~.,-d .... ': yaturban Morning, - Mag 4, 1850. SPEECH OF 110 N. JOHN . M. READ. have r ead with much pleasure and satitsfee fim, the Speech of the Hon. JOHN M. Rain, Late Attorney General of this State; delivered before the ph9a e lph r a Caton and California Meeting.en ine 13th ult. We would be glad to print it at length in the columns of thn Reporter, but the demand i ron our space compels us to rest content with giving some extracts from h. Mr. Read is an a bl e lawyer, posAer•sing a discriminating mind .and much research. and his opinions are entitled to a cortstderati. - n. Re opens his speech by de • tha• Pennsylvania is in favor of preserving the ei rezrity and prosperity of our glaciates and balipv Union, and says: • ....h thi- very city, within sight of this Hall o the jyrlaration of Independence was written and me d, which gave us a station among the inde „.,kw nations of the .earth. I,l`lre a man in Pennsylvania who will dare to g; `.at he is oppose 4 to the admissioe of Cali• "1:h freedom inscribed on her banner!. Ti rr ;:r orle. let hire call a meeting opposed to its * . r ••• , 10-1! We will print his placard., distribute i‘[...-ca.kr., put:ll-nit his advertisements, and take Square for his exclusive accomrnn will even send to South Carolina to se a ..e,••, , ider to his resolutions.- ,ornyliays of the Revolutions with her : rescued from the hands of an embitter. P, ylvania passed her noblest act of do- .. -nr•iort. •-The art for the gradual aboli ..• • -11 , e From this text. Pennsylvan ia .1- 1 , • dovia•ed. Slavery is finally evtip....mil-h• 1 ,-, 7ders, arid her citizens are now 'l"e glorroc: hardest of free principles, HIE s :ht` alltP4Qrs f•t• V enty years ago. ~., p,• ! , ; .<y I . T ia passed her celebrated 7f . -..ltVions againg.t the admission of (;Minn. without a prnstiettire r • -:aver;' The vote tritA tinalli Mintz! ; v q IP , :larl. It ma...the solemn <feel penyie a cnverei2n Stale. • p:•-ce,ieti by are meetiozs of the , e „: oLparty, to cal tons par - 4 ,•• C, Tmmy:re:Oh 211 Nnveniher. 1819. "rich a meeting P.w.,,tetp..i3. Jared In?erso11. a frain, .-e c wa4 the Chairman. and R. • Rl,-•-•1 Ott C cra , arV. and e a-aot addreeeed `..r NI- B•-• , ..v - . ',! , <t Ott CetniMittee of ennleop ne , the name% of Thema,. Leiper, .e E.ch.vd Vanv, and the then Dern• rr-,cr Mit `." 01 *he city. Jame. N Ekuker; 'and c. , rnmlq.ees in the distriria. Ore to be 4 -:- rames or t 11034. Derinneralle referring. ov; flan. Joshua Raybold. and Jbetrant OM czrn" ,lay. a similar meetir2 %rye held at nry• wnmh 11M. Walker Franklin pre • , c ,, mlnittee..int which 111 r Buchanan 11-14 me-711w. reported the strongest re-olotiona • e.per. t"1-,,Ilrer.otl to preventing "the existence of Sare-1 - 11 a , v of the Territories or Stales waich eel by Conger's," which were tinani tio.-.4 01 ..)-- - 27 , h of the same month a similar meet -1,..1; a! West Cheater, at which General - B t n tral acted as Secretary. t - v.e and reanforions of the ;he 2241 of NY*. 1 11 19 were offered by the for.. W. J la-, t n•-,rincT ic member' from the city of 1, an 1 .4 ere seconded r-v another, Mr. Ft the Legislative. we find afTlatlZ.l its to ninver, nftens - Ania Secretary of th e 1 .• present 1 , 1.14-.4 Conker and Ro.rer., •••yr Cmirt. the 14 - rt. Wm Wilkins. I o f District Court of the United Western tlie Pennavlvania • 11r the Vice Priti.tency in 1532. United ",•••••'-! 7dinister to flu=-it. and Secretary , v 0-1 'he Hon. Daniel Smb2erin became a " 1 `.•• ) t •he Stale Senate. then State f reasurer. 1-11 1 , twice elected to this Senate of the S =I &nen! ilrmarti became Secret:lry of the and a I .3enator, whil-t Mr. Bnehanari '/ 4 Conzress In the fall of 18 1 20. and 10' ~ . .re ten years. was sent to Russia bx Jrrts.-‘ , • and in fBl5 became a Senator, u-Int h ‘".' 1 for ten years , mitt, appointed Seem `.v by the late .President. Mr. Potk 7. "-. were the rewards which Pron.ylrania I:, , na the exponents of her feeling and ;"-x . .p:es relation to, the further extension of t.„lr••v 9 Stron: . revolutions were passed in nt prohibilitt.z -laverrin the -erritnties to be t-.:.red f r om Mexico. ;Titer were offered by a ......rtincratie member from a Demorratin county and both bodies with but three iti•;senttent rot 'A. and were known In hare received the cordial t??roval of Governor Munk. • A r T the Baltimore Convection in May. IRO. the tTalitnent candidate; for the Presidenri were de. v-si• S.4coneiliating the time of the South.. f . ~This ?-do.• the rejection or one soveren Stsue..with Fry electoral rotes, and the representation or: velf-appoiritei delegates. The result 7 . 1 s ea.v lo he foreseen, but it was rendered in by The adoption of an old resolution. upon rt'i 'to. South placed a construction not iratraiit ards as applied to the period a hen it Drt-n SoD•hem constrisetirm was, that the wins "v . P.tan recommended, applied to Territories, nrint) cootenileilthatit wasennfined s , ates •-irtakonstaerpsticis was that neith tr.tc pleased : and whilst New Vint and sal w heelval Are of the Democratic ranks S•Doe. eiher follo : red their example. •heir majorities so low as to be equal is I r" t. t , crag tcererely Ph in the Coneen r-,-nioatea Governor in Attetiat. The Platfrom maid MX be adorned— :44l g 4.