The State guard., 1848-06-20


 We are told, however, continued the speaker, that there can no harm happen from the doctrines of Gen. Cass, inesmuch as lhe shareholders will have a say in regn. lating the internal concerns of these terri tories, and will be way apt to protect thei, rights. On this view Mir. YaDcey called attention 10 other portions ol Gen. Cass' letter, 10 show how little chance slave holder from Alabama would have, if Gen. 1 Cass' opinion was constitutional law, were he to emlIrate 10 New Mexico, just acquif- ed by us from Mexico, by treaty.
 Gen. Cass says, 'lhe descriptions which reach us of the condition of California and of New Mexico, to the acquisition of which our, efforts seem at present directed, unite in representing those countries as agricul tural regions, similar in products 10 the Middle States, and generally unfit for the production oi the great staples which can alone render slave labor valuable. If we are not grossly deceived-and it is difficult to conceive how we can be-ihe inhabt ants oi those regions, whether they denend upon their plouehs or their herds, cannot be slavehoiders." *
 In the able letter of MT. Buchanan upon this subject. not long since given to the pub lie, he presents similar considerations wIb great force"
 "Should we acquire territory beyond the Rio Grande, and east of the Rocky noun tains, il IS still more impossible that ma, joritY of the people would CONSENT to re- establish slavery. They are themselves a colored population, and among them the negro does not belong socially to degra-
 'Beyond the Del Norte," says Ar. Walk. CT, slavery will not pass not only because il is for6idLen by t1qo, but because the cot ored race there preponderates in the ratio of ter 10 o'ie orer Mg ,ohites and holding, as tLey do the government ant most of the offices in their possession Meg aoW n0t per- mil Me easlarement of apy fortioa of he colored race. which makes and executes the laws 5i the country"
 l The question, il will therefore be seen on examination, does not regard the exclu- sion of slavery from region where 1t now exists, but prohibition against its inuo- duction where it does not exist aud where flom the feelings of the inhabitants and the laws of nature, ''it is morally impossible D as Mir. Buchanan says, that it can ever re- establish itself"
 Tine only comment, said Mir, Yancey. which will present on this, to you a slave l holding population, Is, that Gen. Cass hese endorses the opinion that in these terrlo- ries just acquired by treaty.. the ''coioyed population, , there outDumbering the whites ''ten Co oAe,o will have the right 10 s'reeu- l In.a h,.i int n.I ,f tbnt .,, " lin thelr own way" and ii you take your slave there, that ''colored raceo will not ''coasent" that he shall longer continue d slave--' WILL NOT PERMIT Me eRSidre> mem of any portion of tae colored rdce.o We, the people of the South, have been accustomed to think that in legislatng for the States or territories, the whites should no: ask the "consento or ''permitp of the ''colored race," to pass laws ito regulate our internal concerns" But you have the same new views presented to you by Buch. anan and Walker,F qriM greGt force," says MT. Cass, apho endorses Mem! And it these yiews are 10 be maintained as con- l sttulional law, and are to be endorsed by the great democratic party of the country, by the ell ction of Class by them, how slim lS AHc CUdbtC SpOhNii Ois tlut tiiS SidFCu der will be able in those new territories to protect himself, particularly where this "colored race," whom Gen. Cass holds will be (will be, did say whom he holds alc) "our beloved fellow-cIlzens," out number the whites ''ten to one ]"
 Beyond doubt, then, continued Mir. Y. the nominee, and "lhe political nee essty" contemplated in the 18th resolution of our State Convenlion, are before Us And 1 demand of ihe Democratic party of the Slale the iulfilment 10 the very letter, and in its very spirit, of the pledge made to him (Mr. Y as a member of that body, and as it's delegate, and made "io the coun- try," that 1t would not give it's support to such a nomination. under any political necessity, whaever.p
 Mir. Yancey went on to say, that he considered the action of the Baltimore Convention 10 be l'raught with more dan gerous consequences than even the opin- ions of Gen. Cass; that action was the recorded opinions ot great party, holding control of the destlnies of this country the opinions of its nomlnee were those on. ly of a T individual, rendered ot importance by reason of the endorsement Of such parIy. He then went into a history of the course oi the Convention on the resoiu ions brought before il. He said that the Cons vention, finding the South entering eager- ly into the Vice Presidential scramble, took advantage of it to snatch away the principles which we had so boldly assert ed, as it gave encouragement to each DOT tion 10 hope that it's candidate for Vice President would be selected. He believed that all those candidates, with the exception of McCay of N. O., had reason 10 think they would be chosen, and that the result was great disappointment to those who did not get 1t.
 He said, that it had been contended that the resolution adopted by the Baltimore Convention covered all interference by Congress in States or Territories. This was an error. In the Committee a motion was made to add, after the word States, the words For territories" and the molon was poted dolrR. It is contended, however, that the resolution as it stood covered the same ground. This is not so and even if it were so, it has to be carried oll by se- were construction; and so important mat. ter should not be Jeff to construction. The Convention, then, finding the South diyi- Ged in pursuit of office. actually receded in itstresolulion from the ground to which we had succeeded in forcing Gen. Cass- that IS, that Congress had no right 10 in terfpre in either inc States 0y TryriiOrjes