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8 1 \% ;l 1 a il ! 8 I waited by THOMAS HAYSES. VOLUME YI11. O U K C O N S C I E X C U ii C O U N T R V O U R P A R T Y. MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MOluMMi, APRIL 2, 1841 P. L. UOSISfSOSf, Proprietor. NUMBER 10. SONNET TO LIBERTY. There is a spiiit working in the wmld ; l.ike to a silent sKliterrauean lilt 1 ; Yd, evei and a turn, some inonaicli hull’d ■\ ,r liast and pale, attests its awful ire. The itimjieoiiM nations now once more respire 'J’lie keen and stinintr air of liberty. 'j’| le (,'iant wakes, and finds, surprised, he’s free, ]5v Delphi’* fountain cave, that ancient Choir Kesinnes their son? : the Greek astonish’d hears, Y,,J the old .alter of his worship rears. y ouud on ! Fair Sisters; sound vour boldest lyre, p e; ,l V our old harmonies as from fai spheies! l’nto stranset'nds we lung have Lent the knee The tieitihliug mind, too long- and patiently. accord with the gentleman from Old thought I had seen a concerted mov, them here this session. I t o not pe: ..fit tittle those gentlemen bv name, !>tit iti* wii } !i:> to whom l refer, iti Wi long experience, fortified by vast k.tmvle ire, mi-, trust himself and bis position with mine. Me has re-I Potomac," another compromise will be necessary to r t unpaired by age, and otimalat ■'. b\ pin <ical qualities | Icrred t>» the results <>t the recent election in our State, ’ distinguLh between a high *t;d a low protective tariff . sig- peculiar m that gentleman. It is the derangement of | with a manifest air of triumph. He has not scrupled \ mid to'enable Southern members who have taken this* detained a mind which evidently lias a giant strength, and the to define and designate what lie conceived to be r.n ' I . SPEECH OF MR. COOPER. OF GEORGIA. In the House o f lleprescnlatirts. Ft i. 9 1 r41. ■ i , ...... rr ....... Tl . . ... aria esse" for their '’auxiliary," to persuade the n ‘ -’han icpeai in .heir lie u - - qnickt.cas of lightning. He tebs you ibis sidject shall purposes. He has assigned to me a purpose and an * people at home that a hirh protective larriff is tlte principles avowed bv the gentleman on this • and must be discussed iu this Hall. The evidences object disclaimed by me when I spokea few days ago; 1 within th? compromise, floor, I call on them to say whether the, all do not , that lie is right, are daily multiplying. which disclaimer was accompanied with a reference t Again, sir: that speech sbov.s toe great indifference agree. And t( I tun represent him, I a.*k him or some j Mr. Chairman, whilst the crime of negro stealing his private knowledge of my views of w hich he could j to the views of a very laris e portion" of that party in 1 is acknowledged by the member from Ohio, for the ! not be dispossessed. I have not misunderstood bin:. ' Georgia to which I belonged, and still belong, if there I purpose of fixing the guilt of a savage warfare on : His manner, his matter, and his words, establish wba- : b.* one such called the Slate Rights party. 0 ' I know I hat A a ;r< at political and moral evil, the people of my State, and that of kidnapping i* I say. He sai l niv position and his were the antago- there is none such, how ....« ou-ti. b abn'isli-;,!.” ; charged by him of Maine against a citizen of Gcor- ' nist of each other; that 1 was seeking to wield public ; From Flint r:\cr to th Sect-.