The southern press., 1852-01-10

--such - viel.,ioaa II the Constitution, CON.
mission Ut high treason, dsso ution Of the Union,
&C., or 10 work Sena'or out of HE seat IL At
one Of the conspirators might get into it, This
Is the difference between the uld and the new
doctrine Of instruction; and to give there re-
naarks practical application, lot " rec ,pitulats
the existing case. In the year l647 set Of dis
union resolutions are brought into the American
Senate. | strike them one lick, and they fall
dead at my feet There II no resurrection for
them there.
Then they are sent out 10 all the slave holding
States, (my own State inclusive,) to be adopted
in the State legislatures, and sent back as in
strucfions" to those who had killed them in the
American Senate. They are adopted in all the
null Iifica.ion and secession States, and also in
the Legislature Of Missouri, under the lead of the
old nuiIifers of 1899 and 1874 They are
adopted upon conspiracy confined to about
dozen accomplces-half inside and half outside
Of the legislature, and innocently voted for by
the body Of the Democratic members. Knowing
that would not obey reasonable resolutions
which had killed in the Senate, plot was laid
TO head" me. Meetings were to be held in all
the counties, to get the people to sanction them
before came home; for they had been adopted
without the consent Of the people, and after
falling to obtain their consent in some counties
las in Howard They were at this work when
came home and with some success; but were
brought to dead stand by my Jefferson City
speech. Suspecting that would appeal to the
people against their resolutions, they prepared
to counteract me, though they themselves were
Ia the act OF appealing to the people for their
sanction. The State was districted, and Scamps
appointed in every district to meet mo at his line,
and blackguard me through it. Dram shops,
beer cellars, uhiskey groceries" were to vomit
forth their drunken tenants against me. (Atch.
ison's letter 10 Birch) Every nuliiration press
in the State was secur, d and tutOred. All this
was arranged before the resolu ions were passed,
which shows the depth of the conspiracy, and
the wickedness Of its authors. Thus combined
and organized, with ramification extending into
every county, the conspirators felt themselves
safe in their work, AMI wrote letters Of triumph
and congratuaton to one another We haUe
him noio; he cannot es.ape nom; zoe thought zoe
had HIM IN 1914 6u he escaped he canaoi escape
now rs impossible; oitr combinations are so
ertenSiUe, and so strong, that he cannot escape
again" (Alchison al Liberty IN Clay county,
Such was the plot, the preparation, and the
confidence OF the conspirators. | came home
appealed to the peoplc--and called for their
judgment upon the instructions which had been
given in their name and which had moi vet been
presented to Congress for they were pass,d
too late for that session and there was full time
to consider them before the next. Instantly the
consplrators took new turn. Knowing the
reasonable character Of t'ieir instructions"
and that they could not stand discussion, they
endeavored to 'h, ad of the appeal, and to
deny the hit Of the people to hear it, though
they themselves had appealed to the people for
an ca parie, 0ne-sided confirmation of it before
spfkt .rNrv. nol -s,.i.a 4
thereby contradictng themselves, confessing Il
crimnality Of their instructions, which could
not bear discussion; denying the right uf the
people to have any voice in instructions given in
their name, aud claiming for tn, legislature
despotic right Of instruction independent of the
popular will, and extending to the greatest
crimes-even to high treason.
This denial brought up the question of the
doctrine of instruction, both the old and the new
that which had existed from the foundation
OF the government, and rested upon the soyer-
eighty of the people, ard that which was born
OF notification and rested on the sovereignty
of the State legislatures. Your county goes
for the old doctrine, such as it existed hereto
fore in this State, and in all the Democratic
States, and especially US it was administered d in
that most glorious Of popular triumphs-the
passage Of the expunging resolution--whici,
threw 40 mony refractory senators overheard,
reversed the bank born sentence against Gen
Jackson, and bore upon its face its title to re-
spect in the authentic declaration, that it was
done according 10 The ,oW Of The people,"
drew that resolution. The Democratic Amer-
can senator's passed it. The American Denoc.
racy sanctioned it-and adhere to it to its
bass-the will of the people, the foundation for
the instruction. 1t is your doctrine and the
pi Of VT will En-, ha tL,,]
doctrine Of the Missouri Democracy.
Iourthly, Adhesion to the Baltimore platform
of l848 is another point on which hold you to
be right, and the Nullfcrs wrong. That plat
form contains the Democratic ground in relation
to slavery. The Nullifiers wish to engraft upon
it anew dogma which was expressly and almost
unanimously rejected by the convention which
framed it, namely, that Congress has no rig hi To
legislate upon slarery in the Territories. This
dogma, like all the doctrines of the school to
which it belongs, is of modern invention. and
only invented for the purpose of multiplying
chances to find pretext. to resist the laws of
Congress, and for flying off into that new con.
federacy which is to consist wholly of slave
States and to be christened The United States
South" The Democracy take the Baltimore
platform as it was agreed to--not as it was not
agreed to-sti less rejected-and above all
as attempted to be interpolated by the dregs of
the party which made the effort, and so misera.
bly, failed in it at Baltimore.
These are the points, four in number, on
which the Nullifers, (and formerly some real
Democrats,) divided from the party; and on all
which points the resolutions which you have
adopted are most automatically right, and worthy
of all acceptation. To recapituate they are
these: /. Reputation of the Notification, Sc
-l..x.- ~cr O q 1suk:
the vote, and voters, and their hackers, for
Wing senator 3. Adhesion to the right Of
instruction within the limits of the Constitu-
ton, and according to the will of the people.
Adhesion to the Baltimore platform of l848
These are your tests of Missouri democracy, and
they are mine; and on these tests ] am ready
to give the tight hand of political friendship to
all returning brethren-to sit with them in
council, stand 10y them in trials, and comfort
them in tribulation. cannot refuse fellowship
to any ore for not believing in 1919, provided
that he bell, yes now. There are men so con-
stitu,ed that they cannot believe, though the
prophets should speak, until they see and feel