The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1850-03-12

North, IN the Electoral C0eSe, majority OF ou
Since the census of 1910, four States have been
added to lhe Union Iowa, Wisconsin, Florida and
Texas. They leave the difference in the Senate
as it stood when the census was taken: but add
two 10 the side Of the North in the House, making
the present majority in the House i'll its favor Of
| SO, and in the electoral college of52.
The sult CT the whole is TO give the Northern
section predominance in every department of the
Government. and thereby concentrate in it the Two
! elements which constitute the Federal Govern
lnent: ma iori,y OF States, and majority OF the
population, estimated III federal numbers: What
ever sect lion concentrates the twoin ITSELF posses
ses the control of the entire Government.
But we are just at the close CT the sixth decade,
and the commencement ofthe seventh The cen-
sus is to be taken this year, which must add great
" to the decided rreporderance of the North in the
House of Representatives and III the electoral COL
lege. The prospect is, also, that great increase
will be added 10 its present preponderance in the
Senate during tie period OF the decade, by the ad-
dition of new States. Two Territories, Oregon
and Minnesota, are already in progress and strenu-
Gus efforts are making TO bring in tire additional
! States from the Territory recently conquered from
Mexico, which, if successful, will add three other
States. in short time, to the Northern section,
making five States and increasing the present
number of its States from ff cen 10 twenty, and of
its Senators from thirty to f'rty. On The contrary,
there is moi single Territory in progress IN the
Southern section. and no certainty that any addl-
tonal State will be added to it during the decade
The prospect then is, that the two sections III the
Scrate should The efforts now made TO exclude
the South from the newly acquired Territories sue
ceed, will stand before the end OF the decade, twen-
tv Northern States to twelve Southern. Consider
ing Delaware asneutral,) and forty Northern Sell
ators to twenty-tour Southern. This great increase
IorC ID 11olf fo fho n
bers of the House of Representatives and the cleo
ralcollege on the part Of the North, which must
take place under The next decade, will eflectualy
and irretrevably destroy the equilibrium which en-
istsd when the Government commenced.
Had this destruction been the operation Of time,
without the interference ofGovernment, the south
would have had no reason to complain but such
was not the fact twas caused by the Legislation
of this Government, which was appointed as the
| common agent Of all, and charged with the protec-
ton of the interests and security of all. The leg
isaton br which it has been effected, may be class
ed under three heads. The first is, that series OF
acts hy which The south has been excluded from
the common Territory belonging to all ofthe States,
as the members of the Federal Union, and which
have had the effect of extending vastly the portion
allotted to the northern section, ard restricting
within narrow limits, the portion lief, the SOUTH
The next consists in adopting system OF revenue
and disbursements, BY which an undue proportion
| of the burden of taxation has been imposed upon
the SOUTH and al undue proportion ofils proceeds
appropriated to the north: aud the last is system
of political measures BY which the original charac-
ter of the Government has been radically changed.
propose TO bestow upon each OF these, IN the Or
, der they stand, few remarks, with the view of
showing that it is owing TO the action of this Gov
ernmcnt that the equilibrium between the two sec
tons has been destroyed, and the whole powers Of
the system centercd in sectional majority.
The first ofthe series of acts by which the south
was deprived of its due share Of the Territories.
originated with the Conitderacy, which preceded
the existence Of this Government. II is to BE- found
in the provision of the Ordinance Of 1887. lis ef-
feet was to exclude the south entlre! from that
vast and fertile region which lies between the Ohio
and the Mississippi rivers row embracing five
States and one Territory. The next of the series
is the Missouri Compromise. which excluded the
south from that llrge portion Of Louisiana which
lies north of 3G deg. 80 min., excepting what Is NJ
cuded in the State of Missouri. The last of tie
series excluded the south from the whole OF the
Oregon Territory All these, in the slang OF the
day were what is called slave territories, and not
free soil that is territories belonging to slavehold-
ing powers and open 10 the emigration OF masters
with their slaves. By these several acts the south
was excluded from ,238,U35 square miles, an eX-
tent of country considerably exceeding the entire
valley of the Mississippi, TO the south was left
the portion of the Territory of Louisiana lying
south of 36 deg. 80 Minis and the portion north OF
il included in the State of Missouri. The portion
lying south of 80 deg. 80 min including the states
of Louisiana and Arkansas, and the territory lying
west of the latter and south of 36 deg. 80 min,
called the Indian country. This, with the Terri
tory of Florida, now the state. make in tho whole,
2S3,5O3 square miles TO this must be added the
territory acquired with Texas. 1.-THE whole should
be added to the southern section, il would make an
increase of 325, 500, which would make the whole
left TO the south, 6O9,G23. But large part of
Texas is still in contes; between the two sections,
which leaves it uncertain what will be the real cX-
tent of the portion OF territory that may be left to
the south.
have not included the territory recently ac-
quired by the treaty with Mexico. The North Is
making The most strenuous efforts TO appropriate
the whole to herself, by excluding the South from
every foot of it. Ii she should succeed, it will add
to that from which the South has already been cX-
cluded, 526,O7S square miles, and would increase
the whole which the North has appropriated TO
herself to l,76l O23 not including tie portion that
she NAV succeed in excluding lis from i'll Texas.
10 sun, up the whole, the United States since
they declared their Independence, have acquired
23i3U46 square miles OF territory, from which the
North will have excluded the South, if she should
succeed in monopoizins the newly acquired ter
rltores, about three-iourlhs Of the whole, leaving