The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-10
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1851.



The Hsrthern Asdel Of Nationality.
We asserted, some time since, that the Or
thodox compromise Union standard Of nation
ality" was divided from the Abolition standard
only by an air-line-and that, in this respect
SUMMERS platform was as broad a. WEBsrER's
We take one of the chief planks from the
Buffalo platform Of the latter, which proves the
truth Of this allegation.
The passages selected, when taken from the
context, will strike the popular apprehension
more forcibly, than they would in the body Of
so long speech. We therefore republish them,
that all may see how faithfully Mr. WEBSTER
has defined his g nationality" according to the
SUMNER exposition:
National means Northern-- Sectional means
Southern
In that speech, Mr.. WEBSTER said
II am Northern man. was born at the
NOrth-educated ut the N0rth-have lived all
Northern men to one Southern man. Nv sym.
pathes--all my sympathies-my love of liberty
for all mankind, Of every color, are the same as
yours My affections and hopes in that respect
are exactly like yours. wish to see all men
tree-al men happy. have no associations
out of the Northern States. My people are
your people. And yet am told sometimes
that am not liberty man because | am not a
Free-soil man."
And, again, what Free-soiler need go further
than this:
"Gentemen, / contend, and have always con-
J. Al Al A. Al. ~
tion, any measure Of the government calculated
to bring slave territory into the United States,
was beyond the power Of the Constitution, and
against its provision. That is my opinion, and
1t always has been my opinion. II was very
consistent, or thought to be so, for the same
purpose, in Jefferson's time, to attach Louisiana
to the United States. A treaty with France was
made for that purpose. But Jefferson's opinion
at that moment was that an alteration of the
Constitution was necessary to enable it to be
done. In considering what will not now re-
peat, that opinion was abandoned and Louisiana
was admitted by law, without any provision or
alteration in the Constitution. At that time
was too young to hold any office, or take any
share in the political affairs Of the country.
Louisiana WINS admitted slave State, and be-
came entitled to her representation in Congress
on the principle of mixed basis. Florida was
afterwards admitted. Then, too, was out of
Congress; l had been in it once but had no
thing to do with the Florida treaty or the ad-
mission Of Florida. My opinion remains un-
changed, that it was not in the original scope or
design of the Constitution to admit new States
out of the foreign territory, and that for one |
never would consent, and no matter what may
be said at the Syracuse convention, or any other
assemblage of insane persons, never would
consent that there should be one foot of slave
territory beyond what the old thirteen States
had at the time of the formation of the Union
Never, never. The man can't show his face to
me and say he can prove that ever departed
from that doctrire. He would sneak away, and
stink away, or hire mercenary Heep that he
might say what mercenary apostate from lib
erty Daniel Webster has become. Laughter
and cheers. He knows himself to be hypo.
critic and falsifier. But, gentlemen, ] was in
public life when the proposition to annex Texas
to the United States was brought forward. You
know the revolution in Texas, which divided
that country from Mexico, was in the year 1895
or SO. saw then-and don't know that it
required any particular foresght-that it would
be the very next thing to bring Texas, which
was designed to be slaveholding State, into
this Union. did not wait. | sought nm occa-
sion to proclaim my utter aversion to any such
measure, and determined to resist il with all
my strength to the last Now, gentlemen, it is
not for your edihcation, am SIRE, that now
revive what have before spoken in the pre-
sence of this assembly. was in this city in the
year 1887, and long before | left New York on
that excursion, in the course Of which | went to
the South and returned here, my friends in
New York were kind enough to offer me pub
lie dinner as testimony Of their public regard
for me. went out of my way, on that occa
sion, for the purpose of showing what artici
pated in the attempt to annex Texas az slave
territory, and said it should be opposed by me to
the last extremity. And in Niblo's Garden, in
March, 1897, made speech. Well, there was
the press all around me, the Wing press and the
Democratic press. Some spoke commendatory
enough of my speech, but all agreed that took
pains to step out of my way to denounce in adj
vance the annexation Of Texas as slave territory
to the United States. ] said on that occasion:
"Gentlemen, we all see that by whomsover pos
sesseed, Texas is likely to be a slaveholding
country and frankly avow my entire unwil-
lngness to do anything that shall extend the
slavery Of the African on this continent, or add
other slaveholding States TO the Union When
] said that regarded slavery ma n great moral
and political evil, only used language that has
been adopted by distinguished men, themselves
citizens of slaveholding States. | shall do no.
thing therefore to extend or encourage its fur
ther extension"
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