• .aapassible. To reject it, was to bin*. - •he candi.lwe the ill wishes of a South-' tratinn The Contention, therefore., 1 •• , 4?.. and the consequence was the defeat ' ',l:, Fal. who was believed to be against •e e‘ "-•-, •*, of slavery, and the overwhelmine. D: •Democratic party at the Presidential ICE! lz ofve fart cOnclusirely, that the Demo. itary of 'ls Slate. cannot emceed when •*eeretly azusvell asain.t any spin etterworen vrith the educate:wand f`l . Its C le . M 4 . When therehme, the De. " • r''-Irero t n i met ,at Pinalborn, on the 11 -"ram... erilent that 'Annie reAnintine •motet 011101e./re 01 the Pelee of the nf ihe %ate, ineapeetire of the Viers e Sy th e i r bee ak mg in the Mare Gates. eel embattle:l ie oar exit "6 . 44 the ~.,.;i,.r . OE , two afier a full and Lair tli3eusticut Y w Theo &use the - ManlY • • ~. .. . . . - -‘4 - ' - ='''.-- . -" - •- - t 1 ; • - f. At— •" . -.-- . 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Whenever the Whig and Democratic parties, at their regular Conventions, pass exactly solitaires-. Watkins upon any given subject, it is a 'oregano conclusion that they are but an expression of the will of yokonly true sovereigns% a free &public, the pecipti. Raving thus briefly reviewed the coons er Pennsylvania upon the question of slavery, it may be' profitable to enquire whether* has not been entirely consistent with, the 'Constitution, and - the uniform consintitirei placed Upon it by the Legisla tive, executive and judicial depannientsof the Go. vernment. • - Four years ago no • one weeid have asked se plain a question. bar Constitutional heresies have been broached ainee that period, which neither the framers of the Conatitittion nor our wisest stales. men ever dreamed of, until the politicians of the South found that their ascendency in the Senate must be swept away bytheovererhelntingincrease olihe free whiteepopttlinfon of the temitry. Territorial governments were establiiheil4e Congress of the Confederatimi, end - by-the under the present Constitution. They have existed and flourished for upward of Bitty ?emit, itbdTrom them hare proceeded thirteen of the present States. They are now discoverecrat this late day to be an constitutional, and unwarranted either by-the mini cies of confederation or by the Constitution of the Milted States. The framers of the Constitution did not understand that instrument. Washinnion, Jef ferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson and Polk did not understand it •, but its true meaning has been discovered by individuals who have lived and pros pered order institutions which they now proclaim to have been unwarranted by the paiambunt law of the land. Let us trace this question catty. The wordy territory and territories as used in the oriJinal charters, of the various colonies, in the public docun.ents preceding and succeeding the ar hetes of confederation in theicessiona from the various states. and in the contemporaneous legisla tion of the out Congress, included soil, land and water jurisdiction, domain and sovereignty. The same meaning has been attached to them in our treaties with foreign powers, in our act* of Con gress. and even in the celebrated resolution for the conditional admission of Texas, and in some case. they .have been Used to designate the whole of the Unite.l Stales, whether States or, Territories. The oncitinl-titie to a new country is foondtd on the right of discovery, and it confers upon the na tion dtscovering it, the sovereignty and jurisdiction, with the right of pre-empt:nu of the soil from its aboriginal inhabitants This right belongs to it in its sovereimi, capacity, which eitables it .to the Indian title and lo perfect dominion over the soil and dispose of it according to 'worm gore) pleasure. . . In the new ten innies therefore of Xmericit, dis covery and the purchase of the Indian Title vested in the government, the soil, jurisilicuoivand sorer eian,y of,the ceuntry, and of course of its intrab- Mit4s. Mr. Rea then _recapitulates the terms of the charter of rirgihia in 1609, the second charter of Carolina in '1677, the Georgia charter of 1732, the 9th of c rltte-articles of confederation, and Deuterons acts anti resolutionizdeatanstrate the Fashion as aimed by lgaitthal. '- The word Territor its largest sense includes lands, soil, jurisdiction and.sovereignty, and as the power to sell include:4ns lesser power to mon guge, so the power to dispose of territory, suPPt's any, it used in its most extended meaning. includes the power to sell the public Lands fkgreeably to the p-esent system, which commenced before the adoption. So Vie wools' . rules and regulations,' in the lan irw,e of that day. inclu.ied ail ordinary acts of .41-crilltion, as well as the -framing of temporary Cscremments for the people of the territories-a. How much has been done for the