The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-26
From the Dallas lila. Gazette.
A CALL UPON GOV. COLLIER.

We publish below, call upon the Governor
convene the Legislature, with view to a conven-
ton of the people to redress federal outrage and
oppression, Every signature was procured in
an hour or two, and, if delay had been thought
advisable we have no doubt nineteen twenteths
of the people of Dallas could have been procured
to sign it.
We have no time to advertise for, and assem-
bic, public meetings, to make calls upon the
Governor. In day or two, if necessary, half
the people of the county can be had to sign
like petition. We hope they will do so without
delay 1t is Governor CoLEER's duty to con
vene the Legislature Immediately, and if he
shrink from that duty he will b. remembered al
another day.
We hope the Governor will call the Legisla-
ture together, and backed by the authorities of
the State, the people act against the Federal
Government, without committing treason. We
owe allegiance to the State Of Alabama, and
oniy through her, to the General Government
If the Legislature or Convention meets and
throws off the supremacy of the Federal Govern
ment, we are no longer its subjects We can
fight then without having haters tied around
our necks, if fight we must
CAHABA, ALA, Sept, 10, 1850.
HIS Ercellency H. w. Collier:
Dear Sir: We the undersigned citizens of
Cahaba and its vicinity, without distinction OF
party, entertaining, we think, feelings in COM
mon with the people of Alabama, upon the sub
ect of the outrages and expressions of the Fee
dera government, respectfully solicit your Elk
celency especially in behalf of ourselves to con-
vene the Legislature of the State, as early as the
law will allow, for the purpose ofhaving a Con-
vention of the people called to determine upon
a proper mode of redress.
Upon the subject of domestic slavery, the
Federal Government, by its Congress in session,
has lent itself to the accomplishment Of every
present design of the Abolitionist of the free
States 1t has recently appropriated the whole
of the territory acquired from Mexico to Free
soilism and excluded the stakeholder from
participation in its benefits. With the aid of
the Government, the Abolistionists have accom-
plished in that exclusion, all they expect by
ndirection. Their next and only remaining step
is, to attack slavery directly in the States. IT
the opinions of Boston gentleman, of abilityand
distinction are worthy of reflection, we were
| soemnly warned by him three years ago, that
when the abolition power succeeded in prevent
ing the extension of slavery into our Mexican
territories it wo.ld next attack that institution
in the States. In the July number, 1847, OF
" Brownson's Quarterly Review" published in
Boston, at page 357 the country is advised by
the able conductor of that journal, that :" if the
anti-slavery party find itself strong enough to
prevent the extension Of slavery, in defiance OF
the Constitution, it will not stop there. 1t will
no longer respect Constitutional barriers; but
will take up the question OF slavery in the
States, and immediate emancipation or civil war
will be the alternative. In the same number of
periodical, mt page $50, we were further advised
of the new doctrine preached by Senator Seward,
of New York, in the American Senate, that, upon
the subject of slavery, there is law above the
Constitutions" That abe writer says, there
are boys and girls, and some men amongst us
who will answer, Humanity IS prior and para
mount TO Constitutions, and has the right 10
prevail ouer all human conventions and legal
enactments" The discussions which have taken
place in the Senate of the United States, since
the passage of the anti-slavery bills in the
House, confirm the foregoing prediction. SEN
ator Seward at the head Of the Abolition party,
in those discussions expressed himself well
pleased with them, "as far as they went" and
. deemed them only the first of series of mea-
tsures on which he had his heart set"
The dnii-slarery bills which have passed, es-
pecially the one admitting California as State,
Justify, in our opinion, the strongest measure Of
redress and in view Of our safety for the fu-
ture, withdrawal of Alabama from the Union,
is matter worthy the immediate consideration
of State Convention.
Trusting that your Excelency will not permit
our patriotic State to slumber in the midst of
Dangers and fall behind any other sisters of the
South,