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VOLUME11. "" CAMDENTSQUTH-CARQLINA, MAY7, 1850. yUMBER36*.
Poetical Department.
SING THAT SOXG AGAIN TO-NIGHT.
Oh ! sing that song again to-night,
The song ot other years;
They'll bring again some past delight,
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They guild the gloom of present cares?
They tell of joys to come;
Then sing the song of other years,
Of friendship and of home!
Oh! sing that song we used to sing,
In youth's unclouded day,
When like the birds of early s pring,
We caroled hours away )
When life was like a rainbow beam?
A ray ot golden lir!<?,
A zephyr o'er a waveless stream?
Au ocean ol delight.
My heart is sad?then sing to mc
The songs we loved so well,
The pleasing Ihoughts they bring to rue
No feeblp words can tell;
But sing of pleasures and of pains,
In some melodious lay ;
And touch the lute to pensive strains?
I would not have them gay.
There is a pathos in thy voice?
A sadness it) thy tone,
That makes the wean- heart rejoice?
A sweetness all thine own.
Then sing the songs we love so well,
And sing them o'er and o'er;
I ever feel the magic spell
Of those sweet songs of yore.
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iHisrellaneous Department. |
SERENABE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
Not a thousand years ago and not very
mnm t.hnh n. thousand miles from here,
(Wiudsor, N. C.,) lived a young lady, the !
daughter of very plain country folks, who had !
just returned home from a boarding school? I
having finished her education. Her residence I
was on the western bank of a "little river" in this
county. The period of which time I write was
September. Between the family mansion and
the water's edge, was a five acre potato patch?
The roots were cultivated in hills and the vines
were luxuriant.
On the opposite side ot the river, quite a
numlter of young gentlemen lived, who were !
noted for gallantry. Their devotion to the i
sex- nan uiauceu uiem w umu; uiui ut,w>?|???ments
in the forming of a serenading band.
The return of the young lady referred to, afforded
them an opportunity of doing the genteel.
They accordingly met on a clear moonlight
night, and each, furnished with his musical
instrument, betook themselves to their boat to
give a musical treat to the ~ fair returned."
With muffled oars they noislesslv crossed
the river and trained the beach. With stealthy |
tread they approached the house at the hour '
of midnight, aud ranging themselves in line, at !
a signal from their leader, violin, flute, clario- j
net, and trombone,ig one mighty blast, to the
tune of" Dan Tucker," broke the stillness of j
the night and the old folks' slumbers, The ;
mother,screamed from from affright, and called
to the daughter for an explanation of the
uuusual noise?and was informed in reply that
it was a " serenade!" Mistaking the reply,
flew to the old man, who a little deaf, was sit- j
ting bewildered at the music, to him confused j
Knnnrls.
'Hie wife's report " they are cannonading
as ^satisfied hitn.' He flew to tlie gun-rack
and taking down old u blue trigger," hurried
down stairs and aroused the house. Meanwhile
the j'otrng lady stood at her window with
the curtain half drawn, drinking the melody as
was wafted up. The hoys, innocent as Sir
Isaac's dog Diamond, of the mischief the}* had
made, were laying themselves out upon th^ last
variation, when at twenty feet distance, the
old man shoved around the corner with his old
musket, aud drew the trigger. She did not
shoot, but the fire rolled, bright as fulling meteors.
A stampede of electric suddenness took
place?the "leader" of the band leading in a
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DCO lino ior me ooai, louuweu 111 cuiinuenu- i
able nearness by his company. They hurried j
in the start, bat the repeated efforts of the old |
man to get his " piece off," increased their ef- j
fort at speed?and a call by him for a "chunk ]
of -fire" to tonch the "priming, told still more, j
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XlWy wrgui UIt5 jfUWtU'U nm-o, mill diivii <i j
scene of confusion was never witnessed. Headlong
thej fell, and at each fall, the sound ol broken
fiddle strings or battered drums, foretold
the death of that hand. Heltor skelter, rolling
crawling and stumbling along, they gained the
waters edgo and their boat?and such pulling
-men-of-war's men might have learned something
from them then,
i he vines so impeded the old man's progress,
that no did not reach the bank with his ' chunk"
till the ennnonaders were out of gun shot, and
he returned well satisfied that bis timely appearance
and courageous manner had achieved
the salvation of bim and his. In the nicloe the
old lady flew " for safety and succor," whence
phe could not be found that night. Next morning
she was discovered under the wheat barn,
/tad, after many assurances that the can
jionailers were roiitcu, was perviuieu upon to
.come forth.