prosperity and happeness of nue beloved ccmiltry. under the sim ple " I,I A. Com:rest' , shall have power to regulate commerce Kith foreign nation!". and Amore,' the the !Leveed! States. and With In lean tribes ' Mo. power to make needful rules and rezoLa lions WAS in be carried into elevation by Con zress agreeably the first article of 'he Coast: tut ton We aczonlinzly find that the ordinance of 1787 is confirmed and - extended by the, art of the 7th Atr,nist, 1789 and that in her cession of the 25th February, 1790, of what is now the State of Ten liessee, North Carolina provided that it should be subject to- the -ordinance of 1787, except the sixth article, and ,that tongues, shohlit at the same time assume the - government of the said ceded territory, and execute it, in a manner similar to that which they suppport_ in the territory west of the Ohio, and a like pruvutimin is to be found in the cession br Gencrs..x in 1802. and in the year 1800, Connect sun released to the Unitett States the jurisdiction:l claim of that State to the Western Reserve of Con neroent From this reinstitution:if potter of Congress have ari.eit fifteen temtairial inearnnerems. *Web have all terminated in State ginemments bcn t*o the lon Mid Mlneiwito. t‘re have solemn /feria' ions of ;me Supreme Court of the United States recogniz ing th% potter in 1818, 1819, 1821 and 1810. of the Simi - eine Coon of bli-simtippi in 1818; of Hie yowl in 1824. of Louisiana. in 1830, and of Ken lucky m 1820, the bur fast decisions affirming the eonttitntionality of the sixth &Idris of the onri., . - =nee of 1787. - This question seas sektonly derided an fee, by three-foonhs of the votes of bn'b Homes of Carve= and the Intantronos saneticat of Mr. Mon roe and all hi. Cabinet_ and this derision lints re. peate.4 and ratified in the Oregon Terrinsrial peAsed by Ccemress and signed by President Pelt, with the unanimous approval or all his cabinet At the'same time the position taken by Pennsjlva• ids in 1919, ants affirmed by the resolution lot the conditional admiwion of Texas. by which a pros peettve State to be created out of it could only be adinitted with a perpetual prohibition of slarity. a prnri-inn deliberately sanctioned and approred by Pre-ideal Tyler. Mr. Calhoun and the rev 4 the Cabinet, and also by President Polk, Mr 80. chanan and the o . fier members of his Cabinet. ft is therefor. too !ate to the day to di to a coninrortion of the constitution Kinn whia ponds by far t e Isvlst portion of the present Ent• pine of the If S. of America. The annexation of Texas, a slate State, milts , eJ a war with Mexico, a free Stale; and . first oy congnest and then by purchase anilrbs treaty: we acquired from her the free Territories' of New Mexico and California. This is estaNished by the decree of mmidehs Menem of the t5:11 Decesn- bpr, 129, and by the acs of the Meziraus Can. of she sth of IVO. as pabbstied by Sir Buchanan when Seco-may of State. anti:also by the Cotistinnicto of the Maxim Repabhe of the year 1853, by which itis deduct', " no ostir a Aare in the Territory of the Nation, and any.se tro.teced shag he corpittemi free, mad shed.be der the protection of the laws." •By the Law of Xenon, dyne %nitwits sh .n hi i' ~ .._ . = - - i•-; _- • --- - -- ._._ ~ . .• • . - ..._, 1111114 My Roy =MAY... AT ' TOWANDA 'BRADFORD-COM 1 -1 A Br F.:- eItuOQODRICIL' • -.- mi5amm.......... gutted remain free untii - thibrir iftianga i thri competent power asitirtthreamo by Capital.- - 'This plain position has, howrier, Mters.ilies-10 what may be gilled the South Carolina hem% which acknowlidges the power of Congress over the territories, but denies it upon the Maisel` of slavery, tied which assumes the ground: lbw all ..tenvitory belonging to the United States is this territory by the Ctinstinition.. The effect of all this would he , that if we bad conquered all Mexico , it would initially bee be. come slave territory, and the same - nile would be wiled to the peaceable oc fonilde acquisition of Chi British Provinces. The armies of the united Staten, according to ttihrtherwy,-snarch lett free Simi with slavery in n:Abed on their banners — wod. 'they hold net to the conquered; ute inerftable ' introduction of the crimes and cruelties of slavery as ,the glorious fruits of coustest. -There is nothing.us the &termini:ion of the United States to warrant so preposterous an idea. Lis remaining compromises are but three, they embrace the .apportionment •of 'Repre sentatives and direct taxes among the States, se cording to the federal numbs's, the requisition that capitation and other direct taxes shall be laid in proportion to the . census, and the clause which proiides that Ragtime. bout labor in one State, escaping into another State, shall be delivered up. The most refined ingenuity can extinct nothing from these propositions to favor a hems, di brio , neon, which would render slaiery and its eaten. sion the sole object of the Constitution. This Piqsborg resquutin oti this-branch of the question is most accurate and expresses thereal con dition