The Washington union., 1857-09-18

He had the best authority for believing that the admins
traton not responsible for the language employed by
GOV Walker or the he urged Col Davis con-
eued In The actio of the democratic convention OF Mis-
sipp in its oensure Of the attempt 10 dictate TO the
convention of Kansas and to argue, from climatic laws
That the institution OF African slavery was usued 70 the
Territory OF Kansas His argument might be true where
he located IT, the covered mountains and up
pei plains of Kansas but II deusive, because IN that
na of the country there Il not and for period longer
than he could foreses would not pe, an agricultural
population The meteorological condition OF the
country would render it unfit for cultivation, what
ever its temperature might be- The inllaoable
tlabc portion Of Kansas lies east OF the isoteuna
line drawn through these upper plains and y part
of the valley which forms the most productive por
tou of fhe State of Missouri In the great staples OF
hemp and tobacco These staples have only been success
ly cultivated by slave labor and he did not doubt that
slave property would be equally permanent If duly pro-
tccted in Kansas and II there any sincerity in tho
orepeated declaration of our northern friends that they
were willing to leave the question to be settled by soil
and climate, had right to call upon them now 10
manifest fairness and fraternity which belongs alike to
the constitutional compact and our party aliation with
them
The democratic convention of Mississippi properly
fused to involve the administration IN the censure aaed
10 the conduct of Governor Walker but II 1t should
hereafter appear Of which he would take occasion to
that he had not the least apprehension that the admins
traton responsible for Governor walkers offensive
intervention then the censure attached TO the TACT
and was not measured by the individual it would
ssrily follow that II must fall upon the administration
and in proportion the power and dignity OF the often
der was increased should tie severity OF the eensure
be augmented. . -
He then ayerted to the practical question which would
obaby be presented to the next Congress- Whether the
constitution shonld be referred or not to the people
more than probable that constitution winch dld
not exclude and therefore would recognise the right to
hold slave property in the State would be submitted
20 che Congress. The inquiry would hardly be limited
to the TACT Of its being republican in its character and
it should turn out that the State should DC refused "a
u.;n,;o, I.o l,a ria In Eupw
platform, of the majority of 1851 In relation to the ap
pcation of State toleating slavery and being refused
admission into the Union. AS representative OF the
State IL bchooved him TO know in order that nc might
truly represet the will of the people. 1t was true tha
he had learned and reoicsd to know, that the Union
party Of 1851 had with considerable unanmity now
Joined the Statc-righs party of Dc Soto ~ was not
therefore, to recall former distinctions but 70 learn iom
those who had the best opportunity to know the mean
ing of The declarations then uttered
He said in the moral progress OF the few past years
had gained much in vndication OF the involuntary
servitude of Africans right both In the abstract and
the concrete Northern men, to some extent have not
only moderated their opposition by better comprehen
sion of the subject but what much more important to
u.s. southern apologists for slavery have ceased 70 exist
We no longer hear midst who speak OF slavery
as necessary ev 10 be borne because cannot be got
ten rid of Free discussion and broader inquiry have
taught them that it is blessing 70 the African VINO has
been transferred from barbarian to civilized master
and that the horrors of the slave-ade are the offspring
of the efforts to suppress it, As political question ne
thought our fathers did right to prohibit the traffic in Al
rcan slaves but that they did wrong to declare j pry
the African master having the right to sell his slave
that he had TO dispose Of any other species OF property
10 teach the barbarian how TO labor TO enighfen his
soul by the divine teachings of Christianity, to develop
the resources of country to give employment and
save from starvation millions IN other lands, and gen
elly to increase the comfort Of the human family has
been the effect Of substituting African for Indian labor
and the candid historian who In after ages shall review
the events Of time, win find much more to commend
in that domestic institution which has brought upon the
South the anathemas of nboonsts at home and abroad
Col Davis in most impressive and effective manner,
invited their attention. part Of the general plan IN
augurated by our southern railroad Improvement for
building up on durable basis the independence Of the
South to the necessity of making liberal provision for
home education He thought that southern schools should
be preferred and encouraged that normal institutions for
the education of teachers should be established that all
schoob books should be closely examined by board TO be
appointed by the Legislature and that competent south
ern men should by all proper and legal means be sus-
tanned in their efforts to furnish works of this kind In
this way the South might avoid the abolition poison in
troduced through this channel.
He concluded his remarks by handsome and graceful
auson to the ladies who had honorcd him with their
presence and patient attention