Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1862-12-10

slaves to be delivered up was const
tutlonal provision was part Of the O.
8, ganiO law Of the land, and that he woul
execute it with more fidelity than an
Q Southern man that they could pdssibl
lind, and that he could not imagine wins
was the cause ofthe deep and apparent
y settled enimity that existed toward
him throughout the entire South, look
ing at me at the time as If to invite 2
answer from me. replied ths' . was
very much mistaken if he g. '0seo 'nat
the deep pervajing f. ''g throughout
the South origi,oS "a in any personal
epmitv tow,.6 himself thai | did not
sunnoss that there @as any feeling of
.nat klnd on the art ofan Individual in
the South; tbatAe was the representative
of great pity of avery sccional par
ty = electSd on platform which they
consideed would, if carried out, be des-
truotve of their dearest aud best rights;
apI that it wGs on hat account and that
LAono-the attempt to throw common
Government the Goyefnmcn. for all lie
States in antagonism to tie interest OF
portion of the very State whose Goycra.
ment it was, which existed throughout
the entire South We appealed to him,
then, to give the guarantees which we're
demanded by the Southern men in that
Peace Conference, representing to him
that it was in his power that be was at
that time power in the State that be
held in the hollow Of bis hand the des,
tiny of thirty millions Of people that if
he said that the guarantee should be
made, and would make it, there would
be no difficulty in carrying out any pro,
gramme that might be adopted
He said that be was willing to give d
constitutional guarantee that slavery
should not be moIestel in any way, di-
rcctly or indirectly, in The Sta,os; lh0s
he was willing to 60 further, and give a
guarantee that it should not be molosted
in the District Of Columbia that lie
would go still further, aud say that it
should not be disturbed in the docks,
arsenaIs forts, aud other places within
the slaveholiing States bat as for slave
ry in the Territories, that his whole life
was dedicated in opposition to its extcn-
sion there that be was elecycd By par,
! Is which has made hat a portion Of its
platform. ana ha should consider that
be was Jc,raying that party he ever
agreed, under any state Of the case to
allow slavery to be extended in the Ter
ritories. We pointed out to him that
there was not an acre of territory belor-
ginc to the United States where the foot
of slave could ever tread that there
we're natural laws which would forbid
slavery going into a mountainous region,
and the colder regions If the North aud
that it wps utterly impossible that slave
ry could ever extend there and we de-
MED that a common Government had
power TO make the prohibition and ask.
ed him why, if he wal a really true sln~
cere union man, have an empty problbl'
| ton when the laws Of nature were a
stronger prohibition than any that could
/ be PASSED by act of Congress (Hear,
Ibear) That he waived by saying chat
Ib he vas committed on this subject. Then
it was that replied to him Mr. Presi-
dent, you say you were accidentally
selected and elected 10y party You
were he candidate ofihe party hut VIII n
Won we're elected, Sit thnught ! have
been taught to believe = that you we've
the President of the Union. opposed
YOU sir said to him with all
the zeal and energy Of which was mas
ter | eudeavored to prevent your eiec
,ien--pot because / had any personal
feeling of eumity towards you but be-
couse believed that it would lead TO
the very result we now witness oPpoS'
cd YOU, sir but you are my President
,on have been elected according to the
firms of the Constitution, and you are
the Predidout of the United States, and
think that some little Difference Is due
to the opinion Of those who constitute
the majority, according to the vote that
has been polled of 100000 men in the
United States.
He at on,o rather briskly said : I'll
he was a minority President he was not
the first, aud that, at all events be bad
obtained more votes than We could mus