The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-15


/ 81 We take the following from the Loai
pile Journal We might be excused from an
notice of an article so indecorous and scurrilou
in its terms. But we like to present our oppc
nents Mt full length, for the same reason III
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MISREPRESENTATION Southern Pres
declares that the Federal Government has unde,
taken to prescribe and limit the institution O
slavery to certain geographical boundaries, an
TO, exclude it from all the territory recent,
acquired or which may hereafter be acquired.
II is difficult to conceive of more misrepresen
tation being crowded within the limits of singh
sentence. Congress has nat ''proscribed" tn
institution ofsavery. Congress has not .aimite,
the existence of slavery within certain geograph
ical limits. Congress has not excluded" sIav
cry from all the territory recently acquired
Congress has not made arrangements for its ex
clusion from any territory that may hereafter b,
acquired. i, 81. :
II the success of the disunion cause depended
on the facility which its supporters exhibit il
misrepresentation then the traitors who are now
clsmarlng for dissolution of tho Union would
have good cause for hope, for they certainly
any other people that we know Of Tn throwing
off their allegiance to the Union, they also threw
Oft their allegiance to truth. If the readers of
the disunionist papers are not ridiculously igno-
rant OF the most notorious facts, we do not see
how those papers can impose on them. There
is scarcely ever a sentence fond in one of those
papers that does not contain a falsehood--a
filsehood as big and as ugly and as black M a
Portuguese leech after it has sucked itselfto re-
pleton and fallen from its perch, incapable OF
another drop. II is said that men sometimes
contract such an inveterate habit Of Justification
that they ut last come to believe their own ictions
1t may be that this last infrmity of lying minds
may be common among the disunion editors and
rhetorical slangwhangers We hope the ilfec-
ton mas not spread downward among the mas.
ses of their followers, for we cannot imagine
how community Of thorough liars can exist.
If any one wishes to sec faisehood in its
grandest and most imposing character, let him
read speech by Rhett or that reverend gentle
man, preacher Colquitt, and he will be- amply
gratifird. And yet the dsunion editors, from
nose of the Charleston Mercury down to those
of the Columbus Enquirer, far outshine even
the orators OF disuniOnis,n, as any one may see
by taking the trouble to exar inc these wonder
ful sheets Their proficiency may be called mi
iactieus, UoCccullS uS IL uDeS lltlleululely lTOn
tie instigation of the Devil.
The editor of the LouiSpiHe .Jmlrnal is n ma.
tive Of Connecticut educated of course ut a
common school, which accounts for the rudeness
OF his style of writing-a style, which long
residence in the refined and elegant Southern
city of Louisville has not been sufficient to re-
form. But we will not permit him to escape by
the vulgarity of his language, from conclusions
which evidently disturb the sensibility of the
most obtuse submissonist.
We re-assert, then, shat the Federal Govern
ment has undertaken to prescribe and limit the
institution OF slavery to certain geographical
boundaries, and to exclude it from all the terri
tory recently acquired, or which may hereafter
be acquired"
The Federal Government has undertaken to
exclude slavery from all the territory recently
acquired, by ratifyng the boundary claimed by
California, claim that had no valid ty until it
was thus ratified. And that claim thus ratified,
Ioes exclude slavery from all California on the
Pacific, and from that part of the interior accessi
BILE from the Pacific, because slaves cannot be
safely taken through that State. The Federal
Government has also undertaken to exclude
slavery from Utah and New Mexico, by law to
buy from Texas her right to all territory on the
Rio Grande north of 80, and to transfer the
population and territory, thus taken from Il, xas,
Il slaveholding State, to New Mexico, territory
that, including this very population thus trans
lcrred, had already declared its determination to
exclude slavery. And by thus providing for the
creation of State, extending from Mexico on
the south to 42-beyond the latitude of Missouri
OIL the north, the Federal Government under
takes 10 close The door, to the emigration of slaves
either into New Mexico or Utah. And thus by
the Texas Boundary bill, and that for admitting
California with her monstrous claim Of boun-
dairy, very is inevitably excluded, if these laws
stand, from nil the territory recently acquired.
Hence, the Federal Government has undertaken
to prescribe the institution Of slavery Hence,
the principle is established of excluding slavery
from territory acquired hereafter
If the defence Of the Union can be made only
by shutting the eye TO the planest of concu
sions, or by dsputing them with the coarsest Of
epithets, the case is desperate. If allegiance to
the Union consists in submission to attacks no,
only on the Constitution, but on common sense
and good manners, let those whose tastes, habits
and, faculties fit them for subsection submit and
rejoice.
Significant
The spirit which the late acts Of Spoliation
have aroused in Mississippi may be Judged from
the following extracts from the leading prints
When such men as Judges Sharkey, Smith,
Clayton, Stuart, and others, (our representatives
to the Nashville ConvenrionO and our glorious
Governor Quitman, are to be derded and held
80, so ,r,;tors Inv Yankee aJventur.rs wa kunu,