The southern press., 1851-12-27

1 lie mad TO pay hve thousand dollars U get hin
and then run him off in Il steamboat at night.
Have any of those people wh, committed tina
outrage in Boston, been punished! Have TIN
laws been enforced No, sir. Everybody
knows that the ringleader was tried the other da,
and acquitted. How is it in another State
Look at the Christiana proceeding, where muir
der was perpetrated II IS the law been en-
| forced there Has anv anybody been convicted
The Judges have determined that it is u II trea
SON. and now the farce is going on Of trying
those people for murder. or ulisdemeanor, OF
something else. venture to say that not a
hair of their heads will be touched How is il
in Syracuse, where there was the same opposi-
ton to the law, and marshal wounded in exc
cutting it A form of trial is to be carried
through; but who believes that any one will be
convicted, or, if convicted, injured by any con-
viction II you could box jury who would
convict any of them, do not think you will
find an executive in the North to sanction or en-
force a capital execution. And now, when this
fugitive slave law has been kicked, and see 4,
and resisted, from one end of the North to the
other we have senators here from the South
who say, let us stand to the compromise The
more our rights have been violated, the more
we love the violators. FIVE praise them, they
may pity US, and forbear Sir, in China, man
ia required, when he is introduced as an ambas,
sador to the Emperor, before he dares lift hs
eyes, to strike his forehead three times on the
floor.
The Senator from Mississippi would not only
have the South do that but he would have her
crawl, body and soul, to the foot of the North
there, with eyes ever closed, save to implore,
to be spurned. The law ia treated with con.
tempt by the North, and we are to magnify it,
More than this State has nullifed it. Vermont
has nullihed it by her Legislature, forcing an ap
peal to her State tribunals The President OF
the United States, in his late message, seemed
not to think itworth his while, while treating Of
this subject, to mention that one Of the sovereign
States had nulfied law which he had said was
constitutional and right and proper. If there is
any omen in itself more fearful than another
showing our true condition, it is, that not mere
ly individuals, but sovereign States, have nulliied
this law, in defiance of the legislation Of Con.
gress and the opinions and decisions of the iu-
dietary Ii South Carolina or Georgia had null.
lihed any law Of Congress, what lectures, here
and elsewhere, would have been delivered upon
treason! What homilies would have been read
upon the necessity of citizens obeyng the laws,
and of traitors being executed But when
Northern State utilities law of Congress, de-
signed for the protection Of the institutions of
the South, it is not worth while for the Presi-
dent of the United States even to notice it.,
when he takes up the subject ard treats of it in
his annual message! The North are our mas
tiers, and we their subje Can they do any
wrong
Mr.. President, | have thus endeayGred to
show, that the compromise, as it is called, is in
furious to the South, and would ultimately,
believed be destructive of our rights and liber-
H,l L.. Al
operations of the government, in which il had
departed from that course of imrartiality which
should characterize its dealings with all its mem
bers, we should have sufficient reason, perhaps,
to let it pass; as il would not be result from
the nature OF the system itself but an alteration
which might be transient in its character. But
as have bel eyed, that the course of the Con-
gress II the United States with respect 10 our
territories, is only u sequence in a course of
policy which has existed for many years-is an.
other step In that course of aggression and con-
solidation into VIII eh il is inevitably tending, |
deem it proper TO lay before the Senate the
grounds of my opinions.
If ! mistske not, from the very foundation Of
this government 10 this day. the opening of il
in lis financial and pecuniary relations, has had
but one uniform tendency and that has been
TO aggrandze the North at the expense of the
South II ! mistake not, the course of usur
patiors submitted to, has led TO their legitimate
sequences in the measures of aggression which
have been denominated the Compromise. To
test the truth OF this position, propose now to
90 back and trace the financial operations Of this
government 70: many years past
The two weak points in our system Of gov
ernment-the most delicate and the most i'm
portant, and those which crea' ed the greatest
difficulty in the convention which framed the
Constitution-are slavery aud taxation. Our
fathers supposed that they under TODD the prin.
ciple OF taxation, and believed they had provided
against any improper or unequal taxation by
the terms of the Constitution. II you look back
TO the first incipiency of our form OF govern.
ment you will see, there was very little cause
of dissatisfaction in its operation until after the
war Of 1912. That war demonstrated To US and
to the world that the great purpose for which
the Union vas neutrality-suspicious. against for.
eign nations-was accomplished and that we
no more need fear the power of foreign nations.
We could stand selt-sustained among the ma
tons Of the world. There was a spirit of for
bearance, spirit OF concession, amongst the
members OF this confederacy, previous 10 the
war OF 1912. Then we heard no murmurs about
taxation, no dissatisfaction about slavery Tax.
alton was light. Its disbursements were honest
aud anti slavery agitatiOns were unknown But
as soon az that war terminated: and the great
fact was demonstrated to Us as we'll as TO the
world that We were sClfsustained aud selfsus
taining-and that the great pressure from for.
eign nations in consequence Of our weakness
which drove us together, no longer existed
then sprung up differences upon these delicate
points. Immediately after that war terminated
one Of the very first nnovat ons was made upon
the taxing power
A new principle was introduced in the tariff
Of 1916, which wss passed, and passed almost
with unanimous consent. So strong at that
time was the sympathy Of each portion Of the
Union for the other 70 dear was the Union to
all--that even those who fully comprehended
the unequal principles Of this measure, were
unwilling not TO grant it. In spirit Of gener.
osity, the South was willing that protection for
season should be afforded, and accordingly the
tariff Of 1916, while it provided for revenue,
contained prospective diminution Of duties
In 1878 new duties were imposed, but not
without some dissatisfaction. Ihlsi9 the Mis-