The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1859-07-14

vent them from being torn away from every
| endearing tie of family and kindred.
! ANOTHER SPEECH FROM SENATOR
BROWN.
When Mr.. Iverson, of Georgia, made VIC
lent Pro-Slavery disunion speech last winter,
it was remarked by one of his colleagues that
| his Senatorial term was about to expire fact
which was deemed amply sufficient to explain
his unwonted zeal in behalf of Southern rights
| We have not examined the Senate directory
recently, but if the sands are not rapidly pass
ing from the upper to the neither compartment
of Senator Browns hour-glass, then We can
only explain his conduct by the supposition
that he INDUCES still higher aspirations.
Notwithstanding the very hot weather which
prevails in Mississippi during the summer
months, and the risk which the Senator incurs
4sof being seized with vertigo while speaking, we
find the newspapers of his State filed with
elaborate specimens of his peculiarly fervid
oratory, in which the mildest thing proposed by
him is dissolution Of the Union
There must be, in the atmosphere of Missis-
sippi, some quality which sets the brain OH fire.
Mr.. Brown, while in this latitude, always speaks
with comparative moderation, for Missssip-
plan; but no sooner does he set foot on the
soil of that State, than his words are winged
with fire, and wither or consume whatever
stands in their way. The same phenomenon
was observable last year, of his colleague Mr.
Davis In the cold latitude of Maine, and the
seas adjacent, his speeches partook of the tenn
perature of those high ATTITUDES and he sang
hosannas to the Union, in strains which would
do honor to Winthrop or Everett but no sooner
did he reach his semi-tropical home on the
/ banks of the lower Mississippi, than his brain
began to boil and his tongue to speak daggers.
The Union was rent in twain by the ferceness
of his wrath, in less time than would be neces-
sary to cancel deed for tract of landr
! We confess that we were less surprised at tbs
JPcN;CIeS at nome, tbdh
at his Union-saving efforts in New England.
! He is at once proud, passionate, and bilious,
and we could expect nothing mild or amiable
from him. But with Mr.. Brown the case is
different. His disposition is mild and forbear-
ing, and, while ardor is natural to him, any
thing savoring of desperate resolve, like that
which animated the fallen angel when he de-
termined to wage unequal war with the Most
! High, is entirely foreign to his kindly nature
1t will be remembered that, when Mr. Doug
las first broke out Of the traces in December.
! 1851, Mr.. Brown was one Of the few Southern
men of his party who did not Immediately turn
his back upon him. He was far less severe
upon the Squatter Sovereignty heresies of the
Illinois Senator than Mr. Bgler of PENINSULA
MIA, Mr.. Green of Missouri, and others. In
deed, we have an indistinct recollection that
Mr. Brown interposed in the debate in behalf of
his friend from Illinois, and insisted that he
should not be read out of the party But in
Mississippi, at the present day, he speaks
different language. He now arraigns Mr.
Douglas the grand Heresiarch, and deems
his doctrines as subversive of the Constitution.
In his speech on the 18th June to his constitu-
ents, at the town of Terry, he says
Happily, We we're left in no doubt as to what
were our rights OH that question which more
| powerfully than any other appealed to South
ern hearts. The Supreme Court had already
decided that Southern man had the constitu
tonal right to go with his slave property to a
| Territory, and have it protected after he got
there. No man, North or South, who revered
law and sought peace, would reject that decis,
ION, OF attempt to circumvent it by a resort tn
/ specious and deceptive pleas.
! The Supreme Court was the tribunal of the
last resort If its decisions were disreoarded
or evaded, there was end Of Government.
/ Congress made laws, the Supreme Court ex-
! pounded Them and it belonged to the President
to see that they were faithfully executed. Tbe
asptrdRt to Presidential honOrs. qrbo. IN FIJI
rteto Of a decision By the Supreme Court. oot
has o'cn consent to inquire schether means could
not be derised to supersede The decision, shoaced
ht"'seit un'ooTthy Of public trust because he
showed that, TO accomplish his own purposes.
he would trample under foot the most sacred
| guarantees of the Constitution.
The decision having been rendered in our
| favor, he concluded against all argument as tn
what were our rights. The only remaining
| question was, as to what were the best and most
certain means OF securing our rights We had
! judgment, and now We demanded execution.
| AT this point we were met with new and
most extraordinary plea in bar. Though II was
admitted we might go with our slave pronertv
into the Territories, and have it protected under
the Constitution after We got it there; though
this was the Judgment. we were told the force
| vi the jug heht Hllgnt RIGHTFULLY be avoided
by non-acti0n or by untriendly legislation He
had so often expressed his opinions of this her.
esy, that he should decline to do so again.
Standing on the Judgment, he asked onlT for
execution, and, pretermitting all intermediate.
points and issues, he moved at once to that
tribunal which of all others had the power IL
grant execution. He counselled the South n
go to Charleston in 1860 and, with the iudg.
ment in her hands, demand of the National
Democratic party, in Convention assembled
that it take steps to execute that JUDGMENT
and, if 1t refused, to turn her back unon r y
He insists upon a slave code; and if the
Charleston Convention refuses to endorse that
measure, he is for sinkin the party and the
Union in one common ruin. He says:
Gentlemen belonging to other parties mnst
pardon him, while he gave a word of advice
of warning, and encouragement, to his Demo,
cratic brethren. The hopes of the nation rest
ed upon them. They had accomplished mnch
but they had yet much more to accomplish
They had pushed on the victorious column un-
til they had taken the outposts, captured the
eitad /, and literally beaten down the walls of
the rebel city-and now a miserable barricade