The southern press., 1850-11-06
Pronf tAe Memphis { Tsnn.) .appeal.


| A COOP BEGINsIse.-At our suggestion, the
Enquirer publishes the 7th resolution, the rejec-
ton of which produced the split in the Wing
party Of New y ork but what we regard as a
very bad feature in the matter, is the fact that
its sentiments and principles are not repudiated
by our neighbor, but rather endorsed, and re-
garded as concatory.
Now the resolution establishes, in the first
place, the unalterable opposition of the New
York Whigs to the extension OF slavery to ter
ritory now free. Second, that Congress has the
constitutional power to prohibit such extension,
or in other words, that Congress has the power
to pass the Wihnot Proviso. Third, it rejoices
in the admission of California as n free State /;
and fourth, it aequiesces in the action of Con-
gress relative 10 New Mexico and Utah, solely
from the CONNECTION that such action piH result
in The erciusioa of slarsry from these territories
1t is true, the assertion and maintenance of
these principles by the Northern Wings, is no
new thing but that they should be endorsed by
respectable Southern Journal, and their advo-
Gates and supporters eulogised as 'snoble and
true-hearted," is not only new but astonishing;
and it is to be regretted that the shackles of
party are so strong as to blind its victims to the
true interests of their country. Mr. Van Buren
went no farther than this resolution, and what
mercy be met with at the hands of both parties
in the South, is fresh in the memories of ALL
We all, with unanimity unexampled, repudi-
ated both the man and his principles, as mimi
cal and dangerous to Southern interests; and
we confess we are truly alta loss to divine how
sins in him become virtues in others.
We are pleased, nevertheless, at the begin
ming the Enquirer has made in transferring
Northern Wing sentiment into its columns, and
we indulge the hope that it will continue the
practice. 1t may indeed be somewhat disagree
able at first, but this will be compensated by the
beneficial results, which we feel confident will
flow from it. E,,,.,,3.7
In reply to- the concluding remarks of our
neighbor's article, we can only say that neither
time nor space will now permit us to recaptu-
late the principles We have advocated and the
arguments we have made in support OF the policy
we have deemed best suited to the correction of
existing, and the prevention of future abuses
suffice to say, we have uniformly and zealously
favored, as both necessary and efficient, South
ern union and Southern convention. We have
never doubted but that the assembled wisdom
of the South could devise some measure or
adopt some policy by which both the Union
could be saved and the equality OF the South in
it preserved. TO this end we have bent all our
energies and exhausted all our argument To
accomplish so desirable u result, we have for
gotten our party ties and renounced all party
allegiance. But in an evil hour the mad-dog
cry of dsunion" was raised by the Wings, and
instead of uniting in favor of the convention aud
sending members there to vote down any dis
union movement, it any should be made, they
throw themselves in opposition to the whole
measure: and proposing nothing nothing but
submission to the "decrees" of Congress they
weakened and measurably destroyed the effici.
ency which might otherwise have attached to
the action of that body s '@