- liy: •• float his constituents are insulted, that i gia, who takes his own ' 1 * ’ ' ' ' * their molt,-} h * been taken to pay for negroes, and are great!v excited -m the subject.” TLi.Jiv: ‘-Tiiat Congtess lias as much power to uents, or of the people of Kentucky. j myself up, and him and his party down. Heclai friend of Ifis to corn Sir, the gent! o .tains, fir-t. j gta, who takes h!s own negro; no charge whatever, opinion against him; that I was preparing the people >!mo»t every man of that order agrees wi | as they think, rests or, a-man of Oltio < r Maine who j of Georgia to believe, tint the Whigs of that State differs from “my colleague in fifi*: they tna ; sf,aJi ent ’ ce «»* lake away the property of my constit- were advocating a tariff; that I was seeking to put unction between the doctrine of State Right nr, since it has dissolved.- tern border of Georgia, with me, and ake no dis ights and Nul- ... . lieu I deation, and do not ixp.ct him to claim the “txclu- belonging to a lor himself by contrast, an ardent zeal, in a statesman-1 sice 1 tile of State Rig!, u representative, and rise speech, Mr. COOPER, of Georgia rose in repiv, and said : He li It himself cal! >d on by an imperious sense of dntv to do w bat he least anticipat* o, ami,- although it had been his purpose to remain silent during the rb- inaiader of the s'ssi-m, he w as not permitted quietly to sit and hear the people lie ret tv-cuted yes, his , . w . . . o . i j - - . —’ _ • - -»> "d”"”' we | ■ - *. jiitjjaiL-u i-j go wui m ui> way to sirthi the time, and here it stands. Does he or any one for i ward was offered, they caused her to be delivered voice of condemnation laid gone out, who have been I blow. hint disavow it? Xot at all, sir; he was well under- safely over on the Kentucky side; for which act, till 1 di>believed by the people, and who, he savs, will be | But who due.* my co! league mean by "his pat st,,(): -- jibe parties concerned, including the agent of the ; disbelieved again. Finally he said, in regard to South- j Does he mean the Whig party here? If so, I -ball not discuss those positions; I am not here for ! owner of the slave, were - present d by a grand jury ern interest, there js a power in esse north of the P,»-! charge and would make the people of Georgl; d to •r by th such a purpose: I put them flown as part of the histo- lor kidnapping, ry anil signs of the times. There niv duty ends. [lit re YTi* -These views are not peculiar to that gentleman; I Chair.J verv neighbors ^hindered and villifie-1, and the do- ai;i ' Vl 'l assured others here think with him. Else 1 He said he had no purpose to discuss the topics, i.-tts amidst which he had been horn and "by this silence? Their silence indicates either their but believed it to be right an J proper in reply to what agreement or their apprehension at expressing a difier- 'e.-t their constituents should condemn them. inds of their ir. Cooper was cc lit- ha trly?” I do _ people of Georgia be- tomac, on which he will throw himself for aid; and i lieve, (and my colleague also, if I Were not sure lie when ver that power should manifest a disposition knows;) that his party are the advocates of a high jtecuve tarn;, itii'jMc insinut eductited, with «Inch Ins constituents were identified, assailed and denounced ns a moral pestilence, that oolltPcd ton] i oiitamimited a 11 a no wete in < ontaci wi lt them. Xo, sir; I should be unfaithful to my onr .V trust, if I did nut speak cut, when sentiments those of the gentleman from Ohio, and principles several such as tie advocated, were freely and plainly uttered in dd- hall, in d e hearingof the American Congress— icntimctils and principles unwise, imprudent, unsafe, alarming, and destructive of this Government—prin ciples dictated by a false philanthropy, and unsup ported hy the laws and Constitution or bv tlte reason siu>1 ' :.ini justice o! the case. During three long hours, sir, we sat, hearing and to meet him, he would not stand off on the rigid rn'.es ol party, and refuse to co-operate, but would meet rate that puli tie-in on common ground. cons cnce, Either fact demonstrates th i