Southern shield., 1850-03-09
FOR THE SOUTHERN SHIELD.

FOR THE SOUTHERN SHIELD.
 MR EDIToR:-If you will accord me so much space in your valuable paper, l will answer some of the positions, and some of the misakesI made in late number of the True Issue.
 The first mistake made, is on a par with that in late Mo-, in which the Hon. Thos. Butler King, the late distinguished M. C. from Geor- gia, is called "Northern Free-soIer," and is in calling Henry Clay Wilmot Provsoist, and representing him as having said 'that slavery shall never go into Territory now free, either North or South.'' Now that is the language of .he Wilinot Proviso. But did MT. Clay ever use such! No candid man, who understands the meaning of language, will for a moment say so. Mr..Clay did say that by las Uote slavery | should never be carried into territory now free. But at the same time he said that he was op- posed to any action on the subject of slavery, in the organization of the Terrtories-that he de- sired the subject to be left entirely untouched, and for the action of the people themselves. That if the people wanted slavery it would go there, if they did not, it would not go there. Now how often has Great Britain been reproach- ed with forcing slavery on her young colonies with being the cause of its existence in the United States. Mir. Clay and Thomas Jeffer- son have stood side by side and charged the existence of slavery in the United States on the the cupidity of Great Britain, who forced it upon her colonies against their consent.
 What does Mir. King, the Democratic Senator from Alabama that most Democratic of all the states, say of positive legislation on the subject of slavery, and he ought to be good authority with the Issue. Hear him:
 "Sir, believe we have about as much consti- tutional power to prohibit slavery from going into the territories of the United States as we have to pass an act carrying slavery there. We have no right to do either the one or the other. / aooadd as soon Uote na faUOr of fhe Walneot proviso as / acOsdd for aay la,c achich requr- cd Mat slGUery should go info ony of he ter- ritOries."
 And to this point are coming all of the sound conservative Southern Statesmen, both Whigs and Democrats. And here let me say, that io regard to fhis subject, there are neither Wings nor Democrats; but the whole American people must resolve themselves into a committee of pariots on the state of the Union, to be presided over by conciliation, concession, compromise and brotherly love.
 So much for the first article in the Issue.
 In the second article, the editor of the Issue commences by calling the late Governor of Louisiana, Isaac Johnson, Whig. This is another King -Free-soil story. Heis confounded with Henry Johnson, he late distinguished Whig Senator from Louisiana. He then goes on and calls Mr. Mangm and MT. Bell of the Senate, pro-slavery mn of the Bob Johnson stamp. Now if 1 unerstand this Mr. Bob Johnson, he is a disunonist of the most ultra stamp, presenting disuon as the remedy for }, all the ills that the Souh is heir to. If I am correct in this, need pt say that the two dis tinguished Whig Senatcs named are not "of the same sort" He says te Wings of Georgia are likewise of the same dunion stamp. Here is a resolution adopted by ome Wings of Georgia:
 "ResoIued, That tohe Union we have an amdving attachmeft,as had our immortal Washington, and that e do not believe that the people in any section our vast Republic are wanting in this noble ad patriotic feeling; and that, with profoundest everence, sincerity, and ; importantly, we invok Heaven to palsy that arm and tongue, whereer raised to provoke and further the disunion o the States, and conse- quent overthrow of thmation.''
 Does this look like eunion.
 Now let me give m the sediments of the Hon. Thompson B. Burnoy on this subject
 The Hon. gentleman rpresented the county of Desha in the late Legislature, and is cousin of s.Disunlon Bob."
 MT. Flournoy sayshelffers entirely from his
 cousin Bob That disuion is no remedy for
 the evils under whfh tle South is suffering Il That it would only aggn,ate the disease, and - that he is decidedlya Unol man.
 Now let us look alittle further into the second s article, and see howthe Iss,e's mind is perverted e by his political bias Marx! he calls Mir. Clay
 Wilmot proviso man. Now the very evil l. that he decams agahst il his second article, Mr. . Clay's resolutions provie remedy for. Itis
 the escape of fugitive saves. Mir. Clay's se- d venth resolution is thee words:
 B. ResolUed, Thatnore Aectual provision ought e to be made by law, icccding to the requirement 'f of the constitution, for the restitution and de- r. livery of persons balnt to service or labor in T. any State, who may esape into any other State J. or Territory in the JnDn.
 Now with the Isue, Free-soiler is another