Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1850-04-24


knife. The admission Of California would
be an unconstitutional act It's aim is to
destroy the political equilibrium of the two
secilons-to make the minority the mere
instruments Of a majority-to enforce
Northern morals upon the South-lo des-
troy forever what the North esteem sinful,
the institution Of slavery. The sword only,
IN the hands Of the general government, can
destroy Southern liberty. Force may ex-
terminate the people Of the South. Congress
Cannot legislate thesSou,hern people out of
their rights by violation of the constitution
on the part Of the msjority,in admitting Cali
lorna, and enforcing provso against slave
ry in this covert manner. Nor will the
federal government be the arm Of the Lord,
to chastise the South into quiet submission
TO the deepest wrong, the most alarming
encroachment and the most high handed
outrage upon the constitution, and the lives,
property, prosperity, honor and safety Of the
minority section. You may write abou,
promises-you may talk of amicable
set'lemenls-you may state what this pro-
mnent man or that prominent man in Wash
ington will do, II all amounts TO nothing. !
tell you what the Southern people will do,
and will tell you what their representa-
lives in Congress will do, before California
is admitted as State into This Union, under
present circumstances.
The danger of admitting California mena-
ces the majority more than the minority 1t
will kill the North. 1t will, in the end: save
The South for the momen. California comes
in by Northern vote, that moment the
Union is scattered into fragments. Southern
members see this clear Iy, and they will post
pone her admission by disorganizing the
House Of Representatives, and wait until
the Southern people are prepared for open
and forcible resistance. An event will soon
occur that will rouse the people Of the South
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande, and
shake the false hearted traitors of the South
ern section as with an electric shock. Do
you suppose the people of the South are
asleep, or that any man, or any set Of men,
here In Washington, can barter and sell their
interest, their property, ay-.heir very lives
FOR their, own personal aggrandizement-for
Northern votes? Gu, Of your columns
with so foul calumny upon The Southern
people. 1t is false, unfounded, unjust, and
will prove dangerous to the Union, If You
love or would preserve it. The true friends
Of the South in Congress will stand to their
posts In the coming crisis like men, and
worthy of their revolutionary sires. They
will fight the battle in the halls Of Congress.
on the admission Of California, and stand up
against it by every means which the consti,
tuition and law have placed within their
reach. There are men enough in that house
to slave off the admission of California, I'M
I'll the people Of the South rise in mass to
their rescue, and until they have shown the
mad maj orlty that minority have rights,
and that they will maintain them al all haz-
ards. Not an appropriation Will pass Con-
gress. The plan is arranged, and will be
carried gu. 10 the letter. come what nav
Webster's speech may have Quoted the
South for a moment; bu, it is only for the
moment. Compromise! VIVA. is compro-
mise !? Each party gives up-concedes
something. What do all the proposed com
promises amount to? What have the North
proposed to compromise Nothing at all.
They rellnqnish nothing. There is no con-
cession on the part Of the North. All the
concessions are to be made by the South /!
Wonderful Northern compromise !. Mag
unanimous Northern concessioni The South
have rights under the federal constitution.
They are to give up these
lst. By admitting California as State,
when she has no right, legal or constitutions
al, 10 claim such admission. They endorse
the proviso agans. slavery in territories, for
all Time TO come and destroy their own
power in the federal union.
Cd. To consent to the formation of Utah
and New Mexico into Territorial govern
ments, without strong provisions to enforce
the fact that the federal flag protects proper
ly of The citizens Of every State wherever i,
is carried.
Sd. To consent to abolishing the slave
trade in the District Of Columbia. thus con-
ceding The acknowledgment that Congress
have the right to abolish Southern rights
when they conflict with the SEN
,imenls, moral or religious, of the stronger
section. Beautiful concessions
Alb. 10 purchase the territories of Tex
as, that now are under laws that acknow-
ledge African slavery, that new door may
be opened for discussion, and that, eventu-
ally. what is now slave territory may be-
come free. Delightful compromise And
for all this: what great concessions are The
North willing TO make?
That they-,he majority in Congress
will enact law (Which circumstances will
render imperative and dead letter. thai
the North will surrender fugitive slaves-a
thing that the constitution now Imperative
|y slipulates they shall do Wonderful con-
cession Stupendous compromise Eternal
honor to the great Northern spirits Of the
age, who shall sacrifice SO much for the
glorious Union! Earthly damnalion to any
Southern man who shall accept of such