Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1852-03-04

dead, Notwithstanding the Senators from every
free State except Iowa were under instructions
to vote for it. Senators either took the respon-
sibity OF disrega ding their instructions. or OBJ
tanned their repeal, and voted for the Compro-
mise without the proviso. Instead OF applying
the proviso to territory south OF 36 degrees, 30
minutes, they had given the Sorth more than
the Nashville Convention asked; they had taken
it off up to the line of 81 degrees.
He referred to the change which has taken
place since then ia the resolves of the Northern
States, of conventions, and other bodies, to the
fact that Rhode Island and New Jersey had Sc
lected Senators who supported the Compromise
over opponents of it; men who could be relied
on as true friends of the South.
Mr.. G.. then described the Union which he
desired to preserve, and which he had struggled
to maintain. That there We're some vino were
restless under supposed wrongs he could not
doubt, for the demagogue was never quiet
When the Senator from South Carolina went
home among his people, and told those who had
not the time to examine it for themselves that
the North was horde of robbers, &c, it was
not surprising he succeeded in causing feelings
of excitement and evaporation to take possess
sion of their judgments.
Mr.. c.. then replied to the comments Of Mr..
Rhett upon his argument concerning the want
Of States into the Union.
He referred to some comments made by Mr..
r. upon speech in which he (Mr. C.) had
charged Mr.. Foote with inconsistency; and said
that what had occurred between him and Mr..
Foote was perfectly and strictly in spirit of
courtesy, and was not marked by that rancorous
bitterness which characterized the attack of the
Senator from South Carolina.
The Senator was the last man who ought to
speak of disunion in these Halls. In the House.,
on one occasion, John Quincy Adams presented
petition praying dissolution of the Union.
A resolution was offered to expel him for pre-
senting it. Mr. Bolts moved lay the resolution
on the table, and the Senator, then member
OF that House, voted against Mr.. Bolts notion;
indicating by his vote a desire to expel MIR. Ad-
ans. But what was Mr.. Adams crime when
compared to that of the Senator? The one,
believing in the right of petition, presented IL
memorial asking the dissolution of the Union,
stating that he was opposed to the prayer. The
other rises in the Senate, declares himself
dlsunionist, and advocates openly dissolution of
the Union.
Mr.. C. then defended the Texas Boundary
act, and the act abolishing the slave trade in the
District, and his votes on them.
Mr.. G. repeated the declaration contained in
his speech of December last, that Mr.. Calhoun
was opposed to the secession of a single State,
and that che regarded the attempt OF single
State to go out of the Union as Madness and
died in that opinion Shortly before his death,
in a conversation with him, Mr.. Calhoun said
that in 1882 he could have gone much further
than he had, but not without arraying Tennes-
see against South Carolina, and Kentucky
against Virginia; he wanted platform upon
which all the Southern States could stand to-
gether united.
He considered that fthe whole fifteen South
ern States We're to secede in a body, that per-
haps it would be folly for either party to attempt
coercion, as would undoubtedly be the case if
single State were to attempt secession. In eth
er case, however, he could not believe that
peace between the two sections could be long
but war would follow, and the re-
suit would be the total destruction of the Eber-
ties of all.
He was not n different man in 1851 from
what he was in 1850. He left here after the
adjournment of Congress, with no sentiment or
principle changed. When he got home he
found demagogues haranguing and telling the
people Of Alabama that they had been robbed
by the Compromise; that the North had robbed
them of all the territory, and that nothing was
LETT for them but base submission or secession
He, too, went upon the stump, and told the peo-
pie the truth. He told them that the robbery,
II any had taken place, was committed by the
votes of the South; that Missouri and Tennes-
see, and Kentucky were equally guilty as the
North; and that they, if they seeded at all,
should also secede from these States. The
people heard him; they saw the truth; and the
August elections showed that he was sustained.
Before that election took place there was not
man In the State who would avow himself
disunionist. No man entertaining the senti-
ments of the Senator from South Carolina could
be elected III Alabama to the post of constable.
The people of Alabama were Union men;
and yet they were as true and devoted Southern
men as those who are continually clamoring for
Southern rights, and depicting Southern wrongs.
They were as consistent friends of the South as
those who at home were constantly speaking of
the peridious robberies of the North, and yet
when here took seats in counsel, cheek by owl
with such men us Preston King, Giddings, Ran
toul, Hale, Chase and Sumner.
Mr.. Rhett said that he was not surprised at
the Senator's course of reply. He expected
that when he was called upon to answer for hav-
ing wantonly insulted another, the SeDator
would reply by renewed insult He (Mr. R.)
had not, as the Senator stated, brooded over this
matter for months. He had already told the
Senator that hewas not present when the Sena-
w. - 'PSSSAi
speech till after his return. He had since then
been waiting for an opportunity to reply, and had
at length appealed to the Senate for this oppor-
tunity.
The Senator denied having made any charge
OF knavery. He would read what the Senator
sald' and then the Senate could judge whether
the charge was OF was not made. The Ian
guage of the Senator was as follows:
"Ihe scene we witnessed the other day, du-
ring the delivery by the Senator from South Ca
foilna Mr.. Rhett) of his harangue, surprised
no one here; but it would have been mat .er of
profound establishment to the country if they
could have been spectators of what occurred
There was the Senator from Massachusetts, Mr.
Sunner the Senator from Ohio, (Mr. Chase,)
ana the Senator from New Hampshire. Mr..
tiale,) gathered about him in a sort of fraternal
ring, while the countenance of the Senator from
New York, MIR. Seward) was radiant with
5ladness. Thus was exhibited the spectacle of
IN extreme Southern Senator denouncing in no
II,