Speech of Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, on non-intervention: delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 22, 1852.
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Title: Speech of Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, on non-intervention : delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 22, 1852.
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Speech of Hon. P. Soulé of Louisiana, in Reply to Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, on the Measures of Compromise: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 23, 1850 (Classic Reprint)
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It will be remembered that, when the resolutions were first introduced, an ani mated debate sprung up in the Senate, and that they were assailed at all points. Among other criticisms to which they were subjected, it was declared that they had nothing practical about them; that they were mere abstractions. Against this charge the honorable Senator from Kentucky defended them with his usual warmth and eloquence. He maintained that they were not abstractions; that all of them 1n volved principles, and that he designed to have the deliberate vote of the Senate upon each of them. This declaration was highly satisfactory for, in these exciting times, when the South was menaced with being pressed down to the earth under the assaulting hosts of the fanatics, a large and commanding vote of the Senate, assert ing the rights and immunities of slaveholders in the District and m the States to be secure both under the plightings of the public faith and the prohibition of the Federal constitution, would have served two valuable purposes the one in check ing and discouraging the assadants in their mad career, and the other in its tendency to soothe and quiet the South, aroused and inflamed as she was through their menac ing bearing and galling calumnies. It would not, indeed, have been any thing to boast of; yet it would have been something in the way of a plea for further for bearance on her part, to have had assurances, through the solemn votes of both houses of Congress, that while they were stripping the South of her legitimate rights to share in the migration and settlement of Federal Territories, yet that the rights of slaveholders in the District and between the States would remain sacred and inviolable.
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Speech of Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, on the Pending Measures of Compromise: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, May 21, 1850 (Classic Reprint)
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The second comes back with a virtual surrender to Congress of that very power and jurisdiction over slavery in the District which the South have heretofore' resisisted so strenuously, and which there is every reason to believe she will resist to the last for if, under the guise of breaking up as nuisances the public slave marts, (which are mere matters of municipal regulation,) Congress may prohibit slaves from coming here, and may emancipate them when they do come, (though brought for the honorable purpose oi being sold to pay slaveholders' just debts,) is it not an obvious assertion of a power to emancipate them, if brought here for any other purpose and no one who admits the power of Congress to legislate against this species of property which may be brought here for the payment of debts, and to convert (without a breach of faith towards the ce ding States) this District into free territory, so far as it relates to slaves brought here for sale by their owners, can reasonably dispute thereafter either the power or breach of good faith involved in making it free territory altogether!
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Speech of Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, on Colonization in North America, and on the Political Condition of Cuba: Delivered in the Senate of United States, January 25, 1853 (Classic Reprint)
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Then follows a succinct account of the, excitement created In Havana by the 1113 prisonment of a large number of Creoles In loathsome dungeons, &c.
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Speech of Mr. Soule, of Louisiana, on Non-Intervention, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, March 22, 1852 (Classic Reprint)
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But, much to my wonder, and still more to my deep concern, that contingency, so strikingly pointed at in the resolutions, was entirely overlooked in the speech, where it is not even alluded to. Sir, I had determined that it should not remain unheeded, and I now plead its implied concessions in Vindication of the Views which I propose to lay before the Senate.
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Pierre Soule was an American jurist and diplomat. He was active in Louisiana politics and pre-Civil War diplomacy.
Background
Pierre was born on August 31, 1801 at Castillonen-Couserans in the French Pyrenees, the youngest son of Joseph and Jeanne (Lacroix) Soule. His father, a brilliant Napoleonic officer, was for twenty years a magistrate; his mother came of distinguished native stock.
Education
In 1819 he took his bachelor's degree in Bordeaux, and then proceeded to Paris to study law.
Career
A lawyer in 1822, he soon joined in the republican movement against Charles X, publishing with others the journal, Le Nain Jaune, and thereby inviting monarchical prosecution. Arrested in April 1825, he was convicted and sentenced to prison. Preferring exile, Soule escaped to England and on September 5, 1825, arrived at Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Finding conditions there unsatisfactory, he proceeded in October to the United States, landing at Baltimore. A stranger in Baltimore, a wanderer in New York, Soule in November found refuge in New Orleans.
To perfect his English he traveled inland in 1827, receiving Andrew Jackson's hospitality at "The Hermitage" and, after an illness, requiting the kindness of Dominican monks at Bardstown, Kentucky, by acting as gardener.
