The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-07-14
Number A.
Brown ". Gen. Cass.

SRN93N
VIC uro indebted TO the Hon. A r. Rrown
OF this State; for a copy of his interesting
speech on the Government Of Territo,ies.n
delivered in Congress on the 3D. instant. We
are g%rattihed to see that the Governors il this
speech distinctly repudiates The Prominent
doctrine Of Gen Cass' Nicholson letter. The
people OF Mississippi, for whom he claimed
the right to speak, will, we think, second eve:
rythihg he advanced in condemnation
OF the principle which recognizes the right Of
the +" colored population" Of New Mexico and
California to regulate the question Of slavery.
We have heretofore shown that Gen. Cass dis.
tinctly says involuntary servitude never
c~an@exist ID those territories, because nine.
tenths of their present Inhabitants are g color.
ed,'' and because, in his opinion those people
have an undoubted right to exclude slavery.
in speaking upon this sObjectiGov. Brown says:
- shall not admit the rightin the people
Of the territory to exclude me and my constits
uents from the full participation in the use and
occupancy ofthese territories. Thete is some
thing SO monsisouS insuch a proposition that
the mind recoils instantly on bsholains it,
Suppose you receive Gas you probably will
within the next week) the Mexissn treaty
ratified, and that you proceed, before the close
OF this session Of Congress, TO organise . ter
ntorlal government in Mexico and Cell fornia
will the inhabitants Of those territories hayo
the right TO exclude whom they pleass2 Do
gentlemen mean seriously to contend, that af-
ter fighting out this war at the expense Of
more than fifty millions Of dollars (ths GSVer:
nor is too modest) and the sacrifice OF more
than FIVE thousand precious lives, we ere not
now to settle in the territories acquired by
this vast expense and sacrifice, until the Mer-
lean Inhabitants huA be wiRing 10 grsnG us
hGpe!m
This is what Gen. Cass means to say and
what he actually does say in his Nicholson
epistle. The Governor conlinues:-G Do they
mean to assert that the victorious aRd proud
hearted American is to go cap in hand, to the
miserable, cringing Mexican peon, and ask
his permission to settle on the soil wen by the
vulor Of our troops at Buena Vista, OF before
the walls of Mexico? Truly, sir, there is
something new in the law Of nations-this
doctrine that the cOnqueror may only use his
conquest as the whims and capricSs Of the
conquered may choose to dictate. / shOuld like
Y to hear gentlemen who hold these doctrines
advancing them to our southern soldiers
i | should be glad to know what response q
, members of the let Mississippi Rifles, or the
South Carolina Palmetto Regiment, would
1 make to a Member Of Congress wh0 would
tell him that he could not take his property 10
California until the Indians and MexicanS in
in that country gave him special leave to do
e soy"
Thus far the Governor. We are glad that a
prominent Democrat and an influential Mis-
b sissippian has taken ground SO strongly a.
gainst the doctrine that the introduction Of
7 slave labor into our newly acquired territories
depends entirely upon the "CoNsENT'' Chat is
I the word Gen. Cass uses) of their present dir
s ~ mOngreI population. AS long as Mr.. BroVn
holds the opinions we have Just quoted, he
" can never cOnsclentiousty support Gen. Cass,
q And we shall not be at all surprised to BEE 4
= large number Of Democrats in this State fol.
d lowing the lead of their late Governor
They believe him an honest and able deGen-
der of their rights-they know he would not
betray them even in the smallest matter; mack
less upon a subject involving their highest pO-
litical interests, and we have shown that no
= holds opinions the direct opposite of those adj
n vanced by Gen Cuss-and that his mind " re-
coils" before a proposition SO " mOnstrOus''
as that promulgated IN the NichOlson letter.
In another part Of the same speech, Governor
Brown, commenting upon the same doctrine,
m and speaking emphatically for his own State,
says:-"S She will never submit to a wror {
like this; no slr-meUer--never." We shall
see.--T. Wing.
A Washington erresPohdent of the N. York
Journal Of Commerce writes
AT the farewell dinner given to Mr.. Critten
! den, yesterday, several Democratic Senator
made very good TaylorspeeChes-gOOd enouLI
for the canvass-better than the Wings cal
! make for him. They don't pledge their volt.
N but they give their commentator and thei
! sympathy / allude TO Senators Westcotl
"A Jefferson Davis, and Cameron.