Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1854-02-16

soutafiyrs from South Carolina, and addressed 10
the editor Of Il newspaper in the city of Charles
ton:
CoxaREss HALL, March 2, Is20.
3o'clock at night
DEAR SIR: | hasten to inform you that this
moment we have carried the question TO admit
Missouri and all Louisiana 20 the southwark oil
" deg. 30 min. free of the restriction OF slavery,
and gire the South, IN a short time, an addition
Of sir, and perhaps eiglt, members 10 The Senate
OF the United States. II is considered here by
fhe sayeho ling States rs great triumph. The
votes were eose--ninety to eighty-six, Tie vote
was 50 first declared produced by the seceding
aud absence of few moderate men from the
North. To the north of 36 deg 30 min. there Is
to be, by the present law, restriction, which you
will sec by the votes | voted against. Bnt II is
nj present of no moment it is vast tract unin-
habited, only by savages and wild beasts, in
which not foot of the Indian claim to the soil is
extngushed and in which, according TO the ideas
prevalent, no land office will be open for great
length of time.
With respect, your obedient servant,
CHARLES PINcRNEY.
So that il was thought at the time to be an ar
rangement highly advantageous to the Southern
States. No land office was TO be opened in the
region for a long time; but that time has come.
If you pass this bill land offices will be open
ed; and now you propose to repeal the Missouri
compromise.
A word more, sir and have DONE With ref
erence to the great question of slavery-that ter
riblc question which forms perhaps the only one
on which the North and the South of this great
Republic differ irreooncilably-I have not on this
occasion II word 10 say. My humble career is
drawing near its close, and shall end it as be-
gan, with using no other words ON that subject
than those of moderation, Cancellation, and har
mony. ! blame no one who differs from me III
this respect. | allow TO others. what i claim for
myself, the credit of honesty and purity OF mo
tive. But, for my own part the rule OF my lie,
as far as circumstances have enabled me to act up
to it, has been to say nothing that would tend to
kinde unkind feeling this subject. | have
never known men, on this any other subject,
to be convinced by harsh epthets or denuncia-
ton.
! believe the Union Of these States is the great
est possible blessing that it comprises within
itself all other blessings; political, NATIONAL and
social; and | trust that my eyes may close long
before the day shall CONFETTI ever shall come
when that Union shall ever be at end. Sir,
| share the opinions and the sentiments of the
part of the country where was born and educa-
ted, where my ashes will be laid, and where my
children will succeed me- But i'll relation to my
fellow citizens in other parts Of the country,
will treat their constitutional and their legal
rights with respect, and their characters and
their feelings with tenderness. believe them
to be good Christians, as good patriots,as good
men as we arc; and | claim that we in turn
are good MS they.
rejoced to hear my friend from Kentucky,
(Mr. Dixon) if he will allow me to call him So
| concur most heartily in the sentiment-utter
the opinion that wise and gracious Providence
in his own good time will find the ways and the
channels to remove from the land what consider
agreat evil but do not expect that what has
been done in three centuries and half Is to be
undone in day, or a year, or a few years; and
| believe that, in the meantime the desired end
will be retarded rather than promoted by passion
ate sectional agitation. | believe, further, that
the fate of that great and interesting continent in
the elder world, Africa, is closely ntertwined and
wrapped up with the fortunes of her children i'll
all the parts of the earth to which they have been
dispersed, and that at some future time, which is
already in fact beginning they will 90 back to
the land of their fathers the voluntary mission
aries of civilization and christianity. And final
ly, sir, doubt not that in His own good time the
Ruler of all will yindioate the most glorious of his
prerogatives-
" From seeming evil still educng good "