hat G the great point. Sir, these senti ments are freely disseminated all over the Union bv d of the ablest conducted public journals in .New York, Boston, Cincinnati, and elsewhere. Tliev are last pervading the whole country north of Mason and Dixon’s line. This, too, I put down as a part of tid, to Itllfll'.' h->w Imw this suiij-'ct «as different- bad beet ly viewed under differing circnmsiauces. I nave (said Mr. C.) no notes ol mv own, save those taken of what the gentleman from Ohio said ; and I am strictly pursuing his remai ks. [Mr. Black of Georgia appealed from the decision o! the Chair. TI.e committee overruled the deci sion, and Mr. < ooper was permitted to proceed.] I have said sir, ;:l 1 design to siv of negro stcal- •tituen;; to iriiu me oolv And I now uidress him, party tiiat does advo- G .i u the right, as a | ilit! t-i II him he must I ought to feel humbled, sir, in presence of my j abandon all the nolicv hr. tofu re supported bv him colleague, and, in spite of hi- physical dimensions. 1 j mid myself, or quit tiiat party. | cannot too "much should realize tbe necessity of looking up when j 'admire the verv upright view presented bv the Iiou- w°u!d behold him; hut the considerations which have i 'arable member fiom Kentucky, (Mr. Underwood,) w ho elevated him would place me lower than I now am. i said “it is useless to try to argue when there are vital lleh.as procured that elevation bv an abandonment j difierences on principles: there must be a split or a ol his policy; I hive lo-t it by a refusal to do the like, f yielding of principle.” Ta’.e t! ■ 1 he same pow< r tint elevated him refused it to me. i tlemaii from tfte Xoric the history of the times. I should belie mv own con- ing in Ohio and in Maine. As I i lore remarl- .1, 1 seeing tin- inflictions which that gentleman attempted to put upon the Sta e ol’ Georgia. Respect lor otir- science, and !>e unfaithliil to those I represent, fail in re to record it. The gentleman from Ohio has made one discovery tee the views of gt mien for uhwii I give him credit, because it seems to con- ' their alarming import, diet somewhat wiih his views and [ii - -indices. It is 1 The mem!.er from Oitii jr! I! will not discuss any point involv' d in the subject. 1 shall lie content to bring in \ iew L»-fnr*‘this cummit- proc aimed here -e me grotmtl of t!ie geti- «!i.stnct, (Mr. Mallory:) lay liccanse I could not, like himself", compromise tin o- ' down your cardinal poit.t-, and sav if the Harrison pillions. He must fi-t I tiicconsciousness of versatility,! porty oppose these, I opj-'-e them; if they support 1 support them, 'i iitn mv colleague ami 1 party st; tain the nuas- aiid for that reas-m mti-t h nk less of himself ascends; w !ii 1st I never Hu in all am not requited to thick a ever vour elevation ma\ is he : Inese, w’.iat it was, and hence could agrei; for, if th: worse of myself, what- !ir,s proposed by tiiat \V (it are never so iui\ Hutto.-, 1>:in j.-roctir d for him 1 have endeavored to mu Ives and for the station he holds as a tneinb- r of this a patient liearing. rli with accuracy the sen timents he has uttered and the principles he lias laid down: that I might dearly define his purposes, and cx- p. st- the rule that governs him iti refusing or granting supplies to defend his country, win-a invaded by a fui He ii or domestic foe. I think I have n i rnisondcT.-tood him, nor have I erred i t the eslirn Me I have put on hi> purposes. The ju-op.i-iii :i before the cotmnittec is to appropriate YIOO.EQO to carevout an cfl-'fi to terminate t!;e F’iori- dawar—a confli* t v.iiich you have been engaged in for five v ears with savages and it logics slaves—a war unlike any other v, hi. h has bereloiure existed—a foe ever in tin- livid; n -wr seen but always fdt—con tinually attacking, !