The next twenty years witnessed his rise in varied fields of endeavor: as criminal lawyer, orator, financier, and man of affairs. He was a generous friend of French refugees, a philanthropist toward his fellow citizens, and, politically, a notable accession to the Democracy.
Having spoken for Van Buren in 1840, he was chosen a delegate to the convention of 1844 for revising the state constitution; there he early gained recognition as the unofficial leader of the New Orleans delegation, although Judah P. Benjamin shattered his constitutional arguments. In the first election ensuing under the revised constitution, New Orleans, on January 19, 1846, sent Soule to the state Senate where he led the successful struggle for the abolition of compulsory capital punishment. On the death of United States Senator Alexander Barrow in December 1846, John Slidell, Soule's rival, preferring a full term of six years, encompassed the latter's election for the unexpired term of three months.
The English and French missions being closed to him, the former by Buchanan's claims, the latter because of his republican hatred of Louis Napoleon, who cordially reciprocated, Soule dreamed of St. Petersburg, only to be thwarted by the Czar, to whom his republicanism was anathema.
On April 7, 1853, Soule therefore accepted the mission to Madrid, thereby deliberately revoking a pledge to secure it for his brilliant Louisiana friend, the historian Charles Gayarre.
In Madrid, after his arrival on October 14, the condescending tenor and impertinent advice of his proposed address to the Queen led to revision and rebuke from the Foreign Office; his sartorial vagaries and belligerent pride led to two notorious duels by him and his son, and to the ostracism of his family. Despite the express prohibitory instructions of Secretary William L. Marcy, Soule sought the acquisition of Cuba by purchase, by favor of the Queen Mother, or as collateral for a royal loan. The Black Warrior episode in Havana led him to exceed instructions and attempt acquisition by threat of war.
On April 3, 1854, Marcy at last ordered him to attempt the purchase of Cuba and, failing that, to "detach" it from Spain. Finding purchase programs futile, Soule, that summer, strove to "detach" Cuba, first, by aiding Spanish republican revolutions, and second, by conniving with Ledru-Rollin in engendering revolution in France, involving the assassination of Louis Napoleon. Failure in both plans caused Soule's sudden and discreet withdrawal from Madrid to his Pyrenean cheteau.
On August 16, Marcy, cancelling the project of a commission to aid Soule, which had led the latter to threaten his resignation, directed him, James Buchanan, minister to Great Britain, and John Y. Mason, minister to France, to confer on Spanish-American relations with particular reference to Cuba. Buchanan, seeking annexation on strict ethical and legal bases, posited the application of economic pressure on Spain through foreign bondholders; Mason, with passive complacence, would permit expediency to outweigh ethics, but demanded a semblance of legality; Soule, militant and embittered by past failures, sought Cuba regardless of ethics or legality.
Retiring to private law practice, Soule in 1857 successfully defended William Walker, the Nicaraguan filibuster, and became interested in a projected transisthmian canal in Tehuantepec, Mexico. In politics, he supported Buchanan as delegate to the Democratic Convention of 1856, and finally lost Louisiana to Slidell in 1859.
The next year, although now opposed to secession, he went with his state. General Benjamin Butler's notorious regime in New Orleans found Soule the chief adviser of Mayor Monroe and Confederate provost-marshal. Arrested in June 1862, he was sent to Fort Lafayette, New York, and paroled in November to Boston, whence he fled to Nassau in the Bahamas and Havana in February 1863.
Successfully running the blockade to New Orleans, he tendered his services to the Confederacy at Richmond from September 1863 to June 1864, but President Davis' hostility prevented his rise to position other than a somewhat honorary brigadier-generalship.
In 1865 he joined ex-Senator William M. Gwin of California in a project to settle Confederate veterans in Sonora. Four years later his powerful intellect gave way, and he was declared interdict.
For his activities in the republican movement against Charles X and as publisher of Le Nain jaune, Soulé was arrested in April 1825, convicted, and imprisoned.
A unionist during the secession crisis of 1861, Soulé supported Louisiana during the Civil War.
Connections
Returning to New Orleans, in 1828, he married Armantine Mercier, a belle of the Vieux Carre and a sister of Armand and Charles Alfred Mercier. She bore him a son.