The southern press., 1850-10-05
From "a. ColdsDors, M e., Patriot.

From ths GoIdsb0st' IN. c. Patriot.
The EoUTH-AsHE, VEkABLE, DANIEL, AND
Cling NGMAs.-Congress has adjourned. A tedious
and expensive session of that body has been
brought 10 close, and its members, now dis
persed, every man to his own home, is TO face
his constituents and render them up an accoun,
for services which they, IN their representative
capacity, have performed TO their country
Great and momentous have been the issues, upon
which they have been called to decde--issues
involving the peace of the country, the prosperi-
ty of th people, and the perpetuty of The Union
itself These issues, however, all turned upon
one main, leading question--Has tie South---the
sIavehoIdng States-any right, such, TO oc-
cupy, any portion Of the territories, recently
acquired by the late war, from Mexico In other
words, shall slavery be extended beyond, or
shall il be crcumscribed within its present limits
This was the main question, which gave rise to
such angry debate in the late Congress, pro-
tracted its session throughout the unusual period
of ten months, conyused the nation to IL very
centre, and caused the INST beautiful mental
fabric in the world to totter on its base This
question, Of course, arrayed the slaveholding and
free States against each other on the floors OF
Congress, and eight long months was usesesslH
il not idly, spent in angry and deadly strife-the
South asserting, and the North denying her
had been purchased by the common blood and
treasure of the whole country, and to which, tue
South had contributed n,orc than her proper
ton.
MANY representatives, from the South, have
reaped immortal houors in this war Of words
Many of them have showed themselves every
way worthy of the high trust reposed in them by
their confiding constituents, by an uufalterlng
devotion to Southern rights, and uniform adj
hesion to the naked letter of our glorious
| Constitutions Cnce the bulwark of American
| liberty.
Among these faithful guardians of their coun-
| try's veal ard their constituents honor, none
have been more faithful than the revered names
which stand at the head Of this brief article
Our feeble pen can convey but faint idea Of
the tribute of respect--that need of honor
which we would assign them, in Southern hearts
7 hey were defeated but not by argument
| They were overpowered; bat not till justice, in
frowning disgust, had snapped hers sword, and
strewed its shattered fragments around her lofty
pedestals, orce pure, now polluted. They fell,
as many patriot hero has fallen. oily when
overpowered by numbers, with the divine maxim
on their lips, magma eSt uer,tas et Prefalebu.
They have been vanqushed in the struggle, and
the South has fallen with them. California,
urged to the adoption of a Free-sol constitu-
ton through the unwarruntable interference OF
a too credulous Executive, has been, at last, ad-
| mitted as n State, and slavery has thereby been
circumscribed and penned up within its present
limits, and the South robbed Of her constitu-
tional rights.
Against this they fought---against this they
protested. But all in vain. Badger, Mangum
and Staniy led on by Abolition, Free Soil and
submission hosts overpowcred them and drove
them from the fed The slave trade has been
abolished in the District of Columbia Texas
has been disuiembered and forced into subms-
sion by an Abolition President, holding the
federal purse in one hand and the federal sword
in the other. But still Ashe, Venahle, Daniel
and Clingman resist and oppose his tyrannical
and lInholy usurpation OF power Badger and
Stanly, urge him on and assist bim And the
Raleigh Register, their chief organ in North
CaroIina follows in their wake, and culogises all
these nglorious acts oftyrannyi in the President
and of treason in the Southern Representative
rs so many pacfcatioa measures. And the
North State Whig the organ, par excellence, of
Stanly, tries to get up sort OF political jubilee
even in Beaufort County, as demonstration of
JOY over the vanquished South.
i But We turn from these unpleasant and hu-
initiating cogitatiops. The die is cast. The
Rubicon of Northern oppression is crossed
But Notwithstanding the South has been van
qu'shed; we are yet happy to find four of North
4 Carolinas faithful sons, in vain though it be,
struggling for her rights, and defending her
honor. To the memory Of the gallant Southern
hearts that stood by them in the mighty strug-
gle, posterity will look back with gratitude and
praise And North Carolina, in ages yet to
come, will point to the names of her loyal sons,
Ashe, and Clingman, Venable and Daniel, as
champions Of her liberties and defenders of her
rights. But although the South has been van
quished in the late struggle, we do not yet
despair. Abolition aggression has reused a
spirit of resistance, that c>n neither slumber nor
sleep. long practiced system of cncroach-
ment on her rights will goaa the South to
action And when the evil day does come for
come it must, the people of North Carolina will
be fully enabled, duly to al precate the uutiring
labors of her faithful Representatives; AsIc and
Clngman, Daniel and Venable.