The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-06

tie to maintain our rights to the last, but
when the question came to the last. one after
the other we saw the States of the South
receding from their position, disowning ey-
cry effort we had made to maintain our
rights, and, let me say it with sorrow, drag.
glng US into the very gutter for the very
devotion we had shown them. And why
did the South do this? There is no un,
grateful breast at the South. 1t could not
be that she was inclined to disown the ser.
vices OF those who had stood by her to the
last but 1t was because she considered that
even an impending wrong was not to be put
III !ne scale win the preservation of this
glorious confederacy-(great APPLAUSE
and we, In obedience to their wishes, out of
Difference to their convictions, surrendered.
we considered that we were in duty bound
Z! &c abide by their decision, and perhaps
II may not be improper for me here to refer
10 !ne considerations upon which those
patriotic decisions were predicated. The
only compensation which the South could
1 M 10 tne measures generally known as the
compromise measures was the doctrine of
non-lntervention then claimed. (Applause.)
That was the only boon offered to Us in
tnose Gays as compensation for the great
sacrlhce which was asked at onr hands. and
the South accepted the compromise. and the
compromise became the law of the nation.
certainly of the party as far as the question
of slavery was concerned. am surprised
at the extreme sensitiveness exhibited by
men OF the South at this day upon that ques-
ton OF non-intervention. John G. Calhoun,
When the famous compromise rendered by
MIR. Clayton of Delaware, was being dis
cussed IN the United States Senate, John
Y. calhoun considered that the proffer to
place IN the hands of our federal tribunal the
question OF the extent of power in the ter
rltorles was to the South sufficient guar
antee to make acceptable the compromise
rendered, and where Mr.. Calhoun could
stand, Southern man need not fear to
stand. (Applause.) l have said, in the
very uncOnnected remarks that | have had
the honor to submit to you, that secession
means disunion; and l will 90 on now to
show upon what consideration that opinion
OF mine is predcated. What is the ques>
ton at issue? On the one hand Northern
abolitionists claim Intervention for the pur-
pose OF excluding slavery from the Terrific
rles; on the other hand Southern men claim
Intervention on the part of Congress for the
purpose OF protecting slavery in the Terri
tories. Now, | ask Southern gentlemen,
here and elsewhere, are you serious; when
the battle is thus drawn-when the lines are
thus drawn out-when the whole strength
OF the North is combined with the great
strength On the part of the West to ex-
clude slavery from the Territories Are
you, my friends of the South, in earnest when
you ask to submit the protection of your
property to the keeping of such men as may
be sent from the North and West, TO con-
stltute the majority in your Congress. There
is not a paper in the South which is no
teemlng with denunciations that Congress
has became rotten body, that the ma
Jority in both houses is in heart, to all intents
and purposes, opposed to slavery; and yet
these men who set up the pretention of being
the exclusive friends of slavery at the SOUTH
ask that the protection of slavery shall be
put in the keeping of that very power which
IS represented as being bent upon its restric-
ton. (Applause) l say whatever be the
views they take of the manner in which
that power might eventually be exerted,
from the moment that the power is recog-
nized as existing in Congress, from that
moment there is not a Southern heart
which does not beat to the conviction that
| slavery is gone. And if that should be the
ultlmatum OF the issue is the South ready
now for it? Have they prepared their ar
NOR? Are they ready for the battle Sirs,
they are not, and the reasons are very obvi-
Gus. The gentlemen who have seeded
frOr Al Al
ners OF their people at home will not respond
to the call which they have made upon them,
and the best proof of it is that in no State
whose delegations have seeded did the Sc
ceders call fair convention of the people
to put to the test the innovation which they
have attempted. (Applause.) 1 perceive
that have detained the Convention longer
than have intended cries of "Go on, 90
n,")-and my own strength is nearly ex-
hausted. Mr.. President, though Louisiana
is mindful of what she owes to her sisters of
the south, and is even ready to act in con-
cert with them when actual oppression shall
call for actual resistance, still Louisiana is
unwilling to risk her future and the future
OF this Union upon impracticable issues and
purely theoretical distractions. (Applause)
She cannot be SO far oblivious of the past
and the recent services of Stephen A.
Douglas to disown that fearless and in
domitable champion of popular rights
and State equality-him who, in that
great and memorable struggle, which in his
own State initiated that war which has been
waged against him so INTERCHANGEABLE
who has INDICATED the rights of the South
so VIGOROUSLY against his Infatuated oppo-
nents-him who will yet enable us to tri-
umph over the enemies of the South, the
black Republicans who are arrayed against
us. Louisiana casts her entire vote for Ste
phen A. Douglas, of Illinois. (Vociferous
cheers and applause.)
A CORRESPONDENT in Florence writes as