Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1854-03-18


of the solemn acts of this Government which has
lain at the foundation of the peace of the country for
over orethird of century, to be put through on the
pse dixit of a single Senator from the North am
pretty well convinced that my friend will find out that
the honorable chairman of the Committee on Territories
is not exactly the proper exponent of Northern senti
ment aud Northern feeling he will find out that the
honorable chairman does not carry the whole North III
his brooches pocket.
maintain Mr. President that the people Of the South
and their representatives in either wing Of the Capitol
should be the last to seek favor the abrogaon Of the
Missouri compromise. They should seek it for the
sake Of their honor which they but desire to
remain unimpeached and intact The was car
red through the two Houses mainly by Southern votes
and wholly by Southern influence. Mr.. Clay, in his
speech already more than once referred to, says:
my friend from Alabama in the Senate Mr. King) Mr..
Pinkney from Maryland and majority Of the Southern Be-
majors in this body voted in favor Of the line $50 30 and
the head Of whom Mr. Lowndes himself voted also for
that line. have doubt that did also but was
Speaker of the House. and the Journal does show
which the Speaker votes except in tho Of tie
able to tell with certainty how actually did vote
have earthly doubt that voted in with my
other Southern friends for the adoption of the line 800 3O
Here, then, adopted under the auspices
of such as King Pinkney Lowndes, and Clay, for
the adjustment Of great and fearful controversy be-
tween sections You have enjoyed the full benefit of it.
You secured the admission Of Missouri the time and
Arkansas since The admission Of Texas was arranged
the same basis; and now, when the time has come
for realization Of the just expectations of the North
you propose break the bargain How this be done
without an impeachment of your honor? And how can
the North this hypothesis repose the slightest conf
dence in you hereafter? Will not compromises and ad-
ustments in future be mpossibe Andwill not section
al strife nest public councils and pervade the whole
sesvs bs that South this %sa
peace Often and often have you said, let as alone
leave institutions undsturbed Your true position
is defensive but this is measure Of aggression
on the North. You have commenced war on Northern
Northern regarded
Northern rights and interests; and you may depend
upon it that will be returned with relentless fury
also insist that this is contrary to the true
interests Of this Administration With President elect
ed by an overwhelming majority and with majortes in
the two Houses nearly decisive the last thing you
should have done to throw this bomb shell into Con-
gress Why not devote yourselves to the dispatch Of the
public business? Why not turn your attention to the
Pacific Railroad, to reduction modification Of the
tariff to harbor and river improvements, to an anne
oraton of your army and navy laws and to the vast
multitude of subjects, some of public and some OF
private concern, which solicit attention? And
what progress, Mr. President, have we made with the
public business and what likely to make What
extraordinary spectacle has been exhibited IN the
House of Representatives Weeks spent in pertectng
deficiency BILL which is then crushed down and buried
deep to be beyond the possibility Of resurrection
Be it remembered that whatever of beneficial legislation
the country is to have during Presidential term must
be accomplished at the first session Of the first Congress
Of that the second session is too brief for action
any thing else than the appropriation bills and the
second Congress is uniformly occupied though very i'm
properly, with the Presidential election, and by prepare
ton for the Inauguration Of Chief Magistrate and
the arrangement of his Cabinet In order to make it
certain that to do nothing for the country you
have involved in this negro controversy The Senate
is to be occupied with 1t many weeks and venture TO
that the House will be occupied most if not all
the session. If the worst enemy which Franklin
Pierce has EARTH land should be sorry to be regard
ed his enemy at all) would do the very thing which
has been done by the honorable chairman Of the Com
,l,,r hora
wholly uncalled for and fraught with nothing but
mischief. :.
1t is with infinite concern that witness the course
which my Wing friends, honorable Senators from the
South deem it proper to pursue on this subject they
SEEM almost man, disposed to rush forward to the
support of the honorable Senator from Illinois. Two OF
them the successor of HENRY CLAY, Mr. DIXON and
the other par excellence his friend Mr. JONES', have
already given in their adhesion to this measure. Now,
say those honorable Senator'S, in spirit Of kindness
and respect that regard the proposed annulmen OF the
Missouri restriction of radicalsm extreme
radcasm And do the honorable Senators suppose that
the Wing party, great national party be kept on
foot on any such basis Sir the very moment you pass
this you explode not only the Missouri Compro-
mise but the adjustment of $780, and the Baltimore Wing
platform of 1852. You blow the Wing party into ten
thousand atoms Another Wing National Convention will
be impossible Nothing induce me to become, on the
contingency named party to such convention 1t will
be idle to attempt any understanding with Southern
Wings the subject of slavery Did not go at Balti-
the fnality of the Compromise of 1850? Did we
not agree to stand by the fugitive slave law, dis
tasteful to many of people? Did we not on occasion
of proposition by the honorable Senator from Massa
chusetts (Mr. SUMNER) to repeal that act abide our
promise and vote in the negative Do you not now tell
in effect that all such covenants binding on US in
perpetuo but not binding you any longer than you
choose to be bound? repeat this measure, if carried
is and ought to be fatal to the Wing party and think 1t
will be equally fatal to the Democratic party Behold the
elements of discord and repuson in full activity In
your midst And when all outside pressureis withdrawn
by the destruction of the Wing party what will become
of you? Will you not be scattered to the four winds Of
Heaven and will not all existing organizations be bro
ken up? ,."
Sir have become heartily tired Of public life and
hope find repose in secluson and in the bosom Of
my family am greatly offended ut the turmoil which
have necessarily had this miserable subject Why
Mr. President have hardly been able for years to enter
either chamber without being involved in athe e6uuia
perhaps the honorable chairman would ofsome
negro question:. Even it fills the chamber-"it
smells to Heaven" Why will you suffer demagogues to
be necessarily dabbng in this subject stirring up this
offensive cespool existing in the midst Of the body poll
tic. say to you plainly Senators the South unless
you frown such attempts shall be in hot water all
the while There will be in both quarters Of the Union
designing men trying to make either party or personal
capital out of this subject 1t has got to be high time
that had body Of independent in the country
If had hundred thousand good and true men scat
tered oil this Republic to stand by me, would
engage to put down the whole tribe Of demagogues. "A
handful of men, compact and united can often turn the
scale between contendng factions and subdue them to
reason hate Northern anti-slavery demagogue and
hate Southern proslavery demagogue; think mean
ly Of them oil but of oil the reptiles which God for
nscrutabe purpose suffers to crawl and to besme
the EARTH think Northern pro-savery dcmagogue is
the meanest ~uS
But Mr. President if all compromises and platforms
be blown up by the passage of this BILL and If in