of slavery and. slavis.property in the Union. The slate of slaveviiedeeined to be a mere muni cipal relation founded upon aid limited to the ranee of the State laws, • The true answer however, ie to be found in the Constitution. The territories belong to the U. 8. in its sovereign 'capacity, and the Constitution has devolved the power of .goireming and legislating for them upon Congress exclusively, and no State, nor any of its citizens, under any pretence, can control or nullity their action. These are the plain wrrd, of the supreme law of the land, and the repeated and undisputed exercise of this power in relation to slavery has added precedent to prin ciples. I One word about an obsolete idea—the Missouri I compromise In 1811, in secret sarion, Congress &seminal the Floridan should never pass from Spain into the hands of any power but the United States In the treaty 011819 they were ceded to tot, we.ceded Texas to Spain, and at that moment OW title to the Oregon Territory u-as as Complete as it was upon the inauguration of President Polk. The Missouri compromise, therefore, was the addition of Mulsourt, and the wore admission of two stare States. Florida and Arkansas on tho one side, and the admission of Maine, and the surren der of ill the remaining Territory of the United States to freedom in the other. The annexation of Texas added upwards of three bandied thousand square Miles of Stave Territory, whilst the Oregon Treaty negotiated by a southern administration sonendered fire degrees and forty minutes of Latitude ol oar free Territory to Great Britain; as a.compensation for Texas, and the loss of nearly four hundred miles of the Pacific coast, we ore clearly entitled to the whole of New Mexi co and California, as free territory, and which came to us as such. Besides the running of the line of 36 30 to the Pacia• would dismember California. and make all future acquisitions from Mexico with Free .Soil— slave Territory, an absurdity too great to be even stated in a tree state. The power of Congress over the territories, and cr.er the admission of new States, provides for +the very rase of California, which Congress dart Limn into the Union, if they deetn•ii_jnot and expedient It is woe that the ottier new States of the WWI, except Texas, have been preceded by l ienitorial forint% of government, which emanated, directly or indirectl:, from the Ordinance of 1787 ; but it. is dear, as in the present instance, that Congress may not chocr.e the territory to go throagh any of the grades of territorial government,. bat that it shall assume at once the fast and perfect form, that of a State. Such was the ease of TeXitP, utiquestkina. lily. This may be done try a previous Act of Coo cress pointing oot the mode in which theStato shall be organized. or it may be done by an Act ratifying what the people of the new State have already ac - I I " rem plashed. as in erase of Tenneeitre and Mint I. gall, a slave and a State admitted into • Union under the two g ' administrations of Washuig ton and Jackson. • The case of Tennessee is most appropriate. The territorial lislature, the creature of COnc.ress, look a census =tiled a convention, which framed a con. stitntion tinder which a state legiLshiteri was °Tan ired. which elected two Senators, whilst the peo ple elected one Representative, and they then ask • e T i for admitsion into the Union. Convent unhesi tatingly, passed an act for her immediate admission into the Union on the; Ist June, 1796 Forty ;years aTlerwards, BlicSivift adopted the tame course. and upon the inteedent of Tennesuee mss admitted into the Union, with Arkansas, which bad also framed a State coostitation without the sanction of any previous Act of Congress. The exercise of the mower of Congress over the territories has been of the most plenary kind. In the dhariet of Louisiana it devolved the govern"- Merit open the Governor snaillike* of the Indiana territory. ft was au:tarots called the Territory of Lonsiana. and a Governor and Judges Were ap pointed by the President, by and with the 'dries and orinsent of the Senate. The ewe ttotitre power. was vested in the Governor, the judicial Seethe „Judges, and the whole legialatitveysiwer niche ter ritory in the two combined. thus giving to bar offs. &nerd the rev, merit gave:einem t r power of 141. toting for alit, inhabitants. Diem cap be tierieebt, theleGeey that Celli:trek can be coartitotionally eihnitted into the Unitq as a Site,. with her present cconeintuon and bounds• 13Z3 Congress vehrsed to give California a tewiterid form of government, but its members -distinctly hinted that its people should barns a State govern rnent a policy which was dew ly favored by both the present and the Late adminishations. With an almost tuvtarer-ed desert bereren her oncithe Ada!