Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1851-12-27

sorrowing hearts have not the most distant ;Saa -
following the Senator in his bill of indictment against b
country against my country against this glorious Union
the most precious political gift of God To man s;nca h
exodus OF our first parents from the Garden of Eden
will not follow hmthe task would be too irksone in NJ.
arlthmetical calculations of what the different portions
OF our country nave lost gained in the collection and
disbursement OF revenue in the disposition of the public
lands even in the amounts of pensions granted to the
poor and tme-honored but mestrcken relics of our re-
voutonay struggle not only because many of the facts
and almost all the conclusions are erroneous Int st;I
more because after all the inequality (which really exists
not but which may be Swallowed forth by the most dis
tempered imagnaton) there remains sum Of freedom
and prosperity of enjoyment and of blessings such as
the world never before, and will never see again Il
this Union is dissolved That it is the reest
sun ever shone upon requires no clearer proof than
by these very denunciaons against uttered in
this high place. in the presence of the portrait of the
Father of his Country hallowing not merely adorn-
ing these walls and who in his last solemn act warned
us against sectional feelings and their consequences
That Government has not merely been assaiied in =
strain OF invectve in the contests of party
but the determination has been avowed in language not
less clear than unqualified, break up the Union bv
breaking the prestige Of its integrity and to reduce it to
kind OF temporary Partnership feeble and inefficient in
It's operations both at home and abroad equally con-
TO Its own citizens and to the rest of the world
Does the honorable Senator believe there is another Gov
under the face of heaven where such language
and such objects be uttered and avowed with mpu-
NIFTY And does ne not find in the great principle Of the
right OF speech of free speech unshackled by condi-
tons or limitations unknown indeed in its extent else
where through the world-does he not nd say refu-
taton OF s own position that weive under adesposm
practical commentary which rebuked, even while he
uttered them his harsh denuncations? AS to the ruin
Confidently asserted predicted BOTH where is it.
tha. 9s saen 81 sn q y az big as mans hand like
than the honorable Senator from South Carolina
Has the eye Of man ever rested upon moro prosper
Gus country than this and if such condition ruinous
or pregnant with ruin where shall find prosperity but
IN some new paradise specially created and governed by
dod though even in such place sad experience has
taught us that tree Of evil may be found and the high
est blessings rashy rejected in spirit of impaence and
discomfort? North and South East and West the sun
rises and sets happy land teeming with an ntei
gent people, with free and equal institutions with all the
vancng in every element Of power prosperity with
rapidity which outstps human expectation as it has
outstrpped human experience and with nothing to fear
out our own crimes and oes and the just judgments Of
God And while republics and empires and monarchies
have fallen and still falling before u.s. marking this
as the age OF social and political revolutions institu
tons have been preserved boundaries enlarged our
power augmented, and the beacon-ght Of liberty still
shines from our shores inviting the struggling nations Of
the EARTH tossed upon of oppression follow us to
haven OF safety For almost threescore years and
ten this has been my country my happy glorious
try, and for than half century, since have been
old enough to appreciate and love it. its Government
has protected me and mine from foreign aggression
The honorable Senator seems to measure the value Of
free institutions by standard adapted his own pecu-
liar motives OF the operation of fiscal laws and the as
strangely
strongly asserted but has failed prove may be the
kne is now indeed the passing kne he hopes and be-
leves, Of this world-watched republic. But our real
equality, the true American equality Of condition by
which there is neither high low among u.s. and which
freely offers fortune and honors alike the hopes and
exerons of aths condition of social existence the Sc
nator has not glanced at probably has not thought
Of in his search after the evidences Of sectional neaua
ty But it is an institution which those who commenced
life under circumstances less fortunate than the Senator
regard as the brightest spot in political armament
offering ample compensation for any temporary partial
operation Of public measures whore such land they
must sometimes occur in every Government far greater
than in the cases. if they all LIABLE which they
not to this objection whose proofs have been collect
ed with so much industry and spread before with
much power and doubt not sincerely, but with little
conviction Such the charge against the non-inter-
tent against the removal of the deposes And the for
boding of ruin happily rebuked by the results then
as widespread as can be again. and rendered still
more powerful by that strange spirit of haucnaton to
which the best and wsest often subject during periods
of excitement in this world of errors. And may
well speak with full heart upon the subject of our
equality Of conditions for this very condition joined in
deed to the undeserved favor of my fellow citizens has
given me, whose early prospects in life shrouded in
and who passed much Of it in hard and harsh
duties in the forestt has given this opporu-
nity and glory in it, of bearing my testimony Of graft
tude to the priceless value of the Constitution here in this
great depository of its power. And when in Gods good
time shall need its protection no longer may leave it
as most precious legacy untouched and unscathed to
those who most dear to me- object of pride and
affection for them as it has been for me.
One word more, Mr.. President What strange spec
tacle does the opposition to the compromise exhibit As
sailed with equal violence, not say viruence North
and South its enemies unite In condemnng with equal
ZEAL but they unite in nothing else Both parties charge
it with unconsttutonality and injustice because it con-
cedes oil to and nothing the other while each con-
sders itself the injured party and its rights and feelings
as sacrificed by the arrangement. For myself sir,
believe wise and patriotic disposition Of the event.
full questions which agtated and threatened u.s. and
think if other evidence wanting, it has been supplied
by the ordinations and recrimnations which yet
sounding in ears.
Mr.. CLEMENS then rose and addressed the Senate at
l-ngth, and was followed by Mr.. DOUGLAS, when Mr..
DOWNS obtained the floor but the Senate thin he
moved that the further consideration of this subject be
postponed till the first Monday in January, which was
agreed to.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Rx
ecuve business and after brief period the doors were
re-opened and the Senate adjourned to Friday.
FRIDAY, DECEMBER &c, 1851.
About hafpast II o'clock the Senate was called to
order but it was evident there quorum present
Mr.. FELCH moved that the Senate adjourn.
Mr. MANGUM asked that the motion be withdrawn
which done; and Mr.. NJ then moved that when the
Senate adjourn it be to meet on Monday next
The CHAIR intmated that there were constitutional
objections: where quorum present they might adj
journ from day to day.
Mr. BRADBURY expressed the hope that they would
wait, and perhaps quorum would be present, and init
mated that step should be taken to inquire into the
causes of the late fire.
Mr. CASS said that he had prepared some motion in
relation to that subject; but from the confusion, it ap
peared that nothing could be done before Monday.
Mr. MANGUM moved that the Senate adjourn
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