>'it rn-ver met—one with whom iurmcem mothers and their babes are as lawful victims tlie man at arms. To thb proposition the member fiom Ohio says lie magtii'ies the evils of the thi-: he has at length ascertained that “ir. gro steal- I l-uida war, as he conceives them, and exprerMi dial ing” ts a crime. It i.- due to him to admit, however, v»*s that '■slavery was the cause of it.' [Here Mr. that to constitute it a crime, he thinks it essential that Mr. Cooper p-msed, looking Mr. GiJdings in the u ir- committed bv awhile man living ■ fire; Mr. Giddings remarked, 7he gentleman is If committed by a citizen ol Geor- right.'] I know I am right, -ii man arrives :it lii^ condn.-ioii in t! vlien you JVC lost be. Yi itideiice in yourself. Iu this am-mpt to elevate himself by lowering nit, -ague is not entitled to the credit of originality, rny co siuct • I-.. i-omnuttee now tile oil'-nee should in a slave regi gia amongst th - Seminole Indians, it is a great crime, and a just caus-- of war on ie part ol’ the Seminole, for which he excuses and justifies tlte savage. IlYom- niittcd hy the Indian in Georgi-i, it is excusable, for thereby lite negro may escape his master, (l com muted by a citizen of New York nr Maine in Georgia Or \ trgitiia, it is not only net a crime, but an act of great benevolence and phihuuhropx, worthy to lie' 1 aided and abetted bv tiie Legislatures of those two great States. * ), Mr. Clifford from Maine, cal- [ 1 lore the Chairman led to order.! Mr. Cooper sa: I, sir, i do not intend l * be out of order, i only adverted to these cases by way o{ lustration. And the go th - way: the Geor gian' stole the Indian negroes; for which reason, iht- Indians fought. Without slavery, there would have been no negro stealing; th refore, slavery caus ed tin* war. q i.,^ reminds me of a certain mode of reason ing which I read about at school; bv which, it may proved, an ' with about as much propiiety, iu the conclusion, tiiat a curtain animal, going on two legs, Inning the stature ami appearance of the gentleman from Oitio, is a Goose. Slavery Ii id about as much to do with tin Florida in tile low lands, rf'tre kent up l.-e- < i ' of Scotland. dii than it learned from me when 1 last spoke. I wa more happy in the voluntary admission than lie cn '■*ib'ing to go with tl.u-m. his party are opposed to a-'l ids t.pposilion to it, ! ?' policy by proua t-ng am. who advocate if. i r know no more to mv discre- parly w, the cm, when they sin he in the charge. ; to u.- their police.-' In conceding to him the advantage nfposi'ion, 1 have refer nee only to that accidental promotion w tiidi, w hit all a man’s merit, often happens to him !,y : force of circumstances, which he has but little merit iu j lb 'I coniroling, and which, for tiiat reason, in the present \ nnti case, may very s -on place my coll* ague a little below ■ * mi. the level of hi.-, startiiig point. That lie won prize, is true; hut in winning it, he lost that, which i them, before him, hut Lilian, (Mr. Mallory.) I am 1 l.iiow my colleague and protective larl.ff; but, with i. indirectly sustaining that u.i.iiip iti pow.*r the only Ii- surely does this know- e i bin t. to their course, or . ict v Ski! every one knows ounp'-.d to school him.” .Not by my spi t-1 lies—not ii i in i be said. It is true, ince ld32, in- and i have been politically inti— ao i always pemonaliv o. W ith a freedbin and o’ mat was author 7-d and demanded bv our re- the i biti iik j have »>! o-pi! ! W ; ; this il say \V ' neii o r. X< w nore eu my war, as h nl ;» certain bree-i of ci il- j in cittisiitif that liarrassing horde ' iween t!ie iligiilandcis and Low! Mr. Evans of Maine lure rose, and sai !, lie deified , Ab >nt as iiiucli to do as the