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

Yet wanting courage with his foes TO SID
Heaven cast them forth, liz beauty not L
i stain,
And hell refuses to receive Them too;
From them no glory could the damned OBJ
tain"
Sir, according to this poetry, which he applies
to others, if his present position Is that of sub
mission, he could have no glory with the damned
The internal regions itself is not fit place fol
him. Mark, Mr. President, do not myself say
that this is his position ! am using the Sena
tors own words. will go on with his brave
positions.
On the 18th Of February, Qfor the Senator did
| not on one occasion only thus CALAMITY arraign
/ those who were invading the rights OF the
South, or were disposed to surrender them no
/ sir; again and again he couched his lance and
dashed into the conflict again and again he
met the cheerings, not OF submissionists and
compromises here with whom he now stands
but of all the true and brave men in the South
who looked here for counsel and guidance,) on
the 18th of February debate arose on the
question whether petition should be received
presented by the Senator from New Hampshire,
praying that the Uoon should be dissolved.
The Senator from Alabama said, in reply to
the avowals of the s nator from Ohio, Mr.
! CHASE, and other Northern senators:
"lf senators desire us to believe them sin
cere in their professions of love for the Union,
that sincerity ought to be manifested by their
conduct, Who has put the Union in danger
/ Not the South, for we have committed no az.
grcssions, and propose to commit none. We
are responsible only for making known our de-
termination to resist oppression, come from aoldt
quarter IL may. 1t is the North, and the North
alone, who are the agtators. 1t is the North
alone by whom this fair fabric has been shaken
to its centre; and the allegation that there are
Southern disunionists for the sake OF disnnion
is an nnmitigated caumny which shall not be
pronounced in my hearing without being brand
cd as il deserves. If you love the Union so
much, cease your gresson-pause in your eff
forts TO destroy The Constitution ,ohich is us oly
bond. You need be under no apprehensions for
the Union, unless Your conduct makes its de-
struction duty. From the South you have
nothing to fear so long as you do not attempt
to perpetrate wrong" Remember that all
this time the compromise is the matter under
consideration. II do not misunderstood the
1 policy which causes you to den0unce those
who defend the rights of the weaker section
who have dared to step between power and its
victim--as factionists and disorganizers"
His conclusion is very fne--worthy of a
Southern Senator basely assaulted and maligped
because he does his duty 1t is as follows:
For myself have duty before me which
can make no demands and impose no risks or
annoyances that am not ready to meet. Any
one may pursue a pathway strewed with roses ::
| it requires men to tread where thorns and BRAN
bles cumber the way. | expected to be de
nounced, to be misunderstood by some, and cal
umniated by others p
That's applicable to myself Ihave expected
that would be illuminated, as he himself ex-
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ests of the South. | am sorry that must use
this language of the senator as being SO appli.
cable to himself He says:
"Much of this cannot prevents but when
the charge is made here in my presence that
am factionist or that those who act with me
are So shall repel it in terms that admit of no
double meaning. Sir, do not believe that
there is man in the entire South who desires
disunon for itself hope, also, that there is
not one who will suffer his rights to be invaded,
or his honor furnished, no matter rhdt may be
The cost Of resistance We mean al all hazards
to defend the Constitution. Ii that is faction,
we are guilty. Ii that is disunion, we are dis
unionias. II that is crime against the republic,
we have much to answer for.
i al have heard enough, Mr. President, Of hippo.
critical ,ohining about The Union, from those
who are its deadliest foes. IL you want peace,
you have only TO say So. Let US alone. We
ask no more. Or, it You will not do that, spare
us your lamentations. If you are determined to
destroy the Constitution be men, own il publicly,
and take the responsibility. Do not seek to
shift it to our shoulders"
Well, sir that is not all. On the Goth Of
February, Mr. GAYS resolution came mp for
consideration in the Senate, and here Is the way
he discourses about the constitutionaty of the
admission of California;
IF she has right to form constitution and
Estate government her right To regulate the sub
ject of slavery is unquestionable."
But he shows that, having no law Of Con-
gress authorizing her to form constitution and
be State, she was no State. lie qses on as
follows:
"No territorial government was ever estab-
lished in California. The people who framed
the constitution were not inhabitants, In the
legal meaning Of the word. They were com.
posed of Indians, Mexicans,tand wild band of
adventures from every quarter Of the globe,
aured by the lust OF gold 10 The shores of the
Pacific, many Of them without permanent resi-
dence anywhere, and four. ifths Of them without
the remotest intention Of remaining in the conn.,
try whose organic law they undertook to estab-
lish.
al do not speak without authority upon this
punt ! nave mere l1c Iuesshge OF TIE governor
Of California, who, IL Is TO be presumed, is ac-
quanted with the character of the population
Of which he is the chief. lie describes them ms
follows:
"'Already We have almost every variety of
the human race among us--a heterogeneous
mass Of hnman beings, of every language and
hue"
"Yet these persons, not citizens Of the United
States, owing no allegiance TO this government,
not speaking our language even, or understand
ing our laws, undertake TO erect a sovereign
State out Of our public domain and with cool
impudence which almost commands admiration,
call upon US 10 sanction their action, and give
validity 10 n most extraordinary usurpation"
ain California no census has been taken
there is no law fixing her boundaries no law
regulating the time, places, and manner Of hold.
ing elections no law to determine the qua6ca.
tons Of voters; no evidence and no reason to
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