The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-06-28

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 | pride and idol of has party. see ir your accomplished leader a man sthai | stands high Tn church and state. man l of political sagacity. of wide expert. | ence-trusted at nome. honored abroad as the representative of our country at
 a foreign court It has been his lot to | stand before the diplomats or Lhe | world King Leopold of Belgium has | conferred with him on the policies or | America, and Humboldt and Guizot | have not disdained to meet him n poo i Iitical discussion on terms of equality | For this distinction and for these pup 1 lie honors, I congratulate him. can | not forget that when the tariff act of l Is46 was pending in Congress--an act which struck the shackles of restrlc' | ton from the limbs of American trade l he forgot that he was Whig In re- membering that he was a Soutnron' and while party laid her severest ex-
 actions upon him in the conduct or tne campaign, like the Heroes of Indian Springs,' he
 ''snatched the. spear and left the shield"
 have been behind the scenes at Wash inRton, and know that such examples of self -abnegation and heroism are not of everyday occurrence.
 It is needless to tell you that my brief acquaintance with Congressional honors brought me a surfeit or party. The party lash Is wielded. the Speaker recognizes or disregards you: the lobby
 are pigeon-holed or compromised; 1; small ones are bartered or huckstered. Whoever is obstinate is hazed, who- eyer is refractory is sweated. An un- biased, an unpurcha vote in Con- kress is an exception. In any event and in every event, principle Is ignored
 or bullied or sacrificed. From the be- eInnIng of the government to this hour, legislation has been handicapped by partizanship. The majority has in- vaded our most sacred rights. There Is not a day when our people are not called upon to abate their just claims
 or succumb. Every compromise. espe-
 cially on the slavery question has been InIquitous to the South. Often put for
 ward under the guise of philanthropy. 1t has been a crusade of jealousy and hate a crusade against negro posses
 sion or negro representation, crusade
 to aggrandize the North at the expense
 of the South. What Is constitutionally
 and legally just and equitable has been
 Rrudringly conceded, or withheld alto
 gether. We have been threatened, we
 have been cajoled. we have been de- eAIyed. we have been overreach ed. On minor points on doubtful points com
 promise Is admissible often advisable;
 on powers reserved by the States, or
 guaranteed by the Constitution, 1t Is a crime Besides, compromise Is an ex-
 pedIent that settles nothing; 1t delays. it excludes settlement. It Is crutch
 to help you on to further disaster.
 Comprounise with the fair and upright
 Is often an abandonment of principle
 with the faithless and perfidious. it Is
 vile surrender.
 am afraid that my honorable
 friend. MT. Hllliard. is in awk ward company. The mass or the Whig party
 favors the Wilmot provlso. MT. Hil-
 Hard denounces 1t. MT Clay is op-
 posed to the annexation of Texas-Mr. Hllllard champions Mir Clay. General Taylor will not commit himself to
 Whlg policies or to slave extension-
 Mir. Hilliard accepts General Taylor.
 right or wrong
 Are the Wings satisfied with their
 position on the Texas question? Do
 they sleep soundly upon 1t? Do no
 distressing night mares disturb their
 slumbers? Do not the pallid ghosts of the martyred patriots of Goliad and
 those of the Alamo. who were butch
 cred and burned by 8 half-civilized foe,
 never come at midnight and knock at
 their doors? Does not the blood of
 those who fell at Palo Alto and Buena
 Vista upbrald and rebuke them? Texas
 was free. By a series of brilliant vic- tories. the enemy being four to one. she
 achieved her independence. That inde-
 pendence was acknowledged by Eng land, by Fraice, by Belgium, by the
 United States. Mexico herself was
 willing. condItionally. to acknowledge
 1t. Exposed to armed hordes on her
 border. was there any harm or lmpro- priety in knocking for admission at