The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1850-08-31
The Aomody.

The editor of the Louisville Journal says
Ma, whether the Wllmo, proyiso be applied
y Congress 10 all the acquired territory,
n slavery be extended over all OF 1t, he Is
ktill for the Union.
We would like TO know whether this
government could do anything which in the
epnion of the Journal would justify Disso.
nt;on. ar whether he is the advocate of un.
Conditional submission to the will OF ma.
kority lie will tell u.s. perhaps, that in
eases Of alleged unconstitutional legislation
m appeal to the Supreme Court IS the rem
AIN Let us examine whether that is an
3deouate remedy--or whether, in many
Aases, it affords any remedy Mt all.
Suppoxe the Wimo, Proviso had been
ppIed by Congress 10 the Territory of
ali(ornia two years ago The South de-
kAcmines u try the constItutonality of the
Z act before the Supreme Court South
aS,ncr goes to California with his slaves.
hey are taken out of his hands by ha.
vas corpus which is sustained by terrific
\ ial Judge. The Southerner appeals. lie
IN las travelled over land at immense expense,
Aesides the loss o. six months time, lie is
low to travel back at n similar expense of
money ard time, and that, too after being
1spossessed of hisproperty. Before his case
i Ian be docketed in the Supreme Court, at
east one year will have elapsed, and before
h can be tried at least another year. lie
high, gain his case, but whilst he is llliga.
q linz. <or,herners are coonizing, for they
have nothing to risk in the suit but other
A Eou,herners are waiting, not being willing
q 10 migrate at the hazard of losing their prop
/. prty by The decision Before the court can
dec,dc. California is colonizcd from the
H. orth, constitution is formed, slavery is
sll8h,robibi,ed, and slaves which had been re-
4 rniped by the suit are lost by the new
constitution. And the South is perPetually
excluded.
But let us see what n majority can DO
Dor which there is not the prc'encc or the
Ahadow OF n remedy in the Supreme Court.
Shareholders are to be excluded from col
Ai,inp new territory right enjoyed by all
h,her citizens. This is said To he because
Aher pursuits, their claim of property, is
Immoral, unwisc, aud runons to country,
Il they may be excluded from the ENJOY
Aen, OF a right. common to the meancst
Acople. they may with much greater pro
bricty be prescribed from the houors award
ri to the most worthy. If Shareholder
unfit to be allowed to live in the remote
Ind lonely valleys of New Mexico, or on
ne shores of the Pacific he ought not to be
Allowed to participate in the government of
he model Republic surely not TO be ele.
ated 10 its Chief Magis,racy, with a power
bf appointment to forty thousand offices,
IN Now. lie, us ask the LoaisriRc Jo.aal
1 whether prescription from office is not rs
reasonable and probable thing for ma
iority to pcrpetrate, AS prescription from ter
Sitory And whether there would be any
remedy for il in Court or Constitution
And whether he. AS a Southerncr, would
Anbmit To one as well as the other The
! Vournai may ANSWER that the prescription OF
Alaveholders for office would be too glarng
IN outrage to be attempted, But why so I
lave we not seen, do we no, daily see a
&sid prescription from office by parties who
iHer on questions much less important and
nth much less feeling In the State OF
entuckv for many years, few Democrats
lave been allowed to hold office, legislative,
Executive, or judicial, although of the same
oil, bloo,', character, pursuits, and op'n
ons OF the Wings In the State nearly
Ialf the people are democrats-'hey have
In been proscrihcd, where it WAS practical
bic. The State has been gerrymandered.
10 AS TO secure. if possible, q uniform rep
esentation in Congress of nine Wings TO
hnc Democrat, thereby virtually .disiranch's'
kuy the great body of the Democrats in re-
srmct to Federal legislation. On the other
hand, the same policy Of prescription and
tisfrn chisment has been adopted by the
Democrats Of Ohio and Indiana when in
power.
y This is what majority will do and has
Hone for years, for mere differences OF opin'
ION not affecting the moral character of the
minority, and without any difference OF
urs,iit, of location, of interest Now we
AVE a Northern majority hitherto divided by
arty, hut no longer so. They have united
M principles they consider paramount to
nrty-thcy have united to control the pol
ry Of the Government aud to monopolisc
ID soil and the other spoils And for that pnr-
nose prescription from Office will be as ready
Ind as proper means as in previous party
Iontes.s. If tina, should be the case and
,e South ia prescribed from all Federal OF
bees, where is he remedy We say the
South will be prescribed merely slave
olders-but all who think they ought not
be proscribed--all who refuse TO join the
Jew coalition will be proscrlbed-\orth as
Pcll a. South. Is it not So. Look at the
Buffalo Convention whose creed has ad'
danced and is advancing rapidly 10 triumph
& n the North--is all ready triumphant IN
Congress.
What 10 the remedy, Nothing on earth
bat we can zee but union for the sake OF
he Union. betwccn that portion OF the
Worth not yet lost TO fana,icism or ambition
eith the Southern Constitutional prime pies
q that DOES not occur, none but the blind
ut Of the blind can fail h see that thu
Il Drion 10 lost --SowaAern Prcxs
TnE CoSr0y PRsoNERx--1he Mobile
pribu~c learns that all these men, except
ftscn. have bssn discharged. Those who