** .StaLts, with a population inereas. in -in number* beyond all human calf-ulation, and with the riche4 mores of the mrst , valnable metal, matted by the tree !Ancor onr most intellmeat mid Panic eniienA and Irish a lonian . anti domaidie eomeleme anparalleledin the annals of the United Stamm, a State government berame a . State oerevel ty The erisis admitted of no delay-1 earrention n-#.ealled--aeonoitntion formed, a model ; for all itanne State*. and altnsen anattinuanly adopted. A Stale Legislature and meratets of Coin, aud Semler* have . been elected, ettkiet it, and thi. great and Ontinci4 fret! SMTO 01 de , Pacific is now knOcii. en: at the 100- of the Senate hotee adesieima into the Union as an kat pendent member of the confrdeibey Sated polity dimes her lamellate and amace• &weal admispiau. Walt lath a Sete ao.thattate Thiele emus we MOM! TiO array at lento pre *erre her ham fforeignlunation at iiiarre tier ei.ia , ns. itna seat inatad paten heir ftaltairthe serial the 'pot t• eliirmin in therwatitL • ECM b is itrrard MOdiesi to give lier 0 1 1 E110111 AZT - ' — wset,.." duo 11 - 4 lire, :Mate anthOrities the latisiabie power cif a iinieoffigateliakion7 ii i frisk the 'mita' voice of the peripk, of Pinasylvama i wham:/ gorillas the &ato brain shoaki be Intagediateit And guroooditiosally admitted With her renal connitntion andbnit&- ties into iing Union. - I base no - Wish to bandying& with arArbednim . of the South on this question, m on that of. the. es tension of slavery to the fuokterritogies of the Uni ted times. They sie separate and distinct min noire, eintshoula be isparaielY ditei irithlif 'Com T. prossing-goostioo ilia* admission of Cali kenia, whack should be tkecussed and ifta,il uP7n alone, ouclogged with any miler mea s ure or con ddirations, and The friens of the Union- will act grimly and prudently in pressing it in this separate and distinct form. • . i have no fear that ittadju whin wit weaken or dissolve the UniOn. the &rialto politicians - ban been too much committed in favor of this policy by 'heir open ond repeated-declarations to ridrany thing . upon so absurd an hone. It ss tom they wish to presence their ascendency in the Senate, which is a part of the Executive as well as of the legislative branch of the govenimenc and whickhasenabled them 'pectoral the of-the Executive action, but their murmurs *i hushed into silence the moment coven an act for the unconditional admission of Wilke -3 nia. The preservation of the teniaining free territory acquired iron] „Mexico as free tenting, will never dissolve the Union. No Nashville Convention, if it ever dares to meet, can effect this object, and I would willingly trust the moral traitors who preach disunion to the patriotism of our brethren, the peo. pie of the South, who will never permit a few am bit ous men to sever our glorious Upon this question the free States are clearly in the right. They simply Inflow and carry out the principles of the constitution, and the directirns and practice of Washington, Jefierson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, and Polk. (Here there was great manifestation of feeling at the mentioning of Mr: Polk's name.) The North and the South are essential to each other. We are the same people with the simelin terests, and by the American invention of the elec tric telegraph brought within a few hours of each other. would never, therefore, say to oar brethren of the South, you are week beCtuase of the pees& ". solution which -on capitalist' consider so - tial to your happines But it is our duly to ,y to the partisan politicians • • o are ahem. gto create capital for themselves, • er can unite the Southern people -in a conspiracy to dissolve the Union. • The South has no ships, no nary, no sailors, and it curtain!) , wants no standing army to spend its treasurers. and to clothe its officers with despotic power. Delaware, Maryland, Western Virginia, Kentucky. and the atole mountain: range of coun try which divides thelAtlantie States from those on the Mississippi and even Missouri, are either vir tually free, or sow] will become so; and is it' pos sible to suppose that a few fanatical politicians can unite these discordant elements io favor of a mea. %tire which, if carried out, would destroy the value of all slave property in the slave Stales. The psnapect.s of Louisiana depend upon the onion. Florida cannot exist withoot it, and Teo nessee, the burial plans of the hero of New Orleans, has relused to welcome the pilgrims of the one idea. The South cannot after the coarse of nature The black rare is not increased by eniration, and the exigence of the peculiar institution prevents the index of white etnigtants into the sla‘e States. The free State* of the North and West must, there. ,fore, always outstrip them in the race oLpopola tion. But free labor requires tree soil. The stave is the peasant or laborer of the South, is the deckua tiiiti of its champions, and they hare compared him to the free ciii?en of the kee States, who can en hi vatte the WW I , build homes, dig his own cold, sail his own ships, educate his own children, and pro tect the soil by his own right arm from invasion. 