The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-10


IA Gordon Of freemen that ii cannot spread, and in
Hess than twenty five years, every slaveholding
Estate inthis Union will have on its tebooks
IA law for the gradual and final extinction of sla-
VERY. Then will have been consummated the
|fondest wishes of every patriots heart. Then
will our fair country be glorious, indeed; and be
TO posterity bright example of the true principles
|of goyernment-or universal freedom
My colleague has been subjected TO not little
severe criticism from Southern gentlemen for the
expression of these sontimsnts. | can tell gen
|tlemen from the South that this language is by
Ino means peculiar to my colleague. They are,
Ihs far as | know, the sentiments of the entire
North That speech has been again and again
|republished both in English and German, and CIR
|culated by thousands This sentiment is of no new
growth doubt not that my colleague himself
learned il at his mothers knee, and these lessons
|are seldom forgotten.--Speech " Hon. John ".
Iioice, Of Pennsylvania.
Conine the North to its present limits, and
|ere long, paupersm, crime, vice and disease,
+ will eat out her vitals," or the vast horde Of
THE victims of these ills, controlling the ballot.
box, will rise against the institution of property
and the rewards of industry; and plumber, So
|cialism and anarchy win ovesspread that region
Ito be followed by dcsolation and the strifes Of
L . Z 4. 3 +
|rapine and famine, until military despotism rises
ION the ruins of their boosted freedom.
~ The nam0 of Hon. Robert W. Johnson
Of Arkansas, rs signer of the Southern ad-
dress in behalf of this paper, was in the copy
Furnished us changed to William r. Johnson
We correct it to day t~.
u 4.
A friend has sent us the following Cores
,pondence: E us.
The Clayton Compromise and the Clay
Compromise,
HARpER's FERRY, July 6, 1850.
DEAR SIR: / have heard it insisted very earnest
. ly Of late, TINT the Clay Compromise comedies
4 and secures to the South all that the Clayton
Compromise professed to do, and good dea
more. do not profess to know how this is my
self but | have heard that Mr.. Calhoun and other
enlightened Southerners should have said, thai
! the South would be content with the Clayton
Compromise as to the Territorial question, and il
the Clay Compromise comedies the same and
8yields us more, why in the name Of peace do we
not accept it, and be done with it, ...-.
Yours, A COMPROMISES.
If 90 Compromiser's" premises were true,
should hardly dissent from what he advises; bui
athe Clay Compromise falls deplorably short Of
vouchsafng all to the South that the other does
though admit it aims at more, and would be all
the better for the superfux, if it were of the rghi
4 sort, and would ensure that the remedy would moi
2aggravate the disease. A very summary con,
3trast will show in what the differences between
\ The measures consists and point to the sources Of
Interference between them
d /. The Clayton Compromise was silent about
1.-THE Wilmot Proviso, north or south Of the line
I of the Missouri Compromise; withheld from the
Territorial Legislatures Of Utah and New Mexico
TALL powers of legislation to admit exclude slave
ry and referred to the Supreme Court of the United
Estates the question, whether the Mexican laws
prohibiting slavery, survived the cession and re-
manned in force in these territories
The Clay Compromise, either in express terms
dor through necessary Implications, does the same
2. The Clayton Compromise subjected the
whole of California both north and south of 36c
100 to the same provisions which it adopted to the
Territories of Utah and New Mexico.
The Clay Compromise does nothing Of the
Sort but gives the direct sanction OF Congress to
the establishment of the Wilmot Proviso, botl,
north and south of the line, and excluding
aSoutherncrs from the whole thoroughly and al
4 ways
3. The Clayton Compromise took not an acre
! from the slave territory of Texas, to doom to the
dominion of Freesosm, nor consequently a
dot from the South pocket to pay for it.
Mr.. Clay's Compromise slices from the slave
territory Of Texas, territory enough to make
two or more States, and destinates it irrerievably
Ito the sovereignty and ascendency of FrecsoiI-
|ism-provdes an unscarchable asylum for fugi-
tive slaves, and exacts $4,000, 900, out of the
|Souths Exchequer, to bride herself, to cheat
herself out of her own jurisdiction, and her own
sovereignty!
At. The Clayton Compromise contained no pro-
visions touching the reclamation of fugitive slaves
neither assisting nor obstructing claimants in
pursuit Of them.
The Clay Compromise essentially embarrasses,
delays and obstructs their recovery, by exacting
the production Of record proofs, as the super
added and indispensable conditions Of their sur
render and delivery and after the claimants have
proven their slaves and fugtives upon the highest
species of testimony, it confers an option on the
|fugitives to bind their owners in penal bonds of
81 900, payable to (whom think YEP the United
STATES forsoOth, to secure them jury trials by way
|of appeals from the judgments of the federal
Judges and commissioners in the free States, who
have never in 60 years surrendered fugitive who
was not slave, and Ito the credit Of Southerners
|be it said y have never been asked to do so!
5. The Clayton Compromise deals with slavery
lin the District of Columbia, as the Constitution
of the United States, and the cessions Of Virginia.
and Maryland dealt with it half century ago l
being powerless to NEEDLE with it, it lets it alone
The Clay Compromise, under color of abatng|
negro-traders' shambles and slave-marts as pub
ic nuisences, unfortunately emancipates every
slave brought into the District for private sale to
supply the wants of the citizens within it, or tol
discharge the obligation Of their debtors beyond
it, and thus abandoning to the mercies Of the fana
tics and to Congress, all the restraints Of the Con-
stituton and the public faith, against federal legs
lation uppn the subject Of slavery in the District
of Columbia!
Such are the contrasts which mark the compro-