The southern press., 1850-10-09
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seen that the editor takes precisely the viaw Of
the question At issue that We hare uniforn,ly In
sisted ou---and one wlirh we think the South
will maintain
The people Of Northern California would be
satisfied, OF onght to be satisfied, with renson-
able limits for State, and leave the Southern
part Of that country open to Southern emigra-
ton.
The time is coming when much may depend
on the course of the people there. We shall
look for the manifestation of all that real love Of
Union which the country contains, to sustain a
real settlement of the present dispute on the
basis Of equal territorial rights We hope the
people Of California are Tar from the fanatical
doctrines and sectional jealousy Of the North, as
they are IL geographical position.
We also append to this editorial Of the San
Francisco paper, communication signed :" Pa
cific, in the Sacramento Weekly Placer Times,
to which we call the attention Of our readers.
It is gratifying to find in that far.off land, true
son Of the South maintaining her character and
cause, with a spirit and ability that ought to
shame her recreant sons at the home Of their ma
tivity.
Let the South be firM--and she will yet ex-
tend her dominion to the Pacific. She will main
tain the integrity Of her rights, her power, and
her greatness, against all the assaults OF fa-
naticism, ambition and ayarice, Northern or Eu-
ropean.
AS TO THE SLAVERY QUESTION.
We know that our fellow citizens in the
Southern States are strongly and very naturally
impressed with the desire OF importing save-la-
Dor into this-country for mining purposes; but
the state of our present mining population, and
the rights of the free democracy who have alrea-
dy occupied the soil, preclude tine remotest idea
of such importations being tolerated in competi
tor with the industry and birtis-right of our own
legitimate sons. The men ofthe South have no
reasonable pretext for complaint at such AN ex-
clusion. The use they make Of that stale argu-
ment: that they have rs good right us North
ern men to 60 to California, to take their pro-
perty with them there, and to employ them in
any WY they please for their own advantage, is
fallacious and incompatible with the very ide;
Of equal interest and fair play OH which they lay
so much stress. We admit it as an indubitable
fact, and one ofwhich we ourselves, Gas South
erner) hnve reason to be proud, that in the war
which led to the acquisition of California, the
chivalry Of the South signalized their bravery
and shed their blood and we admit, to the full
est extent, that they have Individually right
with Northern MEN to share in the rich resources
Of our local placers. But is it not manifest,
that as the Southerner comes in viii, his negroes
to work forhim, whilst the Northern man comes
single handed and dependent on his own indus
try, or else on paid labor of the most expensive
kind, the chances of an equal acquisition are al
an end, and the principle Of equal right and
equal distribution is no longer recognized The
fact is beyond doubt, that the existence Of slave
ry simultaneously with free American industry
in this part of the territory is impossible; and
it is therefore in vain to think OF such thing
The democracy of Alta California, we believe,
are sincerely attached to the Union, and will
make no objection to the existence of slavery in
any Southern territory, which may be. set apart
for the erection of slave State; but we believe
ut the same time, that sooner than expunge from
the State constitution Of California the anti
slavery clause. they would rather remain as they
are unadmitted but not disunted--the lone, but
independent star Of tho American constellation !!
And now as to
COMPROMISE AND ADMISSION
Let the South, therefore, look to the South
for their share of the inheritance, where a eli
mate and field for slave labor of the richest
nature exists The South will then have her
minerel wealth as well as the North their in
compatible institutions will not conflict by any
attempt to mix them, and they will find in the
rich agricultural products of those lower lati-
tudcs, a richer mine of wealth than the, precari
GUS pursuit of gold digging can ever afford
Let them, in short, be content with fair and
liberal compromise on an independent footing
and territory Of their own, and, for the sake OF
our common country and the blessing of God,
let us have peace and harmony restored through
out our Uniun, and delay no longer the admis-
sion Of California
We socmnly and earnestly appeal to the good
sense and better feelings OF our Southern b-eth
rem, and to the sense Of common justice and
reasonable expcdiency of all Americans from
North to South, and from East to West to re-
Wember that our Union was first based on com.
promise, and that for its preservation and pros
perity the spirit Of Mutual forbearance and OF
generous compromise, must still be carried out.
The abstract question of slavery has nothing to
do with the settlement of the great matter now
in issue. Make as many States MS you please,
to maintain the balance of power; but, for mer-
cy's sake do not let us suffer any longer from
delays occasioncd by your unseemly and need
less dissensions Remember the warning words
of the immortal Washington, the Fail her of his
country, when about to resign the cares OF gov
ernment, and to retire into private life; and let
us beware lest, by sectional jcalousies and un-
compromising antagonism, we render those sol
emn words as prophetical IL they are full Of
truthful admonition!
feel somewhat tiattered, but rather vexed at
the divide and conquer attack you made on
my communication in your yesterdays issue
Doubtless you saw the futility of attempting to
break through the solid phalanx there arrayed
and vainly hoped to rout me from my position
by such uufair modes of warfare. Impenetri-
BILE though is the stand have tlken, because
based upon truth; and the mai statements
made, you, nor any other editor, nor any one
else in California, will, in private, contradict
Your style Of writing is for effect elsewhere
You know better in most instances, but act thus
in order 10 obtain certain ends: That is, you
will lie and do evil, that good may iollow--a
principle that many religious persons and some
excellent PHILOSOPHERS practice, bat which can