Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1856-09-18
harged southern men from all its OBJ

enlarged southern men from all its OBJ
LEGATIONS.
4 The principle of non-interyention,
commonly called the compromise of
1850, was established upon the ruins
.1of the geographical line Of 1920.
i That caiise in the Utah, New Mexico,
and Kansas-Nebraska bills, which |
'tgives to the people of those Terrific
ries the power to form their own con.
1 sitution, with OF without slavery,
Ieffeetually repeals all former restric-
tons. The repeating section Of the
Kansas bill adds nothing to its
strength; and if stricken out, south
ern interests under the bill would
not in any degree be weakened. To
have carried out the Missouri compro-
mise according to its intent and mean
hight should have been extended the
Pacific ocean; and though it violated
the rights of freemeu to form their
own government, and was therefore
unconstitutional and void from the be-
ginning, yet the South, regarding it as
IAN honorable agre ement, entered iDto
by eontending parties to escape the
dangers of a destroying litigation,
kept it in good faith up to 1850, when
the whole North, as they had done
in 1913. almost unanimously trampled
it under foot. in spite of Southern
+ effort. You did this to secure your
. selves California, Utah, and New
: Mexico; and then, in 1854, to rob us
$ of Kansas, you clamored for its re-
S newal, and entered into secret fraud
e ulent secret societies to defeat the
: law that guaranteed our rights; and
n now, having failed in all these things
o like desperate and beaten gamesters,
d whose trumps have been exhausted
@ you attempt upon this floor, by force
IS of superior numbers, to seize the
If stakes.
d With these facts before the world,
IS northern Representatives stand up
IS here, and talk about "broken faith, u
= "violated compacts," "audacious en-.
}. croachments of the slave power" p
n And now, sir, | dare these lordly
l. hypocrites, one and all, who claim to
be statesmen and lovers of truth, to
rise here and show me single in.
: stance, before 1854, where northern
, men ever sustained or voted for the
= Missouri compromise, or any other
" compromise upon the question Of
. slavery, At the subsequent Congress
: Messrs jackson and Eillyer each
introduced resolutions affirming the
= compromise of 1850 as a final set.
! Element of the slavery agitation. Tel
J Wings, and thirty-six Democrats, wa:
= the largest vote ever given by ths
!. North for either of these. resolutions
. and again challenge northern mel
8 to show where, at any other time
= they have given SO many votes il
- favor Of this or any other compro
r mise.
u These facts ought to disgrace for
) ever, in the sight of honest men
a those reckless leaders who have dis
= tuIbed the peace of the country b.
: false clamors. Yet, sir, i regret t,
:, say that it does not; but injuries to GU
y. ). people are repaid by honors at home
- The South is already regarded by
= these leaders as a conquered and dis
- bonored province. that they may
SANDER and trampl0 down to tht
lowest degradation in perfect safety
o. No statement is too false or mon
re lstrous to be proclaimed to their mis-
e, guided followers. In the New Yorl
Herald, of the 10th of June, a MAI
N named Wilson, from the State o
at Massachusetts. at a meeting in Phil
ID adelphia to ratify the nomination o
$! Fremont, is reported to have said
1t "In the South there were fifteer
IN slave States, which were growing
a poorer under the blighting curse O
Sc slavery; there freedom Of speech
U, was unknown; there was no free
n press; there labor was not respected
o. there the laborer was degraded"
h brand this whole statement as false
cd reckless, and infamous SANDER, wei
lat known to him who uttered it.
= The South is not only rich ani
to growing richer most rapidly, but bel
re agricultural products are one of the
es greatest elements of our nationa
ID prosperity and power, especially G
yet the manufacturing and commercial
he greatness of Massachusetts. Ant
of it may well be doubted whether there
ne is as pot on the habitable globe where
IN. freedom of speech and independence