Senator Berrien

ThsTgem'eman has just been re-eiecieu senator in Congress by the Legislatura f Georgia. He stands high in the estinntion of the Whig party, and if we ightly remember he has been proposed y some Whig papers as a candidato for Vice President. The Southern Recorder if Nov. 28, published at Milledgeville, has an address delivered by him at a Whig meeting, in which he enlarged upon Annexation and Abolition. The following extract will show the views of Southern Whigs on Annexation and iheir rcadincssto welcomo Texas with Slavery. Fie reiterated the maxim so long established at the South, that the South can do whnt they please with theNorth by being united ii their mcasures.I did nol realize the tnith of the t -ition, thnt the anr.exation of Texas was , íecessnry lo the conservntion of our pe:uliar dómestic instituiions. My personxl obscivation had assured me, 'that the ianger with which these were said to be menaced, had been magnified by demagogues and my own view was and is, and is unchangeably, whenover that danger shall really exist, that the safer, as well as the loftier course for Southern men to pursue, is tocut at once the cord which binds us to fanatics, and to meet as open enemies,rather than its confedérate statcs, those who would seek thus insolently to interferO with a subject which it belonged to us and to us alono, exclusively to regúlate. I could not doubt, sinco n portion of Texas, from its soil and climate, was adapted to slave labour, that the South by its admission, would acquire accession of strength, in the councilsof the Unionbut when I looked throughout the confederacy, and saw how many of our confederates were in the process of change, from the condilion of slave to free States, and the utter impossibility that n converese change would occur in any single solitary instance, I feit that this strugglo for Southern prepondera nee in those councils, bysuperiority of numbers, was vain and idle - a war ngainst the fato to which our Union with the other Stales of the confederacy had destined us only to be compensated by the essential advantages, which that Union secured to U3 - thnt it might temporarily subservo the views of those whose lives had been spent in one long dream ol" elevation to the Presidency of these Stales, but that it would not permanently promote the inter ests of the South - 1 feared the influence of this precedent, and the cverwhelming retribution which might bebrought upon us when ei reu mst anees should permit, and a majority of Congress should resolve upon the nnnexation of States, resting on another border of our confederacyNo, gentlemen, the strength of the South, in the councils of the Union, does not depend, and in the inevitable course of events, never will result from our numerical superiority. It can be producid only by union among ourselves - by our own united counsels - by silencing the clamor of demagogues - and by b.iflling the intrigures, who fatten on the national crib, in servile obedienc1 to those who feed them, and utterly regardless of the State which protects them. It can be produced by this union.I dismiss the subject of the annexation of Texas, therefore with this brief remark, that the questionof consti'.utional power which t involves, has been decided - that the faith of this nation stands pledged to the peoplc of Texas, and that their faithiul complinnce with the terms which have been proposed by the United States, istheonly remainingpre-requisite to their admisaion into this Union. And whcn that shall have been nccomplished in good Hiith, I bid them God speed, with as sincere and hearty good will as those who have most strenuously advocated the mensure, which I have as aslrenuously opposed . Inreference to the assert ion that he had been seen in Boston in company with the Abolitionist C. M. Clay, he replies: I add that hewho affirms directly, or insinúales by indirection, that I did on that, or on any other occasion, give countennnce to afanaticism, my abhorrence of which, of ten expressed in the Señale oí the United States, is only limilcd hij the pity which ïfeelfor its victims, such a man asserts , what in the act of uttering it,he knows to be false,or he is a madman, who knows not what he does assert. - Lunacy, or falshood are the only alternatives which can be presented to him.