The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-16

him, having, with others. denounced his course
as treason. He (Mr. r. had abstained from ma
king reply at that time, having waited for the
report of certain committee until near the close
Of the session, when II was too late. He would
claim the indulgence Of the Senate to deliver that
speech as Il was then prepared, should the senator
appear here again in his place. The senator from
Mississippi (Mr FoorE) had denounced the cti-
zens OF South Carolina traitors. So during
our revolutionary struggle, Gen. Gage, in writing
home to his government respecting the destruction
of tea &c. in Boston, called the patriots OF the rev.
olution by similar .name and Benedict Arnold,
after his treachery 10 the country, might also have
denounced our fathers as traitors. A majority Of
my people, said Mr.. r., are secessionists--disu-
nionlsts. am disunionist. We have satisfied
ourselves that we cannot live in peace unless this
government is reformed. | despair of any refor-
nation. Mr. r. proceeded to contend that there is
nothing wrong IN overturning governments in or
der to secure rights and liberties. How did we
originally our liberties, except by rebellion
against tyranny? Despotisms are always to be
fought agaInst-it both right and proper.
He next proceeded to consider the Compro-
mise measures and their bearing on the South
ern States. Ii on account OF the dis
satisfaction felt there against these measures,
that he appeared here to-day. When New
/ Mexico and Utah were admitted, what was
the condition of the South The free States
already had territory in the Northwest enough
10 uluhc twenty tIEnt new othtcS us large db
Ohio, amounting in all TO something over a
million Of square miles The South then had Is
and the North lG States--or calling Delaware,
virtually free State, the number would be Ia
slave States and l6 free. Then Utah and New
Mexico are addet--terrltory which belonged to
the North and South IN common. Can u Southern
man enter and coonlZe one single foot of this ter
ritory with his slavesi We are excluded from
every single foot. Yet it is said that the South
are entirely satisfied. or this territory there Is
enough to make twenty-oDe additional States,
which added TO the tweDty-eight which can be
made out of the Northwestern territory, will give
forty mine IN all. These will be controlled by
the North, and il has been announced distinctly
in that quarter, that there shall be slaves held
in them. Such his (Mr. R.'s) opinion.
They will be speedily settled by the emigrant
population of Europe, already coming IN at the
rate Of more than half million per year, enough
IN ten years to make eight millions, or enough
to make five new States at the commencement of
each year. Does any one look at this as lrium
plant position for the South How long will it
he before The frontier States of Maryland, Vngin-
la, Kentucky and even South Carolina, perhaps,
will virtually become free States under the dcta-
ton of a despotic and fanatical majority The
South are growing weaker every day. But after
all he Gar. R.) believed that they would assert
their rights. The people OF Mississippi are free
men. lie should not despair until the South be-
came another Hungary.
Mr.. X. proceeded to consider the admission OF
California virtually, he commended, under the
operation of the Wilmot Provso-n its bearing
upon Southern institutions. Also the abolition of
the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and
the loss Of four States to the South in Texas, a
territory formerly covered with slaves, for which
the South had paid its part of millions of dol
lars. He next reviewed the operation Of the Flu
gitve slave law in the North assuring that it was
de (acto entirely imperative. Without conclud-
hp n tn qdI n
At quarter past 3 o'clock, the Senate adj
tnnr npH