The southern press., 1850-09-07

ever before known In new country, morality
and refinement will be fixed in the ascendant.
NORTHERN DPLoMACy.-Durng the discus.
sions in Congress relative to the all important
question of the extension of slave territory, it
appears that the impression has become very
prevalent that the South is urging claims which
are in themselves unjustifabe and uncalled for.
This impression is universal in the North, and
we regret to say has met with no slight share of
favor in the South. The North with apparent
generosity has frequently urged that Congress
should leave the question of slavery in the terri
tories to be decided by the citizens of that ter
ritory when they form Constitution for them
selves, and in the mean time should abstain from
legislating on the subjec' Their doctrine, how
ever plausible it may ut first sight appear. really
amounts to total exclusion of shareholders
from all the newly acquired territory for unless
Congress will afford the stakeholder protection
for himself and his property in the territory be-
fore it forms its Constitution, it is evident that
he will run too great u risk of losing his pro-
perty to permit him making the experiment
Thus the Shareholder being debarred the privi,
lege Of locating on this common property, it
follows as matter of course, that the majority
of settlers are either Northern men, or non
shareholders and consequently when C0nsti-
tuition is formed they can frame it to suit their
own opinions, one of which is certain to be an
utter exclusion of bondage except for crime.
This being the ease, we ask every reasonable
impartial man, If the Southerner, who has borne
more than his share in the danger, loss and ex-
pense of war by which this territory was
acquired has not n right to have the same facil-
ties and protection awarded to him that thu
Northern man enjoyed. If so it becomes sim
pie act of justice on the part of Congress to en-
act such laws as would afford the STAKEHOLDER
the guarantee he needs. If this is not done it
is folly to expect that another slave State will
ever be added to the Union, or that the South
will ever derive any benefit from the acquisition
Of new territory. What the South needs is
equal protection for herself and property in all
districts lying under the immediate control of
the General Government.
Guarantee to the Shareholder that his rights
will be respected and protected when standing
on our national territory, and he will then be
laboring under no disadvantage and should the
country prove to be in need Of slave labor then
there will be sufficient number of Southern
citizens to make their voices heard and their in
hucnce felt whenever Constitution is adopted
and admission into the Union sought after
Louisiana Rep
DIVISION OF THE SoUTH.-The following ex-
tract from the concluding portion of the late
speech of Hon. David Hubbard of Alabama, in
Congress, contains truths sensibIy and forcibly
expressed;
Before ] conclude, wish to speak word
to Southern members, and through them to the
Southern people, upon the subjec Of our own
misconduct; arising from our jeaouses and
rivalslnps among one another. 1t is our own
divisions which have enabled the Northern sec
ton OF the Union to encroach upon the rights
Of our constituents. And our conduct here for
the last ten years reminds me Of an incident re-
ported in history, where England was trying to
reduce Scotland to submission by arms Sir
William Wallace was the patriotic .ader of the
Scots, and England, like our Northern opposers
had seduced many Of the Scottish leaders into
her armies Robert Bruce among others. Ir
these contests it is related that one day, after
hard fought battle, Bruce sat down to his mea
with the English mobiles, with his hands all be
smeared with the blood of his own countrymer
slain in the battle; upon seeing which, a naughty
English earl could not conceal his disgust
"Look," said he, "at that Scot; see how he eats
his own blood" This insulting taunt, although
true cut Bruce to the heart He could not en-
mother morsel, but quietly rose from the table
without uttering a word. That night Bruce
never rested or slept quietly until every hostile
foot had been driven far beyond the Scottish
borer.r.
|, sir, never hear Southern man speak against
his section of country, or read a Southern paper
opposed to us, but think that some cool, cal
culating Nerthcrner, like the English n0bemnn
is expressing his disgust for the fellow who
eats his own blood.'
When will every true-hearted Southerner. like
Bruce, leave the camp of the oppressor, and join
the standard Of his own country! Until then.
the North will neither regard our rights nor re-
spcct our feelings"
TIE CORDS TIGHTENING.-Thc moose Of
Free-soilism has been thrown around the South,
and the North is now daily drawing it tigher
and tighter. Eighty thousand square miles of q
slave State is held with the sword Of the Gene
raj Government until time Is allowed for its
free purchase by our own money. Congress
has agreed to the arrangement and offers the
sum of $l0,00O,OOO as the subsidy This is
the bill for the settlement Of the Texas Bound
airy.
A parcel of intruders upon the public domain
in California, congregated from every quarter
of the globe, by the aid Of the army Of the Uni
ted States, undertake to form themselves into a
State government, and to disfranchisc the peo-
pie Of one-half of the United States from their
rights in their own territory. The Senate of
the United States approves the act; and when
Southern men desire and propose to enter their
protest, they are refused with Indignation, and
their protest is laid upon the table of the Sen
ate,
In the House Of Representatives, the Rules
which have been in existence from time immem-
orial, are altered by the dominant majority, to
execute with more rapidity their helish purpo-
SEES of aggression upon the South. Such has
just been done. Under the rules as they have
always heretofore existed, amendments could
be proposed and debated by every member of
the House in speeches of five minutes long, af
ter the regular debate had been closed by the
House the amendment to the rules which the
Free-soilers have just adopted, allows five min
utes to him who introduces any amendment to
explain it, and permit but one other to reply
thus confining the debate to tco, instead of the
whole number of Representatives. This has
been done for the purpose of cutting off South
ern debate on the California bill. And these
arc the people that We must press to our bo-
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