The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-03-18

speeches, he then read copious extracts from
speeches of Mr.. O. of the following dates:
December 81, l849, he introduced a Sc
ries of resolutions in the Senate, calling up
on the President Of the United States to
communicate to the Senate whether any
steps had been taken by the Government to-
wards formation of a State government in
California or not, and whether any agent
had been sent there by the Government to
induce the people to form such government,
&C., &C.
On the 10th of January 1850, on the
motion to print the resolutions of the Leg
islature of Vermont, the Senator from Ala
bama made a speech, in which he spoke of
/ two classes of traitors-one the northern
fanatics, who, reckless of consequences, to-
accomplish their ends, sought the subver-
sion of the Constitution, &c. /; the other, for
whom he had less respect, was composed of
those timid, doubling, hesitating men at the
South, who would not march up to the line,
and repel, upon the threshold, all encroach-
ments upon their rights-that is, (said Mr..
l c. men who would not resist the admission
of California and fight. Where was the
Senator now?
On the 18th of February, 1850, on the
presentation of petition by the Senator from
New Hampshire to dissolve the Union, the
Senator made Speech in which he treated
the charge of being a disuniOnist with con-
tempt, and held that the South, in resisting
the proposed measures, was not to be blamed
for putting the Union in danger, but that
those who persisted in the aggression were
alone responsible for the consequences.
On the 10th of February the Senator de-
nounced the proposed admission of Califor-
: MIA, and said that under the Compromise
resolutions of Mr. Clay the North got all
and the South lost all that he preferred
the Wilmot Proviso to he openly adopted
than its application in an indirect way by
; smuggling California into the Union. HI
! distinctly counselled disunion, alluded t.
Washington's Farewell Address and claim
ed that if Washington were alive he woulC
be found on the side of the South justifying
y resistance to such aggressions
i On the 9Th of May the Senator attacke,
= the report of the Select Committee of Thin
Z teen, and denounced as traitors all those VIII
! i supported tit being nothing more than tn
- plan contained in Mr.. Clay's resolutions
=" On the 18th of May he arraigned Nj
ie Foote and Mr.. Mangum, for supporting thG
!; Compromise, as unfaithful to the South
vi and denounced Mr.. FOot's chest we can get
doctrine as unworthy of Senators. He on
. O. would never, if he was to bear chain
in inquire as to the formation of the links
" to be dashed, would not ask the color of ii
r. cowhide.
On the 18th of August he protested again
,lf the passage of the California bill and
NJ the course of his argument maintained Il
on sovereignty of the States; declared that b
allegiance was due alone to the State of Al
i'd bama; that if to obey her ordinances W
,t;- treason, then he was a traitor, and gloried
he the name; that treason was not commit
ar against any power by his obeying the ma
tho dates of his State, and that there were mo
ways of being traitors than by being traitC
ga to the Union
Wit Such, said Mr. R., was Senator Jeremi
> Clemens in 1850. And we will see that
an is different man in 1851. In the form
tho year he is strict State Rights resistar
bor man in the latter year he is a console
i'm ZIONIST, submissionist. In the former he
nounces the Compromise as unconstitutiol
ma and unjust to the South in the latter he
bo tends it as constitutional and a source
TON. great blessing. In the former he denoun
as q submissionists to the Compromise as II
|, IF tors in the latter he becomes one hims
18th and denounccs resistance men as traitors
inos In the former year he counselled the dis
luton Of the Union as the severe and sh
rom remedy in the latter he praises the Tn
had Just as Messrs Clay and Cass did. In
for former year he affirmed that the States W
sovereign; in the latter that they were
! +o In the former he declared his allegiance
.roat to the State of Alabama in the latter t
had none was due to her. In the former he
IN. vocated secession; in the latter he de-
# 60 that such a right exists.
.iobt If these things appear-and he thou
On by the Senator'S own speeches which he
: his read it was manifesto would seem
: tho the Senator from Alabama was pretty
and cimcn of consistency and morality to st
s,lcb up in the Senate and arraign others.
Senator now denounces those who are sts
ing on the platform erected by himself,
i'V'r who do not submit to what he had him
' 'I styled base and ignominious surrendel
'ney traitors.
S"ur- He then referred to that portion Of
2ena- Cs. speech of December last in which
n[ 3 MIR Rs argument that the admission
u! uuge California was unconstitutional because
III ~ Constitution provides only for the admis
q 70 of States, as pure nonsense; and wher
Prih- was held that all the States, with the ez
lGrso ton Of Vermont, Kentucky, and Is
MN !. were Territories till admitted into the III
us and that it was the act of admission
a 1e- made each of them States. He repeate
ltn a a argument, that all the States now in the
wen ion were States in fact before admitted,
! ork, cept California;; hence the admission
ana California was unconstitutional He co
Sne cred the Senator from Alabama as ignt
'nis Of the history of his own State. He co
WIN cred that the Senator was hard driver
i"lSeu materials when he resorted to a false
ment of the facts to prove that Calf
Sena- had been admitted constitutionally.
TO ar The Senator was so enamored viii
,eDsis- Compromise that he would not vote 70
nglish repeal Of the act abolishing the slave
what in the District Of Columbia. That al
d now only abolished the slave trade, but, by
I'D ar ing the freedom Of the slave penalt
rye by the violation Of the law, was the inc
read step by Congress in the exercise Of the
d Mr. er Of emancipation
lo49, He referred to that portion Of Mr..
Com ens's speech in which it was held tina
OF MS Fugitive Slave law had been execut