Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1852-09-11
EXTRACT OF A SPEECH DELIVERED
BY EX-G0V. AARON V. BROWN

- -N'A+-AAt a1RNNA-oshhg ADJUST OIAY 1907
Do you ask how the nomination and election q
Gen. Scot can seal the doom of the south p
Hear me silently and thoughtihlly and win tel
you Whose candidate would Millard FilImor,
have been The candidate of the southern
wings. Whyl Because a majority of his friend
were such. Whose candidate would Dan'l Web,
ster have been OF the northern wings. Why
Because majority of his friends were SUCH
Whose candidate is Gen. Scoul OF the aboli,
tionsts and free-soilers. Why? Because q
majority Of his friends were aboitionsts and
free soilers, Without them he could not have
been the candidate, but with them he is He had
l3l votes, 90 Of these, being majority, voted
against the platform even emascuated as it was
Ii was to these sixty,si1, that Seward addressed
the circular letter Of songratuaton, that they had
preserved their sacred principles Of freedom and
federation. Thus il is that II there is truth and
logic, he is the aboitionst and free-soil cand>
date.
Now what follows this great fact : That you
have lifted up and given rank and Importance TO
| this dangerous party. In social life be who mar
ries woman lifts her up at once to his own rank
and condition. So Gen. Scott, having allied
himself TO this party, comes up with ii leaning on
his arm, and demands its recognition as one Of the
great and respectable parties Of the country. The
south may protest againstit. She may protest ever
SO solemnly; but amid the war plumes of the sol
der and the cunning sophistry of those who have
sOlemnized the unholy bands, she may be lulled
into an acquiescence, which must prove to her
fatal as the sleep of death II is argued that
Notwithstanding all these facts, poisoning the very
fountain of his nomination, that Gen. Scott is in
fact friend of the south, with no dangerous af
finilies for the free>soers and abolonists.
deny it every word of il. They have not given
him this nomination without cause. He has for
years been bidding for the presidency-to the snti.
Ma9ons--to the native American party against
foreigners; and to no faction and to no party has
he paid court more assiduously than TO the aboli~
tonisls and fIeesoilerr. Look to the great turn.
ing point Of this slavery agitation. SO long as
their societies were confined IN their lahors to
the north, they were harmless. Their travelling
lecturers and nAammalory publications., could
exert but little influence over the nation at large
Hence the determination was formed, to enlarge
the sphere Of their operations by gaining admits
tance ia the Halls Of Congress-. Hear their own
opinions of the importance of getting there
Before slavery can be abolished there must be
a discussion Of the whole subject on the floors of
both houses of Congress. All the arguments
with which aholitionists have flooded the north |
would then be brought forward, TO prove the in.
trinsc iniquity, the cruelty, the mpolicy of slave-
holding. A thorough discussion Of this whole |
subject in the halls of our national legislature,
would he equal to a discussion in the Legislature
Of every saveholding state in the union. The |
act of abolition being done, the moral influence |
would pierce the heart of the whole system. 1t |
would pronounce and sign its death warrant. II !
would be the solemn verdict of the nation de.
creeing the annihilation Of this dark ,sbomina- |
lion. 1t would write in letters of flashing fire
over the gateway of the national capitol, mo ad
nttance for slavery" Tne whole system would
be thus oulawed und branded with igno.
niny, consigned 10 erecrdiiOH and ultimate de-
struction."
The south saw this great turning point in their
ate. They saw Mr.. Adams with all his hatred
or the south, step forward az their champion, and
INVITING them 10 come forward with their peti,
ions. They did come by hundreds and by thous.
lnds. Mr.. Adams demanded that they should be
realed in all respects like other petitions-thai
hey should be received, should be printed, should
'e referred to committee and reported upon and
ebaied. Nothing less than this would satisfy
lin. The south insisted that to do all this would
'e ruinous to her safety and her property. That
hese inflammatory petitions and speeches would
e sent all over the slave states and be read by
he midnight torch on their plantations, leading
D instructions with all their attendant horrors.
'or the sake of the union, we yielded 10 the re.
option Of the petitions-that the mover should
tate their contents, and that they should be laid
n the table, equivalent TO a reiection,) without
sference and without debate. Thus the parties {
'ok their positions. The struggle was intense.
he amount at stake was large, being no less
ian 900 millions Of property and the safety and ?
spose of every southern family. One northern
ian after another deserted us, and went over to 4
Ir. Adams. But there was one northern man Z
ho did not and would not desert US. True as I
eel and with heart as big as the constitution .
. stood by US to the last. That man was Gen. L
rankin Pierce. For het iced alone, the south u
ves him debt Of everlasting gratitude. Day D
ter day, in both houses Of Congress, be stood .
US, speaking for US, and voting with u.s. against u
)hn Quincy Adams, through that arduous strug- n
e. Do not read to me old rusty abolition news IL
Ipers: you need not tell me what this or that p
,Orly informed individual has said against il. p
low what say-ior both saw and heard him. u
lnator Henderson, whig from Mississippi, sat b
him and says be is the truest man to the south
ever saw. Besides, sirs, look to the journals
Congress. have all the pages here and will =
Fe copies to any body to inspect them by. They III
annihiate al your lying newspapers ~
d your drunken or prej1diced ceriyers who =
J that Franklin Pierce was uniaiihfll TO the ~ ~
Institution or the rights Of the south. Bui how - -
s It with Gen. Scott tie was 10 the regular %
ny, soldier by profession and need not have 3.
en- sides at all. Bot ever restless and ambi- = y
Is. be must step forward into the arena and -, :,
ow down his sword and influence al the feet ~ y,
the service Of Jonn Quincy Adams. He "a
sw them down against the land Of bis :"
IN, 'his own, bis native land. Open bis OWE
now carried about by all bis advocates s.,
there read bis letters coniending tha, ell -,
-. s...i'1- sno..o oe IeGeseo ano Iei-'feo N