The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-01

IHE FEELHG IN GEoKGn,--Thc sentiments
OF the people OF Georgia, so far as they have been
expressed by the various meetings, held in diff
ferent parts Of the State, are decidedly and une-
quivocally in favor Of the Missouri Compromise
line The large and enthusiastic assemblies of
the people, the high and manly stand they have
assumed in regard to the protection Of their
rights, and the free expression Of their indigna-
ton at the thought of being Inundated in state
capacity, and suffering the dignity of being de-
prived ofjust and equal privileges are all unmis-
taxable evidence of the firm and undaunted stand
that Georgia has nobly assumed and is deter
mined to maintain.
The voice of Hancock, Scrven, Muscogee,
Richmond, Walker, Upsom, Bib, Butts, Cobb,
Decatur, and Meriwether, is unanimous in con-
domination of the so-called adjustment, and clear
" and emphatically demands settlement of
the question on the time-honored and feasible
basis OF the compromise line extended to the
Pacific
Other counties are preparing to make their
voice heard at the present crisis. Meetings are
called in Clarke, Monroe, Burke, Washington.
Dooly, Talbot, Chatham, Pulaski Crawford, and
Pike, while we hear of many more in contem-
plation. Ere long the united poice of the State
will 60 up to Washington City to encourage tho
hearts Of our representatives, and strengthen
their hands in the great contest in, which our
rights and honor are at stake. This voice, we
feel assured, will not be disregarded. The peo-
pie erpect their pishes, ,0hen thus freely and openly
oppressed, 70 be strictly and readily o6eyed They
do not speak out at this time unconcernedly and
without an object.
A distinctive and very commendable feature
in the meetings which have thus taken place in
Georgia. is the fact that no distinction of party is
recognized. Side to side, and shoulder to shout
der, actuated by a common feeling and working
for the same objects, stand those, who hereto
fore have been widely separated from each other
in party opinions. This is the best evidence OF
the spirit which animates the people Never be-
fore in the history of politics has such scene
been presented. And does any one suppose
that If the times did not demand this casting
aside OF party trammes, that such phenomenon
would be Witnessed! The fact that party lines
are disregarded in this NATTER is rebuke, suffi-
ciently great, we should suppose, to those who
are engaged in prating about conservatism, and
endeavoring to ull the people into state Of
lstless and foolish apathy, only to be aroused
hereafter to more fearful sense of the impend-
ing danger @ 1ha AH1INN
Some presses in the State, which favor the
plan of the Committee Of Thirteen, have not
deigned to give their readers any account of the
proceedings OF the numerous meetings which
have been held in the State, by which resolutions
were adopted condemning their favorite scheme.
This ofcourse could not be expected from them
Their object is 10 keep their readers as much as
possible in the dark, respecting the feeling which
pervades the State and which tells so fearfully
against their one-sided and deceptive course But
no sooner does meeting take place in the State
which favors Mr.. Clay's Compromise, 1.-TWO or
three have taken place as our readers already
know than, as part of the history of the
times the proceedings are paraded III their
columns and pointed at with perfect exultation, as
the sound and conservative feelings of the peo-
pie Of Georgia." Sound and conservative, tru-
ly! Heaven save the mark!
The people Of Georgia are not thus to be
fooled and betrayed. The right spirit is abroad
among them. The more they examine the fea-
lures of the surrender bill of the Committee Of
Thirteen, the more hideous and frghtful do they
appear. The fascinations of style and eloquence
which, at first, charmed them in some degree,
have disappeared, and they behold, below the
specious veil, the surrender Of the whole rich
and fertile territory of California, the dismem-
berment Of the equal and sovereign State Of
Texas-,the payment Of fifteen millions of dollars
to buy what is now slave territory, in order that
it may become free-the surrender of just and
treasured rights to the exacting demands of Free
Soilism, and the abolition of slavery in the Dis
trict Of Columbia No wonder that the people
of Georgia reco from such a false and treache-
rous compromise, and view it's provisions with
hatred and scorn. No wonder that it cannot find
corporars guard throughout the broad limits
Of the State. .n
The Missouri Compromise is the rallying
point of both parties in Georgia. Its provisions
are simple, just and honorable. 1t inficts injus-
tice upon neither North nor South, and com
mends itself to the favor and support of every
friend of the Union. We trust that the respon-
SEES already made by so many Of the first and
most influential counties of the State may lead
to the most happy consequences. But il ever
the South should be betrayed-f ever her Just
and sacred rights shall be trampled under the
foot of fanatics--f ever she stands like Niobe,
with
"An empty urn within her wthered hands,"
Knocked at and ridiculed as an inferior in the
Union, those who have all along advocated her
cause and lifted their voices in her behalf, al
though failure meet their honest efforts, will
have no cause Of self reproach, and can reply to
the voice of All outraged and indignant people,
"Thou can'st not say we did it p
!. The LAST DEMONSTRATION OF THE JOURNEY
MEN TAILoRs--Charles Lamb wrote an amusing
essay on the melancholy of Tailors; but, if he
WcIe dlsc now, anu III our CITY, lie WOulu pro-
badly write another essay on their madness.
The heat of the weather; the leading articles of
the Tribune, or some other exciting cause, APP
pears to have completely beNildered our friends
of the goose and bodkin. Perhaps their strange
conduct may be accounted for on the homeopa-
thic principle of similia simili6us, and too con-
slant contact with goose has caused them to
act so like geese. They have been issuing teri
ic proclamations, headed "THE RIGHTs OF
LABOR" but, from the way they talk and act,
we should say that what they mean is THE
RIGHTS OF IDLENlss." What they are evidently
laboring to accomplish is to live sumptuously
without laboring at all A Boss is obnoxious to
them Let us all be bosses, they say; and, for
our own part, we have no objection, and, in fact
should be glad to see every journeyman tailor in
the city riding in his carriage, with certain I'M
mentionable vegetable painted gules on the
panels. But for the life Of us, we cannot dis
cover from reading the proclamation of the bel
ligerent journeymen, how so desirable state of