All the parties to the frolic- are bo soro upon
the subject, that we dare not mention it?and I
would not havo them to-know that I had written
this for the drowry of the girl an 1 herself
Jo boot,
"Yew trees tire the longest lived o" any other j
hi Europe, lliere js one ac nrao.i.io in me
county ot'Kent, England, which is ..Mowed to
be 3000 yanrs old. The old EnglU.j yeomen
made their bows of thy yew tree.
Lord Erskine, speaking of animals, hesitating
to call" them brutes, hit upon that happy i
phrase?'the mute creation/?Coleri<l?e,
Pkncillkp Passagk.?Every animal lias its
enemies. Tlic land tortoise has two enemies,
man and the Boa-constrictor. The.natural defence
of the tortoise is to draw himself up in his
shell, and to remain quiet. In this state, the
tiger, however famished, can do nothing with
him, for the shell is too strong for a stroke of
hi- paw. Man, however, takes him home and
roa>ts him?and the boa-constrietor swallows
him whole, shell and all, and consumes hint
slowly in the interior, as the Court of Chancery
?i <rri>.*it estate.?Si,d Smith.
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A New Dance.?All polka-dom will bo delighted
to learn that a new dance was produced
at the ball of the late Turkish ambassador, recently
given at Paris. It is an emblematical
dance called the "months," performed by twelve
ladies and gentlemen, and a correspondent of
the New York Express gives an account of it:
'January was dressed hi a prince palatine,
wrapped in a sable. April wore a lilac crape
dress with two skirts, the upper one looped up
af short spaces by bunches of lilac; on her
head she wore a wreath of viulcts. February
wore a black velvet doublet flashed with namecolored
gauze,'cut in such a way as to represent
flames, and on his breast the arms of the city
Havre, the Salamander which Jives in the tire.
His lady was May, a lovely young woman with
a dress which seemed made entirely of butterflies'
wings, and whose fair forehead was cov
ered with-a wreath or (hornless roses, iwarcn
wore the tire ss of* a farmer, with a plough and
rake embroidered on his breast, and he danced
with June, whose green silk dress was trimmed
with moss roses and little bunches of strawberries.
September was dressed as a hunter,
with bis game bag at bis side. August was
very beautiful as a young vine dresser, with her
white dress trimmed with bunches of grapes;
and hcrliead wreathed with yine leaves.'
It is added that the effect was so pleasing
that the dancers were compelled to keep on
their feet all night to satisfy the admiration of
the spectators."
Benefits of Advertising.?Some five
years ago, a young man l?y tlie name of B ,
started a small dry good store in a little brick
house, which he rented on Fourth street, Cincinnati,
with a capital of less than two hundred
dollars. Half of his profits the first three months
he paid out for advertising in the daily papers
of said city. By selling cheap, and by letting
the people know where he was, crowds came
to purchase of him, which enabled him to make
ready sales and quick returns. Thus lie has
continued, and now that same Mr. B , is
the proprietor of a largo wholesale warehouse
in Cincinnati, and is worth upwards of twenty
thousand dollars.?Etchangc,
A (toon Aitktite.?My dear," said an
affectionate wife to her husband, who bad been
sick for several days, "when you were well,
you wore in the habit of eating twelve apple
dumplings?now that you are sick, how many
shall I make for you <"
" Well," replied the lnisbaml, ' I reckon you
may make eleven to-day; but be particular and J
make them a Utile larger than usual."
The wife obeyed.
When the husband had eaten the eleven, witii j
the exception of half a one, his little son, a lad
of some six summers, came up to him and said.
" Daddy, give me a little piece."
" Co away, sonny," replied the father," your
poor dad's sick."
Know tup. Fhpncic.?Thirtv "rains of beau
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tv, which constitute the perfect woman.
Three tilings while: The skin, the teeth,
and the hands.
Three hlack: The eyes, the eye-brows, and
the eye-lashes.
Three red: The lips, the cheeks, and the
nails.
Three long: The body, the hair, and the j
hands.
