The southern press., 1852-01-10
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va es g. Loups Decsmhss Is. 1851.
II was ny wish 10 have been with yeu ut
your meeting On the 18th instant, bat tels-
graph despatch just received calls mo 70 New
Yosk on business which cannot BE- delayed Or
neglected. love cordial visit to your county,
which mean TO pay, and hops this will be the
Last promise which precsdes The performance.
Yoar couuty is a star, and bright one, in the
political ismament Of Missouri. and true TO the
name which it bears. tis not only always right
In the elections, but in all it's acts and senti-
ments. When the Dulli6srs undertook to get
their secession resolutions sanctioned by pop
ular meetings in the counties, in the spring Of
l849, and had actually succeeded in some half
dozen counties, they were first baked and re-
pulsed in yours Now, wnen the reunion OF
Democracy is proposed, your county is among
the first. to make principle the basis of re union.
and to repel all approaches on the basi, of d.
vdng spoil, or of prescribing man. admire
the spirit of the resolutions which you adopted
at your late preliminary meeting, and commend
them to the favorable consideration of all the
friends Of the cause. They contain the princi-
pies on which every true Dem crat can unite,
and have only to be made known and under
stood, to reconcile all who have been innocently
and temporarily led astray.
FrA, The reputation Of the secession reso-
lu,ions adopted by the general assembly in
1849 There is no longer room for any candid
man to be deceived about the reasonable char
acter Of these resolutions. There was room
for deception at first, and great many good
men were deceived Incredulily was excusable
two years ago, and even honorable to the hearts
Of those who could not then believe in the
enormity Of settled design to break this Union
and to establish new confederary of the slave
L IT.. LII a.
upon the stlong proofs which exhibited but
the season for incredulity has passed by.
The events of 1850 have proved everything
which proclaimed in 1S49 and which knew
in l847. That was proud day for me-that
Friday, l7th February, l847-when Mr.. Calhoun
first produced in the American Senate those dis
unicn resolutions, afterwards adopted in Mis-
souri, and some other States. struck them
upon the spot-proclaimed them fire brands
and in fierce passage with their author, told
him where should be found when he came to
their trial: "on The SIDE of my country" Where
were the great defenders of the Union then -
Sound asleep! and sleeping on till 1850, when
the thunder of disunion, loud enough to awaken
the dead, wakened them ALSO | saw the cloud
that was charged with that thunder when it first
appeared above the horizon in l8l7 and drove
it out of the Senate 1t was then sent to Mis-.
souri to be gathered up by the little Jupiie's
here, to be sent back to drive me out of the SEN
ate and they were sent back accordingly But
the end is not yet. saw what they were at
came home, and appealed to the people; and, al
though that appeal shared the fate of movements
which are ahead of the times, and what said
could not be credited, yet it foard credit enough
to do one thing-to sare The State Of Missouri
from the MANY Of being represented in the Nash
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candid man to doubt now.
The intent of the resolutions is proved by facts,
and will be recorded by history, and all who noao
adhere to them (though innocent in the begin
ning) will take their place by the side of the
original conspirators. Though not carried into
effect in $780, these resolutions are still upon
the statute book of the State, and Missouri now
stands upon the record precisely on the same
footing with South Carolina--a cooperation
State, bound by u legislative pledge to "co-oper
ate' with other slave-hOIding States, when they
unite for secession. The Wings in the general
assembly of the last session were faithless to
their principles and to their previous conduct,
in not joining the Democratic members in ex-
punging--rescinding, if that word recalls pain.
ful remini.cence-tha reasonable pledge from
tho journal. Tney disappointed my expectations.
expected them to have been true in that. On
the contrary they were false. And this sacrifice
of principle, as fragrant as it was shameful. was
explained to be bargain by the events Of the
session, and by the address of the fifty six Dem
ocratic members, and received new aggravation
from that eause. Il ,oas the price (part Of the
price) paid by the Wings 10 The fo,lens and nuHi-
fers for their corrupt and traitorous rates during
the last session. declare war during life against
these traitorous resoutions-Lhe same which
l,alnpaA IN fha Snputo Of tho IJnifad Sfnfas
against the notification and bank Wing vote of
censuxe upon General Jackson in l835-war to
the knife-and in which war the American
Democracy sustained me, and enabled me, in
two years, to inscribe upon the journal Of the
Senate certain black-line diagram, pretty much
in the shape Of coffin, and to write therein these
words: Erpunged, according to The t0iN Of The
people" Now, AZ then, expnnge is the word.
and life the limit Of the war that is to dc it, and
confidence the same in the virtue of the people.
Secondly You repudiate the vote Of the re.
cYeant, selfcaled Democrats Of the last session
of our general assembly. for Wing Senator,
This is right. That vote and those who gave
it, and those who were too f ry to give it them
selves, while encouraging others to do it, and
all who approve it, were forever outlawed from
the Democratic p,rty. 1t was a crime against
the Democratic party. 1t was not anti. Benton
but anti Democratic. 1t was against the Demo-
cracy of Missouri-against the State character
and position, which had much better have been
un-represented two years than mris-represented
six and has no excuse except in the corrupt
consideration which was paid for it. To refer
the election back to the people was the Demo
cratic course-the one dictated by principle, and
followed in all Democratic States. All the
Democracy in the legislature proposed that
course but the traitors who had sold themselves
to the Wings were afraid of the people, and
also afraid of losing their pay; and so screwd
themselves up, and were screwed up by Others
to the commission Of the deed. They did it,
and in doing it betrayed the Democracy Of the
State, and committed that treason to their par
ty which involves breach of allegiance, and
which, in the feuda law upon treason, taints
the name and forfeits the rights of the offender,
aud cuts him off from the community which he
had betrayed, and which Gun no longer trust
him. To complete their infamy, some OF these
traitors violated the special pledge on which
they were elected, especially one in Boone
county, whose name is the synonym of political