Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1850-06-12

"A idISC uuhUCb VI PSAo~~ -
feel extremely reluctant to endorse Mr..
Clay's Compromise On the Slavery ques-
ton, and others are decidedly opposed 10
it. believing that it comedies everything to
the South. at the sacrifice and surrender OF
Northern rights and interests. The TO-
lowing article from the editorial columns Of
ihe Keowee Is. CO. Courier Of alst May,
will show how this same Compromise is
regarded in The neighborhood Of Mr.. Cal
houn's late residence. Some OF the con
cIuding paragraphs about " Southern con-
cessions," we reckon will cause a smile,
and excite feeling O: curious wondermeni
in the minds Of our readers:
"Uhat should the South do with the
Compronaise?" asks the Richmond En-
quirer. We answer, Reject it, as she GER
tainly will unless greatly amended, as by
the presen, scheme she is required to sur
render everything Tor which she has been
coniending. BY sanctioning this bill for
the abolition OF the Slave Trade IN the Dis.
trict Of Columbia, she will recognise the
right Of Congress TO interfere with slavery
in the District. and be helping the North
TO take the first step for its abolition there.
By the Fugitive Slave Bill, the power is
given TO the scoundreIs who may kdnap
our slaves to harass the unfortunate own
ers with bonds and jurys trials.
By the Bill admitting California. provi-
ding territorial governments for Utah and
New Mexico, and selllIng the Texan boun-
| Diary, we are called upon 10 surrender a
large pori N of the State Of Texas. nov
slave, to be made free territory E; to acqui-
esce in the admission Of California. with
! her enormous boundaries and fraudulent
Constitution to acknowledge the right o.
Congress TO pass the Wimot Proviso; and
to consent to be excluded from all par,ici'
patton IN the territories acquired from
Mexico for this Bill does exclude as efiec
,ually from these territories, as if an exclu
ding clause had been expressly inserted.
1t denies to the Territorial Governments
the power Of making any regulations res
peciing African slavery, and therefore al
power TO protect citizens in the enjoy mem
Of the same. Will any owner OF slaves BE-
so foolish as to carry them into a country
where his right TO them can not be protec-
ted, and where the judiciary would have
no power to authorise the seizing OF his ab
sconding slave, and the legislature no au
,hon,y to grant such power TO the Judges
But if this should not happen to be en-.
ough, 10 make assurance doubly sure. anC
take bond offate' against the extension o
slavery, the father Of this Compromise
tells US, tha, the laws Of Mexico, a boIishine
slavery, are in force in those territories
and that therefore We need not think o
carrying it there.
And still the South is told 10 accept o.
this compromise, and those OF her defend
ers who reject ii are called by hard names,
and charged with meditatins disunion!
Can we concede, when every concession
only weakens our moral force and strength.
ems the force Of our adversaries! For the
North to tell US Of concession is idle imper-
tinence; TO contemplate ii ourselves, weak
and suicidal. Besides, have we any assur-
| ance that when these concessions are made,
more will not be demandedl DO we not
know, that when osce the barriers to legls.
ls;ion on the subjec. of slavery are broken
down, all our deiences will be swept away !
With generosity, for which she has ever
been as famous as she has been for her truth
and loyalty 10 the Union, the South has
made concession after concession for the
sake Of peace and harmony in the brother.
hood oil States. The whole history Of her
connection with the North, has been one Of
concession on ier part, vainly sought to be
disguised under the name Of compromise
and has this been enough? So far from
former concessions satisfying the ferocious
appetite Of the Nor,h,it has actually grown
hungry on the food that was mean, to sur.
fe, it the more we give. the more we have
been expected to give, and the more we
may give, until all is gone. By former
concessions The North has been laugh, TO
look for more, to calculate too much upon
our devotion TO the Union, to forget that
there is point beyond which human endu.
rance rarely ever passes, and that those
who are loyal to others, will in their last
extremity be true to themselves.
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