The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-30

Congress" undertakes according to the views Of
Mr.. CLAY, its Trainer and expounder, to surren-
der the right Of the South to all Califor-
MA the principal subject II controversy, and
it sells out also the right of the South to all
Texas north of the line of 80 degrees, and makes
the South pay her share of the large sum of say
ten Millions the price of her own dismember-
ment and mutaton!
And this is the scheme so constitutional and
so just, for which the South ought not only to
be satisfied, but grateful to the few Northern
Igentlemen who are so firm, so manly, and 80
magnanimoiis as to support it. Why, if there
be any reason, justice or honesty in it, the men
of the South who have contended for $500,
have attempted fraud, an aggression, an out
rage on their modest, unpretending and patriotic
brethren of the North t9g
But the scheme Of Mr.. Clay, monstrous as it
is, is not monstrous enough for Messrs Sew
ARD, HALE, GIDDNGs and Mann. And there
fore, because they oppose it, the South must
support it, or at least applaud the manliness,
firmness, and -magnanimity of those Northern
gentlemen who do. We must oppose the man
who attempts to wrest from us hundred dol
lars, but admire him who insists only on
ninety-nine--or be accounted dishonest or in
sane. If we are compelled to admire, we shall
admire those who demand the boldest, and de-
mand the most-those who commit the deed
and describe it in plain and proper terms--the
exclusion Of slavery--ratler than those, who,
protesting and pretending non-intervention, get
the votes of the North by arguing that such non
Intervention would get the territory for the
North, and finding now that it may fall attempt
to pass law to buy out the South with her
own money, and to ratify the usurpation of ter
ritory by California, and still pretend that this is
non-intervention, and they are consistent. The
Abolitionists invade our rights, and insult our
honor--the pending proposition does both, and
insults our understanding besides, by calling ag-
gression compromise, and ACKNOWLEDGMENT
non.intervention. The Aboltionist avows him
self to be an enemy. The advocate of the pro-
position, a friend
But it seems that Southern men are not to
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support nor withhold their confidence from any
man North, who is not yet an Abolitionist. And
if they do, they incur the imputation of insanity
or dishonesty from the editor of the Union. The
measure of Southern right or Southern de-
fence, is to be determined by Abolitionists-
some Wings and Free-soers at the North The
great body of Democrats and other Wings of the
North, located in that vast intermediate region
of politics between the South and the extreme
North, are sound:
"Placed on that isthmus Of a middle State,
| Beings darkly wise and rudely great"
| All those States and both parties have passed
| the Wilmot Proviso-but some Of them have
been persuaded to renounce it, on being shown
that they could get the territory in dispute by
trick that should be called non-interyenton
The editor of the Onion gives his article the
caption of " The Democracy Of the Union" He
| makes it an invective against Southern Demo-
Gratis who will not unite with Northern in sup
port of the pending proposition. One would
suppose that in an article deprecating division
in party, courtesy and kindness would be en-
ployed towards both wings. This editor how
ever, has peculiar method of Cancellation. He
applies the terms criminal" dishonesty" :. in
sanity" &c., to the Southern men who refuse to
be governed by party on this question. The
Union assumes to be the organ of the Demo-
cratic party--and its editor is Southern man
by birth. He knows that large majority of
the Democratic delegation in Congress from the
Southern States is opposed to this proposition.
He knows that in Virginia there are not half
dozen Democratic papers in favor of it--that in
North Carolina the whole party is committed in
convention against it--that South Carolina is
unanimous in opposition to it-that the Demo-
eracy of Georgia is opposed to it--so Of Ala
bama--so of Florida--that in Mississippi almost
the entire Democratic press is opposed--so Of
Arkansas--so Of Texas And that where the
party in the South is divided it is chiefly in the
Wing States Of Maryland, Kentucky and Ten
nessee. Yetthe editor of the Union attempts
to make the support of the pending proposition
party policy, and to dragoon by the coarsest
lNeclNc, N'tSb i'orlty VI liic Aoouticrii Deiuo-
cracy into union with :" some" Northern Demo-
Gratis, and some Northern Wings, on this meas
ure. He, protested Southern Democrat, may
unite with Mr.. CLAY, a Southern Wing, and
MIR. WEBSTER, a Northern one, without distinc-
ton of party, in support of this measure, but if
other Southern Democrats unite with Southern
Wings in opposition to it, why, criminality,
sederralism, dishonesty, and insanity, are the
terms he has the presumption and temerity to
apply to them. The editor of the Union may
be the organ of the Northern Democracy--he is
no longer of Southern.
If the pending proposition in Congress should
pass, or if no settlement be effected, and dis
union ensue, the three men who above all others
viii be responsible for that disaster, are Mr..
| CLAY, Mr.. Benton, and the editor of the Union
They are all men of Southern locality--and all
have renowned the equality of the South with
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