The Nevada journal., 1858-12-24
Friday Morning, December cath 1858
Speech Ex-senator Hammond.

qualification. Not that the sentiments
avowed agree entirely with our own.
but that a South Carollnan has in these
times been found who dared to utter so
many truths with so few untruths The
speech on many points is fair ard char
acterized with ability. Mr.. Hammond
belongs to the aristocracy of wealth, and
reared under the influences of the pecu
liar institution, must be expected to
hold, or affect, notions of labor, different
from those we entertain. This we can
tolerate 1t was what we expected
But we expected, also, to read a speech
coming on this occasion fioIn former
disunionist and hulifier, and present
Calhounist, replete with dogmatism and
fre-eating sentiments. In this we have
been happily somewhat disappointed.
From some of the remarks, the orator
seems to have been laboring under a
condemnation to some extent by his
constituents, for his course in the Sen
ate OF Kansas affairs, and takes occa-
sion to survey the whole ground in that
controversy in connection with the po-
sition of the South in and to the Union.
Senator Hammond abandons the IA
Sorite theme of the South--the main
tenance of the balance of power be-
tween the free and slave states, and
nationally tries to impress upon his fell
low citizens the fact that the South is
in hopeless minority in the Union and
so must always remain. He tells them
the South must take high grounds in
consonance with justice to the whole
Union and the constitution to resort to
no subterfuges or reprehensible meas
ures to obtain her rights, like the Le-
compton business, which, he says, the
South herself should lave kicked out of
Congress; and to rely upon national
sentiment which he tells them he has
confidence will prevail at the North in
coming time. The Republicans, he is
of opinion, will be completely routed
and destroyed in 1860, ard from and
after that time he fatters himself the
yoke of the Union will be tolerable on
his constituency and their like.
In regard to the slave trade, Senator
Hammond says the South is divided on
the question /; the North irrevocably
opposed to it and, therefore, the project
of re-opening it with the coast of Africa
is merely speculative but never to be
accomplished. The South has, there
fore no resources of population with
which to fill up new territories and com
pete with the teeming millions of the
North and her foreign allies. The pres
ent domain of the United States must
be carved into free States, and Mr..
Hammond allows free labor may yet
compete with slave in Texas. ii we
acquire new territory from Mexico, OF
annex Cuba, the distinguished South
Carolinan, sees no benefit to accrue to
me peculiar Institution. Mexico now
consecrated, to freedom would, under the
American flag, create a market for
slaves, emptying the northern slave
states of their black population to the
danger of adding those states to the
ranks of the free and Cuba, liberated
from the restrictions upon her trade,
would, as part of the Union, compete
with her productions in the marts OF the
world, with those of South Carolina and
the States on the Gulf In every as
pect of the case, surveying the whole
ground calmly and dispassionately, the
Senator tells his hearers to be content
as possible with their condition; and as
reasons for contentment he points them
to the vast territory they already pos
sess, its unlimited resources, to the fact
that they have controlled the Union in
times agone and can do so again; and
as a balm to the chatting spirit of
South Carolinans, lie tells them that in
case they can't have it all their own
way, we'll have bloody fight by and
by.
We apprehend the opinion of Senator
Hammond that California ought to have
been a slave state, that the social insti-
tutions IF the South are the cnly true
and correct ones on the globe, and other
such peculiar notions which areIpromi-
nent in the speech, will find no response
in seven-eighths of the citizens of the
United States, and will BIS liable to do
no damage.
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