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A portion of the Slaveholders at the South are co-workers...

A portion of the Slaveholders at the South are co-workers... image
Parent Issue
Day
29
Month
May
Year
1847
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Public Domain
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Q55" A porlion of the Slaveholders nt the South are co-workers nnd co-operatcrs" with us n making Slaverv the grcat polilical issue ofthe nation. We shall be gla'i of their lielp in driving politicians from their lurking places, and making thern coms out ''flat-footed" on this girat question. Tlie Soutli Caroünians seem to be getting ns earnest in this particular as the Abolitionists. At a great meetng lield nt Lowndes, in that State, the following resoliitions were adnpted: "1. Resolved, unanimously, Tliat Congress has no power to pass nny law nffecting 'either directly or indirectly, immediately, the institution of'slavery;' nnd that the pnssage of nny such law by Congress would be a plain and palpable violation ofthe Constitution ofthe United States, dpstructive ofthe pence and harmonyflhe Union, subversivo of libertv, and degraHing and dishonoring to all the people of the slaveliolding States. " 2. Resolved, unaniwously, That, as mem'ners ofany party, we will not vote for any nan for President or Vice President of the United States who will not, previous to the election, pledge himself tooppose at all times ihe passage ofany Jaw, by Congress, añecting in any wny ihe inslitution of .-lavery; and ifelecteí, vliile acting as President of the United States, the exercise of the veot power B !" ngainsl nny such law, whetlier the same be contained in any proviso or otherwise. "3. Resolved unanimously, Thuf, on tlie subject matter of these resoliitions among ourspJve?, we know ño party distinctionvand never will know any - that we will be either all Democrats,or a'l Whigs, or neilher." A Col. H'illiam., a WMgi made a speech, showing that this ought t.i be the the g'eat issue with the Souih. He would not even vote for Clay f r President, unless he would endoise these resolutions. The nccount adds, - " The Col'inel rend extracts from the speeches o Mr. Winthrop, whom he siid waí a bmther Whig. He denounced the Rppreseniaive J'rom Boston in no measured terms, for daring in the grpat Assemblv of the Nation to assert that on the question of slavery, be his position unjiist or otherwise, his mind and the ■mind of Massachusetts and New lïngland was made up. He then exhibited Mr. Casa as a Demncrot, who, thougli he voted in the Sennte against the pnssage of the Wilmrrf proviso. expre-sive of his approval of the principies contained therein. Ile rienounced such conduct ns open hostility, a temporizing policy to gain timp, the more effectually to crush and lestroy us." 05" Daniel Webster has been received wiih great cordiality at the Soutli, particularlyat Charleston. The subject of ílnvery seems lo have been carefully avoided both by the entertainers and the gue.-.t, exeept on one occasion, during h feait at Chnrleston. Mr. Yeadney, in trying to compliment him, said, - " There wu one particular, tno, in wllich, ns a Carul'mkin nnd a Soutliern, lie fait more thnn c-Tnmonly prond lo do grate. ui I o-ior to Daniel Webster. In lus own Massachu-etts nnd in the Congress of the Union, lie had boldiy and patrinlicnlly rebuked ihe mnd spirit of fanniiciim, that, undor the banner ofa fa 1 - e iliilanthropy, would preach a crusade against Southern righls nnd institutions, and stab to the 1 e'ut the peace, the prospprity, nay, the very existence, ofthp South. Itwns gratifying aleo to recail the tact that, in the year 1840, in the capital of the Old Dominion, undfr the ' Octohersim' ofa Virginia sky,hs (Mr.VVJ had givpn utterance, 'hefore his entire country,' to the jtist, jiatriotic. and cosrsTiTtTiON'AL sentiment - andcommittcd it 'lo the wings of all the winds,' to be borne to every human ear, whether of friend foe, of North or South, 'on all the reponsibility th.it belonged to him - Ilial Ihereis no power, direct nr indirect, in Congrcss or the General GorerniK.trtt, to bUerfsre in the slightest degre.e wüh the instilutions of the Souh.' He proclaimpd that we of the North and Pouth were citizens of the United States, united only tbr purposrs of common defence, commón interest, and common welfare, tot separate and independent in everything connected with tbeir domestic relations and private concerns. Honor to the man who upholds the Constilution as the bond of our Union, and as the aegis ofprotection nnd bulwark of defenc to the separate, nterests and institutions of each and all of our United States." It does not appear that Mr. Webster made any reply whatever to tiiis southern ulogy. 05 In another place we have in serted Col. Benton's letter.to the Oregon people. It is thought by politicians to be peculiar'.y significant of the course he will hereafter pursue in reference to the extensión of Slavery. Benton and Cal houn have been in political life togethe somethirly year--, or more, and n rivalry between them has existed. Calhoun i fully committed as an ultra Slavery man Benton, it issiipposed, may now seck to head him by coming out at the nex session of Congress for the Wilmot Pro ■viso, ano in favor of some northern Dem ocrat, for the Presidency, üke Silas Wright, who will take that ground.- Timo will show how correct these sur mises are. Benton, however, bas eve manifested a disposition to lead in hi party, and po&sesses much independen ei" íbr a party man.

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