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

This il good effect, saves m4ny life and
many a dime TO our people; but whaa deplorabls
Union is that in which the people Of one section
of it 90 regard those Of another. *
From the WoodpilLe (.Afiss.) Republican
THE STATE or TIE CouxrRv.--It is impossible
for any one acquainted with the course OF affairs,
not to perceive that they fast approach deciding
point for union or disunon.
The troops Of Texas are now, we understand.
on their march to take possession Of Santa Fe.
and in spite Of Col. Munroe, the United States
soldiers, and the selEestabIished government Of
New Mexico, 70 enforce the civil authority OF their
sovereign State
The Calfo,nia bill has passed the Senate, ad-
hitting that country as State, in defiance Of it's
having formed itself, and applied for admission,
regardless Of all propriety and precedent, and Of
the rights Of the Southern States; and notwith-
standing its overgrown boundaries, (sufhcient for
an empire) shutting the Southern States from all
the Pacific coast.
This bill is now before the House. Iii become
a law, the State of Georgia. having pledged her
self to call together her Legislature take steps
resist it, and other Southern States having also
thus declared their determination; a secession
from Union to which they are no longer bound.
and in which they can no longer remain in honor
and safety will inevitably and Of right be the step
taken by them, let who will attempt TO hinder.
We published last week the protest against the
admission of this country, which was laid on the
table Of the Senate. This is an able document
and the objections therein set forth are true. We
have a right, and in duty bound to resist
final disregard of these reasonable objections
We rely upon the House II rests with them
what shall be done.
From the Marion (JNiss.) Commonwealth.
"THg PkosPEcr BEFORE U.s. The course
Of many Of her own politicians and presses have
rendered her powerIsss and heipIess--her councils
are distracted her strength is divided, d she is
now forced to submit to whatever terms an inso-
lent majority may decree her, totally regardless of
such old fashioned notions justice and right
equal privileges and immunities-the spirit and
intent Of the compact made by our fathers. The
modification naturally arising from the considera-
ton Of these facts is doubled by the further con-
sideraton of how differently the case might have
s God had the South been united, and stood to-
gelher, as she should have done, like one man.
1t is nonsense TO say that with such front pre-
scented to her enemies, her rights would have been
invaded or her feelings nsu|ted. The abolition
sentiment in Congress would have covered before
it, and never dared to press the Infamous and me-
furious schemes that now agiate Congress and
the county. But our foes were encouraged by
aid and comfort from our own midst. The tone
of our recusant presses and politicians assured
them that 90 what they would, the South would
not be driven to resistance. These presses, with
their dupes and followers, instead Of exertng
themselves in defending their section from iE-
suit, and raising their voices in warning to the
North to desist from it's unjust purposes, have
expended their labors in vil!itying and traducing
men, and opposing measures suggested
for the protection Of Southern rights and interests
This is the true secret of the failure Of the South
in long since procuring full acknowledgment Of
all her just and constitutional rights. Right here
is the place to look for the cause of all the wrong
and injury the South may hereafter suffer, or even
Of dissolution Of the Union, if unhnppily such
an event should ever occur What the motives
are that acuate these it is not for us to say"
From the Fredericksburg (Ha.) .Ns,rs.
THE FUGTvE SLAVE BlLL-lTs Execution,
THE TRUE TEST OF THE UNION" The spirit Of
opposition manifested in Western Pennsylvania,
New York city, and Springfield, Massachusetts,
to the execution Of the Fugitive Slave bili points
to the true test of the permanence of our Union.
Those Southern men, who now advocate Dis
union, declare the belief that the public scnti-
ment of the free States is so hostile to slavery
as to make it impossible for the slaveholding
States to protect their rights under a common
Government. If this opinion Of the strength Of
Northern prejudces were acquesced in gener-
ally by the Southern people, there would be,
and ought to be, no hope Of preserving the
Union. But, up to this time, very few in the
South have been able TO persuade themselves of
the incompatibility Of Northern and Southern
sentiments. The extremists Of the North now
threaten rebellion to n law Of Congress, which
does nothing more than guarantee our undenia-
bic rights If the mass of the people do not
these threats, and do not mani
fest their purpose to respect the law, the value
of the Union will begin to be calculated in
earnest. Here is an issue about which there
cannot be two Southern opinions"
The above we take from the Richmond Times.
The protection to our property by the fugitive
slave bill "is right, so unquestioned, that at
the South this will be an issue about which
there cannot be two Southern opinions.
Our contemporary, we think, mistakes public
sentiment at the South. There is no issue upon
the slavery question which can be made, about
which there will not be "t,co Southern opinions"
And as to dssolving the Union for slavery is all
humbug. large party at the South would see
liberated every slave South of the Potomac before
they would dissolve the Union. The Union has
in it magic which conciliates every outrage,
salves every wound, and quiets every apprehen-
sion. sour Northern brethren' are so lovely in
our sight, dwell with us sin such unity and are
altogether so kind that our hearts would break
at the separation. Divide, never. The tongue
that would utter, orlfhc head which would con-
ceive such sentipent, is false to his country, a
recreant to Sod, worthy of the gallows, and
christian burial.
Our f.iend of the Times thinks if Northern
prejudices would not permit the faithful execu-
tion of this law, the Union ought to be broken.
The editor had better measure his words with
more precision, else he will be numbered among
the dsnnionsts, and then woe be unto him -
He should rccollect the welfare of some ten
millions of people rest upon this Union. We
have now thirty mlions-one-third of whom
reside South Of Mason and Dixon's line. Cut
them off from their :" Northern breihren' and what
IRE they? How is it possible for them to live
without the Yankee school-mistress, the Yankee
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