The southern press., 1850-09-30
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CRY.
MONDAY. sEPTEMBER 80. 1850
congsess.

Congyess.
The first session Of the thirty-irst Congress.
ends to-day, at twelve o'clock, Nj.
It is the longest session ever held. II ha,
passed fewer acts than any other, but has don.
more mischief than all others put together i
has confscated the rights of one section Of ths
Union, to vast and valuable territory, and trans
terred it TO the other and has thereby aggra
vatcd sectional hostility, whkh perhaps never
can be allayed. II has done this under the false
pretence of compromises and conciliaton; and
already in less than one month after the deed
was done. the tidings Of increased agitation and
discomfort have reached the Capitol--from the
North and the South, in tones that appa the per.
Petrators Of the wrong
The dominant part Of the dominant party Of
the Empire State Of, the North, having seen the
facility with which plumber can be obtained by
a clamor and a vote, is indignant that more was
not demanded, and cries aloud for more An
overwhelming majority of nearly two to one OF
the Syracuse Convention Of the Wing party OF
the State Of New York, has asserted the doc
trines of that Senator who has led the vanguard
of Northern aggression in the late contest
Massachusetts, the leading State Of ew Eng
land is also clamoring for more, and has no,c two
Senators to follow wherever SEWARD will lead.
Ohio the leading State Of the North-wes st, also
has now two Senators, one Of each party, both
f,f whom ueiat an fI,o ;,v,,,a.I;.,fo
New Mexico into Free-soil State--that terri
tory into which the South has been mocked with
nominal privilege of admission.
But whilst this notice of renewed and acgra-
yated agitation comes from the North, we have
still more serious and emphatic movements from
the South. Patriots and Statesmen of the South
vino have opposed these nggressions from the
beginning, and warned their countrymen that
liberty was not the price of apathy nor the aban-
donment Of half the rights Of people the best
mode of defending the other half, are at length
heard and needed
The States Of the South are moving. Georgia
is gathering her people in solemn council The
Legislature Of Mississippi will be convened by
Proclamation. That Of South Carolina assem-
blcs in November. That of Texas convenes at
the same time. So that in sixty days four
Southern States will be prepared to determine
the most momentous questions that can be con-
sidered by civilized people Alabama, Arkan-
sas and Florida, have the same interests and the
same sentiments, and will speak the same Ian
guage, and that promptly. This makes seven
States, and is half the real Southern States
Who can doubt how the other half will act.
when these decide? But already it is apparent
that agitation and discomfort, North and South,
remain, and that the scheme of compromise has
faiIed-faed to satisfy the spoilcr or the
spoiled.
Congress has appropriated at this single Sos
sion sixty millions Of money, and moro than a
hundred millions in land, besides the transfer Of
an immense territory, from one section to
another. Is this the sort Of Government We
contracted for! We defy the production ora
single passage in history, where Parliament or
Potentatc ever exercised power 80 unlimited.
so despotic, SO oppressive, so disastrous.