Des Arc citizen., 1859-08-10

and her patriots and orators, and quoted the language of Edmund Burke in rela
 ton to the action of the British Govern
 ment. On the same principle, let no one
 be deceived, or place too small an esti.
 mate on public men in their discussions
 even when they threaten a dissolution ol the Union, and even on an abstract prin-
 cipIe. He would not advise the South, or
 any portion of the Confederacy, to remain
 members of body in which they were not
 equal. in all the principles of justice.
 ALL SOUTHERN QUESTIONS SETTLED.
 His reasons for retiring were, that all
 these questions are now settled. Every
 thing human is passing away; there is
 nothing eternal but change and decay.
 Our bodies yield to this law. Death is
 incident to all and governments are liable
 to the same law. The most powerful na- tions of the present day, even our own, must pass away. We know not when it must obey this law of changes; he would not hasten its dissolution: he would rather prolong its existence, and indulge in the hope that far more glorious position even than the present one awaits us. He re-
 peated that he had endeavored to discharge his duties faithfully. The settlement of the questions to which he had alluded was a practical good, if we were but true to ourselves. The settlement was affirmed by the judiciary, as we'll as by the execu- five; and we can divide Texas into five slave States, and get Chihuahua, Sonora, etc., if we have the slave population.
 PROSPECTS FOR THE FUTURE.
 He had been asked, what are the pros- poets of the future what IS to become of the ani-slavery sentiments of the North and whether slavery is as secure as It was [? As he said in 1850, he would repeat now: There is very little prospect of the South settling any territory outside of Texas; in fact little or no prospect at all, unless we increase our African stock. This question his hearers should examine, in its length and breadth he would do nothing more than present it; but it is as plain as anything that, unless the number of Afri- can stock be increased, we have net the population, and might as we'll abandon the race with our brethren of the North, in the colonization of the Territories It war not for him to advise on these ques- tons; he only presented them; the peo- pie should think and act upon them If there are but few more slave States, 1t is not because of abolitionism or the Wilmot proviso, but simply for the want of people to settle them. They could not make States without people; rivers and moun- tains do not make them; and slave States cannot be made without Africans. 1 am not telling you, he said, to do it but 1t is serious question concerning our political and domestic policy; and we do not want voters and declaimers so much as thinkers about abstract rights, or to quarrel and ac- cuse each other of unsoundness, unless we get more Africans. Many had asked him what he thought of public sentiment on this question. He would reply, that the institution of slavery IS now stronger than it was sixteen years ago, when he entered Congress. Nothing improved like Il; and it is now fixed firm and secure in it's position. In his judgment, ours IS the only government consistent with nature. He did not agree with some as to the manner of meeting our opponents; while many persons were offended and aston ished at the [" higher-law" doctrine of MT. Seward, he believed, himself, in a higher law" He believed in " higher law" of the Creator, and the constitution must sus- tain and rest upon this higher law. The opponents of slavery were endeavoring to make things equal, black and white peo- ple,) which the Creator had made une- qual. Our opponents, then, are warning against principle, while we are warning for 1t.
 IGNORANCE OF THE ANTEDILuvIANs.
 Negro slavery is but in it's infancy; 1t is mere problem of our government. Our fathers did not understand 1t. grant that all the public men of the South were once against it but they did not under stand it. It is for us to meet questions with the firmness which they did. The problem is yet unsolved. Ours is not only the best, but il is the only government founded upon the principles of nature. Aristotle and other ancient philosophers had failed in their theories of government. Gradation is seen in everything in nature: in the howery world, from the japonica down to the violet; in the vegetable king dom, in the stars, and even in men. All government comes from the Creator Statesmen never looked to this principle of gradation; but our government IS the only one founded on it; and our policy, our institutions, and African slavery are founded on it. It is no. for us to3nquire into the great mysteries of nature; and 1t is most foolish to attempt to make things better than God made them. Applause. ] Statesmen and private men should take things as God founded them, making the greatest amount of happiness out of the elements which we possess. We ought to increase and expand our institutions. If they do not increase the amount of hap piness of all-back and whte-then they ought to be abandoned. He repudlaled the doctrine of "the greatest happiness to
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