The gentleman from South Carolina [Mr. Calhoun] seemed, at the conclusion of the argument made by the Senator from Kentucky, to be filled not only with delight but with ecstasy.  He told us, that about twelve months since HE had offered a resolution which turned the tide in favor of the great principle of State rights, and says he is highly pleased with the course taken by the Kentucky Senator.  All is now safe by the acts of that Senator.  The South is now consolidated as one man; it was a great epoch in our history, but we have now passed it; it is the beginning of a moral revolution; slavery, so far from being a political evil, is a great blessing; both races have been improved by it; and that abolition is now DEAD, and will soon be forgotten.  So far the Senator from South Carolina, as I understand him.  But, sir, is this really the case?  Is the South united as one man, and is the Senator from Kentucky the great centre of attraction?  What a lesson to the friends of the present Administration, who have been throwing themselves into the arms of the southern slave-power for support!  The black enchantment I hope is now at an end—­the dream dissolved, and we awake into open day.  No longer is there any uncertainty or any doubt on this subject.  But is the great epoch passed? is it not rather just beginning?  Is abolitionism DEAD—­or is it just awaking into life?  Is the right of petition strangled and forgotten—­or is it increasing in strength and force?  These are serious questions for the gentleman’s consideration, that may damp the ardor of his joy, if examined with an impartial mind, and looked at with an unprejudiced eye.  Sir, when these paeans were sung over the death of abolitionists, and, of course, their right to liberty of speech and the press, at least in fancy’s eye, we might have seen them lying in heaps upon heaps, like the enemies of the strong man in days of old.  But let me bring back the gentleman’s mind from this delightful scene of abolition death, to sober realities and solemn facts.  I have now lying before me the names of thousands of living witnesses, that slavery has not entirely conquered liberty; that abolitionists (for so are all these petitioners called) are not all dead.  These are my first proofs to show the gentleman his ideas are all fancy.  I have also, sir, since the commencement of this debate, received a newspaper, as if sent by Providence to suit the occasion, and by whom I know not.  It is the Cincinnati Republican of the 2d instant, which contains an extract from the Louisville Advertiser, a paper printed in Kentucky, in Louisville, our sister city; and though about one hundred and fifty miles below us, it is but a few hours distant.  That paper is the leading Administration journal, too, as I am informed, in Kentucky.  Hear what it says on the death of abolition:—­

“ABOLITION—­CINCINNATI—­THE LOUISVILLE ADVERTISER.

“We copy the following notice of an article which we lately published, upon the subject of abolition movements in this quarter, from the Louisville Advertiser:—­