The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-02

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and by means of which the Republican part
!. had passed and re- passed in triumph for hit
: years. And yet, said Mr.. Brown, these resoIr
J, tons were denounced az reAsonabe--Jefterso
and Madison were denounced as dsnnionist
! and traitors, just Us we are to-day--and ken
lucky and Virginia were sneered at az hot-bed
OF treason and rebellion just as Mississippi an
South Carolina are. But the patriots OF l79
and '99 moved boldly on. They snniched tn
government from the very jaws OF dcspotIsn
and, in one year, brought it back to its pristn
purity and Republican simplicity. And to-niSh
let me AJAX IL there is one man here OF eithe
party, who does not honor these pure old patri
OTIS for their noble self-sacrificing devotion 4
their country and its Constitution Traitors II
l798-'99-hOnored patriots in lS0O-and II
1851 revered by their countrymen above all men
save Washington alone. Animated by thell
glorious example, the "traitors and disunonsts'
OF to-day will press forward, amid your jibes
and taunts, knowing full well that, when the
work is done, grateful posterity will do them
justice.
Mr. Brown here read copous extracts from
the speeches of the federal leaders in l798-'99
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 in
thought and almost in words, withthe opinions
Of the submissioniats of the present day We
have not room for these extracts, but they struck
us exceedingly like what we read and hear every
day in the submission papers, and from submis-
sion orators.
Mr. Brown next took up the compromise
measures and glanced over them hastily. His
time was limited to one hour, and he must,
therefore, be brief. He reiterated his own often
expressed and decided dsapprobation of the
three great features in the compromise-the ad-
mission of California, the division of Texas, and
the anti-slave trade act for the District Of Co.
lumbia. He had no time to 60 into an investi-
| cation of these measures. He would perform
what to the audience would be, perhaps, 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.
| Clays speech Of 22d July, 1850, in which the
position is boldly taken that the North gets
everything, and the South saves nothing but
her honor. lie 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
ritories 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, 1850, 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 speech or
article written by Mr. Brooks, of New York, a
leading compromised, in which he fatty and
roundly asserts that the North got everything,
and the South nohin at all Mr.. Brooks ex-
hor,s his freesoil 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.
ser.ing that We had gained every thing, and
ought to dissatisfied, at the very moment when
prominent Northern actor in the drama was
assuring his people that we got nothing and beg.
ging them, for PHYS sake, TO let us alone!
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
"All, all, is ours Cease to heap Goals of fire on
Southern heads says this precious friend of
the ompromise-"don't drive the South to des-
peration. You'll endanger the glorious Union. =
And has it come to this-have We indeed, sunk
down to level with miserable loaier in the
streets-hooted at-kicked by every passer. by
spit upon until some kind friend-considerate
soul says fie for shame, let that poor devil be
Mr.. Brown read from letter of Mr.. Freeman
to committee in Madison county, and criticised
| IL In ono aontanco tha laftar osooyfo fbot tho
North got the oyster, and we the she'll; and in
another, that our Mississippi platform was tri-
umphantly indicated. Mr. Brown did not I'M
derstand how it happened that our platform had
been triumphanty vindicated, 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 and commotion in Congress- and out OF
Congress, about "an oyster shell" and vet il
comes to this, for the gentleman had told us we
got an oyster shell" and yet that our platform
had been triumphantly vndcated-that is, that
we got all we asked
Mr. Brown adverted, briefly, to the submis-
sion platform, and intimated that, if they stuck
to their pledges, they would walk out of the
Union ahead Of him. He had not fixed the pre-
cse time and circumstances under which he
would go out-the submissonists had Resist.
ance, they said, meant disunion, and they stood
pledged to resist great many things-and
among these, was a failure to execute the Fugi
tive slave law. He asked if gentlemen did moi
perceive that they were standing on the outer
verge Of the Union-one little jostle or iol,
would take them out--a failure to execute the
Fugitive slave law takes them out--yet thai
same law has been nuied in more States than
one, and openly trampied 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 OF
its faithful execution. Let gentlemen beware
for there will be more backing out to do, in less
than three years
He admitted that, in few instances, the law
had been executed. A few persons at the Nortf
went for maintaining that law; but where one
fugitive slave had been given up there were .
hundred VINO never had and never would be sur
rendered. And where there was one man 70
tto 1,, g.;