The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-24

which the gentleman alludes; and, therefore,
we no more than Others are responsible for it.
II the Union Wings and Union Democrats will
stand by the recommendation, thry may fairly
expect us to do 50; but it il \ very pretty bust
ness for US TO mako joint promise, and then al
low them to break it, and require US to hold on
to it. No, sir. "A contract broken on one
side, is contract broken on all sides"
Dir. MOORE, of Louisiana, (interrupting. ,
Tho gentleman from Mississippi mentioned The
State of Louisiana in connection with the Nash
vile convention. | wish merely to state this
fact that law was introduced into the lepisIa-
ture of Louisiana authorizing the people to send
delegates TO that convention, but it failed. do
not believer single man went from the State of
Louisiana TO that convention who was author
lied by tho people to GO there
Mr.. BROWN cannot stop for these inter.
ruptions, AS iind that my time is fast running
out Now, what did the Democratic party Of
Mississippi mean when they assembled 10 con-
vention and appointed delegates to the BaIti-
more convention? They meant, sir, to 90 into
That convention in good fnith, and to act in good
faith. We do not believe the Dsmocrtic party
is going to come up to our standard of State
Rights, but we know they will come nearer up
to it than the Wing party; and We therefore i'm
tend to 60 into the Democratic convention. with
an honest purpose to support its nominee We
trust you to make us fair and just nominations:
and if you do, we intend to support them. III
am asked who the State Rights Democrats Of
Mississippi would sustain for the Presidency
will answer, they will sustain any good, honest,
long tried, and faithful member OF the Demo.
cratic party, who has never practiced a fraud
upon them.
can tell you this, that in going into the con.
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ask from it an Endorsement of their peculiar no
tions-f, indeed, they be peculiar-on the snb-
ject of State Rights
Mr.. CI1ASTAIN, (nterruptng.) Let me ask
the gentleman ifhe would vote for Mr.. Cass
Mr.. BROWN. If | were to answer that
question, might be asked by other gentlemen
whether would vote for this man or that man.
DO not choose to engage in any controversy
about men,
Sir, was saying that we shall not ask ut tho
hands Of the Baltimore convention an indorse-
ment Of our peculiar views on the subject of
State Rghts-if indeed these views be peculiar
We shall ask in the name of the State Rights
party no place upon the national tcket-neither
at its head nor at its tail. And when we have
aided you on to victory, as we expect to do, We
shall ask no part of the spoils, for we are not of
the spoil-oving school.
What we ask is this: that when we have
planted great principle, which we intend to
nourish, and, as far as We have the power, pro-
tect, you shall not put the heel of the national
Democracy upon Ito crush il. We ask that you
shall not insult us in your convention, either by
Offering us as the nominee man who has de.
nourced us as traitors TO our country, or byE
passing any resolutions which shall thus de-
nounce US in words or by implication Leave
US free from taunt and insult give us n fair
Democratic nomination, and we will march up
to it like men, and we will be, where we have
always been in our Democratic struggles, not in
the rear, but in the advance column We will
bear you on to victory; and when victory hns
been achieved, you may take the spoils and d.
vide them among yourselves. We want no Of
lice. VIII the Union party give this pledge
Of course they will not for they are committed
against your nominees in advance, unless GER
tain demands of theirs shall be complied withxs
and among them is the ostracism OF the State
Rights men. They propose to read out the
great body ofthe Southern Democrats, and then
suppose make up the deficiency with Wings.
When the national Democracy relies on Wing
votes to elect it's President, it had better "hang
its harp upon the willow"
The State Rights Democrats will never be
found saeaking into any party. We ask no.
IL.
the nominees, as we expect to do. it will be
done, not for pay, but as labor of love-love
for old party associations; love of principles,
which we hope are not yet quite extinct, and
which, we are slow to believe, will be cxtin-
guished at Baltimore. If we fail to support the
nominees, it will be because they are such MS
ought not to have been made.
We make no professions Of love for the
Union. Let our acts speak. We have stood
by the Constitution and by the rights of the
States, as defined by our fathers. If this be en-
nifty to the Union, then have we been it's ene-
mics. We have not made constant proclama-
ton OF our devotion TO the Union, because we
have seen no attempt to destroy it, and have
therefore seen no necessity for defending it,
The danger is not that the States will secede
from the Union, but rather that the Union will
absorb the reserved rights of the States, and
consolidate them one State. Against this
danger we have raised our warning voice. 1t
has not been needed; and if disaster befall ns
from this quarter we at least are not to blame.
l.andation of the Union is cheap commodi-
ty. 1t is found on the tongue of every dema-
gogue in the country. by no means say that
all who laud the Union are demagogues but
do say that there is not demagogue in the
Union who does not laud it. 1t is the bone and
sinew, the soul and body Of all their speeches.
With them, empty shouts for the Union, the
glorious Union, is passport to favor; and be-
Yond the point of carrying popular election,
they have no ideas of patriotism, and care not n
fig for the ultimate triumph of our federatve
system.
Mr.. Chairman, there are many other things to
which should have been very glad to make al
fusion, but am admonished that my time is so
nearly out that can have no opportunity to
take up another point. | shall be happy, how
ever, in the few moments that remain of my
time to answer any questions that gentlemen
may desire to submit. supposed, from the
disposition manifested by gentlemen few mo-
ments ago to intcrrogate me, that should ne
cessarily be compelled to answer some ques-
tons, or seem to shrink from the responsibility
of doing so. therefore hurried on to the con-
clusion of what deemed it absolutely necessa-
ry to say, for the purpose of answering those
questions am now ready.
After moments pause, Mr.. B continued
Gentlemen seem not disposed to press their in
Quries, and my time being almost ont I resume