The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-26

lief that you are not wronged Be assured
that he who would make labored argument to
satisfy you that your grievances are all imapi
nary, can be no true friend to YOU or YOURS
Beware that you are not lulled with the song of
peace, at the very moment when the enemy is
at your doors
From the Georgia (.nacon) Telegraph,
The CoSsUMATIoN.-We announced under
our telegraphic head last week the passage of
all the measures of abominaton, including the
admission of California rs State, concocted by
the Free-soers to appropriate the common ter
rtory, to those only who adopt the institutions,
OF that portion OF the States having the most
votes. these monsfrous assumptions as we
expected, have received The sanction of the Exc
cntive and are now the law of the land. We
have, during their pendancy before Congress.
discussed these measures very fully, ard Will
add but few words to-day to what we have
already said.-lt is no longer the part of pru
dence to deny or conceal the flct that the inde
pendenca OF fifteen States of this Confederacy is
in the most imminent peril The present state
OF things in Congress threatens the worst re-
suits Disguise it as they may, the majority in
that body have placed all their hopes for har
mony and peace, between the North and South.
upon single question; and that question ia
submission of the Southern people now and
hereafter to the prosecution of Northern sectional
aggressions, through the formality Of a mere
congressional majority vote, until the abolition
of slavery is accomplished in the States, and the
South has sunk to rise no more 1t remains to
be seen, whether the men of the South will,
with freemens hearts, strike for their rights. or
with the spirit of slaves and dastards, submit to
this Congressional quackery until they are driven
from the country like the Poles. If the terri
tory-the land and property of the South can
be taken by vote Of the majority, why not her
slaves The question then which springs TO
the lips of every one, is, what are we to do
The mere Politician who waits to see the course
OF the popular breeze before he sets his sails
the time sewer and office seeker, who palters
with the great issue of equality and degrade
ton, submission and slavery, despicable at all
times is doubly so now. For our own part we
are for secession, for resistance, open, unqualified
resistance. "The argument being exhausted, we
must stand to our arms" was the sentiment
once uttered by one of Georga's most distin-
guished sons, and the words spreading onward
and onward,-like the fiery cross aroused the
careless-inspired the timid and nerved the
heart OF every true man, with additional fervor.
Are our people less patriotic now! Did our
fathers teach us to endure wrong and oppression
because it comes from majority, because it
comes from those who call themselves brothers.
and who should be brothers in deed ard in
truth No-no-no. They loathed the very
name of tyranny, and whether it showed itself
in the encroachments of the Federal Govern
ment or the aggressions Of foreign foe, it was
equally the object of their unqualified resistance.
But we are not left in this emergency to take
the initiative pr suggest measures of resistance.
The Legislature at its last session, with patriot
ism worthy OF all praise, declared that upon
certain contingencies, action on the part of the
people should commence. These contingencies
are upon US. The bill for the admission Of
California as a State, having received the sane
ton OF both houses of Congress and the Execu-
tive, the contingency has arisen contemplated in
the act OF the Legislature, calling a convention
OF the people This is an act that cannot lie
recalled. That convention will therefore assem-
bic In the course OF sixty or seventy DAYS, and
Will deliberate upon the nature of resistance, and
the character of the remedies called for by the
crisis. 1t is for the people to determine what
the nature OF these remedies shall be- The eve
OF the Whole country is upon Georgia She
now stands in the van of her Southern sisters.
Her position is fraught with the elements of all |
that portends unlimited grandeur to State.
morally, socially and physically five advance,
all is well with the South. If we recede, all is
lost; aye-even our honor. True, we NAV en-
counter difficulties in our path-treason NAV
stalk abroad among us to distract our councils !
for awhile, and fling its dark shadow around us
but it will be scattered like chaff before the pa
tnotlsm OF our cOuntrymen, and leave flirer and X
clearer, the sky which arches in loneliness the
Heavens above us.
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