The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-06-15
Tue COMPROMISE REPORT.


In our last we submitted a few lefec.
lions upon the subject of the Compro.
mise Report, presented 10 the Senate by
Mr.. Clay, chairman of the committee Of
thirteen, appointed for the purpose Of
bringing forward some plan of settle.
inent, touching the slavery question,
which has been, and still is, unfortunate.
ly, the fruitful source Of contention,
between the northern and southern por
tons Q this confederacy. In the article
alluded to, we took ground in favor OF
The Report, and any bill which might
be presented, containing the measures
Of Cancellation and concession, embraced
therein. And as Southern man we
say, that notwithstanding, the violent
and vindictive attacks, which have been
made upon il, by some of the Southern
M FuS
press, we would be willing TO regard it,
if adopted BY both Houses Of Congress,
as a Southern triumph, if, in the present
aspect of public affairs, such a term
could be used with patriotic propriety.
Take, for instance, the admission ofCal-
)ilornla, with her present limits, and her
constitution, as adopted by her " peo.
PIE, and is it not decidedly better for
the South, that she should coule in as
q single State, with but two Senators,
than by running the Missouri line of 800
80 min. TO the Pacific Ocean, create two
States, both Of which would be, from
natural and geographical causes, free
States, with four Senators in Congress?
And yet, this is about the only mate rial
alteration, that is sought to be made by
those, who claim to be, par ercelzencs,
the particular champions Of Southern
Again, upon the subject Of congress.
slonal interference, in the creation Of
territorial governments, for the terrific
RES Of Utah and New Mexico, las not
The "Wilmot Proviso," that offspring of
Dayy Wilmot, al whose christening such
men as Preston King, and Giddings, and
Root, and Hale, and Chase, and Seward
stood sPonsors-that notorious bastard.
upon whose power and popularity, with
a certain party at the North, Swallowed
Ioilh by certain coalitions which have
AIKEN place in Vermont, Connecticut
and elsewhere, one Thomas Hart Ben.
Ion, that great high.priest Of Democra.
boon companion Of Martin
Van Buren,-~expecied to ride into Office
the election for Preside in 1867
las not that Uile Thing, that nasty thing
peculiarly anti Southern thing,
he enemy Of non Intervention, has it not
been demolished, and has it not been
so deep, by the action Of the
compromise committee, that the hand Of
lme will never be able to raise it again.
rom the grave Of disgrace and shame to
which 1t has been consigned2 And is
this a Southern triumph Most
certainly it is.
And upon the subject Of the Texas
question, what could be required, moro
than has been done2 The spirit Of the
annexation Resolutions has been reviy-
Cd, the soundness Of The contract has
been Insisted on, and acted on, and when
sufficient population shallcollect in
that western world, We will hear Of new
applications an admissions Of additional
slave States. And although, it would
nave been outrageous, FOR the Commit
49, With the resolutions Of annexation
s'aring themin the face, 10 have come
'0a a'terent conclusion, still, upon the
sao'e' as Southern men We ought 10 BE-
Fsaseas considering, thalin This aua ~