Three short: The teeth, the ears, and the ;
feet.
Three wide or large: The cheek, the fore-!
head, and the space between the eye brows.
Three small or narrow: The month the
waist, and the ancle.
Three plump; The arm, the leg, and the
calf of the leg.
Three delicate or fine: The fingers, the
hair, and the lips.
Three small: The head, the chin, and the '
nose
In'AbimtV oV Icnokasck.?How many men |
rich in physical energy, stand with folded and
idle hands, because they are poor in knowledge! i
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it'll such <i man wuai no mhuiih ?. <>, ?um ?< i.-?
ready and willing to act. He is uncertain, be-'
cause ho caiiiK>t make out which of two plans
he should choose, lie is negligent, only because
he is ignorant of what he ought to do, or
of how it may best be done. Or if, in his
physical impatience, such a man rushes forward
he fails to reach his aim, he is deficient in the
materials for successful action. Ilow often do
we see the energy of one man illy or wrongly
directed, because he knows too little of wcat lie
ongages in, while, under the guidance of knowledge,
another is observed to be a sure stride in
advance.
- A single thought is that which it is from
other thoughts, as a wave of the sea takes its
form and shape from the waves which precede
and follow it.?Coleridge.
All men in power are jealous of the preeminence
of men of letters; they feel conscious
of inferior nnwer. and a sort of niisiiivimr that
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they are, "indirectly, and against their own will
mere instruments and agents ot'higher intellect."
lb.
Faith, like the rainbow, is adorned with three
colors: charity, hope, and long-suH'ering.
political Department.
SPEECH OF IION. DANIEL WALLACE,
of south carolina,
In the House, of Representatives, April 8,1860,
In Committee of the "Whole on the slate of the
Union, on the President's Message cornmuni- '
eating the Constitution of California.
[concluded.]
Tiie great scheme of non-extension is the j
means l\y which all this is to be accomplished. :
The majority are united upon this policy.? '
There are now thirty States in the Union. Delaware
may be classed with the North, with i
whom she fraternizes and acts. The North '
have now, therefore, thirty-two Senators, and i
the South twenty-eight; and in the popular |
branch of the Government, the North have a .
majority of forty-four Representatives.
Let us now look, for a moment, at the state
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oi tilings which must prevail, it tne tree-sou
scheme be carried oul. It is avowed that no
more slave States shall be admitted into the
Union, and that all the territorial districts shall
be brought in as free States. If this be done,
the inequality which now exists between North
and Soutlt will be increased to an extent that
will utterly destroy the balance of power be- j
tween the two sections, pud place the South at j
the mercy of the North.
1 hold in my hand the 3d vol. Executive documents,
2d session 30th Congress, which con
I tains an appendix to the annual report of the
Commissioner of the (leneral Land Oiiiee. By
an examination of this report, it appears that
the territorial districts of the United States contain
a geographical area of 1,801,070 square
miles. Of this vast extent of country, 202,- j
729 square miles lie south, and 1,599,247 north i
of the line of .'10? 30' north latitude. The '
.State of Ohio is a large average State, and !
contains, in round numbers,40,OOOsquare miles. !
If, then, the State of Ohio be taken as the basis 1
of calculation, tliis territory will bo found equal 1
to forty-six States as large as Ohio. Of these J
States, six lie south, and forty north, of the j
Missouri compromise line. If the question now i
before the country was settled on the basis of
the Missotu i compromise?but which the North
refuses to do?-the North would have territory
enough for forty new States, and the South, six.
Tire resolutions by which Texas was admitted
into the Union, provide, that four more States j
may, with the consent of Texas, ho formed out
of the territory of that State. This gives the
South territory sufficient for ten new States;
hut if the freesoil scheme he carried out, then
the North will have territory enough for fortysix
new States, which, added to the old States,
will make their whole number sixty-two States,
while the South will have but eighteen.
This monstrous scheme of fraud and impoCliiftll
till* linoc nnf cfnr\ liurn Tf
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has connected with it another scheme, to dismeinbor
Texas, in order to restrict slavery, and
swell the number of free States. Tiie majority
have assumed that the boundary of Texas in
f tfie South does not extend beyond the River
Nueces, and that the country lying between
that river and the Rio (1 rande belongs to the
United Stales. This country contains an area
of o'2,01S square miles, and i? therefore larger
than the State of Pennsylvania.
