Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1859-08-24

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4. 4,:-...uucement, and with such success as
to compel vessels engaged in it to taie shelter
almost exclusively under the fraudulent use
Of our flag. To permit such state of things
to continue, could not but deeply impeach our
honor, and turn the sympathy of the world
against US"
Further:
The other article in reference to the same
subject, stipulstes that the parties will unite
in all becoming representations and remon-
strances with any powers within whose domin.
ions markets are permitted for imported Afri-
can slaves. If he were to permit his feelings
to govern him exclusively, he would object to
this more strongly than any other provision in
the treaty, not that he ,cds opposed to the object
or the policy Of closing the market to imported
negroes; on the contrary, he thought 1t both
right and erpedient in erery uieic."
Upon the third question, he said, June 9th
ls4s:
"There is very striking difference between
the position on which the slaveholding and
non.slaveholding States stand, in reference to
the subject under consideration, 1.-THE prohibi,
tion of slavery in Oregon.) The. former desire
no action Of the Government; demand no law
to give them any advantage in the Territory
about to be established are willing to leave
it, and other Territories belonging to the Uni
ted States, open to oil their citizens, 30 long
as they continued to be Territories, and when
they cease to be so, to leave it to their inhsbi.
tants to form such governments as may suit
them, without restriction or condition, except
that imposed by the Constitution as pre-
requisite for admission into the Union. In
short, they are willing to leave the whole sub.
| iect where the Constitution and the great and
fundamental principles of selEsovernment
place it. On the contrary, the non-slavehold-
ing Stateg instead of being willing to leave it
on this bread end equal foundation, demand
the interposition of the Government, and the
passage of an act to prevent the citizens of
the slaveholding States from emigrating with
their property into the Territory"
~ hold that justice and the Constitution
are the easiest and safest guard on which the
question can be settled, regarded in reference
to party. It may be settled on that ground
simply by non.action, by leaving the Terrific.
ries free and open to the emigration of oil the
world. If party cannot safely take this
broad and solid position and successfully
maintain it, what other can it take and main-
tain ?"
Again. on the 18th August, l849, Mr.. Cal.
houn said, referring to the Clayton Compro'
mise, which was non-intervention:
"I.ess than month since, there was q fair
prospect of the adjustment of the territorial
question on the compromise Of the Constitu.
ton itself, without surrender Of a particle Of
constitutional right on either side"
Such were the opinions of Mr.. Calhoun in
the maturity of his powers. 1admit they don't
quite come up to the standard OF modern
orthodoxy in certain quarters. but yet they
smack very much Of that profound sagacity
which characterized the views Of the illustri.
ous South Carolinian. McDUFFlE.