The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-14

District Of Columbia, thus usurping the aiarmin;
authority of restraining the citizen in the contro
OF his property, on the ground that it il their RICH
} to legislate upon private morality!
We agree with the people Of the North, in thu
opinion, that the act Of Congress abolishing th'
slave trade in the Distrct OF Columbia, is but thu
first step to the abolition Of slavery in all places
under the jurisdiction of the General Government
and constitutes another act of nvidious and un
unconstitutional discrimination against our property
and iEstitut ons.
II is not true as stated by late meeting in this
city, that the Freesoilers regard the organization
Of the Territorial governments for New Mexico
and Utah triumph Of the South. So far from
over the South. They forbore to attach the hate
ful Wilmot Proviso," solely because they all hold
slavery excluded in these territories by the Mexi-
can laws. The extract quoted by our opponents
| from the "Albany Evening Journal, !" complain
ing that twenty-five thousand square miles had
been given To slavery, Ia one of the strongest
proofs that they view all the new territories safe
| for them under the provisions of the Compromise
Bill. Ihat tcemiy.fue thousand square miles Is the
frcciion Of Ns,c .herico left TO Texas by Pearce =
| bill, although her title was good up to AZ. Had
| this fraction also been given to New Mexico, IT
would not have been surrende. ed to slavery in
| the opinion of this Free soil editor. Do not these
wise teachers know that New Mexico contains by
the estimation of all geographers, not less than
100000 square miles, instead of $4,000; or did
| they intend to mislead and deccive: And did they
not know that New Mexico and Utah together,
contain over three hundred thousand square miles:
Nor is 1t true, stated by the Submissonists,
that more than one-third If the members of the
convention that framed the constitution OF Cali
forna were Southern men. There were in that
convention only seventeen members from save-
holding States-to wit: seven from Missouri
| three from Maryand--two from Virginia -four
from Louisiana, and one from Texas; and even OF
this small number hang from the slave holding
States, some of them natives of the Tree
States, Thus Missouri and Maryland, where
AbolitionIsm is rapidly gaining ground, furnished
ten Of the seventeen, while not one was from N.
Carolina, s. Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama
and Mississippi. But had it been otherwise--had
all the members Of this convention been sons Of
the South, and had voted 10 exclude her from her
own soil, it would only be another lamentab'e and
alarming evidence, added to the many proofs we
have already had in Congress, that ungrateful
! children may prove faithless to the mother that
| nourished them
| In view Of these facts, no sane citizen who ex-
poets to spend his days or to leave his children in
the South, can rest quiet or say there is not aw-
| full pers hanging over his home--whether slavery
il right or wrOng-a blessing curse, IS not the
question. But il is in our judgment question of
| life and death to the white race in the South.
! We deem it improper to paint or describe the
desolation and horrors which await the South on
the day Of OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES such scenes are
drawn to our hand in the West Indies.
! Therefore Resoiped, /. That the admission OF
California was robbery of the South, and a tri-
| umph OF Abolition
2. Resolucd, That whilst we unhesitatingy deny
the charge that the Free soil Constitution Of Cali
| fornia was framed through the fundamentally of
President Polk, we declare it to be immateral TO
MS whether it was nstigated by Pres dent Polk or
| Taylor On this question neither Polk
or Taylor men, but Southern Rights men, and are
opposed to the fraud perpehated on the rights OF
the Southern people by this. constitution by
whomsoever framed or formed.
8. ResoIved, That in offering to the South as q
boon the Territories Of New Mexico and Utah,
where to tigate with their own slaves, sueing
them in the Federal Court for their freedom, is
worse than the robbery in Cafornia--itis adding
: insult to injury, and especially offensive, since
every man of them tell that the law in those
Territories against the master and IN favor OF The
! slave in such litigation.
4. Resolrcd That in Remembering Texas afte
her boundaries had been acknowledged by every
, department of this Government, liberty ant
State rights have received blow no less alarming
to freemen who are not blinded by party prejudice
than was the psrtition of Poland.
: S. Resolued, That the last Legislature acted thu
part Of faithful public servants in providing by al
almost unanimous vote, for a Convention of tn
9 people Of This State consult and adopt measure
's for their common safety.
'e g. Rescued, That in our opinion 1t was nc
e call of thSConvention solely on the admission c
= California, but rather on that one of Ion
q chain Of aggressions, and as an evidence of this
re we cite the preamble of the act.
"a T. Resolved That it is the duty of all govern
ie ments protect, and not destroy, the persons am
"a property of The citizens. Congress should protec
lr us in the enjoyment Of our slaves and yet have
IS power to control or abridge such enjoyment. Thi'
is 'non-intervention. "
: g. Resoired, That it is not true that the Nortl
| r IL
e IN Congress, or let the South have her own way
in the matter. The yeas and nays show that ev
e cry Northern senator present, save two, votet
against it, and large majority IN the House.
q 8. Resolved, That since the North has thus re
solved never to cease their expressions, we vii
}, never cease to oppose and resist, at all hazards
o and to the last extremity, all such aggressions il
future.
l. 10. Resolved. That those who manifest sucl
o alarm and adherence at the call of meeting o
h the citizens of Georgia, give evidence of very
little faith in the virtue and capacity of our cit
e liens.
n ii. Resolved That il half the repugnance were
felt or expressed the North against the holding
of anti slavery conventions, that there is here al
: the South against for our protection, We
should have far less to apprehend.
8 IL. Resolved, That we have an abiding conf
8 dence in the capacity of the people for sef-gov
= ernment,' when not misled by dishonest poit
o clans, or designing men, and therefore apprehent
$ no danger from their meeting to consult for the
safety. Such meetings are formidable TO tyrant:
6 only"
o l3. Resolved, That those who made the Con
0 sttution were all white men, and that they or
h daned that the Constitution they made was 70
whites ard not for blacks, by declaring that the
n formed it s'to secure the blessing Of liberty to
g and our posterity.'
. Ii Resolved, That while we for the Union
d so long the Constitution protects us, we arr
against it when that protection ceases.
. Is. Resolred, That our fathers who made til,
Constitution were equals North and South, and
: expected their 'posterity" TO be treated equals
} l6. Resoired, That the citizens Of no State
North or South, can submit to be treated as in.
feriors and underlings, without disgracing their
fathers and becoming slaves.
e II. Resolved, That we will support no man for
l the convention whow disgrace Georgia by cow
ardly measures Of surrender to Northern AFRO
ance and wrong.
Is. Resolrea That our destiny is with Georgia
, and the South; and whatever fate awaits us we will
e never be found cooperating with the enemies OF