My limits will not permit me to outer in detail |
into the merits of this boundary question, ami I
will only remark that, in my judgment, the light
of Terms to the Rio Grande, as her southern
and western boundary, and which was in fact
and in law established by the treaty of Guadalupe
Hidalgo, can be shown to the satisfaction
of any court of justice in the United States.?
This assumption of the majority, groundless as i
it is, constitutes an important element in the
abolition policy, it has a deep and portentous
meaning. Tiie territory to which this claim is
set up, extends to the Gulf of .Mexico. If the
majority can succeed in annulling the claim of
Texas to this country, and admit it into the
Union as a free .State, thev will thereby perfect
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I1V II ilVMU ;*L?ILiIIL. 1 IIU till^ration
of African slaves along the gulf shore,
will lie cut off, and the cordon, to which the
member from Pennsylvania alluded with so
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murn sansiaetion, win 1:1 met ne e.xienueu an
arouiul ii-;
Mr. Chairman, I am tloej.-ly impressed with
the I'oiniction that tiiis picture is not overdrawn.
'l'o this result, this great dovelnpemesit
in the history of the country has been
slowly, but surely tending, ever since the enactment
of the ordinance of 1787. This tendency
was slow at first. Time is required to
'ill irponl i?'i*iii'r<u in tlm iu<A(ri*..w<o mtil
v ??* ??.< ^ic.n v?i.h.0v.j 1?? HIV pi v^uco turn
iind destinies ,.f .Statf.s and Empires. The apparent
cessation of this tendency, which took
place between the time of the enactment of the
ordinance of 17N7 and the Missouri compromise,
was hut tin.' time rcipiired for the growth
of the new States; and time only is required
now to accomplish the event. The wisest of
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inent, never saw as deep into flit' future a.s the
present hour. Hut time has removed the veil
which hid the present from tiieir eves, and he is
blind indeed who cannot see now where this
national development must end. The ordinance
of 17M7 constituted one epoch in the history
of abolition development. The Missouri
I compromise constituted a second, and was
! brought about by the progressive increase of i
the population of tin* northwest; and it is the
further increase of the population, which how
extends from the Atlantic, to the Pacific ocean,
which lias brought on the straggle in which the
two sections are now engaged, and which constitutes
the third great epoch in its history.
Prom the beginning until now, the non-extension
policy has been gathering strength, as the
population of the Past, North and West increased,
and we now rapidly approach the final
result. All doubt and mystery in reference to
the object and tendency ot slavery restriction,
have passed away, and, freed from all disguises,
the question now stands before us in all its importance
and magnitude.
New States are growing up all around us,
and the majority have declared in advance, that
slavery shall be excluded from them all. This
tide of population?indoctrinated as it is with
hostility to the institutions of the South, bv
lessons taught, from infancy to old age, in the
nurseries and primary schools, by fulminations
from the forums of Abolition societies, by religious
teachings from a thousand pulpits, and
by the circulation of incendiary papers through
the mails?is pouring into the territories of Minnesota,
Nebraska, Oregon, Deseret, California,
and New Mexico. Some of these districts are !
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now UhhiiJg ;iumi>^iuu, iinu an win n;uii ou incorporated
into the Union. And as each new
State is added, a reinforcement of Senators and
Representatives will join the majority, making
the inequality which now exists between the
two sections, still greater, and placing iTin "the
power of the North to carry on the abolition
scheme, without cheek or hindrance.
1 come now to the bill on your table, for the
admission of California into the Union as a
Suite. This bill is designed to effect another
great step ift the progress of abolition, and if
passed, cuts off the South from the Pacific
ocean for ever. It is here, without precedent
or example in the history of this Government.
Why is this? Why all haste to bring this
remote province into the Union H9 a State?
Wliv is this Government called noon to ab.m- i
don the practice which has prevailed, without
material change, tor nearly seventy years?
It will be remembered, that when the Union
was formed, the United States, in their federative
character, did not own a foot of land upon
this continent. The public domain was owned
by individual States, under grants from the British
crown. In 1780, the Congress passed a
resolution recommending to the several States
to cede their unappropriated lands to the United
States. In October of the same year the Congress
passed another resolution, in which it
was
Resolved, That the unappropriated lands that
may be ceded or relinquished to the United
States by any particular State, pursuant to the
recommendation of Congress, shall bo disposed
of for the common benefit of the United
States.
