The southern press., 1851-12-29

Of liberty which will melt the chains of the
slave.
! stated that the mode by which slavery was
excluded from Utah and New Mexico was this
that majority of the Judges of those terrific
ries were understood To be in favor OF enforcing
the Mexican laws, whereby slavery would be
excluded from those territories ! never sad
that Mr.. Baker, or any other of the JUDGES, were
Wilmot provso men listened very carefully
yesterday to the reading of Judge Bakers let
ter. He did not say that, in his opinion, the
Mexican laws excluding slavery were not in
| force.
Mr.. FOOTE. The Senator has done unin-
territorial injustice 10 Judge Baker. The Sen
ator will find that the letter states distinctly
that his whole course a member OF the Mis-
/ sissipp legislature and otherwise in connection
I with this question, had been such TO relieve
him from all unjust suspicious with regard to
that matter The letter gives the clearest inn
pica ion, and it is entirely in accordance with
my own knowledge that he is one Of the
soundest men in Christendom, in the extreme
Southern Of the term, on all questions
connected with the Wilmot provisoism. There
was slander of this kind circulated against
him in our State, but Judge Baker has vindicated
himself eifectually. can assure the gentleman
that he has been misintormed by some one In
reference to this matter.
Mr. RHETT On yesterday representative
in the other branch of Congress came here to
my seat and said, that he was informed that
Mr. Baker, on the hustings in Mississippi, had
argued that the Mexican laws prohibiting slavery
in those territories were Of force and did ex-
clude slavery.
Mr.. FOOrE. Ian authorized to say that it
| is false.
! Mr. RIETT know that one of the judges
appointed told me, that it was understood that
two of them were of opinion that the Mexican
laws were in force in that territory and if this
is not so, then the President of the United States
did not do his duty as Mr.. Polk was prepared
to do it. He, know, appointed those, and those
only, who, as judges in the territories, would
have decided that the Mexican laws did not ex-
clude slavery in those territories, but were sub
ordinate to the Constitution the United States.
| If Mr.. Fillmore entertains the contrary opinion,
is it surprising that he should appoint judges TO
carry out his opinions and views! Everybody
knows that he is entire ntslavery man.
When was with him in the other branch of
Congress- he was considered and ranked with
the Aboitionists. He voted with them upon
all extreme measures, steadily and uniformly.
And is it surprising, such being his feelings and
views, that when about to appoint officers over
this territory, he should appoint such as believe
the Mexican laws to be in force and who would
therefore carry out his principles and opinions,
and exclude slavery from the territories |
therefore very readily believed the fact when
was informed of it; and now doubt the right Of
| the Senator to speak authoritatively concerning
| it,
| The Senator has thought proper to speak of
the sympathy between Abolionists and myself
! 1t seems that he observed that when the Senator
| from New Hampshire Mr.. HALE] passed some
of his witcisms here, laughed and that laugh
like "Lord Burleigh's nod" meant great deal
Well, sir, | like to laugh; and Iconfess that
when the Senator from New Hampshire, or
what is better, the Senator from Mississippi re-
gales us with his racy and most extraordinary
wit, do laugh, because, illuminated by its cor
uscations, cannot help it. But it seems that
he perceived also some political corporation
and sympathy between u.s. The other day the
Senator from New Hampshire rose up here and
expressed his cordial appreciation of the com
promise doctrines of the Senator from Missis-
sipp; the Senator from Mississippi had said
that the South had got all that they claimed by
his compromise. The Senator from New IIamp-
shire Immediately closed hands with him, and
said, ayes, you have got ALL" The one sought
to foment the North--the other to subject the
South After that exhibition of fraternal CO.
operation and sympathy, should have supposed
that the Senator from Mississippi would have
been too proud Of that harmony, to allow Others
to come within its sacred spell. Who praises the
Union more than the Senator from Mi sissIppi
Who praises it more than the Abolitionists
Why here is the Senator from Ohio, Mr.. CHASE
who at the last session of Congress pronounced
a eulogy on the Union worthy of the Senator
from Mississippi himself He said it was like
the heavens above us--never to fall. He did
not remind us, however, that from the heavens
sometimes descend floods and tempests, which
desolate the land Here, too, with him, is the
Senator from New York, mr. SEWARD with
whom he dimes; and the Senator from Massa-
chusetts, Mr.. SUMNER :; and all the Abolition
senators, who are ready with their eoquence to
swell the haelujahs of the Senator from Missis-
! sippi, to the Union. They know that the Union
is their necessary instrument to overthrow slav-
cry in the South. They 90, too, with the sena-
tor in his consolidation doctrines They wish
to enlarge the powers of this government, to
reach Southern slavery.
As the whole Abolition political heresy
sprung up from consolidation, of course they
will most lovingly embrace the Senator with
General Jackson's proclamation, as the great
| Democratic Abolition constitutional platform.
The Senator especially brings 10 the notice of
the Senate, an editorial in the Union newspaper
in which it is asserted net only that General
Jackson wrote the proclamaton-every word of
it--but that it is not to be adulterated by Mr.
Blair's explanations. The Alb )litionists want
the thing just it is that they may, in the first
place, have the power to assa slavery by the
general government second, that when they
assail it they may fire up their Northern adbe-
rents by declaring that it is the South which has
got all it claims and lastly, they want a South
ern man who will swear the same thing Thus
consolidation, Northern aggression, and South
ern submission move harmoniously together,
and the Senator from Mississippi and the Abo-
litionists co operate in the grand drama of Afr-
can emancipation by the action of the general
government They are patriots together,
with this difference, however, that the Senator
is by far the greateat patriot of them all. He
will do more for the cause Of abolition in one
year than Garrison, Tappan g. Co., can do in
twenty. He said yesterday that he was for the
Union at all hazards OF course, then, he is for
the Union, even with emancipation. There is
an ally just of the kind these Abotionsts de-
Iaire Il ba mo oG will