The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-10
TONE OF SOUTHERN SENTIMENT!

TOME OF SOUTHERN SENTIMENT
"We have published this week the address of
the Nashville Convention entire, We consider
II entirely unnecessary TO ask for it an attentiye
perusal. Every man at the South is vitality in-I
terested in the subjects discussed in the address,
and the time has come to act. The Nashville
Convention has laid down a platform upon|
which every true Southern man can stand, and|
it is time for them to rally upon this platforml
unless they are prepared to surrender all of the|
political rights which they have heretofore en-
.joyed as members of the Union. Every compro-
mise short of fair division of territory will de-
grade the South both at home and Mt the North
mi will OILY encourage the enemies OF our in-
situations to further encroachments We be-
lieve the Nashville Convention speaks the senti-
ments Of ninety-nine out of every hundred of our
citizens, when it declared that the line of 36
deg. 80 min. is the very extreme point to which
the South will recede. Let every man ut the
South make up his mind to rally upon that line,
face TO the North and stand firm. And let our
members of Congress, consider themselves in
strueted by the people to retreat no further, but
to insist upon the Missouri Compromise line ex-
tended to the Pacific, or to resign and come home
and let the people send those that will represent
them. We know there are u few among us, who
are willing to 90 with General Taylor in giving
all the territories to the Free-Soilers, but their
numbers and their influence are every dav de-
creasing. To hide their treachery, these mem
assert that no part of California can ever be set
tied by shareholders, because slave labor is UNI
Xproductiye there, and because the inhabitants of
California are opposed to slavery. Both of
these false but mlschievous assertions have had
their day. Ii is now known that slave labor is
very profitable in California; and the so called
constitution which has been palmed upon the
people Of the United States MS the exponent of
the wishes of the inhabitants of California, is
well known to be the offspring of Executive in
E1uence, and adopted by the people of California
at the instigation of the agents of the Admins
tration, as the means of securing their admission
into the Union. As has been shown on for
mer occasion not one delegate South of the line
of 36 deg. 80 min. in the California Convention
voted for this Constitution The California
Constitution, is now known to be fraud and al
humbug, and ought not to be countenanced BY
Congress. We sincerely hope that every South
ern man in and out of Congress will now rally
upon the Missouri Compromise and adhere to ID
to the last, and risk the lbany
4 (Ga.) Patriot.
"Whatever may be the truth in relation to the
NATTER we feel assured of one thing-the peo
aple of the Southern states can never be brought
- to submit to the admission into the Union at
this time Of New Mexico They would regard
such a proceeding at this juncture as more
: ubiquitous than the enactment Of the Wilmot
4PrOviso.
1T has been stated upon good authority in
d the Senate, that there are not one thousand
American citizens (cmigrants from the states)
in the territory, and that the whole population
Including the miserable Puebla Indians, Mexi
cans, mongrel races, and all, many Of whom are
removed but degree above the brute, does not
exceed sixty or seventy thousand. Shall we or
: ganize State out of this handful Of Americans
not equal in number to the voters in this county,
: or include with them the poor, weak spirited
Puebeanos, and the wild mixed breeds that
lord it over them! Such a thing is preposter-
Gus, and it will be laughed at from one end of
. the country to the other. These people are
hardly fit to be governed, much less to form o
Estate and come into the Union upon an equal
footing with Georgia and New York. "-Sara,,-
: nah Republican.
HCol. John Monroe, styling himself Civil ard Mil
8itary Governor OF New Mexico, and ordering an
election by the people of twenty-one delegates TO
hold a Convention for the purpose of making APP
8pication, after the manner of California, for ad
Emission as State in the Union. This proclama-
ton was dated at Santa Fe on the 23d of April
last, and the aforesaid election was to take place
lon the 9th day Of May. 1t is very probable there
sfore that the Convention is now in session. This
: Intelligence came to us without any explanation
whatever, and some' doubts were entertained
whether a military officer of the United States
8would thus venture to incite the people of Texas
to open rebellion against the State 1t was thought
: by 80 mo that Col Monroe could have no instruc-
tons from the Government ut Washing to thus
&defy the authorities Of Texas, and attempt to dis
tmember our territory by revolutionary move
Ement. This appeared the more incredible, mas
much as Congress have been engaged for months
+ pas in attempting to pass some bill to buy onour
&clam To this very territory.
But we now learn from General Nichols, who
His just from Austin, that Col. Monroe undoubted-
ly acted in conformity with his Instructions which
instructions he had just received through Colonel
Mccall who passed through this city with de-
spatches from Washington two or three months
since Previous to the arrival Of Colonel Mccall ]
Colonel Monroe had ordered the citizens to makel
no opposition whatever to the efforts by this State
to establish and enforce civil jurisdiction through
Eal the territory this side of the Rio Grande and
majors Neighbors found the people Of Santa Eel
Equite willing to recognize the authorities of this
Estate. But as soon as Colonel Mccall arrived
with dispatches to Colonel Munroe, the latter is
{ sues the aforesaid proclamation This is the
whole explanation; 1t appears, therefore, that
General Taylor and his Cabinet, having become
Tired Of waiting for settlement of the boundary
question by Congress, determined to have it set
Z tied by the Mexicans Of Santa Fe, as the more|
competent authority. The success of a similar
experiment In California, no doubt, recommended
Rrs repetition in New Mexico. Galveston (Teras)|
.Neus.
The NASHVILLE COvENTIoN-The result of
the deliberations of this body was given in our
last, and the platform" is plain and Ineligible.
We defy the most captious and fault finding toI
point out single line in the address and resolu
Btons which in spirit or expression, should be dis
scented from by any Southern man. The settle
Bment proposed,an the unanimity which prevailed
lis evidence that the Convention was moved by mol
desire to aggravate the controversy. On the
admission of Missouri in 1920, it was enacted
/ that thenceforth slavery should be excluded
from all territory north of her southern bound
larry (36 deg, 80 min.) and when Texas was adj
United slavery was prohibited in the portion of
her territory lying north Of that line (about l-2
3deg. Of latitude) The Convention propose that
lthc Soutb shall assent to the extension of thisE