Agreeably to this recommendation, Virginia,
in March, 1784, ceded to the United States the
territory northwest of the Ohio river. In April
following, resolutions for the government of
this territory were passed, which were superseded
by the ordinance of 1787, which ordinance
continued of force until it was rendered inoperative
by the admission into the Union of the
States formed out of the Northwest Territorv.
The State of Ohio was admitted in 1S02,
having been governed as a territory eighteen
years. The State of Indiana was admitted in
lam in;..r.;3 ...... isa?
Wisconsin in 1845, having been governed as
territories thirty-two, thirty-four, fifty-three, and
sixty-one years, respectively. These dates refer
back to the resolutions of 1784. At intermediate
periods, nets were passed by Congress,
granting them the power to form local legislatures
for their government?the acts of such
legislatures to he subject to the approval of
Congress. The States of Alabama and Mississippi
are formed from territory ceded to the
United States by South Carolina and Georgia.
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and Alabama in 1811), both having boon long
governed as territories. Louisiana was purchased
of France by the treaty of Paris, in
1803, and the State of Louisiana was admitted
in 18P2, after nine years of territorial pupilage.
1 doom it unnecessary to extend this examination.
In what 1 have presented, the practice
of the government, from 1784 until now, will
be clearly seen. In all the cases mentioned,
and in all other cases of the same kind, the
President appointed the governors and judges
of each territory, whose salaries were paid out
of the public treasury of the United States.
Prpnnr.'ilnrv fi\ flti? niInitc*.ifm nf tmicu Limln.
ik's into the I'liion as States, Congress passed
laws fixing their boundaries, directing a census
of the inhabitants to be taken, authorizing each
to meet in convention to Ibrin a State constitution,
and prescribing the qualification of voters.
In the case of Michigan, this rule was slightly
varied, but which I will not stop to consider,
for the reason that the case is not analogous to
that now presented by California.
Sir, why was this practice at first deemed necessary
? Been use the jurisdiction and sever- j
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eiglHV, III UIIU UVtT Jill lilt'St' ILMTHOriill (USIIICIS,
were conveyed to the United ?St:ites, by the respective
deeds of cession, and Congress was
therefore hound to exercise jurisdiction over
them, that they might he disposed of, tor the
common benefit of the I nited States, and there- I
by fullil the pledge made by Congress in the j
resolution of 10th October, 1780.
By the treaty of Ciuadaloupe Hidalgo, the territories
of California and new Mexico were
ceded to lite United States; and Congress is
bound, for the same reason, to exercise jurisdiction
over them, liy what authority, then, have
the congregation of adventurers, from all nations,
calling themselves tho people of California,
entered upon these lands, and appropriated
to themselves the mineral wealth they contain, j
in derogation of tho rights of the United States? :
By what authority have these trespasses upon j
the public property met in convention, formed
what they call a State constitution, and sent
their Senators and Ronrpscntatives here, to ask i
admission into the Union? IT they have the
right, under these circumstances, to ask admission,
have they not the same right to ask admission
into the Union of Mexico, or annexation
to the British empire, and thus to wrest this vast!
territory out of your hands, and place you under
the necessity of reconquering it? Have they
not, in setting up tnese pretensions without authority
from Congress, committed an act of
manifest usurpation, disregarded your just authority,
and taken from Congress the right to
exercise exclusive jurisdiction over California?.
If they be remanded to the territorial condition,
may they not declare their independence of this
Government, and form political connection with
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u.iurt uicj umj ticv# < ii II1C UUC"
trine of thejibsolute sovereignty of the inhabitants
of a territory, previous to a grant of power
to thein*I>y the General Government to form
a State, which is the basis of this movement,,
he true, do not these results clearly follow??
And is it not equally clear, that if it be true,.
Congress has no jurisdiction over them, and all
acts heretofore passed by Congress for their
government, have been bat so .many acts of
usurpation? The error of all this doctrine is this:
The fact is overlooked, that there is a period,
during which the inhabitants of a territory donot
possess the attributes of sovereignty. Will
it be asserted that the conquered inhabitants of
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v^ainoruia were vesica wiin aosoiure sovereignty
the day after the execution of the late treaty
with Mexico, by which that territory was acquired?