1 will not answer so unworthy en attempt to de- . grade my R.floNe-eitizensio the feeef of a slave whom they will neither reach to read or write ; nor 'Mow to read the Bible, sad with whom the con nection of the sexes is but concubiliage, and who can be sold at public auction, like our brute beasts, to the h4hest bidder. . . • A free &ate on the Pacific can defend itself, oriels: a stave State would require the army and navy of the tutted States to protect it from denies. tic insurrection, or foreign invasion. In Pennsylvania we have a peculiar interest in the success of Caliken's, for Ottr Centrid ffailrood is the firm link hi the chain which is - to bind us to Saint Louis and San Francisco. This lick unites the metropolis of western with that of eastern Penn sylvania, nemberin; between them more than half a million of free inbahitatts. . . Congress has the power of erctrisive !violation over the d strict of Columbia, and can ala. yery and the stare trade in it at any moment. It is a i:lsgrace to the capital of a free Republic Ito have in it slave markets,. when lie sidtan of TM. key -has prohibited them in Constantin beinnsedan city. Bat if inhabitant o ' er dir. trict are nnwillinig lobate the benefits of 'freedom mauled to them, I would as force theta j bat wont] retrocede the remaining pan of the District to Maryland, and remove the seat of government to Musborg. a city of brown right hand, situated at the heed Ot the Ottio, in the vicinity-of (belches and upon the "direct route to the Great Western Oceans and occupying a central position which wosidi minder it a - fit eapitol, when the British -ho w and Mexico, by peaceful annexation. be come intimralparts of the United Slates of Korth A meriaa. We would be gisd in see this speech in &eland* el every Denumrst in,the State, as we believe its eiscrdatio . will do good. We know that the atom Miele, and Mr. &chanties or n, the Peen. ighxmista, have mailed its author, but they have .not attempted to controvert his arguments. I They may as well cease their attacks opoo him , as, they " hitt alle." Tim Narertats Coprzerfox.—The Pottaateeth Va , Whig says that a tall eal d made, an the fhb ions, kti the people of Sense/nand to meet for the pevae oteleeCov delegates to the Nale Con. Tel tioo. When the boor arrired lot die meeting to mosenible, not a single person attended ! Front the present iridirstions says the Philadel phia Ledger, the Nashville Convention be - he &ale ever wimetoed is this roars. Try. Ir gross moreVentearpolile every day, and piands ift great &seer of dyin even belite it i* born. Incise- who catinated - it begin to grew iiikaraird tithe* key, attesosidgfaillyereelsoat ifthey,eciaid.bide the tenternisimiee of it aril! thetr l!bosaistsinisit.--* 4 1 1 C. 4 Pleal , -PRO l!ipt, the aalt*-11,1barliai!= to aU palpakis tctlt &Seiko 3 by the people. li4CdsUnie<lF , ilk " 01 547 1 * 1 / 1: 10 1 7.ag Micaff,s, 'Of let. ittalumberlweak Arosse.its stases ainatliake. To : sea bow sow Life. with its glories glides away. Aid the stem footstep et decay Cease mean'. ea. ow plialitie.laii - the passing wiled Mowr by. and limit s us wOrOt Wald - ,11.1 OW in t I • Bow still oar mans M * aple, Seems to the wayward *fancy. less ]bale what is past. • • • ; Our lives like bastioistreams tabste„ , That him one eagulfltig sea Are dootaed to fall; The sea dike*. wheat tram roll oar. - O'er bias old kingdom'. crown lead tbrtiite, And swallow an. Alike the river's ladle We. Alike ,the bitable. fillets glide To the sad wavtrf Death levels poverty and prkle. And rich eadrpoor sleet aide hyoids Within the grave. Our birth is hot die starting-pleet. Life is the running -of the nee. • And death the goal; There all our steps at last are brought. That pad' alone of, uH unsought. Le band of la Where Is the Strength that mocked deny, . The step that rose os light and' sy. The herirfo blithe tope, The strength is gone. the asap is *kiw i And jo y grows weariness sad woo When age comes on. slay, then, how poor and pule wont Are all those glittering toys of earth; That lore us here; Dreams of a Om that death must break, Mail Were it bids as wake Ye disappear. -Daniel Websl4er, Is 1348 $ ISSO: the recent speech of Mr. Webster, arlticAt so much landed by those who were wont to de nounx him, the New York Tribune publishes the following, under the bead of " Antiquriaa Die coveties." " My opposition to the increase of slavery in this coon:ry, °tin the increase of Mary represen tation in Congress,• is general and universal. It has no reference to the lines of 'latitude or points of the compass. I shall oppose all inch eaten increase, in all places, at all time, under all en cumstances, even against all utcluts, against all combination, ;punt all compnimise."