The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-02

submission of the South to the admission OF
California, the South would take tbs former
and argues, that in this event, 1t will be the
North, not the South, which will dissolve the
Union by destroying the Constitution.
A. On the goth of February, in his speech de.
livered on the Presidents message transmitting
to the Senate the constitution Of California, he
denounces Mr. Claws resolutions argues at
length against the constitutionality OF admitting
California into the Union denounces her admis-
sion as the consummation Of a drama OF fraud and
trichery; contends that the North gets every
thing by Mr.. Clays proposed compromise and
the South loses all prefers the Wilmot proviso
direct; denounces all compromises upon the
subject, and replies to the pictures OF war and
blood drawn by Messrs. Clay and Cass, denying
that they have any foundation in the probable
course of things; but if realized, the South Is
not responsible, and should not yield ON that
account; distinctly indicates disunlon as 1.-THE
sharp and severe remedy" descants on wash
ington's Farewell Address, and contends that he
would, if alive, sanction his course, and go with
the South in resistance.
| 5. On the 9th of May he attacks the report OF
the committee of thirteen, and assails MIR. Man
gum; contends that there is no room for liber-
atty in the construction of the Constitution, and
|
| 7. On the 18th of May he arraigns Mr.. Foote
for inconsistency in supporting the report Of
| the committee of thirteen, which he said was
only an Embodiment of Mr.. Clay's resolutions !;
denOunces the compromise as a shameless sur
render )" descants upon the "outrage" OF the
ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Texas; and treats with dis
respect and contempt the counsel that we should
take the compromise as the best we could
get"
g. On the 21st of May he replies to Mr.. Foote's
charge of being in association with Abolition
ists and shows that their opposition to the bill
is for contrary reasons.
9. On the 18th Of August, he protests against
the passage Of the bill admitting California re-
peats his position, as being against the constitu-
tionaIity Of the bill declares that the States
are sovereign; advocates secession, and declares
his allegiance to Alabama, intimating that those
who support the bill are traitors to the South,
and would sell their souls to Satan, and betray
the Saviour himself, if he were to come again on
earth, for half the money which Judas obtained
| Such were the positions taken by MIR. JERRY
CLEMENS, Senator from Alabama, in the Sen
ate of the United States, in the year of our Lord
| 1850. But, in the year 1851, in the month of
December, Mr. JERRY CLEMENS, according to the
speech he lately delivered, is an entirely different
| ului anu All CutlICiJ hcW ChhiacIc'.
The former year, he is State Rights, resistance
man--n the latter, he is consolidation sub
missionist in the former year, he d. 1ounces the
compromise as unconstitutional and unendura
bic by the South--in the latter, he defends it IA
constitutional and the source of great blessing
to the country in the former year, he denounces
the submissiohists to the compromise as trait
ors-in the latter, he becomes one himself, and
denounces the resistance men as traitors; in
the former year, he descants on dissolution Of
the Union, as the sharp and seve .e remedy -
in the latter, he praises the Union, just as Me-
CAss and Mr. CLAY had done before him in the
former year, he treated with just scOrn and con-
| tempt the pictures of blood and woe which were
! then portrayed as the consequences of the dis
union policy--in the next year, he becomes a
picture maker in the same line himself; in the
former year, he declares the States sovereign
in the latter, that they not sovereign; in the
former year, he declares that his allegiance is
due to Alabama-in the latter, that no allegiance
of his is due to her. for she cannot punish treasOn
in the former year, he supports secession--in the
latter he denounces it and crowns the whole
by the assertion, that Jefferson the Virginia re-
port and resolutions of 1898 and 1899, with
Calhoun and McDutfe also, all denied the right
of secession.
Now, the Senate is in possession of what
proposed to prove. This is but synopsis of
the positions of the Senator from Alabama, and
a very imperfect synopsis. If the Senate will
attend to the language shall read, used by the
Senator from Alabama, think they will find in
the sequel, that have not only not overstated
them, but that have not stated his inconsist-
ency in the full force which his own words
would portray And if make all this to appear,
as think shall, will he not prove to be very
proper specimen of morality and honor standing
up in the Senate of the United States to arraign
the conduct or principles Of other senators
Now, MIR. President for the extracts to which
| have alluded. On the Goth of December
! (you see sir, he began very early, he could not
whit till other senators began; he began him.
self; foremost 10 his zeal for the interests and
honor of the South)-on the Goth Of December,
before Mr.. CLAY offered his resolutions, he
came out in the Senate and offered series Of
resolutions calling upon the President for in.
formation upon the following subjects: First,
whether he had appointed civil and military
governor for California, since March last
second, whether any agent had been sent out
to California to assist in the formation of n
State government; third, how the persons call.
ing themselves delegates to the convention were
elected, who fixed the qualifications of voters,
and what those qualifications were; fourth,
whether any census of the inhabitants of Cali
fornia had been taken, and by what law and,
fifth, the instructions which were given by the
government to the civil and military governor
On the 7th of January, these resolutions came
up for consideration in the Senate, and the Sena-
tor, in his remarks supporting their passage, said
"My attention WAS called to the subject by
the governor of the State of Alabama The
people of that State believe that fraud had
been practced, and they called for information
What farce it is to say, you oppose and still
do the same things which tho Wilmot proviso
proposes to accomplish. Are we to be treated
like sick children, who are induced to take the
medicine offered them, by giving the pill coat
of sugar." &c.
See, sir, what beautifully fine figure he uses
for putting the Wilmot proviso upon tho South,
by the admission of California with her consti-
tuition prohibiting slavery, instead of passing it
directly in n territorial bill.
"You will not pass the Wilmot proviso, but
you come here and pass the same principle which
that proviso involves, and in so doing you vio-