The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-11-06
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tain that the doctrine was qfter-ougM dsowned
by its antecedents Pigment OF the brain lately hatched
and which its author would have been cstopped from pro-
mitigating il these antccodentS had been recolloeted
The above are the leading paragraphs upon which
predicate my understanding of your charge as stated in
the lines which precede these quotations ,AGsh Y
now deny without qualification, the truth OF your
charge and assert that he did not admit either by his fifth
resolution or y bis speeches is defeucc M 1855. es
power Of Cbnges llae upon e erisiacc n slavery "a ns
7braoes but that, both by the said rs'aaiCa as de-
cared to be understood by himself and in his speeches
that occasion, he DENIED the existence Of such power
most distinctly. ~ t's "a.
In rgaing your charge and in proving my assertion
will yield to that departed statesman what you have de-
MED the right to speak for himself. n SIS sssf Y 7
5sF 'Tho' dead, he yet speakettra 'ktsaAi Q
And FIRST let me ask with what business fairness you
represent Mr.. Calhoun having mado ian eqaiea
declaration of having favored the Missouri Compromise,
as upon deliberate thought and conviction ay adj
n,iaia1f the power in questontpage l43)-as having
changed his oiaioa the consttuonality of that
measure, when he simply That his impressions were
In It's favori Does impression In your estimation,
constitute an explicit defamation ''full admis-
sion'-a delibeiate and binding "opinion 7" Admit
that Mr. Calhoun in 1920 had embraced deliberate
opinion in favor of the Missouri Compromise but declares
that since that time he has entirely changed by what
mot on constitutional but epeem grounds, to repre-
sent him still admitting the constitutional power in
1888 Let be remembered that what you state in the
above quotations that point your deductions
not word to that effect is uttered by Mr. Calhoun In
the speech from which you forced the short paragraph
copied in your View but directly the reverse,
will show.
now call your attention the very debate and upon
the very resolution quoted by yourself and in and by
which you assert that in 1888 Mr.. Calhoun admitted the
power of Congress to cgate upon the existence Of slavery
in the Territories and charge that the thought Of denying
such power had not then entered his head that it
new dogma first advanced by him in ls4, and contra
dieting all he had said or done on that subject
When the fifth resolution of the series offered by Mr.
Calhoun In 1888 came up, substitute was moved by
Mr.. Clay, which, after amendments was adopted. In
support Of his own resolution and in opposition to the
substitute and amendments by which 1t at length
perfected by its friends Mr. Calhoun, different
sions, made the following declarations. He said s.
sThe great and governing principles which pervade oil
these Mr. Cahouns resolutions non-nterfercnce on
the part OF any States or their citizens with the nstu
tons of the other States and the discrimination on
the part of this government hc common agent of the
Sates in reference to the institutions of the several
Statcsprincipes which lie at the foundation Of po
ltical systemprincipes that cannot be departed from
without bringing the whole superstrucure to the ground
principles which place slavery in this District, eG
may cri IN the Territories, under the same broad d that
protects it in the States To attack it in State would
be to attack it in all and in like manner and for the
same reason to attack it here The Territories is to at
tack it in the States And this the fifth resolution
proposed to be stricken out directly affirm He regarded
slavery wherever it existed throughout the whole SOUTH
ern section common question and is much
der the protection of the consultation here and he Terrific
RE, as in the States themselves and herein lies only
safety. Abandon this and all is abandoned "Ap, Con
c., 1873, p I'll.
Again:
..he deludcd apators must be plainly told that It is
no concern of theirs what is the character of nsu
tons and that they must not be touched here tho
Territories in the States, by them the government
that they under the guardian protection of the
sttuton and that stood prepared to repel all inter
ference discrimination, be the consequence what it
might. b. 81. 1f&a
I Again sTAas s ait Is s. tast4frH r iFl
He Orr calhoun) would esl--4he would make sol
appeal to his associates from the South which pre-
scented the mpregnable position these exposed
points the high and y ground of Interference and
determination assumed in the m resolution, that of
erpdieacy in the amendment proposed substi-
tute And he would ask on what motive of policy
duty would they surrender the stronger and occupy the
wcakergivc up the conaiuon and rely ineapadieH-
cyT'--Ib. HrA saH
Again :4 g - af
''They hs rcsolutons) embraced two leading propo-
sitions that neither State nor Its citizens had right
to interfere with the peculiar institutions of the other
States and that this government common agent of
the States, has right, in any Of lis acts either in this
District elsher to discriminate between the domestic
institutions of the savehoding and -sayeboldng
States, by avoring and opposing the other, any
ground rkntrer. p. g.
Again
/" With these views (said Mr.. Cahoun) he could not
vote for the resolution Mr. Clay it stood and they
greatly sreng when he contasted with his
fifth resolution which had been struck out to insert this
That resolution (hs fifth declares that amy attempt by
any State States their citizens any act
re Congress- to abolish slavery in this District the
Territories the ground that it immoral sinful,
or otherwise obnoxious dangerous attack the
domestic institutions of all the States Now what have
we done What have southern senators DONE Struck
down the strong barriers which placed this District and
The Territories under the high and constitutional prooc
lion nth the States themselves and which made assault
ON them assault all the slaveholdng States, and
have erected in their place the most feeble of all barriers
that Of mere ino1ediency "--P.;70 -
This paragraph which denies to Congress upon 'high
constitutional grounds the right to adopt any act
measure" with reference to slavery in the Territories
which declares his fifth resolution designed to occupy
that ground, and which denounces the ground of
.incxpedency Immediately follows the scrap from the
same speech copied in your book, and from which You
labor to sustain by inference the charge that Mr. Cal
houn did not mean to deny the Constitutional power thus to
legislate but placed his objection to its exercise solely
on the ground Of inerpsdiency r.
How passing strange at least II not unnatural,
the fact that in all thai debate you should have only read
the only sentence and that in the very middle of speech
upon ,csc even by tortured inference you could have
extracted thin shadow upon which to base your charge
If n your for .sabridgnp'' the