Southern patriot. (Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-09-12

were warmly in favor Of it,Gen. Tay.
Tor was committed TO The support Of.
this measure in his inaugural. lie
directed the attention Of his hearers,
to the fact that ip0 hundred millions
Of dollars had been asked for, and
the petitions reported avorably upon,
by the committees, TO whom they
Iwere referred within the last eight OF
ten years. To carry ont this system
Of Internal Improvements. q debt Of
5 hundred millions would be riyeted
upon the people which would impoy-
erish and finally bankrupt them To-
discharge it, It is unious and.
dangerous system, and its friends
forced through Congress an oppropri-
alton Of one million for its benefit
while we were engaged in war, and
after she bad already negotiated a loan.
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Of twenty three millions. He war
med the people with earnest elo-
quence TO guard well against those O..
dious meosuTes-that our country has
grown and prOspered as no PEG,
/ ple on earth, ever grew and prosper
ed before under Democratic rule.
Why change ii? Why elect men to
Congress, whose feelings and notions
are for these measures and who would
beyond the shadow Of doubt very
soon lend their aid in riyiing those
measures upon the countryl
He next discussed the Wilmot
Proviso and. questions growing out Of
lit.
He was in favor olnon-interyenlion
as taught in the Southern Address,
and the Clayton Compromise. We
extract that portion of the Southern
Address, touching the principles Of
non-intevention, to-wir
80 far from maintaining the doc
trine, which the issue implies, we
hold that the Federal Government
has no night 10 extend or restrict slav-
cry, no more than TO establish or
abolish 1t; nor has it any night what.
ever to distinguish between the do
mes tic institutions Of one State. or
section, and another, in order 10 ia.
yor the one and discourage the other.
As the federal representatives Of each
and all the States, it is bound 10 deal
out, within the sphere Of its powers
equal and exact justice and favor to
all. To act otherwise, 10 undertake
to discriminate between the dones-
tic institutions Of one and another.
would be to act in total subyersion
Of the end for which it was estab-
lished-to be the common protector
4 guardian Of all Entertaining these
opinions, we ask not, as the North
alleges p we do, for the extension of
slavery. That would make a discrim.
Iinaton in our favor, as unjust and
Unconstitutional Us the discrimination
they ask against us in their favor
1t IS not Tor them, nor for the federal
government to determine, whether
our domestic institution is good or
bad; or whether it should be repress
cd or preserved. 1t belongs to us.
and US only, TO decide such questions
What then we do insist on, is, not
TO extend slavery, but that we shall
not be prohibited from immigrating,
with our property into the Territories
OF the United States, because we are
shareholders; or in other words, that
we shall not on that account be dis
franchised Of apriyilege possessed by
all others, citizens and foreigners,
without discrimination as to eharac-
ter, profession, or color. All, whelh-
er savage, barbarian, or civilized.
may freely enter and remain, we only
being excluded.
The following is an extract from the
/ Clayton compromise alluded 10.
"SEc. 26 AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED.
That thc legislative power Of said Territory
SHALL until Congress shall otherwise provide.
be vested in the Governor, Secretary, and
Judges Of the supreme Court, who, or a ma.
II1uiy Of iheEA shall have power to pass any
aw for The administration Of Justice in raid
/ Territory, which shall not be repugnant 10
This act, or Inconsistent with the laws and
Constitution Of tho Uuited states. But no
law shall BE- passed interfering with The prima.
[ ny disposal Of The sol, respecting an cslab.
'shmeui Of reIger, 'r respecting the prohi-
hilton o. establishment Of African slavery: and
10 tax shall be imposed upon The properly Of
thc Unned Siaies;nor shall the lands or 9th