The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-15

suredly be stddens ovsrwhslrping and complete
For the UAions sake, don't endsavor to obtain
your righis--don taitempt 70 obtain justice--don Z
Try to secure your property and yonr possessions
from danger and peri--doni give our friends oil
| the North the least uneasiness.
| Mr.. Toombs, words were certainly prophetic.
THAT cry of Union is the masked battery, be-
hind which the rights Of the South ARE TO he As.
SAILED" We fully agree with him in the eau
ton which he gives to Southern men, to watch
the man who has his mouth so full of IT, "Let
the South mark the man who 10 for the Union at
all hazards and TO the last extremity.'.' Such
man - the true political Judas--the vile wretch
who, for little coveted wealth, would "throw
away apearl richer than all his tribe" s-'r
But the once masked battery is unmasked---u
covered and open TO the view. This hollow cry OF
the Union will not avail. None are frightened by
this clap-trap OF the submssionsts. -
lis the eye of childhood
That fears painted devil"
The eye of manhood quaiIs not at the bug-bear
fancy. Neither will the Southern man, who feels
the deep wrongs, which have been, inflicted upon
his section and the low depth Of degradation TO
which he will be sunS, il they are not resisted by
any and all means, in the power of the people.
And this brings US to the REAL ISSUE pre-
scented 70 the people-and that is RESISTANCE
OF ABOLITION. Which do you choose, people
OF Georgia! Resistance to unjust and unconsti-
tutionai measures NOW, or the entire destruction
OF your slave property HEREAFTER One Of these
two must be chosen. There is no escape. The
North has openly avowed its intention to bring
about .the entire extinction Of slavery in the Uni
ted States" 1t is your duty, if you wish to pre-
serve your instituusons and your property, to re-
SYST any and all measures having this as their end
and object. The late bills passed by Congress-,
shutting the South out of California virtually pas.
sing the hated Wilmot Provso over New Mexico
and Utah, and declaring that slaves shall become
liberated AND FREE IL taken into the District of
Columbia, are all aiming at this object. They
MUST RESISTED ...t .a ...... a.,- ,... s.-.
i In tie contest now going on in the State, there
are but two great par,ies-one for resistance, the
other for tame and cowardiy submission to wrong
We are for the first. The people must be for the
first, or prepare for the final ABOLITION or SLAVERY
Tie South then, it is admitted, has been
wronged - her constitutional privileges have
been violated, and justice has been denied her
The last Legislature made it the duty of the
Governor, in case such measures should pass
Congress, to call a Convention Of the people to
decide upon the mode and measure of redress
upon the proper steps to be taken to resent past
wrongs, and to protect ourselves hereafter, The |
Convention has been called Already are tickets |
in the field. In many counties, meetings will
shortly be held for the same purpose. A con- |
test VIII t.ke place. between those who are for
protecting Southern rights and those who are
hope of security in the future. .n.. s..
A solemn duty, therefore, will soon devolve
upon every citizen of Georgia He will be
called upon by every consideration which can |
infiuence MIN in the capacity Of u citizen to
choose between these two great pirtes now
forming in the State. One of these parties,
as we have mentioned above, is for tame sub
mission. .......,, .,,.,.....
The other contends for justice to the South
That every Georgian should array himself in its
ranks-in the words of Senator Berrien, should
"rally TO the standard of GREAT AND UNITED
SOUTHERN REPUBLICAN PARTY,"-we think
clearly evident from many considerations. If
the South has been thus wronged, how clear it |
is that she should have redress? Ii she is OBJ
iloxious to similar wrongs in the future, how
clear that she should nave some means of pro-
tections We are all called upon by eve! con.
sderation of justice, honor, and honesty--by
every conviction of our judgment, and every
feeling OF our nature-to uphold the right and
to condemn the wrong. The allegiance which
every citizen owes to the State, and to the insti.
tuti0ns of the State, requires that he should re-
sist usnrpaton upon State rights and individual
property. If he does not, he is in reality repo-
tutionia himself and traitor to his native soil
Away with the idea of tame submission to
robbery and wrong The Southern rights party
"a party of the South, devoted to the South,
and formed for the protection of the dearest
rights Of the South against lawless usurpation,
should enlist the sympathies and efforts of every
Georgian. The destiny of Georgia is in the
hands of her own people. Will Georgia, in the
majesty Of her power, prove false t. her own
cause in this, the most important era in her his
tory! ..