The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1851-07-23


1 That all naiinns <err inri.ed Ia sl.sl In.
q gpld 20 i'll their pnrkels wilh llse pr
rl"as dnsi. and he South alone MAS ex
rlbdrd.
new MexIe0 and Utah. he ssid. has
been surrendered 10 Abolilionism, and IA.
South sas'n nnipsIly treated in The par
lilion Of The public domain.
/ Mr.. v. aliarked he Texas Bonndsr,
bill with particular vi.4enee, denauneel
! as palpahle and gross viulaIioa Of rlls
e.onsilin'i''n. and read The article IN IN,
Constitution giving Congress fhe exels-
SIRE Po'cer 10 iegisiae orer The d;sfricI
ef Columbia. and orer forts. dook-yard,
and arsenais, "a establish the position
lie enlarged on State sovereignty. eulo.
sized Mr.. Calhoun as the great expoun.ler
and defender OF the doeuine. said iI.al
ohgress had arbitrarily and iyranniealIy
inieFiered 10 sever portion nf The State
OF Texas iom us Pm, er allegiance. and
transfer il 10 The dominion OF Free SOIL
ism.
Mr.. venable said that the Fugitive
Slave Law was what the South was en-
titled to under the Constitution, and
was no concession on the part of the
North that IL could never be execu-
ted, and was already practically multi
ned, and instanced llassacknsens and
Pennsylvania as proofs of the assertion;
that we had nothing to hope for from
the North and every thing TO fear /;
that our position was antagonistic, and
the South the weaker party, that the
iuturs was pregnant with new aggres.
sions. and the only safety Of the South
lay IN the doctrine of Secession. for
which he had always been firm and
CONSTANT advocate. He quoted some
general remarks of Mr.. Madison and
MIR. Jefferson to sustain the doctrine.
And only objected to separate State
action, and that because Of its probable
failure. lie says the Compromise de-
grades the South and is a.reproach aud
disgrace to her-that he is an advo-
cate for the doctrine Of peaceabIe Seces-
sion, and forcible disruption of the
nation fit is not conceded. Is not the
irresistible conclusion, that the Hon.
Gentleman is in favor of immediate
dispniog, If the South can be united to
second his endeavors 7 Freemen of
North Carolina your representative
from the fifth district proclaims the
Compromise, framed by Henry CLAY,
supported by Webster, Dickinson,
Cass. Foote, Houston and Maugum, to
be a sufficient cause to dissolve the Tn.
ion framed by Washington. Hamilton,
Madison and Jefferson Are you pre-.
pared to sanction his pernicious doc.
trine by again electing him to fill the
distinguished post he now so unity
occupiess Does he truly represent
your views in this matter of Secession
Are you willing that our nationality
originating in the commissions of one
revolution, shall go down in blood in
another? Yet there is nothing in the
future more certain, than that this
will be the final result of the general
recognition and adoption Of this right
of State to withdraw from the Union
whenever it pleases her fancy, satisfies
her resentment, or suits her convent
ence.
The reply of Mr.. s. +. Phillips to
this mass Of undigested misstatements,
and illogical conclusions from untena-
BILE premises, was one of most conelu-
sive arguments in favor of the observ-
ance Of the Compromise, that we have
ever listened to. No attempt at dis
play-no establishment of his remarks
with the tawdry ornaments of cheap
rhetoric, and the soiled, cast off finery
OF the last Congress-nothing but a
lucid and comprehensive statement Of
facts, and their irresistible conclu-
sions, and an appeal to the sensible
men of the country to come to its res
cue.
He replied to the remarks of Mr..
Venable on each of the bills composing
the Compromise, silenced his objections
to the admission Of California, by prov
ing that the Democratic party had al :
ways favored the leaving 1t to the people
of the territories to determine whether
Slavery should or should not exist
among then. That the people who
were to be Immediately affected by the
introduction of Slavery were the pro-
per persons to decide upon its benefits
not those who lived some thousand
Of miles away, and who must neces-
sarily be badly informed as to the real
necessities of the people in Califor-
MIA. That as the Constitution required
nothing in the Constitutions Of the
States applying for admission into the
Union, except Republican form of
Government, Congress could not go
behind the scenes, and inquire into the
propriety of whatever regulations the
people of California chose to incorpo-
rate into their form of government.
That the informalities attending her
admission could only have retarded her
entrance into the Union, and would
never have eventually defeated it.