The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-29


addressed myself TO the only paper which hae
published the Speech in order TO obtain spac,
Tor reply. This has been denied me- and an
compelled TO throw myself on your lberality
aud TO ask you to give access in your column,
4 10 The communication | had addressed to thu
paper above referred TO also send you the sir
from the New York Mirror, which had enclosed
IN that communication that it may be consulted
by whomsoever shall desire il, and be atterward.
returned to me-
have the honor to be, gentlemen, with grea,
respect, your very humble and obedient servant
PIERRE SOULE. I
New ORLEANS, Nov. s, 1851. I
GENTLEMES:--The publication in your YES
terday's number, of the speech delivered by INV
honorable colleague, Gen. Solomon w. Downs.
at Monroe, La on the 7th of October last. and
the peculiar complexion which characterize,
some portions of it, are my excuse and my title
to ask some little space, in your next number,
TOR the few remarks which the occasion calls for.
no the arguments, through which a seeming
attempt is made at something like an answer To
my Opelousas speech, cannot have the remotest
objection. They are fair specimen o T the ra
toclnation peculiar to the distinguished senator,
and do full jastice to the high repute he has
S"pSt 40 :" po'iotitu uflu JOTCIUib uSDtlST. .
Against the abuse so bitterly, vet somewhat
tlmidly aimed at me in almost every sentence Of
the better half of his speech, lave still less to
say, particularly if by such an offering my col
league succeeds in propitiating party which
cannot fail to consider itself wooed through and
will certainly derive great relief and comfort
from every stab that may be directed against one
OF Its most obnoxious opponents
But the honorable senator denies the correct
ness OF the quotations | have made from his
New York speech; and, abiding t. my course
on the compromise, goes on to say, that " If he
(meaning y did not hear in the pirate circles of
The capital a motiue attributed 10 him (meaning
me- for his course on thai measure, so uerv sud
denty and SO unexpectedly taken, Ipresume he IS
The only senator Ma: did not
This requires word of answer, and shall have
It, The remarks in General Downs speech, with
respect to the quotations, are as follows:
Mr. Soule quotes these words as coming
from my New YORK speech Convinced by The
Patriotism y their representatives thu The North
ern people pere sound, pledged myself ts The sup.
port Of The compromised And again, thus: As
New York goes, so goes The North; as the North
goes, SO goes the Souih, and in the end, zoe shall
all gro together' | used no such language.
nave never seen it in any report of my speech
though have seen many. do not be-
leve it to be found in any fair report made and
published in good faith anywhere; at any rate,
is, Ishould like to see it,
I" | made no alusion to representatives
There is nothing in my speech at all like these
words, quoted by Mr. Soule, That abolitionism
oas no longer 10 be preached and practiced at the
North-that aggression upon them ,oas put an
md 10 from Mat gua,ter'"
Now, pentlpmen in or1ar IN rive cnu,a o,t,,
action to the worthy general, | send you here
with, THAT HE MAY SEE IT, slip from the New
ork Mirror of the 10th of December last. |
wherein the speech and the ceremony onthe oc.
;aslon OF which the speech was delivered are re. |
ported with the most laudatory commentators,
ana such as 1t was sent to me, as then thought /
by DIR. Downs himself; and beg leave to d.
rect your attention to the third column, at line
sixty.lhree where you will discover the very
words quoted by me: CONVINCED BY THE PA.
rRIoTlsM OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVES THAT THE
NORTHERN PEOPLE WERE SOUND, PLEDGED MY
'fLF TO THE SUPPORT OF THE COMPROMISE"
And, If you proceed on, until you reach the
fifty second line in the fourth column, YOU will
llso find in the very words of my quotation.
hat AS NEW YORK GOES, so WILL GO THE
NORTH; AS THE North GOES, so WILL GO THE
SOUTH; AND, IN THE END, WE Shall ALL GO TO.
And, following me back to line one hundred
md thirty-hve, in the third column, note, GEN
lemen, If you please whether you do not read
WITH me precisely this language: I" WE HAVE
TOLD THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE THAT AB5LITIoNIsM
$ NO LONGER To BE PREACHED AND PRACTIcED
AT THE NORTH; THAT AGGRESSION UPoN THEM,
FROM THAT QUARTER, WERE PUT AN END To :"
Most clearly, then, my honorable colleague
l. Il 4 4
boldly have asserted that it contained not word
Of what | had extracted from it. 1t NAV be
hat in order to refresh his memory, ought to
nave quoted also from the same document the
sentiment expressed at line seventy,
1f the fourth column: WHAT, IF MY PARTY IS
PUT DOWN! ANOTHER AND BETTER ONE WILL
START UP TOMORROW"
Hereafter, my colleague, | hope, will show
limsefa little more considerate before he hurls
ienunclations of unfairfess az those who may
Wish to profit and be enlightened by his dis.
courses.
If my quotations from the New York speech
IRE correct 10y looking to the first of them, and
o that part of my Opeousas speech where |
alluded to it, you will perceive at once gentle
nen, that attributed no motives to my col
eague's course on the compromise question
merely commented on those motives which he
himself had chosen to give out and proclaim to
he world. did not, borrowing the commo
ious cloak ofpretended opinions picked up in The
RIyATE circles Of The capital, sneekingly suggest
bat there was anything improper in them. II
poke not covertly. | meant what | said and
nd say what meant; and did not stop and sup
'ress my thought half choaked within my throat
And, when my colleague presumes to deal
otherwise towards me, he will not, am sure,
md amss that should tell him that whoever at
NY time or place, had the hariihood TO impute
o me for the part acted in the great compro.
Mise struggle, any but the most lofty and the
1ost dsinterested motives, is base and con.
emptible defamer. And if / be asked what be ,
ny opinion of him who circuates the slandeg
nder cowardly disguise, eonceaing the source
rom which it sprung, and seduously avoiding to
i've it tangible shape, will canddly answered
bat he is by no means less Infamous than the
landerer himself. Yours respectfully,
PIERRE SOULE. ,
u. S.-'Tbe editors of the Della will please !
,tain in their hands the slip from the New York /
firr0r, that it may be referred to, if necessary,