taking of name an 1 fi^lt, stand opposed. And upon wli.tt ground ? ‘The a,, V citizen of Maine had been guilty of negro j or poultry, had i:t prod tic •ns, and the reasons for in a manner unkind or to me isofgrcater value, and therefore not to be part- j unbecoming tbo>e relation?. Being of the same family, I had a strong desire to see him at all times - in the po>i>imi of strength—one that I could always ' ---m. I' i bin t.he last twi Ive montiis, however, the P* ospei t -»[ reanzuig that h:t' vanished. It has bc(*n pm out of mv view by the exhibitiou of a certain pli- ai'b- m rei-iai in him, which caused him to \ield cer- \ stealing—<>u the contrary, lie maint lined that certain persons from Georgia had come t-> Maine and kidr.ti war, he savs, was itnjii-t because t!to peonle ol Geor gia ami of Flotida were the aggressors. He lias eu- ii-uvored to trace the causes of that war with a view t u fix tliis on Georgia in particular. He ill inks lie has M r. Cooper said lie was apprised that the gent le- traced it to slaver//, for he declares that the crime of man from Maine, who tints interrupted him, held ! : u* negro stealing, committed bv the Georgians, was tin-same opinion with the gentleman from Ohio, on this cause of the war. He arrives at this conclusion by subject of negro stealiue; and, in so doing, nave Uf a. assuming, that without Maverv there could be no r.e- sticngth and weight to tlte gentleman from Ohio. [Mr. cm stealing, Giddings,] by his lalents and influence iti the ranks After condemning the war and Ins Government for oj liis politic <la».*ociHtes.’ He ’in*, u iteii in t’-.ecitatge .-ing engaged iu it—after abusuiL’ - , in a slanderous of negro stealing against the peopl ■ of G orgi:—-r M uiaerj the people I represent, for originating it, as that wltich is in G* orM-i considered equivalent, to lie.nl'ges—after pouring forth his iuvretixes and de wit, kidnapping. And whils: he does tin-, In- mair;- i intriati ms against the peculiar domestic institutions tains also, tiiat a citizen of Maine, going from G u.r- «fmy Stale* he niters loud and bitter complaints tint gia, commits no crime in harbnrimr, concealing, tu lle and hi* constituents are / i.rcdlc pay for this war— king, au-i carrying away a slave. But tiiat - -• ■ > ■ :aiscs ;i lanieniatioti and a wailing in behalf of tlte ter, in pursuit of such prop.-riy. recovering : ■ • tin* ■ r Indian, whiLt he statuL with hi* tomahawk and iimits of tlte State ol Maine, ts guilty o! /.<■■</•wpjang. fi'l. ovcr the mangled and bleeding bodies of the de- In this, sir, he agrees with tin* gentleman from Ohio. ' artless white mother and her chiUi, and declares he So do oilier gentlemen on this floor; many m >re, sir, "ill cive tiutliing to defend or protect his country. than this House lias credit for in the State ol Georgia. 1 ins. sir, is the character, the sum and substance of In this, ton, they are both susta tied by their political die philanthropy and benevolence of those w!>->, like party in Maine, Ohio, New- York, and tlsewliere. t-ie gtuilemati from Ohio, hive such a holy and pure 1 stand not here to dispute lite point with the i'hgiuti iu iegard t‘> slavery; so much good will lor tlemau from M dm IF i he w a r about tti imti of p mies hail in pro.in. in ; the In lit ■ >r l at v. hi. h rcsiilt.-n in the battle of If th- Dix '-.if iFirmii s rcusonuig i e j ' ii< nl ; iu\ I diau war Line, wot of till. • Old i onfuto s and coni ' : i u fl not trui •; and t ic 'flu jeeasiosi iike fin* i. * ith TectiniS' h a* the .-tealiug war* in Ohio : [ , . pf'-anoe. i. there -tight *r!h o| ?ii .son V *i\* st-ir-ds tl'-e- to ed witli. He says, I Itave endeavored to “wield ptilthc senti ment.” How >-ra »!l this seems to me! Th it I should w :*h to uid me inivstice.’ cli.rge? U’l'V comorehen l u: op port it n if v o schooled i'W . mien,or. M\ tionl h .ve a.-- he not } e i cm a -: aid i» tint ''pit', b*. any man') M > r 11!a ntai public opinion. Would my culleac ue do B\ no means. Why then make thi- in.u’t he understand me? Why net m >ven:e its? He has had the fairest know K.-r th-oronglilv. Me were -h ve ilesrended I’r'-rn a common e - I before him, in whatever sta ll e know s it a II. Why then has ill i ; »r. “!> hi* gr. ai anxicyx to get u nation me ting' in tins i! i xoivt the benefits of it : tiirc.'iteticd to my people, I rc*;)o:i'ib'bf\. Ml. .-(he knows it to be c.rn’.r m” * f r « laui puiat* I never e.\prt f; il inm to surrender. But t have 11ot ;i;tempted to “ ■clmol liim.” So far from .1, I . title no iiiltision to I .in in my remarks in reply l" the gentleman fiom Ghio, [Mr. Giddings.l It 't eiticd to suit ins purpose, and (iir.t of'oih' rs, to con- tiie \erv little respect I have ever ' v c ; 't It Into a “ fain Hu quarrel,'' instead of joining opinion," w hjcli can be wielded me a .d my colleagues i i repelling the attack of the l:\ h s he omitted to observe, I have members fr :m Ohio and Maine. It mv colleague :ii t the only legitimate or reputable . iu-ijoined i.e m the defence, the entire forces of the ui to control or wield public opinion, j ••••odd have showed i!i-mselvi s, from Ohio, -l!l! ? and a ver v mu-e, Ite as torn* ■ ii to disi ith ien dwelt on the evils of it. notwitii::aud'i:g culled to otder by three of mv ' '.reels, W till W UtCll .tv ilu* /.; fs as fit \ exist, and the prin. i.dcs of right 1 trotn .danse, from M •n.s wrong :q> i tilde t 1 tlieu:.'' \V • v fail to remark, ! i. otiiuciicut, Y ern,";. vi .; -verv act <f mv life shows, that I h tve notonlv *houi'I have It ’ecu tin.' ilium tint it should lie wielded bv m itself or ••no*. ;..> * n-i?->; dfiersnii any plan tlmi this; but Itave refused to ac-; '■<■•••» by turn;.;; vpt the-benefits of a cltange inil'iced !»v otlter means? ' . • But. he sax*, 1 am setkinu to wield it “for the pur- j lea - * .tic 'osc of elevating myself, and,putting him and his par- h :• Tiiis is *ti!l more reinarkalsle. It i* tin- “ z-.ut Ue and k< .Ui b\ liy him and tiio.-i 1-i. He will tin' /• / 1 •" Sort!, era inti t:e W iii manage to .. a.e - u; • fur giving f'u'in t! repel their atlac!-;. colleagues, [Messrs. ! !y down Black, Haber*iiam, and Warren.] The first evil a!- ! authorized and unjust. If he and his party “are what : how leged b\ him was a savage, unjust, atn! iniquitous war, they have been,” I could not put them down, witho> t ! gun waged, as he says, against innocent unoffending red goingdown with them. J have preferred to set them j how men of the forest. . up, tliouuh I might remain down* I would not have, what th;“ “auxiliary in . The second, and, as lie thinks, the greatest, is that them up for any purpose not avowed in 133.3, when! "d’ avail him. ifis constituents have to pay for it; and not only so, they organized, I could not wish them clown, there- j My colleague china. 1 whether a citizen of Maine lias but have been required to pay for negroes captured lore except to establish their own views and policy, j -euting hf.ie Rights ~ sent In no Its, from .Yew YYrk, ci.*ev fit re ; and we all : Itt'icad of that, lie down tin- a-sailants’ for-* mu '. i.i a very short Uiilcd t : tti< ir discharge, w I; i agree with hirn the i-ave full scope fur his ads." .Am! we shall sec ■ fire of the enemies vautace ground, We shall also learn :!j of the Potomac” stolen a n ai!) from Georgia. 