The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-08-08
WAsHNGsoN, August 6, 1850
Southern Caucus on the California I2iU-Pro sDect

WAsMNGsoN, August 6, 1850.
Southern Caucus on the California Bill Prospect
Of a Desperate Resistance against her admission.
The debate and the proceedings on Mr.. Yulees
amendment to ,he California BILL to-day, are very
significant of the extreme hostility of the South 20
the admission of California, with her present Pa.
cifc absorbing boundaries. Georgia, Mississippi,
South Carolina, and other Southern States, by
their legislatures, or conventions, or primary as
semblages, have made the admission of California,
as she is, the test questionable issue of union or
disunion. Georgia has very distinctly, by legisla-
tive resolutions, takeE this extreme ground The
general feeling in the South sets strongly in the
same direction, because of the suspicion that il is
Northern agitation which has excluded Southern
Shareholders from the gold mines.
The recent North Carolina election affords the
strongest testimony Of Southern feeling. North
VIGOROUSLY a wing State, by 1000 or 5000 mllo-
Tiy when required heretofore. Manly, the wing
candidate, is popular man, and is between wing
and democrat. He could have defeated Reid
easily by 5000 or 1900. But Manly was for the
late Compromise bill, and Reid Was for the line OF
SO 30 iun through to the Pacific.
Upon tins Issue, in the quiet old North State, we
find the otherwise popular wbig candidate, de-
feated by an overwhelming majority, and the once
wing North State cast over TO the democrats, as 1t
by default.
tive, Union living people of the ancient Rip Van
Wrinkle THE South, what can we expect from South
Carolina but open revolt |! aud from Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi, but the most dangerous ten
denotes to revolution, forced to recede irom or 10
maintain, the positions which they have taken y!
The Southern Senators have been sitting in eau
Gus tonight on the California bill. What they
have resolved to do we have been unable to learn;
but presume it will appear in the proceedings OF
the Senate to- morrow. There is a deadly spirit
of hostility among them to this bill, which, TO be
feared, will manifest itself IN some extreme expedi-
ents of resistance. IL has been minated TO as, II
the bill shall pass the Senate Gas We have doubt
il WILL and that within day or two), that the
leading Southern members of both houses are 10
address letter to the Southern States, suggesting
to the that the time is ut and for submission or
resistance to the admission Of California State,
covering our whole Pacific coast, and excluding
the Souihe nirely even from the three hundred
miles of the coast which lie below the line Of 80 de-
grees 30 minutes, and which, under faithful adhe
zion TO the Missouri Compromise, they claim
should be left open to the Southern States
II is not improbable that some such step will be
taken, on the passage of the California bill by the
Senate: H.,
but the principal appropriation bills still being held
back, the South have the power, in that branch,
Of giving immense deal Of trouble, and, possibly,
OF defeating California, the appropriations, and
everything else
One object of the Southern men in the Senate,
in delay ing the California bill, is to wait for some
expected news by the steamer, of a territorial move
ment in Southern California, which may possibly
be Of such a character as to Justify, even IN the
minds Of some Northern men, the division OF the
State Of California. But the main purpose is, Of
course, TO defeat the bill. Every days delay
lengihens the seseion, and the time must come,
whether the work be completed or not, when Con-
grees must adjourn and 60 home.
We anticipate now no trouble with the Texas
boundary, and very little with Utah or New Mex
leo but thu admission of California IL still abund
antly sufficient of being made the medium Of all
sorts Of mischiefs and disasters.