The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-18

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slavery. Mr.. Adams indoctrinated young man
who was wholly under his influence, with the
dogmas OF abolition, and sent him to llinos To
become candidate for Congress. Ills scheme
succeeded. lie was returned q member In 1879,
and was the author Of the resolution resisting
The admission Of Missouri. The country was on
tDe vergcO OF revolution, and the Union trembled
TO Its centre. The two Houses OF Congress met
together In the Representative Hall to count The
votes for President and Vice President. The
scenes of the French Chamber of Deputies IN
l7SS were renewed in America. Missouri had
voted. The AboIitionists refused to permit the
vote OF Missouri to be counted. The President
OF the Senate arose, and raising his voice above
the tumult and disorder, conducted the Senators
out OF the Hall. The country was on the thresh-
old OF revolution and civil war, and you looked
upon The fearful strife as the work OF your
hands.
John Randolph of Roanoke called upon you
ut your room, and deliberately proposed to you,
Sir, to retire from YOU seat, and declared that
upon your doing 3d. every member from the
South would follow your example, leave the cap
ltol and retire to their homes. Yon declined the
proposition, which, if it had been adopted, would
have settled the slavery question forever An
Abohtionist yourself, and an omissary OF the
Abolltionists of both England and America, you
had task to perform which was not yet finished.
You moved for committee OF thirteen, step In
parliamentary proceedings destined to immortal
| celebrity in the future history Of the country.
The committee was raised, and you were placed
at its head. You then entered upon your career
OF Southern spoliation and plumber under the
specous name of "compromse." When Louis
lana was purchased of France, slavery existed
over every acre of its vast territory. The Sd
article OF the treaty of cession reads us follows
Z" The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall
be incorporated in the Union ofthe United States.
and admitted as soon as possible, according to
the principles ofthe federal Constitution, to the
enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and i'm
munities of citizens of the United States, and in
the meantime they shall be maintained and pro-
tected in the enjoyment of their liberty property,
and the religion which they profess"
The faith Of this solemn treaty, as well as
every acknowledged principle of international
law, demanded that the fundamental institutions
OF The realm should be preserved invoate. The
treaty is clear in its terms, and cannot be misun-
derstood. The right of liberty and property,
and the integrity of the soil, are expressly guar
anteed according to the principles of the Con-
stitution of the United States. Without the
consent of Louisiana, the abolition of slavery in
any part of her territory was palpable villa
lion of the treaty of cession, of the integrity of
the federal Constitution, and the public faith of
the United States. The slaves of Louisiana
constituted an essential part Of her property,
and any restriction upon the right of its enjoy
ment, by restricting the limits of its extension,
and thereby esseniDg its val ne, and weakening
the tenure by which it was held, was not only
violation of the terms and spirit of the treaty
but oil, - n.
could not be alleged in mitigation that the fun
damental institutions of Louisiana were incom-
patible with the federal Constitution. For that
instrument recognizes the institution of African
slavery, and gives guarantees for its integrity
and preservation. And yet, sir, Notwithstanding
your oath to support the Constitution, you
brought forward your Missouri compromise, as
a boon and sacrifice to your abolition associates,
which admitted Missouri into the Union as a
slave State, and abolished SLAVERY foreoer through
out the vast realm lying north of the line of SO
deg 80 min. north latitude
In this act of rapine and imrosture, and of
undisguised abolition by the general government,
you performed your part with consummate
skill, and earned the reasonable reward which
you doubtless received. According to the in
structions laid down in the programme of the
London cabinet council, you appeared in the
midst of the troubled elements around you, with
calm, lofty, and digni6ed porte, which none
knew better how to assume than YOURSELF when
you have a design to accomplish. With the
fang of the viper concealed beneath each win
ming grace, you held the olive branch of peace
in your hand and as philanthropist, patriot,
republican, and friend of universal freedom,
stood up between the conflicting parties, i'm
ploring, entreatng beseeching, betraving and
deceiping. IL is not wonderful that you accom-
plished your purpose, by the matchless skill
which you possess in duping your folio xers
You had prepared feast, and invited your coun-
try TO its funeral pyre and with the skill and
purpose of the yelled demon of Khorassan, pre-
pared cup of poison, of which it drank and
died BY this act of premeditated public rob
berry, you inflicted upon the Constitution and
plighted faith of your country an incurable
wound. With the ruthless violence of a des-
potic conqueror, you violated the sovereignty of
the soil of Louisiana, and partitioned il among
your fanatical allies. You have sir, incurred
fearful responsibility TO your country at large,
and to the State of Louisiana especially. When
the area of free soil shall be extended 10 the
borders Of that State and her slaves 1.-THE great
source of her wealth and prosperity, and with
out which her lands will be worthless,) shall
begin to pass beyond her borders, by the means
you have provided-if her people, in the hour
when her ruin approaches apace, shall be favored
by Providence with an interval of reason and
sense, they will execrate your memory, and heap
a pyramid of curses upon your name.
BRUTUS