The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-14

of war in the hands of President pledged to
vindicate an UNJUST claim against sovereigB
State al the point ofthe sword, and the threats
of President Fillmore would have proved to be q
mere sbrutltn FdlHaeH.
If we IRE wrong, however, in our view Of this
subject and the territory in dispute was really
the property OF the United States, and her title
thereto was clear and und sputablc, why should
Southern members have voted ten millions OF
dollars for the purchase OF that which was al
ready our own Ii we are right, and the terri
tory was legally and justly a part Of the State q
Iecas, where is the power vested IN Congress
to buy part ofa State, and if part, certainly
a ,uliole Slate? And what a precedent has been
established through all future time, for enlarging
the powers Of the General Government, by APP
peals to the necessities of the needy, the fears
of the weak, and the cupidity Of the grasping.
We are not of those who believe that the
question was between the adoption Of the bill,
and civil war. nor do we believe that this glori-
GUS Union is to be easily destroyed. The cry
of "Disunion" has Of late become the conven-
lent cloak for designing oiticans and Interested
partizans. Should the evil day ever come, it will
be of slow approach, the severance of link by
link-and hastcned by the adoption of measures
like this Texas Boundary, and California Bills
whose tendency will be to ALLEVIATE feelings, pro-
mote discord, and SOW the prolific seeds of allie
nation between the different sections OF this con-
federacy.- Southern (Vd) Argus.
Observation-Disclosures PREPARE TO MEET
THE EHEMY--We have given conspicuous
place to the organisation Of The Soufhern Rights
Club, IN Camden county, for the purpose OF
earnestly recommending that the example and
advice Of the spirited citizens of that county be
Immediately followed and taken throughout the
State. The South is in imminent peril. Not a
moment is to be lost, for the legions of her foes
a. o pressing upon her. In less than sixty days
the struggle must take place in Georgia, which
fixes the doom Of her sons as equals in the
Union, or the underlings OF Yankees.-Once
contaminated, no amount of effort will unfix
that doom---we shall stay beaten, and like
whipped spaniels, never dare raise our heads
again in the presence Of our master race at the
North. Organize then for the battle. Form
clubs, enlighten the people, show them their
danger, put arms in their hands, point them to
the foe-they need but TO know the issue to
defend their rights. Open your purses, pour
out your money as you would your blood for
your liberties and your property, do anything
and everything, and exert all the means and
talents that God has given you to arouse the
people to this great question, and to save this
Suite from recreancy to the South ard the
eternal disgrace to herself of backing out.
t" Strike for your affairs and your fires,
HI Strike! for the green graves Of your sres,
God and yoar native land. !"
Georgia Times.
SENTIMENTS OF THE PEOPLE OF GREENE
That our readers at a distance may know the
ground occupied Ivy the people of Greene, in
relation to the Southern question, we append
two Of the resolutions passed by a meeting Of
the people of both parties, at the courthouse in
April last:
Resolred I'd, That we regard the territories of
the Union, however acquired, as the common
of the several States composing the
Union-that the passage by Congress of any
law which shall directly prevent the citizens Of
any State from emigrating to the territories OF
the Union with their property Of any and every
description, will be gross and palpable viola
ton Of the Constitutions direct assault upon
the institution of the endangering the
stability and D, r.nanancc Of the Republic, and
which ought to be resisted by every freeman
who cherishes his liberty and equality, at my
and all hazards, and to the last extremity.
Resolred 9th, That we do not intend by these
resolutions to refuse our assent to have the
Missouri Compromise bill applied to any terri
tory Of the United States by way to Cancellation
and TO preserre The Union,--should a returnir g
sense Of our Northern brethren lead them to
adopt the same.--E aaasc (Ala) Democrat.
Poor Texas, with an Indian war raging around
her frontiers, embarrassed with debt incidental
to her expensive revolution, and still bleeding
from wounds received in her wars for indcpend-
ence, and seeing the sword of the United States
pointed at her BOSOM may be coerced to take
the ten millions, to purchase peace and cxemp-
ton from butchery! But if she be permitted to
act as a free agent, and to consider the advan-
tages and disadvantages, she will scarcely accept
the present offer. 1t would do more harm for
Texas to sell her territory to the Federal Gov
ernment than for Virginia to sell her Alpine
region to abolition Ohio. Western Virginia is
no Letter adapted to slave labor than New Mexi-
co, yet if it were free territory it would soon
become filed with fugitive slaves, and for that
little strip, if Virginia would dismember it, the
Abolitionists would give ten millions tomorrow.
Even there however, fugitive slaves might be
recaptured after some trouble; whereas, the
fugitives that would crowd to New Mexico from
Texas and all the Southern States, could effec-
tually avoid seizure by passing still westward.
The passage of Pearce's bill so far from being a
compromise of the slavery question, would, by
preparing the way for free State west and
south Of the slave States, put lever in the
hands of the Abolitionists to destroy the value
of slave property, by transferring it from Texas,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri,
to California, Oregon and New Mexico. As a
matter of mere interest," those Southern States
had better pay Texas twenty millions of dollars
not to sell her territory, because they will, in a
few years, lose more than that sum in fugitive
slave property, if it becomes free State.
Again we ask--why does the Frce-soil party
now in power at Washington, desire to wrest
this territory from Texas, by purchase or the
sword? Evidently to make a Free-soil State of
it. They want it for the same reason that they
want the District of Columbia, and the forts and
arsenals of the United States, wherever situated,
to be declared Free-soil They want it, not for
peace and harmony, but for the purpose of an
noying the slavehoding States, and keeping up
the agitation of the slavery question. We should,
consequently, refuse it to them at any price
Every friend of this Union of sovereign States,
should resist the measure rs fraught with more
danger to its perpetuily than any that has ever
been devised The bill is plausible upon its
surface. Good and patriotic men voted for it.