The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-24

suits, their claim of property, is immoral, unwise,
and ruinous to country. IF they may be ex-
cluded from the enjoyment of a right common
to the meanest people, they may with much
greater propriety be prescribed from the honors
awarded to the most worthy. If stakeholder
is unfit to be allowed to live in the remote and
lonely valleys of New Mexico, or on the shores
of the Pacific, he ought not to be allowed TO
participate in the government of the model Re-
public--surely not to be elevated to its Chief
Magistracy, with a power of appointment to for
ty thousand Offices
q Now, let us ask the Louisville Journal whe-
ther prescription from office is not as reasonable
and probable thing for majority to perpe-
trate, as prescription from territory! And who
ther there would be any remedy for it in Court
or Constitution! And whether he, as South
erner, would submit to one as well as the other.
The Journal may answer that the prescription
Of shareholders from office would be too glar-
ing an outrage to be attempted. But why so !?
Have we not seen, do we not daily see rigid
prescription from office by parties who diff
fer on questions much less important and with
much less feeling! In the State of Kentucky
for many years, few Democrats have beenallowed
to hold Office, Legislative executive, judicial,
although of the same SOIL blood, character, pur-
suits, and opinions of the Wings. In the State
nearly half the people are Democrats they
have been prescribed, where it was practicable.
The State has been gerrymandered, so as to Sc
cure, if possible, uniform representation N
Congress of nine Wings to one Democrat, there
by virtually DISTINGUISHING the great body of the
Democrats in respect to Federal legislation. On
the other hand, the same policy Of prescription
and Acknowledgement has been adopted by the
Democrats of Ohio and Indiana when in power.
This is what majority will do and has done
for years, for mere differences of opinion not af
fecting the moral character of the minority, and
without any difference of pursuit. of location, OF
interest. Now we have Norther majority
hitherto divided by party, but no longerso. They
have united ON principles they consider para
mount to party-they have united to control the
policy of the Government and to monopolise its
soil and the other spoils. And for that purpose
prescription from Office will be as ready and a.
proper means as in previous party contests
| If that should be the case and the South is pro-
cribed from all Federal offices, where is the
rcmedys We say the South will be prescribed
not merely slaveholders-but all who think The,
ought not to be proscribed-all who refuse to
join the new coalition will proscribed-Nortl
as well as South. Is it not so. Look at the
| Buffalo Convention whose creed has advanced
and is advancing rapidly to triumphin the North
lis already triumphant in Congress-.
What is the remedy. Nothing on earth thai
we can see but a union for the sake of the Union
between that portion of the North not yet lost
to fanatcism or ambition, with the South or
Constitutional principles. If that does not occur
none but the blndest of the blind can fail to see
that the Union is lost.