The southern press., 1850-10-05

what the policy of our Northern confedefates
would be, In relation TO the probably to-be-acquired
territories. This policy is now in process ofcon-
summation, on them, as acquired. Well, can
the arms that won the territories not carve, IL
necessary, part of for Southern use, Are we
to be imprisoned In certain limits by the fiat of
the Northern people, like horse is confined by
tether to his circle of grass This is the phan-
thropc ianaticism involved in the Gordon of free
States. We, the noxious serpent, enclrcled by
free fire.
| For two years the debate has been ably con-
Quoted. In all this time the Southern tongue has
been as trumphanty VICTORIOUS IN argument as
our Southern generals and captains were IN the
| Mexican battles. Yet our Northern enemies
have been able to retreat into the impregnabe
chapparai of "A numerical majority and there they
are, and trust will remain, I'LL starved into terms
| by the entire emptying Of the treasury. But if
! they can out-chngman Cingmalr, and attain to
the full consu,nmatlon or their purpose what is to
| be done?
! Now, here is the practical question; The pass
ing of the bill by the House, to admit California
with her present boundaries is, ipse taeo, a reec-
tion of, a denial OF, and refusal of Southern
| rights, Southern proposals, and Southern ultima
| ti,nas. What then This is the great question TO
| be considered. Now the wrongs of the South
| are all obvious; and volumes uttered and written
tor months past, elucldate them, and proclaim
them. When wrong is DONE or series of
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corded perpetration, then comes the curing remedy,
For we have exhausted all the preventive remedies,
in warrlng against the process by which the
wrongs have been consummated. And now, at
this supposed stage of the matter, when the
remedy OF cure must be sought-what shall il be
and when carried into eifects To this point, de-
| Liberation should be directed. But as the Nash
vile Platform has not yet been dsregarded so to-
tally, as that we are TO consider that contempt is
poured upon us;' as the ratfcations of that pa
triotc and respectable Convention are now daily
made by meetings such as yours, | doubt not thai
the roice Of The people, going up from all parts OF
the South, will have the effect Of bringing Con.
gress to a pause. Would to God that the voice OF
the people could have risen as the voice Of one
man--not dissenting tone to break the har-
mony of the Southern protest? But yet, our con-
sentng opinions approach almost to absolute
unanlmlty and with this we should be satisfied.
For those who may not unite with us at present
IN our conclusions, are brethren by our sides; and
let us remember that ' a brother is born for ad-
| versity." Their arms will be as strong as ours
IN the cause of redress when the Rubicon is past,
! If, indeed, that boundary of tears and of blood
shall ever be crossed. IT, however, it is destined
to be, 1t will be only when the single course is left
to us of submission to dishonor, seasoned with
| injustice. Then, not we, but the aggressor will
accumulate upon his head the iniamy of having
forced upon remedy--Disunion, which we
deem to be the lesser of two evils.
| 1 trust tndl your meeting VIII express It's SenS5
OF the recent Fiimorean message, in language OF
strong and energetic denunciation. Howard OF
Texas, that pattern of bold representative OF
reemen, has justly described 60 an artful and
studied misrepresentation of the history of the
Texan controversy. But do not know whether
it is more contemplate for the himsiness OF it's
logic, than irritating, by the arrogance of its
patory pretensions. There is an air of autocratc
superciiousness in the placid disclosure of his
misconceived powers. softened by the feigned be-
nevoence OF affected patriotism. He grasps
the threatened sword, and while its cleaning bright
ness is dazzling the eyes of Texas, invokes OF
| Congress the settlement ofh boundaries.
! Now, it is to be hoped'that there will be no hot
haste the part Of Congress to extricate the Elk.
ecutive from his position but that he will be left
to fN, less the expanding bulk of his pre-
sidental dimensions. Never did temporary Off
cial, in the fresh taste Of power, discourse of the
new possession with more herocal placidity
Gentlemen Regreting that cannot be with
you, transmit this hasty and imperfect indication
| Of my opinions and sentiments, and trust that
Cowndcs, in honor of the great name she bears,
will in further representation of the manly charac-
ter Of the man who gave name to her county seat,
express herself fully, boldly, and unanimously
upon the stirring questions of the times planting
herself firmly on the platform Of the Nashville
| Convention.
| am, respectfully,
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