The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-06

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Legislation. When itworss well for Free
Soil he is f7r it--when for the rights Of ff-
tech other States, why, circumstances alter
cases. ~
The Senator says:
The next Of these evils is The encroaehment of.
Texas upon New Mexico. Well, sir, we will
leave the territory Of New Mexico in the keeping
Of the President, and her free institutions to the
care of her own people, until she come here as
aState and demand admission into the Union.
Well, if the Senator'S full confidence in
the wisdom and patriotisgn-of the President
would intrust him with the liberty Of New
Mexico, why not with that of CALIFORNIA;
Ecr does the wisdom Of the President, or the.
confidence Of the Senator, stop atthe Rocky
mountains, without mules 70 carry them
over i, ga \. f rat
I As for the Mormons, they don't exclude
slavery, and therefore, according to this ex-
FOUNDER Of natural and political rights, they
are prepared, as. yet, only to endure mills
|tary authority ,tifa a.4 -. sill. 81. ,1s
Sin, the Mormons, when they shall have gath
cred population adequate to sustain n State gov
ernment, can establish one; and in the meantime
they will be living under the protection of our
arms, and enjoying the only laws they are yet
prepared to endure Ag t.4 teal 5&s X, t~r5
So it seems, after all the cant about uni-'
versal equality, some people yet survive mol
prepared for liberty, but they are not Free.
Sellers. ....... .... s..
The Senator says that the slavery question
cannot be compromised or settled, The
conflict must go on. The Constitution can
give neither security nor repose.
But it is insisted that, trivial as these disturb
ances are, the country is nevertheless rrtated,
excited, and distracted. Sir, the country seems to
me neither excited nor distracted. 1t is worried
by our own delay, and has become impatient--not
impatient enough yet to approve this bill, but inn
patient for the admission Of California alone
That is all. .faN@E Et Es- ".
Still it is replied that the slavery question must
be settled. That question cannot be settled by
this bill. Slavery and freedom are conflicting
systems brought together by the Union of the
States, not neutralized, nor even harmonized
Their antagonism is radical, and therefore per-
petual. Compromise encounters conflict, and the
conflict involves, unavoidably, all questions Of a
national transformations OF revenue, of inter-
nal improvements, of industry, OF commerce. of
political, rivalry, and even all questions of peace
and Of war. Interfering. the career Of conquest,
you have kindled to fierce heat the fires YOU
seek to extinguish, because you have thrown into
them the fuel of propagandism. We have the
propagandIsm of slavery to enlarge the slave mar
ket and to increase slave representation In Con-
gress and in the Electoral Colleges--for the bran-
bic ever seeks power, though the olive, the fig
and the vine should reftfse it-and the propa-
Ter nf
Nor can this propagandism be arrested on either
sde.f The sea is full of eXiles, and they swarm
over the land. Emigration from Europe. and
from Asia, and from Polynesia, and from the free.
States, and from the slave States, goes ION, and
must go on. and will go on, in obedience to laws
which should say were higher than the aConsti-
tuition, If any such laws Were acknowledged here.
+ We'll, M5taat is the latest doctrine, we
are glad TO know it. If we are to have no
peace under this Constitution, we will know
what course to take. We ..t@sgs
a" Thank thee, Roderek for the word, A
i 1t nerves our heart it steels our pen. :" g..
The !. Senator defends his avowal of ale
glance in the last extract, and ina previous
speech, laws above the Constitution +"
And Tmay be allowed here to refer those who
| nave peet SCaNuhllIeu Dy tue dlluSlOn TO SuCA
laws, to single passage by an author whose
.f'i",.'"-id '-'i the side ef suAArsiite
Tyranny. -..,e,
"f il be said that every nation ought in this
to follow their own constitutions, we are at an
end-of all our controversies, for they ought not
to be followed unless they are rightly made; they
cannot be rightly made if they are contrary to-the
universal law of God and nature ~ sco,s,scs on
Gorerement by s3lgcrnon Sidney, Oh. i, pas - r
We'll, itseems to plain, prosaic creatures
like US, that, if Senator cannot support
Constitution because, it is +" contrary to the
universal law of God and Nature,' p he ought,
not to commit the mockery and.purjury Of
solemnly swearing to. support It when he
takes his seat in the Senate But. yonr
modern conscience and 6 confidence man"
isaprogressive.' Such is the speech, the.
doctrine, the argument, and the style of the
new Observation-Disclosures in the Senate. !
And can it be that this. man is the organ Of. a
President who received a majority Of the
electoral votes of the South. and who has a
majority. of shareholders in his Cabinet.
The Southern corrupting fund, for the pur-
pose Of establishing geographical parties in the
United States, through the aid of the South
e'aa Press here in Washington, seems to be
very, low, as the new organ of the Nuliif-
ers isgetting very dull, and paper and print
ing of 1t worse than is generally tolerated in
a decent country paper. The fact is, in spite of
the lash of the ultra Southern members, no
money is forthcoming, from the States, and the
paper is published at'the expense Of the members
here in Washington. Nobody reads tile paper
except these members, and nobody cares about it.
The great patron of the multiplying organ, Col
Jefferson Davis, the man who charges corruption
on others, and whose ambition far exceeds his
talents or sense of propriety, will find more diff
Guilty IN raising the money for active operations
than the men. | expect the Southern Press will
live fortnight longer, and then die OF rapid con-
sumption. 1t will be more effectual in PROMO
ting multiplying views than the Nashville Conven-
Etion and the Mississippi resolutions, passed by
Legislative caucus, and not by the people Of
Mississippi in Convention. %.
/ -s%s9 a-s "". Cor. Phiia. Ledger.
| We insert the above, not from any con-