...Daniel Welister, '4B. The late speech of Mr. Webster meets with lit tle favor from his constimen:i, if we to to jollgir by recent demonstrations against it. Observe bow one of the Speakers at the remit Had pitches into him: • Alr. President, and Paso Citizens :—Thee Mead who preceded roe spoke of - the very remit:kat& critic in which we were met in faneoil flail to night. I can liken it to nothing but to the suppo sition! that Samtill Adarns, to revolutionary times, had gone over to the British, or John Hancock had ratted. The men who came up to this Bell' in EMI with each newt in what temper would they have filled ill There has been bat one each event as that we nut consider within our . day. I will not allude to those my Iriend has mentioned in the time of Charles Ist or of onr own Revolution. But we know there was a time when the fee of Rungary rested with one man; and who does no remem ber the nuliguation that swept over Europe when it was knowo that Georgey bad teenbreght by Rfrwian gold. - Liberty stands now in these pooh vier ewes es it stoat then in Hungary; 'and the news butorne to mammoth; Dictator, in *hem Massacbasens had trusted so forly, in whout she garnered op all her confidence, has been bougiti with the gold of our Enfant Mark, also, 'hal Geortey when he surrendered Hugo n siren. dared nothing bet the peliiical rights of the men he was bteraying. OM statesman, borer tar, is dialing with those perunal rights., the violation of any one of stitch outweighs that of all civil Fir deges. We are met to monk in suck a crisis es tithlAL- For after 111, nether we are able to nnswer the argument of Daniel Webster or not, Whether Mai: =chosen' can pick to _pieces tied logic. or not, whether we can unravel its ikophilsry to her Inhab. itants or not, the conviction of every man's heist a, that Daniel Webster is false, no metier hew itn-promable his logic he or seem. (Hear, hear.) We may be unable to unravel 'the web of that sophistry. He is a great roan doubtless, mad can easily make the WOlllO appear thebenetteasen." Arial it may to, so deep and profound -is the raw Weems of the Cusencernoohie him, that it may be impuolle is keep her hoes the coecinakuo Os whirl* that argument hook But let es unit aii Chathain stood, when somesephisier tried to metre to bun that the cause of Hampden and Cromwell was to be sespectei, was unenniitutionat and lilac after all, Charges . and Clarendon wets the hoe friends ofErtersh liberty:sad he retorted. " Goat it silk ate man shall persuade sae that it was net the came of fiberty on the one band, and tyranny on the other. (Prialoaged apple:roe.) Let it be so with net now. t rare not whether 1 twat able osmium that speeeir . er not. par The ties were met; they stood ranged 'and mandi i Yad I face to face on the floor raj the United States Sen ate; and as that speech is spoken. ttre faces of the friends of freedom are blanched, ;nu joy bsithiens the erect of Gamest. I cafe not for the tegument. (Sensation-) Re gave aid endernifiut to the one. my, and that is treason. [Reiterated anilause.) `fit this is a speech that is retort all thte not only in i t s spirit, but its argument also_, ] It women , iaelf The tettoning eat* the ?art. h. is hke illtarrhansen's lion. that denoted thehome so quick as to find bin:tuff in the travel dragging the chaiiot. (Shome of maboriamo The Renard d Courant gives utterance to the tree New England spirit, as follows : 4, Ma [id's Ssrecw.—lt is net seeprisin that to the conflict or opinion at Wartincon a number of expedients should be 0t...-nsrted for the settlement of the great question of the day--the extension of siavery-stan than an. ishandomnerst oldie Free Sod principles which the Whiz party at the North hare boldly avowed and orietly ad hered tn. should be nwommeitibai by Mr. Vidqoar, to to us truly PG -Wehaveseed the moor of bs.geeseh with amossialtmost and gram ; • Hie . • • emend is net that ot. the Intim of Gat= tw•EUrress.— r t remade iii who tTa-iiks 11''ey rennet hint Wbeti he dem lirehlchoni,Ate stiti*e?, :ideate Prllmillies they hold dews ond ileiaikiit Ste ditto* i reiree.*4 n Oath= Waite*. ati p?ily alutiasedmmalienniPmeloir‘ - - - - • 40m( tat~saR gloglrant,et &soft - lON* Ittirinittl&kez;•l-r?Tj-efaifiitta4l.l.: ihaskatklilitiratifirchieherthiee artfaireasirititle4o ""' =SI ME =EI SIMITCrSII Seace.—The vpv.ech of Ur- Eterdoe, reoel- rely delivered in the Senate, presents very iftwo r eleey the ine claims of California to be W. LI hermit, el thate heizag emoteeled, '2rkt satipet that may claim' the anent* of eiiber in rola:ion to the otganizatket of . • • nt the rinietirl_ orggitition on the whim of steve.y flis of gamer( ire is ani *la ment, eonehrvive - and ntsinsvrerabk as s ifiret thatt eadiactiee to Califoinia, 'sett exyaraiersee irm rteathars: peva that the comae edvarioallry hie's is mho the best *it matter of Js 4 ' "4r, 2/ :A l 3-0 A • .4 -1 7....;;:etk*:74 ... 4 ...- "~~. •i . T: =II WI The Washigvas.:4-ini due - Boston "-A. 4.4 •+t ember El MN e nt l e l i:Wh i l 'member ef. -Cowen ce_pocnte with jai due 'l4oprieti- Of retablishing t - enittnial gam. 'meets in New Within( the* 4 . ,14% mot." And itis freely said, dui_ bloyge.Mll2 . „ . „0 thx(lt,ir ow worth while to 44 mewl Adisk baiordaisied?