1 leave that is*ue to the court and jury of Chatham county, where, at leas', exists primu iiicic evidence of guilt. Y\ helher a citi zen of Georgia ha* been guilty of kidnapping his own negro, pursued and recovered in Maine, where lie had (men taken and harbored, i* still more foreign to purpose to tnvesttgat mis an for the fact that it lias been wantonly made on this* in. Indian and the negro—mixed “with scorn and in- digimion for the Southern white man. This affords usa measure of his patriotism. I rejoice, sir, that we of the South have a diflereni ami more exalted patrioii*m—one which i* neither taea*ured by purse, or love of Indians and negroes, nor our love of money. Xo. sir. Though you were at war fora petty *trip of laud on your ?\orth-easteiit boundary, lit only lur firewood, Southern products, Southern mom y, and Southern blood would be at floor by a leader of one of the parties in ibis House, I your commaii !. YYe should not stop to inquire whcih- would not stoop to notice it. Sir, I have been receot- ?r \ our war wa* just or unjust. \ \ c should not :tt- iv dej.*rived ot the power to resent it as I should do, Ti:e j'.owcr of prop- floor lias been t:u. Fiat purport* : et i iit office of repre- *'e 1* now, fir, he was -•tit why do'-s he sit si- in it, thereby acquiring the relation of masters to This, sir, is what certain practicable gentlemen at those slaves. pleased to cal! tut “abstraction," which renders me , lent on tins floor, opening not his mouth, whilst a Thirdly, slavery, lie says, has prevented the Sem- impracticable* Nevertheless, it is with men pleasing, host, unit 'it!me** on their tongue, in the ranks of inoles from emigrating. i “abstraction,”—one that I cherish as I love truth and i his own whig associates, are r! ii'y abusing, reviling, To make good these serious complaints, lie atldu- rectitude. ; 'ud scoffing at the Ntillifiers and their doctrines ? idv ces the report of Gen. \Y ilev Thomson, aid of Goy. Put this colleague of mine down? Xo, sir. He Y\ liy does he unite witli them and travel out of his jve^jo-atc. The charge is too slander- Duval; the orders of Gen. Jesup ; the memorial of is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh. For that j way to rulii tile and bring into disrepute what he and vi Iv to m fit a refutation from me; and but '■ John Walker; and that of an Apaladiico! i cltief. am! other reasons, I do not wifii to see him prostrate, j otlter* call 11 Southern ab fractions —Why does Hi* errors ! would gladly put down in hirn, not thro' , he attempt to blend, contuse, and confound the priri- bv the act of my constituents, erlv resenting such outrages on confided to other hands, i confess, however, that, te apt to re pro icn mir Government and country for a wn,-, that might have r. sttlti d from cutting or stealing i' 1 "!. as LngUni.i would say, on 1; r own territory. ^ c Miotild make no such charge against any State, j impotent as my arm has been rendered, it is moved by “e should hold it to be our country s cause; and for an involuntary effort to return lhe blow tiiat R given* n ;’ r cause and her lioimr we should bleed and die. 'To mv coll agues, sir, who hold here the powers of X". *<) with the centh tuan from Ohio. He lias no j tin- scorpion and the spear, I leave the office and the ’ •»•! to shed, no batth s to fight, no money to pay, ‘ credit of driving back the gentleman from M fine. In "•;> sympathy to exercise. Standing on the side of! tny feebleness, I slit* 11 probably have enough to do ‘o • c.juiiirOs (lies, lie condemn* his country, feels only , repel the attack of the picket guard, commanded by These documents may serve his purpose of getting up '‘■indignation" meetings amongst his constituents, him. I fet-1 too mmch interest in him, to see him I They are insufficient for anv other. Bv one of them. ! made the instrument of effecting mi*chief: hence the Ft he would also implicate two gentlemen of character; freedom the candor and fidelity I have always excr- fir persona Mate Rights era! party ? Why doe; prof-sM!