Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1851-03-29

-. = tA- ~9litrpoule % i1'f plcs, On lCadli
evening az. His'Pssrh cd decidedly vel. aud
seemed q aissi wa bears Response from sis
numeloas a9aisHef present. CAPT. 3. VII addrss.
his lsllow-eiiizens during ihs canvass, s'oaeh
as occasion may Prssenl itself and explain more
fully bis views aud opinions On tbe important
crisis which We have reached Ii ournasionzi and
State governments
NJ. B. said that be Union meeting which
assembled in this place on Tuesday last recon.
msnded him IN connection with Two worthy gen.
\ lleuen, as a candidate for The convention which
I has been called BY the Legislature, and which
viii meet in lhe city Of Jackson on lie 2nd Sion
day ia November next.
i would doubtless have been better, under ali
The Circumstances, il one older and more expe,
rienced than himself bad been selected, but ifthe
Union party Of the county wanted bis services
ia The approaching canvass they are welcome to
them. lie wished tito be. distinctly understood,
however, that was position be did net seek,
and which be was willing 10 surrender at any
tiine,whep the union parry may preltr another. lie
did not feel that he would be doing justice to
himself, Or to those who bad thus aatieringly be.
slowed their confidence upon him, were he, in a
crisis Ike this, to shrink from the perf,rm.
ance Of any duty which nigh, DO imposed upon
him.
Evential as had been our history, at no former
period have questions Of greater magnitude'been
presented to the people for their consideration.
The old issues which have heretofore divided
the parties, have 10 great degree been swept
away or become absorbed in another and might.
Ter question, question TOO upon which, in his
opinion at leasI,must hang loreverthe destnes Of
the ARREST portion OF the globe. He alluded to
the question Of slavery and the territories, and
the late action Of Congress upon them.
1t was known to many Of those who were
present, that hewas opposed 10 the "plan Of adj
jusiment," as it was called, while it was before
Congress, butnow thtt those measures had be-
come the laws Of the land, he was willing to ac-
qliesce il them. bu, al the same time 10 exact
a rigid observance Of them on the part of the
north.
The resolutions adopted blythe meeting, IN the
main, met his cordial approval. /! seemed to
him that they erected a platform broad enough
for every southern patriot to occupy.
In Tennessee, said Mr. b., a State equally In.
ieresed in this question with ourselves, renowned
for the chivalry and Independence Of her PEG.
ple where sleep the remains 81 jackson and
Polk, who, although dead, yei speak, these resp
utions il Substance, have been adopted with Al,
most rtcadented unanimy, each party yiring
with the otherin upholJing and sustaining them.
And mod Virginia, a Stale which has heretofore
led the van in resisting the encroachmen,s Of the
federal government and whose gallant sons have
never yet shrunk from the conflict, when The /
storm Of oppression gathered around her, come
from what everquarter il might, We hear Of no !
resistance being made To these laws. And so
Of Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and
every other southern State except South Carolina.
The question then presents ITSELF shall we
ioiu our sister southern States il acqliescng in |
this compromise, whatever may have been our
opinions with regard 70 il, while ii was before
Congress, OF shall we engage in schemes Of re-.
s'slance which must necessarily bring us into |
collision with the general government
For one, 50 long as The political skies remain
a. they now are, The was for clingng 10 The I'm.
ion Of Washington and Jefferson, and The Con. /
siuon as il was when our fathers made il, and |
gave i to ns. Under it we have grown great |
rich and powerful; our commerce has extended /
TO every portion OF The inhahilabe globe !; our
sails Flap the breezes Of every ocean,and the BAN
ner Of the stars and stripes protects our citizens,
wherever in foreign climes, fortune Or nclina.
ton may arrylhem. But little more than sixty
years have passed away since It's adoption, and I
vel our population has increased from three 10
more than twenty millions, and Our political in.
faence Is every where ies aud acknowledged. /
The bold pioneer has penetrated tho western
wilds, and scaled the lofty summit Of the Hockey
mountains. Our conqaesls have gone even FAR
lher, and ibis confederacy 81 sovereign and nde-
pendent States i nov washed on the one side BY |
the Atlantic and on tho other By tho Pacific |
Ocean.
Upon the success Of is high mission among
ihe nations Of the earth. cluster tho best hopes
Of the down>troddcn of every cline beneath The
sun. The hopeless Hungarian, while his lit.
ters clank upon him, and no ray DC light breaks
upon the darkness which surround, him, Ills his /
voice y Heaven and breaihes prayer for the
preservation Of The American Uuion. The iii.
fated son Of Erin. when all IN The future il gloom
and desOla.ion, when wcrudown BY cares and
sorrows, gathers his children around him. and
points them here as their only rcrure fran suf.