The mountain sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1844-1853, 1852-07-22

of Ohio and Pennsylvania that part ran candi
dates who were known to be ayerse to them in
this House, who voted against them in the Bal
timore Convention, apd who, believe, is now
chairman of the whig general committee of the
United States
Mr.. CAMPBELL, of Ohio. VIII the gentle
man allow me to ask him question? l desire
to know if the gentleman did not himself vote
against portion of that series of measures
Mr.. TOOMBS. 1 did voted against the
bill admitting California into the Union.
MIR. CAMPBELL. Did not the gentleman al
so vote against that abolishing the slave trade
in the District of Columbia Z?
Mr. TOOMBS. did not but I win give
the gentleman the full benefit of his question:
l should have voted against that bill if 1 had
been here when it passed the House. 1 was not
here at tn at time.
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In Pennsylvania, the candidate of that party
was gentlemen who was known to be decided
ly hostile to these measures. At both conven-
tions which nominated for the presidency, and
the candidates had the full benefit of the associ-
alton. These elections resulted disastrOusly TO
the Scott free-soil wings; and at the opening of
this session it was announced to the country that
a whig congressional caucus had endorsed the
Compromise. 1t was very soon ascertained.
though, that no friend of General Scott could
be found among its supporters. The question
was soon tested in the House the test dsclo-
sed the Scott wings where they had always been
-against the Compromise there were but
bo tod ov,H I
believe all of them are to be found among the
friends of Mr.. Fillmore and Mr.. Webster-na-
tonal whigs-who have upon all occasions since
their passage avowed their determination to ac-
cept these measures as peace offering, without
reference to their votes upon them. This was
all we asked.
We do not wish to 90 behind the passage of
these measures for objections to public men
We were willing that this settlement should
stand as pacifcaton-what we approved, and
and what we did not approve. We were willing
to do it for the sake of giving tranquility, re
pose, peace to the country and all sections OF
the country. We willing that this adjust
ment should be considered an act of amnesty
for past differences of opinion upon the gener-
al question Of slavery, and to support in good
faith any and all who were ready to stand by
and maintain it. There are many in this House
who voted against some and even all of these
measures, but who are still willing to stand up
on that ground, and who do stand there /; who
had opposed them as in their judgment, iujuri-
Gus to the rights of their own sections of coun-
try, but, for the sake of the peace and quiet of
the republic, and inasmuch as they were acqui-
esced in by large majority of the American
! people-North and South-they accept and
maintain them. l honor them for it. But find
! none such among the friends of Gen. Scott
/ They have endeavored in every way to stife
those principles when presented and they en-
deavored to prevent their affirmance whenever
and wherever they could. To prevent their af-
I frmance. both northern and southern suppor-
( ters of Gen. Scott made speeches on this floor,
advocating the policy of going into the
! next presidency without the enunciation of
any principles whatever. Some gentle
men from the South who had been supporters,
but, admit, reluctant supporters, of the Com
promise, were willing to accept Gen. Scott with
out any pledge of his fidelity to these great
principles, while they knew his friends were OPP
posed to them But the voice which came up
| from the people, even through the imperfect
medium of the delegates to their convention,
compelled them to pause, to tremble, to yield.
They did wisely to heed that voice in demanding
the resolutions but they viii hear its thunders
again, for not needing it and giving it true ut
terance in the selection of the candidate they
will not they ought not to submit to have their
principles put into the keeping of their enemies.
They will demand principles and men, and make
that demand effectual at the ballot-box in No
yember.
The friends of the Compromise demanded no
sectional candidate. They were content to ac-
cept the present Chief Magistrate, whose name
and fame have been identified with these mea-
sures They were willing to accept the great
New England statesman, Notwithstanding their
MANY noints of disagreement with him in the
past He had thrown the weight Of his mighty
intellect into the scales of concord in the dark
est and most perilous hoursof the conflict; and
southern compromise whies, at least, would
have struggled with pride and energy to have
! seen the greatest intellect of the age preside
over and direct the affairs of the great republic
in the world These men were defeated in the
| convention by the enemies of the compromise
| measures because they were its friends. This