-.'] that Federal i •fit, otv with those of the he give lit* sanction to a State Rights dew of It tins be representation, then indeed rf ci ly in order to represent anti-tariff mown to me : the one residing iti mv own ! rRrd towards him, above all others. ; onr *\ s’err town, and the other residing in Invi ami, Alabama, lie says I eu leavo- t«rprepare tlte peopl- of Gcor- he wi i be and distinguished for his gnlmntr\ i t the late Creek gin t;» believe th a he and his party are advocating a c-m-titueii's and defend a protective tariff. war. On such evidence, introduced at this time by 1 tariff. In this lie has made a mistake. He must a!-; He say-' he is a “ strict constructionist,” “a Pliar- the member from Ohio, for such purposes as he has in I trie to the g» nth-man from Virginia, (M r. Wise,) nr..! : Lee of the Pharisees; and ytt, to make !timself/?r*?c- ien’/e, i.e i* practically yielding all construction. To view, I would not feel i? just to those g ui'lerna.i « ven two "thers <>f I i* colleagtirs, (Messrs. Black and A] to join issue. If they were hen*, to i e >r the imputa- - fi*rd.) each of wlmtn direct hi charged him and ccrtair tion ■rigid" he will meet the “ or they vere made els'-wlvre l>v the g r -nt!r- man, [Mr. Gid-liugs,] I would m-t pr-mfise to save hi* person harmless. S:r, it is of tt piece with the -dander he so free I v dealt out in regard to the people ut..<*rs lr< que-tions u me o mtli, wiio spoke with him on certain with yielding to tariff influences, and ofin- itpporting a protective principle. \Y hy ■power tse north, of the Potomac" on common ground. id bciug called •-" UJ l.iO J. Wiidt does he mean by tiiis “power in esse north of the Potomac?" M il! he designate it by measures, or interests, or the names of men ? It is incumbent on my colleague to d -fine his posit ion. It is lfi* error, o, ifis weakness, that fuJmidst the floweis of rhetoric * - ; 'uiu correct him. Lit him bv indulged iu hi* j before him, written out letter and word beforehand, me; that tm* s I o rectify tins would otily dri'e bun to lmta | ready fir any and till occasions. See the impulse now , sincere effort to 1 e on er. My eflurt sli.all bv confined to t:u- at- j given to this committee. Remember the declarations i directly docs tny colleague forego the reply to ti o*e gentle men, (two of whom are *till in his own paity aliup- ment,) to m die a tiiru*t at me? I have made no ai- 11* - ton to the subject, being absent during that debase, and the charms of oratory, he becomes conspicuously But having seen mv colleague’s speech, I take occa- eba ure. sion b re to say, that the sentiments it contains, con He say* I intim-ited in tny reply to the member . : i have resulted fr-nn a candid and ne.-ted with w hat is doing an I .-*aying here, satisfy me . from Ohio, tiiat my colleagues were missing. In do mv duty, bv repelling the slander- that the charge made hy loose gentlemen is not with-' this he is wholly wrong. Nothing xvas further from ons attack of a member from Ohio, upon onr common out foundation. I regret that he made that speech, j what I did or said. On the contrary, I ghe evj- nnd tl'eii* dome*tic affairs, in which I It shows too great indifi* rence to the protective prin- dence of their presence, by turning to them and ask ■*. ; >t to expose and repel liis f iLe and slanderous! and threats of tiie gentleman from Massachusetts, : constituents , , . . , , , j n -^ “gainst the people I represent? exhibiting, us I j [ Mr. Adams.] made during the present session. Sir, | made tm allusion to rny colleague with -iti a proper ciple. In it I.e sa.djust w hat the friends of protection mg tuem to near witness to the grounds taken by the \ f • ’ \ > $ V