The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-30

WILL THE STATE RESIST I'VE have not n
doubt of it. Everywhere the people of Georgia
seem to be fully convinced Of the "hostile in
tention" of the Government towards the slave
holding States and satisfied of the pressing ne
cessty of some check to this constantly pro-
gressive spirit. We say the people are persuad-
ed of this, for we hold the quondam alarmists,
now the apostles of Yankee supremacy, are
completely segregated from the people. Their
hopes are now Differentiated peers are not our
peers-their fortunes not our fortunes. A trad
ing man will sell anything, and to such char
acter nothing extrinsic to the mere price is worth
talking about. But the people, who cannot be
bought, but who sometimes, paradoxcal as it
may sound are sometimes sold, are wide awake
and Georgia will do something besides back ont.
We have heard directly from almost every por-
ton of the State and we are told that the voters
of the country, are everywhere enthusiastic in
their support of Judge Berrien's plan of retaiia-
ton. SO far from adopting "the base Judeans"
idea of vote Of censure upon the Legislature
and the Executive, we have seen that this igno-
mnious foung Of ones own nest" has been
secuted everywhere, and the day is not distant
when the man who proposed 1t will he as infa-
nous in this State, as the concoctors of the
Yazoo fraud,
What the plan Of our retaliation may embrace,
we can as yet have no idea; but we repeat,
something practical and effective will be pro-
posed. It will be a great pity, we know, to
snuff our rising star, that has his eye in fine
phrenzy rolling" at Vice Presidential honors, or
to nip n minister in the bud, but vet this is
surely to be done if it depends upon President
Filmores satisfaction at the labors of his agents
here But mark the prediction-should Geor-
gia back out, and bring the indelible stain upon
her honor Of classifying her pledges to sustain
that honor, our next call upon the sovereign
people Of this State will be to rally against the
abolition Of slavery in the District of Columbia
and the repeal of the Fugitive slave bill. Even
now the first of these outrages is preparing for
US. We are Informed that q representative of
one Of our Congressional Districts is stating
publicly that there are but sic hundred slaves In
the District. This is VIGOROUSLY untrue, and if
it were not, why is this statistic paraded so in
dustriously before our people? Why of course
the only object is, to prepare the minds of Geor-
gians to believe that in resisting the abolition of
slavery in the District, we are contending for n
bit of moonshine We are told that there are
but six hundred slaves in the ten miles square,
and we are left to draw the Inference which yet
these prudent pot patriots abstain from deduc-
ing themselves, that we had better submit to the
abolition of slavery in the District of Columbia
vention, by sudden break of this gradual and
stealthy cncroachment, shall arouse the whole
State, slavery has but fire gears lease Of us
life here. We "know of no way of Judging the
future but by the past and Judging by the past,
we wish to know what there has been in the
conduct" of the majority in Congress for the
last five years. to hold out any reasonable hope
TO our people that this majority will stop short
of our complete overthrow There is literally
nothing.
But from the meeting of our Convention there
is to be tremendous reaction. From it will
date an alliance between Northern commerce
and Southern Rights fatal blow to national
Democracy and Whiggery-a disintegration of
these two huge and destructive organizations
into 30 fractions of which the United South with
its Northern dependents will be by far the most
POWERFUL return TO strict constitutional con-
struction-and last and least manumission of
the subjects of the Sth Congressional District,
and n complete oblivion of who they belong TO-
This will indeed be glorious consummation.
1t will be work that would be more than
enough in glory to ennoble an archangel to save
this Union from the downfall that it now begins
to totter for. To take its safe keeping out of