The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-06
THOUGHTS FoR soUrHERSERs
On the admission Of California; Separately or Con
HOUSE or Representatives,

It's said that with the exception of MIR. Clay,
every Southerner in either House of Congress
is prepared and resolved to vote against the adj
mission of California aions and as she is. No
doubt it is so, and clearly lhey are right-but
whyi The objections are numerous, though but
three need be named;
lst Her dimensions are unnatural and mons
trous;
Cd. The whole public domain viii be thereby
lost to the Union; and
3D.. Her admission involves the direct sanction
of Congress- to the establishment Of the Wihnot
Proviso in all the territory south Of 36o 80 to the
thorough and perpetual exclusion ofthe South.
Imposing objections these, and sound ones too.
They have rarely been met, and have never been
answered. and since the signal failure of Mr.,
Webster to dislodge Mr.. Soule from his positions
upon the matters Of boundary, the public domain,
and the controlling Jurisprudence Of Mexico over
the rights and usages Of miners, it may well be
said that they cannot be. would not have ven
tured to call the failure of Mr.. Webster signal,
Though / thought it sou but for hearing that
a distinguished friend Of his--a statesman and
iurist of the first order Of abity-had so charac-
terised the replies both Of Judge Douglas and
himself TO Mr. Soule and said that neither ofthem
had fully confronted faced his positions; having
heard concurring opinions from the soundest and
wariest of statesmen, and having Witnessed his
authorities from Howard and Vattel most effectu-
ally and unanswerably turned against him, ! could
conclude nothing else but that the admission OF
California, now and as she is, involved total
4 - 10,
line of the Missouri Compromise, and the impo-
stion upon the South Of the odious Wilmot Pro-
yiso. through the immediate agency and sanction
Of CONGRESS- itself, No wonder. thought I, that
,be sontbern =, an,bers sbould he so united and
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saot;,,s !, ,hese rerards Sbonld srcb provisions
-, ~ uo.,,.oa ca ;n,,os,ed i, tho Territorial,
T sr,s,,,,,re. do not hesitate 10 sav that these
,,os,o,s 90 a. on,,;,,,s hi, vyopd he an That
tbe South should insist nnon Or claim. but. were
this done. there is not Southerner who could
admit that any such provisions would abridge or
Impair, to any extent, the rights of the North
Not a Southerner could admit that they secured
to the property of the shareholders the veriest