The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1857-10-30

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might look 10 the national democracy n constituted
however the only reliance which the South could have
for extaneous support in the assertion OF her consuu
tonal rights Preparation in the South TO maintain
her rights in any contingency which the future might
and likely 10 bring forth would best serve "
strengthen her northern allies if they remained true and
would best enable her 10 dispense with Their services
If they should desert Ii was not upon mere party
relation that his hopes were founded il upon the
eeyating purifying power of the doctrine Of State nghts
and strict constTuctonthe shibboleth which none but
democrats pronounce. In the earlier, and 1t might
well be said in the puTeT days of the republic Mr. Jeier
son pronounced the northern democracy the neutral al
lies of the South and il that alliance broken there
surely no other which we could rely. From The
foundation Of the government the party opposed to the
democracy, under its various names and Issues had al
ways evinced its tendency to Capitalization by the attu
dnous construction of the powers delegated To the federal
government As examples he cited the charter OF the
United States Bank the enactment of the tariff Tor poec
ton system Of internal improvements, general distfl-
button of public lands and ofpubc treasure and last lowest
in tone and its name implied in intelligence know
nohngis with its purpose 10 concede 10 the federal
government the power 20 prescribe the terms on which
natalized citizens should he invested with the right Of
suffrage in the States He said ii not his purpose to
dwell upon the tenets 10 review the history Of that
dcunct party 10 the had been assigned the task of
kicking the dead lion, but of the beasts Of the field
had consented perform the labor of kicking the dead
DE said that he considered every departure from
strict construction of grants to the federal government
the introduction of another Grecian horse into our
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united and vgant resistance to every such The
South the minority section, alone be secured in
her rights by resoutey maintaining the equality and in
dependence of the States and thus alone could we hope
to make Union perpetual and effective for the great
purposes for which it ordained and established.
Hopefully clingng to that organization which promises
something for the safety of the country and which alone
could check the progress Of sectional hostility he looked
To preparation and action at home only
lance Equally opposed to the braness intempeIance Of
those who desired dissolution of the Union, and who
found i'm every rustng leaf fresh evidence of volcanic
eruption and to the slavish submission of those who,
like the victims of the juggernaut INCREASINGLY pros
ted themselves to be crushed, Col d. said he would
their senator feel himself bound earnestly faithfully to
labor for the preservation of the Union and to guard
against the approach OF danger to the republic His
view of the position of representative of State to the
general government rendered it obligation that the Of
flee should be vacated whenever its duties could not be
performed in spirit of friendship TO the Union His first
allegiance to Mississppher fortunes whether good
evil must be his own, and wherever she required
his services they wholly at her command The
post to which he had lately been assigned he would
hold watchful sentinel he hoped not to dis
tTb their repose by idle alarms neither could he consent
cry peace when there peace, to avoid the
spobty of arousng them when the tramp of advancing
hosts was in his
He said he had grateful duty to perform in returning
his sincere thanks to the people of Mississippi for
continued kindness and repeated manifestations Of conf
dence the last instance of which bis election to the
United States Senate at time when long absence and
empioyIntDt Oh having no ehpetHtl ~
them might well have caused him to be overlooked if
not forgotten For this high evidence of the regard Of
his friends he felt gratitude deep than he could
press and of which he srsted his ability to give by his
acts due manifestation
He then urged the necessity of homo education. Of
normal schools and southern school books, the next
step after the mothers pious training in the formation of
that character which essential to progress towards
that high destiny TO which his anticipation pointed IT,
metimes asserted governments contain within
themselves the elements of their destruction
animate beings have their growth their maturity and de-
cay ours the last best hope of civil liberty, was like
the many experiments which preceded it, to be engued
in the of time and all for which hoped
percuity to become part of the history Of the past he
hoped the pages of that volume Mississippi would
stand conspicuous for all that vruous and noble that
through the of naticism anarchy and civil strife
her would be the Leves who would bear the ark of
the constitution and when unable to from wreck
that in the pile Of its sacred timbes their bones would
be found mingled s.m
Col Davis concluded by expressing in the very bland
est manner and in the happest terms his gratitude for
the presence of the ladies' he also thanked his coast
friends for their manifestations of regard for him. He
down amid the enthusiastic cheers of the multitude