The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-11-27


,upation as joint proprietors; had equal, 4
sven-handed justice been extended to them, ID
they would now berejoicing and exultant
in the activity, energy, general prosperity
aud aboVe all, confidence in the future,
which would have been impaired by such
expansion. TO this estimate OF the pecu.
mary interest, lost to the south by the un.
authorized Interference Of Congress, may
properly be added the probable enhanced
price Of our great staples, caused by the
abstraction of portion of the labor, now
employed in their growllt, and threatening
in time over production. Had these profit
able and permanent fields OF labor been left
open to US, all fears Of such results, would |
have been forever dissipated.
These estimates of pecuniary interest are
lair and just. They are founded upon the
fixed opinion of almost every we'll inform |
ed person among us, that had the Govern
ment dealt justly, and left these territories
free and open to the people Of the slave
holding States, for reasonable time, a
large portion of them would have eventu-
ally come into the Union as slaveholding
States. But deeply as this measure may
have affected our pecuniary interests, it is
far more important when regar led in its
political aspect The admission of Califor-
MIA has furnished for all time to come, a
most dangerous precedent Of Executive in.
reference, in the creation of States. BY
its admission, it is now conceded, that the
| first body of adventures who may chance
TO assemble on the public domain, may
usurp absolute domain over it, aud appro-
pirate it to themselves, regardless OF the
rights Of the people OF the sovereign States
of this Union. The precedent is now set
that no legal authority, civil organization,
enumeration of inhabitants, qualifications
Of electors, or other formalllies are necess-
airy TO constitute State, or TO admit her
into the Union, provided the institution
Of domestic slavery be excluded.
i Who cannot see in this violent, hasty and
unprecedented act of ushering State into
this Union, the purpose Of settling the
equilibrium between the slaveholing and
noR-slaveholding States! And how long
will it be, before this monstrous precedent
will be resorted to, to create and Introduce
other new States for the purpose of attain
ing other anti-slavery objects? The whole
character and structure of our Govern
ment has been changed by this act, aud
principle admitted that new free States
may be created I'D libituMe, And how b1d
this been done! | assert, by a post ha o.
rant violation not of the princlrles of iu9
tice and equality, but also ~ breach o
the Constitutional comp4ct between the
S States. mean to say. that the act Of Con
: gress admitting Calilorcia, although not :
a question cognizaJle by the judicial depart
T ment, was irregular, unconstitutional anc
: void, as to other States.
e The Constitution Of the United State.
3 conbora upon Congress the right to ADM
e IrtO the Union, "new States" not territorie
+ and as they are to be admitted ON an equa
footing with the original States, they mus
Is be necessarily al the time of their admission
y political communities, possessing all tn,
lie rights and attributes Of sovereignty. As tn,
IS inhabitants of the territories do not posses
IN sovereign power, there must be some act OF
i. the part Of the States, who do possess it
IL equivalent to grant, by which that power
lie before residing in the States, becomes vestet
ID in the inhabitants Of the territory. This &C
ii must be performed by Congress, the cOnsti
lie tuted agent of the States, and the power Il
do it is included in the delegation TO "admi
IS new States"
Ie The act Of California, erecting herself in
a. to State, and assuming the attributes c
m sovereignty, being without such authority
Of was not predicaled on her territorial rela
st ton to The United States, nor by virtue G
"a authority derived from the Constitution.
8; was in TACT a revolution, seizure Of sover
IS eighty and a confscatiOn Of the right of soil
r which belonged to the States.
81 hot - nIo mad fkoE
3 Congress possesses the right to admit new
ID States, and as no specific limitations ar,
20 placed upon the exercise Of that power, the,
20 may at option overlook any irreguIaril,
T, which may have occurred in the prepare
n ton for admission. But this right must ne
al cessarily be governed and limited in its ex
y ercise, by the spirit Of the Constitution. The
y assumption Of the RI. mt Of Congress to ad
p NIT new States without Limitation, and with
D. out reference TO other provisions of the Con
stitutOn, would imply the power in Congress
9 in the case of California, to give validity t.
8 an act, which by the Constitution is not only
II irregular, but absolutely void.
- The limits Of message do not permit mf
: to detail all the measures which have justly
r caused alarm and excitement in the south
Tor, however some oil our own people may
from an anxiety to allay excitement, seek &c
: excuse these measures, there are few whose
breasts are not filled with dread ofthe dan.
;, gers which from these quarters hover in the
- horizon of the future. In my opinion il
would be weak, timid and disastrous policy
: 10 shut our eyes 30 these dangers-it is the
part OF wisdom 10 meet ihem.-Let us then
survey our position and that of oar opponents
: The North has just triumphed in every
claim she has asserted, and yet at this mo-
. ment OF our humiliation, their people less
!, patient than We, are in a blaze of excite.