The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1850-01-25

parded by ENGRAVING certain proviso
upon territorial bills. Any one can UNI
derstand how conviction of this nature,
whether illusory or well-founded, will
produce feelings Of uneasiness, alarm,
CONSERVATION and resistance. If the peo-
pie Of the North imagined their right in
property to a similar amount was en-
dangered by a propositionbefore Congress,
every one knows what they would do.
Nor would it require much argument TO
convince the people Of the South that
they were in earnest in what they did.
And we might add that II would be haz-
ard to trife with such a conviction,
though the people of the South should be
satisfied that the North had conjured up a
spectre to alarm themselves.
There is one passage in Mr.. CLING
MANS speech which, we grieve to say,
will initiate the Abolitionists of the North
with vain glory; it will swell them with
self-conceit to bursting. In the excite
ment produced by the topic he was han
ding, Mr.. CLINcMAS in effect said that
the agitation Of the slavery question in the
North prevented California from seeking
admission into the Union as slave State.
There is no merit in this speculation.
Since the treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo,
there have not been conveyances enough
for the white people who have Aocked TO-
wards California. They have gone across
the isthmus, around the cape, through
Mexico, and over the prairies Of the West,
in companies Of tens and in companies Of
hundreds. Ifevery Southern STAKEHOLDER
had been taken with the California fever,
they could not have found means of tax
ing their people there in numbers ap
preaching the numerical strength Of the
white emigration; and if whites an6
blacks from the South had equaled the
| free emigration in numbers, (and this il
admitting an impossible case,) the Soutl
would have been out-voted, unless the
blacks were made voters--another ad
mission Of an impossibility. We shall no
now inquire into the probable consequences
of working slave and free labor togethel
in the mines; Of having hundred negroes
owned by master digging gold by the
side of hundred freemen digging fol
themselves.-we have stated two impos-
sibilities which lie between us and thu
utility of considering any such state Of
the case.
The truth of the matter is, we appre
bend, that the movements of the Adolf
tionists never yet, by lawful means, strucl
the shackles from single slave. What
ever effect they have produced has beer
disadvantageous TO the African race, ant
it may well be doubted if any act of Con
gress can lessen the number of person.
held in bondage by unit, or extend tn.
area of slave territory one furlong. There
are natural causes at work beneath tn,
agitation of this question and the laws tina
may be passed in relation thereto, which
will ensure to il the fulflment of its des
tiny, whatever that may be.
There is one consideration which this
speech suggests, and we would urge il
with all earnestness and sincerity of heart.
When gentlemen, who have hitherto oc.
cupied the conservative grounds upor
which Mr.. CLrscMAN has stood, are Sc.
duced into the ranks Of those who calcu-
late, habitually, the value of the Union;
and when there is party in the North
who pretend to have weighed the Confed-
eracy in the balance and found it wanting,
it is time for another party to begin to cal
culate the value Of the Union also, and
that party is composed Of all those who re-
gard the Union as Invaluable. When the
North is rowelled up to vote upon ques-
ton which is urged for the sake Of sg;ta
ton merely, and insulted by the Aippan
taunt Of the chuckling demagogue who
cries aloud "face the music" why not an
swer GIVE face the Union" When the
South is invoked to apply the brand Of th,
incendiary 10 the fabric Of liberty, why
may they not show that they light tbei
torches from the fires that burn upon tn,
altar of the Unionl Were this done, III,
Southern agitator would be overwhelmed
by the storm he has invoked, and III,
Northern incendiary would be consumed
in the fires he has kindled Were Thu
done, the flower safety would blossom or
this nettIe danger.
That the people in any section Of the