The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-07

sustained Ia this case, the superstructute which
| law across the turbulent stream Of Federsiism'
and by means of which the Republican party
had passed and re-passed IN triumph for nity
years. And yet, said Mr.. Brown, these resolu-
! tions were denounced as reasonable--Jenerson
and Madison were denounced as dlsunionlsIs
and traitors, just as we are to.day-ana hen-
lucky and Virginia were sneered AZ az noIoeus
of treason and rebellion, just rs MississipPl ana
South Carolina are. Brit the patriots Oh iIso
and $50 moved boldly on. They snatchea 'ne
government from the very Jaws OF aespcusnl'
and, In one year, brought it back to its pristine
purity and Republican simplicity. And tonight
| let me esk IL there is one man here, OF either
party, who does not honor these pure old patrI-
OTIS for their noble self-sacriiicing devotion to
their country and its Constitution! Traitors IN
! 1893 99-honored patriots In lSo0--and IN
1851 revered by their countrymen above All men
save Washington alone. Animated by thelr
! glorious example, the atraitors and dsunionlsts
Of o-day will press forward, amid your Jibes
and taunts, knowing full well that, when the
work is done, a grateful Posterity VIII DO them
justice.
4 Mr.. Brown here read copious extracts from
the speeches of the federal leaders in 1885, ~,
and also from the legislative proceedings OF New
York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont
and other States, to show that the expressions
Of the Fedcralists Of that day were Identical ~
thought. and almost in words, with the opinions
Of the submissionists of the present DAY. we
have not room for these extracts, but they Struck
us exceedingly like Whit we read and hear every
day in the submission papers, and from supmls-
4 sion orators.
Mr.. Brown nest took up. the compromise
\ M asures. and glanced over them hastily. His
4 time was limited to one hour, and he must
therefore. be brief He reiterated his own often
EXPRESSED and decided disapprobation Of the
three great features in the comprehensive ad.
mission Of California, the division OF Texas, and
,h 40; slaya traS . art for the nistrics es q o
| lnnbia. he had no time to 60 into an invest
cation Of these measures. He would perform
I what to the audience would be, perhaps, a more
acceptable service. He would read to them the
opinions Of the leading compromises This
was ammunition already prepared to his hand
and he should use it, because it was Of the first
quality, and, therefore, more likely to bring
down the game. Mr.. B. then read from Mr.
position is boldly taken that the North gets
everything, and the South saves nothing but
her honor. He said he would to God the South
had come out with her honor unstained He
read FROM Mr. Webster's speech of July Is
1850, candidly admitting that so far as the ter
rtories were concerned. the South gets nothing
at all. He read from the speeches of General
! Downs, of Louisiana, Mr.. Clemens, of Alabama
Gen. Foote, and others, all denouncing. in terms
more or less harsh the various features Of the
compromise.
! Gen Foote'S speech was made in reply to Mr.
Clay, Feb. 90, 1880, and was particularly severe
on the Kentuckian, denouncing his scheme of
compromise, and declaring his sentiments worse
than those of Garrison, Phelps, and Douglass,
the free negro. Mr.. B. read from a speech or
4 article written by Mr.. Brooks, of New York, a
leading compromisc-, in which he fatty and
roundly asserts that the North got everything,
and tie South nothing at all. Mr. Brooks ex
horts his free-soil brethren to cease heaping
Goals of fire on Southern heads, and warns them
that they may drive the South to desperation
and endanger the "glorius Union" Mr. Brown
asked how it sounded 10 hear Southern men as
sorting that VIZ had gained every thing, and
ought to be satisfied, at the very moment when
a prominent Northern actor in the drama was
assuring his people that we got nothing and beg
ging them, for PHYS sake, 10 let us alone?
i He did not know how other men felt, but for
himself the hot blood of indigna ion mounted
to his cheek when he heard this free soil advo-
cate begging quarters for the Southern people.
"Al. all, is ours! Cease to heap Goals of fire on
Southern heads says this precious friend OF
the ompromise--adon't drive the South to des-
| peration You'll endanger the glorious Union y
And has il come to this--have we, indeed, sunk
down to level with miserable loafer in the
streets-hooted at-kicked by every passer-by
--spit upon until some kind friend-considerate
soul says ie, for shame, let that poor devil be
Mr.. Brown read from letter of Mr.. Freeman
to q committee in Madison county, and criticised
it. In one sentence, the letter asserts that the
North got the oyster, and we the she'll; and in
another, that our Mississippi platform was tri-
umphantly vndcated Mr. Brown did not un-
dersand how it happened that our platform had
been triumphantly indicated, when we got no.
! thing but "an oyster she'll" He went on to
ridicule the position that we should have had all
this fuss ard commotion in Congress and out OF
Congress, about AN oyster she'll" and yet it
comes TO this, for the gentleman had told us we
got an oyster shell" and yet that our platform
had been triumphantly vindicated--that is, that
we got all we asked!
Mr.. Brown adverted, briefly, to the submits
sion platform, and intimated that IL they stuck
to their pledges, they would walk out Of the
Union ahead of him. He had not fixed the pre-.
cise time and circumstances under which he
would 90 oui-the submissionists had. Resist
ance, they said, meant disunion, and they stood
pledged TO resist great many things-and
among these, was failure to execute the Fngi
tive slave law. He asked If gentlemen did not
perceive that they were standing on the outer
verge Of the Union--one little jostle or jolt
would take them out--a failure to execute the
Fugitive slave law takes them out--yet that
same law has been nullified in more States than
one. and openly trampled under foot by free
negro mob in Boston-set at defiance in more
than half the cities in the free States-de.
nounced, time ard again, from the pulpit and
the hastings, and every where at the North more
or less deridcd and contemned-and vet gentle.
men persist in saying that the Union depends on
it's faithful execution. Let gentlemen beware,
for there will be more backing out TO do, 10 less
than three years
lie admitted that, in few instances, the law
had been executed. A few persons at the North
went for maintaining that law but where one
fugitive slave had been given up, there were a
| hundred WHO never had and never would be sur