Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-12-19
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would furnish one slave States as vel Sas
one free State. The organization of New
Mexico and Utah, and generally the pracs
tical decision whether the great acqpisIs
Iions of the Mexican war should result in
a gain to the interest desiring to extend
1.-The political power of slavery equal to the
gain of free States and territories, was the
trial OF the time, and 1t came as near
Ieffecting n severance 4of the Gulf States
land South Carolina from tile Union as the
y power of those representing those States
in Congress could bring it. In the course
of that struggle the COMPROMISE measures,
4 elaborated with great care by thezcelebrn-
ted committee of Thirteen in the Senate,
were broken up by the detaching of G'lli-
fornias and nY the occurrence of the pre-!
fcise contingency which sexernl Southern
llegislatures had declared would require
tsteps to effect separa tionfrom the Union.
i On theE6Est Of August, 1850, Mr.! Dawson,
/ of Georgia eclarel1ti the4Senate tl1atithe
i contingency hadsarTfved which compelled
4 the calling of a convention IN that State
to provide for the extreme remedy of 2dis-
union. Henry Clay followed him, andtaf-
/ terra tewsvords deprecating the failnre of
4 1.-THE special adjustment, he said
/ Now, Mr.. President, Island here insmy
! place, meaning to be unawed by any
II
uRls or from States should deplore, MS
much as any man living or dead, that arms
should bciraised against#the authority of
| the Union, either by individuals or by
States. But, after all that has occurred;
\ ifanY one State, or portion of the Deo-
| pie of any State, choose to place them
selves in military array against the gov
eminent of the Union, j am for trying the
strength of the government. Applause
in the galleries. ] am for ascertaining
| whether we have q government or not
practical, efficient, capable of maintaining
its authority, and of uphOlding the powers
and interests which belong to govern
ment Nor, sir. am 10 be alarmed or
dissuaded fromnny such BY intimations Of
the spilling of blood. If blood is to be
split by whose fault is it? Upon the sup
position, maintain twill be the fault of
those who choose to raise the standard of
disunion, and endeavor to PROSTATE this
government; and, sir, when that is done,
so long rs it pleases God to give me u
I.Yoice7tosexpFcss my sentiments, or an arm,
weak and enfeebled as it may be by age,
that voice and that arm will be on the side
Of my country for the support ofthe gem
eral authority, and for the maintenance of
the powers of this Union. ssApplausezin.
the galleries. -
- ~ ~ x X
81 repeat the, sentiment; if resistance is
attempted to any authority of the country
by. any State, orsany people of any. State,
u will5raise my voice, my heart and arm,
in support of the common authority of the
general government. Nor am apprehen-
sivc of this idea that blood is to be shed.
From the bottom of my heart L hope it
never will be shed. Butsifitis shed, who
will be chargeable with the ef'usion of
human blood? Those who attempt to
lEprostrate the general authority upon the
superstition have made, that a single
State, if there shall be one, or the people
Of any State, choose to raise the standard
/ of disunion and attempt to destroy this
Union by force. God knows desire no.
such thing but it it occurs, will be
among the lastEwho will give up5the effort
To maintainathe Union in its entire, full,
and vigorous authority.
! 'tSiT, these threats are not SO alarming
kahd so dangerous rs gentlemen in their
Imagination may suppose We have had
an events9of this kind in our history
When Washing ton was President now
sixty years5ag the standard of insnrrec-
ton was raised in the Western part of
Pennsylvania. The army of the United
States moved forward for Tthe purpose of
| subaueing it. There was some little
blood she'd ut the house of Col. Neville
hut the insurgents stncn@as disunionists
and traitors always will-fed from the
approach of the. flag of the nion. sunnnrt77
r:tI by the aiatlsetttv otzthe Union, aud
conptepahced by the father Of the. Union. y
IEI{Go9g.A Glooes Ist sess., slSt Congress,
Is the r9ce-of statesmen. and patriots
wholly lost in these times? Must the peo-
4 ple.wllit luntit4time suflices to- break the
power Of great com binaGons for treasonn-
BILE purposes, simply because of; their. in
hetent weakness? These words of Henry
Clay are unspeaka6Iy refreshing and Ms-
surfing in this hour Of, nattoual humilia-
ton.
RemarlSs AZ Mr.. lie xerdys Jollnson.l
At INSTRUMENTATION of his argument in an
important case before the Supreme Court
of the United States on Thursday last, the
4 Hon. Reyerdy Johnson spoke MS. follows in
impressive reference TO passing events
and in just tribute to the historical place
which, i'll any event, must be filled by the
high tribunal before which he was called
to plead;
May it please your Honors, indulge me
with word or two more before con-
clude.
This may be the last time that this Court
VIII slt IN peacetnls judgment on8h Consti-
Triton acknowledged aud obeyed Ly all
God, in his Providence, and for our sins,
may, i'll his indiscrut1ble wisdom, suffer
the follysand wickedness of this genera
ton to destroy5the fairest, noblest Eabric
of constitutional freedom ever erected by
man. Its whole history, from the irst
moment of its operation even to the pres
ent hour, bears evidence Of it unriyalled
excellence. Qurscountry, our wholeconn-
try has, from the first, prospered undcr4it,
aud because 81 q, will, a rapidly, and in a
manner, Before or since, unknown 10 the
nation. That prosperity yindicates the
wisdom and patriotism of its good anu
great founders. Is this prosperity now to