The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-11

that The south nsna nGctssAktlt asgkH 90 ssut
on a. TIE aggressive o irIt % NoFthefn aboii-
tionism sHouLD NJ NET HEns. ASP raH cessk-
QuEscEs 81 A cciLisiss ~ AL fneia hAnADfh
AND DgFTa sTAKgD uros ~.
And the legi.intare % NifgaiA. ~ m.jsriy
of III 10 ~ Ia the House. and u ~ 10 , W me
Senate. passed a ssi Of resolatlaas u which Ne
foilo~iag u one, RssoiS 4 That ws regard
the passage Of As b. The Congress u the
United Slalss aboll-hing slavery. o. As sisrs
trad . In the Dislriet Of Colamhia. NJ direct
attack on the insiilaiions Of tho Soatha Slsiss.
TO BE RESISTED AT ALI HAzARDs.s The Wash.
ingtoa Uaisa. alluiIn 10 these bold professions.
said: /. that yirginil wesld m1niaia her ss-e.
buttons mr. HgR Acrs'" What spare, s.k.
have we been travelling, since that time, that
We are 30 far OF the track Ne then 90 broadly
| rode In!
Bat yoa may demand TO kas Whit motives.
what Influences, could have iadae d those Soath-
ern members who gave the compro nise such q
Jealous sup,ori and among Others, tiea DsEn.,
to sustain that measured | have proPoandsi
the question 10 myself again and agaia; and "
was but lately tat found an answer 10 Il IN
the speech which my distinguished colleague de-
livered In New York, in Dccember last sCon-
vinced at Washington" says he, .by the pffri
otism of their representatives,, that the Northern
people ioere souad, ] PLEDGED MYSELF 10 ne sap-
| pori of the compromise" Such were the prompt.
ings under which Gen. Downs associated him.
| self with the friends OF that measure. Let u
see now upon what data rested his conviction of
the s1undness Of The Northern people, ~ voueh
safed by the patriotism Of their Representatives
What did he mean by the NoRTH, and by the
| NortRs repre- sentqtives We have II from his
own lips. He tells Us in the same speech that
"as Nso York goes, so goes he North; as The
N,rfb .raoe On gase Ths NanTb AZ, IL s..J a..
shall all go together" New York, then, was 10
be the great criterion, and the patriotism Of her
| representatives the unerring sign OF the sound
| ness of the people at the North. And yet, on
every resolution offensive To the South which
was introduced in the House from the l3;h of
| December, ! 848, 10 the 4th of February, 1850,
we find the New York representatives in mass
! siding invariably with our enemies, and warning
| against us! Oh. the fatal ds'usion! II was
| that delusiol that brought him 20 tell Southern
| people that aboitionism was no longer TO be
preached and practised at the North that no.
gresson upon them was puts an end to from thst
quarter" ~ Let US see, let US see, how the
Northhas redeemed the pied yes thus Handsomely
commended by Southern senator,
have shown you what proud position we
held rs long rs We stood firm and erect like
men; let me show you now, with what bold
and spoken Of by those who, twelve months ago,
courted our favor and seemed almost ready to
pander to our exigences. Hear that great co,
lossus Of the North abiding to US, submissive
and unexacting as we have shown ourselves TO
be: If the South wish any concession from me
they wont get it, NOT A HAIRS BREADTH OF IT...I
have always contended that any measure calcu-
lated to add to the slave territory Of the United
States was unconstitutional. | would never
consent that there be one foot Of slave territory
beyond what the old thirteen States had at the
foundation of the Union.-Never! never new
err. %
And, that there might be no mistake, no
misconception as to what he meant to show of
tenderness and good feeling to the South, he, the
chief of the cabinet and the Secretary of State
Of President Fillmore goes on, and hesitates not
to acknowledge, that, /" He regrets extremely thai
sldpey crisis in the Southern States, and that
Congress has no po,oer 10 dcl upon h!"-Hear
you him? Can you be any longer deceived p.
Is that clear enough ?-Ah but he afterwards
corrected the latter part of the sentence or rather
approved NJ the correction made upon it by Mr..
Bolts of Virgini' and the sentence, az correct
ed, now reads: 81 regret extremely that slavery
| exists in the Southern States; bm Congress has
no power to act upon it." Very well. But the
next coming phrase stands uncorrected that
phrase wherein he expresses the hope THAT IT
MAY BE IN THE DIsPEssATIoS OF PRovIDENcE
SOME REMEDY MAY BE POUND FOR III"
Why, sirs, we have the secret Of these strange
boastngs. Mr. Webster Is of the North, and
dares avow it, and glores in ii and is appauded
for il; while, here, one could hardly claim him
self from the South without being Kissed and
lapidated.
How proudly, how nobly and brayely he ex.
g. \
the North, educated at the North. know five
hundred Northern men TO one Southern man.
Nv sympathies, ALL MY syMpATHIss-my lore
Of liberty for all mankind, Of every collar, are The
same as yours. My affections and hopes in that
respect are eractly like ours"
And thus is the torch Of Abolitionism still
brandlshed the very men who had engaged
to exiingush IL, and the rawlings Of anti slavcry
provoked afresh by the most impassioned and
most exciting appeals. Even the Washington
Union, abiding to this speech forgets its former
meroies for the great Northerner. and gently
chides him for this minlstering TO the passions
and prejIdices Of his c,untrymen. "What need
had he" says its New York correspondent or
May 26th, 1851, "What need had he TO parade
his detestation Of slavery, his love Of freesoil,
and his eternal opposition to the admission Of
slave territory, before people already too much
subjects What was il in effect but saving To
them, this is all wrong il is sin, an evil which
mrst be endured for expedience sake. And
how many Of the class Of persons whom he nd.
dressed, replied In their hearts, ExPEDIEscY
CAN NEVER MAKE WRONG RIGHT"
Abolition is no longer to be preached ard
practiced; Is itl-And aggressions from the
North against tho South are pm an end IN :"
are they not ?-IIow bitterly Mr.. Webster be-
lies the assertion and exposes your credulity
But this Is not all Read with me from one Of
TIE August numbers Of the New York Tribune:
ave are told to leave slavery alone; il Is too
late In the day to think Of stopping the discus-
sion Of the snbject. II will be discussed and
the best thing is 10 look at Il frankly and sin
cerely and to say the whole truth about IT, And
WE ARE HAPPY 10 SEE IN THE SoUTHERs STATES
GROWING NUMBER OF PERSONS who are dis
posed 10 treat it in that manner"
And in another Of its numbers OF the same
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