„ uroulk.hate`beetf gttmeat agaiost the original: pt9ume of the ordt- - Danes of 17tAltierft, ' of tholigihEte,t44 . *doutilypi • t for Now wiai_*/* l 4loloeig. We feel int onerous twiner this aserningOnd efiftianaersir craw ceightior of* NonhPatmet Tidal I nillfer, fa: which bit mese. The Mae lien's thicket!, a" pritoo is Delaware, s stare hokling Altai thus gives: hie opiakis of dongh-fieeces W. ean**:#lllo - 4, compiinsintary to our neighbor, ten it'll* ha that it truly reflects his image , . Taaftbass'ettskrre.;—(Yoserve all those *ha advocate OWL "ostittition. of the principles of this imttiortal'Lkic offindependenee to die slave power. Who' ars they? What are thell Are they republicans! Wsgo against meddling with slavery in dm mates where it uow exists, bat we say no more extension oT stave 7, no admission of any more slave etatewin the Untoc, no shivery in . the District of Columbia--either remove ; slavery , remove the-lea sitShiremmenl- - can, en . into the feelings of Alai e holders who -Alms been reireirilli their slam, who treat thinkly and never think orwronging them. lief - Oh northern dotigh face is the meanesttreVaill imagine. A few ot.*eve °tight mehange places with some slaves for a few years and taste the sweets of slavery end feel the slave drivels whip, Eat save even them from having their wires tittle once sold and paned from them forever. ' PatnaWiese will im:-himimier 4 An able writer in the Sew York Independent dins closes an article on the position of .Idessni. Clay, Webster, and other so called leaders: We have in our view some prominent states men who have fully exemplified the scorde of Christ Re drat trills= Lit lee shall fuse . ..a. They have given up every • thing fir ambitiOn. to he the President of the United States has made them silent when they should have spoken, and made theft speak when they should have been silent -N. It h made them fearful of their better imputseir. Every - thing has been sindied,---ealculated,—mea sured. They have ° been statesmen of. their elm advancement. They hate been, selfish. Truly they have their rervird. Is there no one who all! make proof of that other sentence-8e that nen* ins We stall sate it ? Many men weary of aghatior, longing for - peace, would be glad to see the slavery question sealed in some way, even if that were not exactly the, right way. So much stronger are the selfish instinetarif a community than ra benevolent sentiments, that it is bard to hold it up to aline: ' persevering , demand for riht simply us right_ .Th ey are soon sensible of less excitement, or less interest, of wavering moral sensibility, and stherrr . peradventure, of an impatience of consideration 'arid aZtation. In this mood their- mind is to adds fire thing ;to seek it the bes: way you can;bin to settle it! Like sick men made delirons, they are More Italians toqtfiet pain, thin to get-rid of it by removing &ease. But no moral question, practical or theoret- • ic, is finally settled until it is sealed right. It will not be quiet. It scqms it. It be g ins of the moment to assert and re-as ert itself. rots sub sists by power given it from wapiti. It is mead in itself,.and may be hewed and shaped like stone or timber, and lie passively wherever the, builder pats it But light, is not passive, not dead. It seems violence impatiently. It works and urine against commotion and seeks to free Lief, It is a fire inextbmnishable ; which, raked op yet lives, and pierces through the covering and seeks liberty ) and with every breath of air, bursts oat in flames. He that huddles op a settlement between right and wrong rimnimlful of this truth, will find ern his trisubles mum to him seven fold,-Statine on the question of Stately now, and it will come back again. They whocastofi light, east itagaiust God,.and bewail pre it an ithiwipatect rebound. Cot.: St: rms.—The Philadelphia Spirit rf rip Tiers very truly rap, any one who has ever care; lessly observed the course tattooist towards Col. Beane; cannot fail to perceive the nor of the re. marks made hy aeorrespondent of a euluekj pa per. The fact is roots has never suffered an op pormoity to escape, without showing the inherent - 4ickedmue and maturity of his heart, by *panty insulting, without the sksiresi•rrin, &lofted Beaton ; and all this, too, triPrely hem's. Col. Benton has 'timed to join the Emetics of lbetilmilb in their ireatherces monde against fire stabaitt of ths trnion. rikpaesbol scene in the Sark‘ ate °fay goes . to ainfirm the imminent of this tor respondent. that orpinieeml and rir4eitud ie apt, tin the paW of the Southern tiffs Of theSlsate, to disgrace, •if peassibre, Benfilft. Mid firiviliim form that betty room it is beficeed i is the scapegoat used' to make these 'perusal as- Lelia, and corer the ',bear' rr designs - of &scrm:r ies: This view of the case is truly ahrrming, and commends itself to the attention, of the true friend• of the perpetoil , of on( gtorions Cnimt, and of k r tree inittitritions. Let the Senate adopt: pieper means ro crush this conspiracy, and to vinirse - the gro t ity and honor of so gave abode so invaded and fondled. by esprtlifigfherekont men assassir, who disgraces the position thit ins holds. MIFF MM 11111 = ~ .,z,- ' .. ' - -;':''F.7:! 4 •:•,t'' l'i Z. -,t
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