If so, is it not clear that the United
States purchased only. under the rule of cace/U
emptor, and, therefore, took nothing by the .
treaty? At what time, then, since the execution
of the treaty, did the inhabitants of California
acquire the attribute of sovereignty?
The true doctrine upon this subject was laid
down bv .Mr. Lowndes, while acting as chairman
of the committee, to whom was referred,
the constitution of Missouri. Jo his report to
the House of Representatives, he said :
"in this view the committee are confirmed. .
by a consideration of the embarrassments and
disasters which a difTerent course of proceed;
ing might sometimes produce. When a people
arc authorized to form a State, and do so,,
the trammels ol their territorial condition fall
off. They have performed the act which makes
them sovereign and independent."
This single paragraph, from the records of
past legislation, explodes the political solecism,
which has lately received too much attention, iu
both ends of this Capitol, and to which the
gentleman near me, from Ohio, (Mr. Disnev.)
on a late occasion, brought much ability to little
effect, by trying to prove a proposition which
has no foundation, either in reason or truth.
The doctrine of absolute sovereignty in tho
inhabitants of a territory, in every petty province
of a mother conntry, is repugnant to all
past history. Were these States, as colooies,
invented with it, while subject to the British
crown? Are the existing provinces of that
empire invested witfi it now? If so, the- sanio
sovereignty resides in every bandit in the mountains,
without the limits of a State; and, indeed,
a condition of dependence cannot exist.
T!i re mast bean act, by which the condition
of political dependence is thrown off, and independence
assumed. In our system, this act is
performed by the permission, and under the direction
of the mother country, according to
certain rules and maxims. In other countries
it is done by revolution.
I return to the inquiry, why this haste of the
inhabitants of California, to take upon themselves
tiie burdens of self-government ? Why
not enter into the territorial transition state, and
let this tluvernment extend its protection over
them, until they become owners by purchase of
the lands they inhabit, and able to protect themselves,
and hear the burdens of self-government
( Why not wait until the anarchy which
prevails there now, sub-ides into organic order,,
and their pretensions to the dignity and rights
of an independent State, be founded upon rea
soiiaMc grounds i The answer to all these
questions is plain. The movement is that of
the Abolition party. It is another step towards
the ultimate abolition of slavery in the States.
California comes here with the Wilmnt proviso-,
in her so called constitution, and this is the reason
this ?iet of usurpation is tolerated. Strike
t'ae Wilmot proviso from her constitution, and
her application for admission will be rejected
in folly-eight hours. California comes here,
too, miaunij a territory o? ioS,UU(J square
miles?nearly equal in extent to four of tlio
largest States in the Union, with nearly ?i thousand
miles of sea-coast?all of which it is iutcndcd
ti> erect into one State, ami the majority,
in their zeal for non-extension, arc in haste to
sanction this monstrous absurdity.
Sir, when a dominant majority, intoxicated
with the lust of power, are tiius hurried on, by
a mad fanaticism, to the commission of acts
like these, marked, as they arc, by a want of
all political forecast, all prudent ami wise statesmanship,
to an extent never stirnassed in anr
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age or country, upon what grounds can the'
South hope lor an honorable and sate adjustment
of this great question by this Government ?
And yet, with all these facts before us, it is
one of the darkest omens of the times, that
southern statesmen are tendering compromises,
in all of which the propositions are, to surrender
evcrytning in dispute to the North, and put
the rest in jeopardy. This is, in fact, but tho
ceremony of holding out the white Hag of unconditional
surrender to the conqueror. These
compromises, ii adopted, would be, to give the
enemy time to collect his forces, and exteml
his parallels around us for t!u? d<><Msivi>
ami to make the tinal defeat more disastrous
anil mure signal, it is by ibis miserable policy
of ottering lo take less than ike Constitution
gives us, that the southern forces are divided,
and the cause of the South broken down and
ruined. It is an acknowledgment of weakness,
and of inability to protect ourselves, which I
repudiate and deny. Have tL compromises
heretofore made, been respected and observed ?
Have they stayed the baud of the aggressor?
What compromise can be made more binding,
that, will ftiimiiuniil wicnai.1
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tho Constitution? What compromise can bo
made, that will not curtail the rights of tlio