 Blu, we are told time and again, that the lin
. Of IS deg. so m. would have been agreed to. an
the bill passed containing that for the line. Thi
reminds me Of celebrated jumper from Leeds
!, He was always speaking how far he had jumped
n and how many men he could bring TO prove il
/. Finally, one day some one said TO him. "slav
il yourself the truble Of hunting up Witnesses
IS would cost you much time and expense; ju'
b make the jump over again" Laughter. Now
IL sir, II gentlemen have the power to draw tia
!. line, IL, Thorn draw it. The Southern men VIII
!, opposed the bill constitute no obstacle to il.
II cannot understand how senators would toda
Of vote for line upon such high principles as shou
h govern any member ofthis body, and tomorrow
IN from little spite, altogether refuse TO vote e
20 such line. hope no senator will take thI
70 ground If that line can be drawn, why D
T, draw |. now I"
These extracts are taken from the debate pul
III lished in the National Inielligencer, August 81
at 1880, and so totally reute the statements oftl
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