The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-30

oil our glorious Union
i Mr.. SOULE then said:
"This is the language af bold man, wh'
speaks out his sentiments in manly an,
open manner. All is ours,' he says al
OF that land for which so much Southern
blood was shed-so much Southern money
SPENT And now, he asks, do not heap
Goals of fire on the head OF the South dc
not wrong her further; do not impose further
on her patience and submission put limit
upon your ambition and aggressions. Oh,
fellow citizens, when has the oppressor been
satisfied, as long as the oppressed was kneel-
ing before him and asking mercy But we
were told that, although these were grieyous
wrongs, we must acquiesce in them, because
they would bring peace to the nation, and
that, when such men as Cas-, Dickinson and
Webster, had declared in their favor, the
people would sarken, and be convinced.
With this promise, the South was to be
hushed into silence. | read in speech, de-
livered short time ago at Baton Rouge,
this pledge, given in regard to the irresist-
ible influence of these great names. What
are the facts , How is it in Massachusetts
Webster has lost every point, has been de-
feated in every direction. His remorseless
enemy has been returned to Congress in his
own district, against all his influence. And
the great defender Of the Constitution
with slavery, the Fugitive slave bill, the
Compromise, and everything else, has been
thro,on orerboard! How is it with Dickin-
son in New York. The legislature is over
whelmngly against him, aid the great ma
tonal U Union party there means Fish instead
of Dickinson Cass has Jared no better.
All his influence, backed by the popular Com
promise, could not re-elect the very worthy
and intelligent gentlemen who represented
the Detroit district in Congress last year,
So much for the weight of these great
names!
" But we are told that we must not doubt
that the Fugitive slave bill will be faithfully
executed. What are the facts on this point
There have been four attempts to execute
this law. Two Georgians went to Massa-
chusetts to claim their property, under the
Consttuton-under the Compromise. What
was their fate? They were three times ar
rested, put under bonds for $4,000, and
finally compelled to leave the State without
their slaves. This is certainly peculiar
mode of executing the Compromise, and
manfesting devotion to the Constitution. AT
Detroit, too, an effort was made by slave
owner to avail himself Of this law He was
pursued by mobs, threatened, put in great
peril, and finally compelled to take $500 for
his slave he would have taken much less, !
presume, to get out Of the scrape he was IN
There was also case in Pennsylvania.
An owner showed his title to slave, run
ming Though three generations. 1t was de-
cided that the title was net established. In
another case, in New York, three persons
came forward and swore the man who
claimed the slave had been guilty Of perjury.
And these, fellow citizens, are the EVIL
dences of the good feeling with which we
are assured the North will carry out that
bill which constitutes our chief compensa-
tor for the concessions OF the Compromise.
Let me read again from the New York Ex-
press, conservative journal:
Discomfort, however, is now bitter,
never so bitter as now, between the two OPP
posing elements Of which we speak. The
South is soured by losing all political power
in our vast Mexican acquisitions, and by
seeing the administration Of the Govern
nent virtually pass from its hands The
North, eren amidst its greatest uictory ever
net acon orer Slavery, in the exclusion Of
Slavery from California, and its virtual
limitation to the places uhere 1t no,c is, get
refuses to carry out its solemn compact to
surrender fugitive slares; for ii is but a
cheat for as TO say ace are opposed to the de-
tails of the Fugitive slare iar, as ace are
ODD osed to the PRINCIPLE itself. The stipu-
laiion in the federal compact Is odious, in
erecutable as yet, and pe are nulifers in
spirit and in fact Freemen wiN not be
"slape- catchers," re are daily told in re-
sponsible organs Of the public press SLAVE
CATCHING is unpopular; and to be popular
we turn nulifers, not only Of the laws, bst
of The Constitution ITSELF"
And thus you find the whole North pro-
claiming that the passage of these bills
has killed slavery forever, and yet we. who
proclaimed that such was the purpose aud
object Of these measures, and therefore OPP
posed them, are branded as traitors
But oh the VIC ence Of some Of the de-
nouncers of those who stand by the rights Of
the South --- where will it end, when it seeks
to tramp,e such men as Quitman and Davis
in the dust? These men who have illus
trated your national character by glorious
exhibitions of courage, heroism, and patriot
ism, who led the youth Of your country to
victory on the fields Of Monterey, Buena
Vista, Cherubusco and epultepec-these
are now denounced as traitors by the very