The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-14

passed into accomplishment, would submit TO the
further the monstrous, and the debasing extor-
ton, Of paying SIS DOC, 900 out of the S0O 000,
600 Of the money--cost Of the acqulsiton--with-
out having right ofdominlon or domain over an
acre or a foot of il! Ii cannot be done There
are no such people; and may God forfend that
there should be in this noble land OF freedom aud
equailty There is not form of Government
the Globe, but this glorious Union Of ours, which
would have sanctioned,--Uo a people who IN
habit it,-buf these noble brethren Of ours,---who
would have attempted NOR they upon any other
people btli their brsfhrsn,--the crushing down of
such people under the weight of so many wrongs,
and under the stress Of such foul Impressions,
rank injustice, and CALLING indignities
Yet so tits And so is II recorded-that among
all the Senators and all the Representatives of the
Free North and the Free West--not one man was
to be found with that love in his heart tha jus
tice. in his dealing, which would have spared the
South and saved the Union from the blasting
coil of that mortal blow which cleaved an opening
for California unshorn of her dimensions, and
without quiet claim Of her treasures In form
indeed, the Union survives, and for life-time
have wished, in the Providence of God, that it
might have lasted forever:-but how long can il
cling together, after all the affections which formed
il Jie crushed and destroyedunder the insupport-
able weight of these cumulated expressions!
must repeat il! Not man of the North nor of
the West, would rally to the South s side, to pro-
tect her rights from spoliation and her posture
from disgrace in the admission Of California,
though it involved her exclusion from the soil
for which she had 8, CALAMITY shed her blood and
lavshed out her treasure! Ay verify, every Senator
and Representative North OF Mason and Dixon's
line, and North West Of the Ohio--voted persist
ingly and to man, for the admission ofthe State,
just as she came here, without precedent rehn-
punishment or reduction Of limits But, woe upon
domestic brois and collisions, Southerners for
my indignant amazement at this concentrated hosti-
| litv a he rIphts of the South "a Had
was soon lost in the wonder and the sorrow with
which read that no less than thirty-one South
eners -four in the Senate aud twenty-seven in the
House) had joined with the Northerners in this
balefu and most perilous experiment upon the
| forbearance and the nerves of the South From
the bottom of my heart should rejoice, could |
see in this measure, no deeper wrongs to the South,
nor imminent hazards to the UnIon,--than were
seen 1--WE are to presume) by these gentlemen,--
but my calmest judgment insructs me, that 1t is
plenay to the brm of the one, and perilous to the
/ brink Of the other! But that may do such JUS
tice to ALL as they have done to themselves, here
are the affirmative votes of the Southerners for
the admission Of California Let them speak for
| themselves f4T
/ III the Senate .--Messrs. Clay and Underwood
| Whgs-and Messrs. Benton and Houston, De-
mocrats. 8s sfe
In the House,--0f Tennessee ,---Messrs. Ander-
son, Gentry, Watkins and Williams, Wings, and
Messrs Ewing; Johnson and Jones, Democrats.
| Wings, 4-Democrats, 3. ~,
/ OfKentckq:- Breck Johnson, Marshall
Mclean, Moorhead, and Thompson, Wings
and Mr.. Mason, Democrat, -Whigs, 6-Demo-
crat, j,
Of Maryland: --Messrs. Bowie, Evans and Kerr,
| Whigs,---and Messrs. Hamilton and McLane,
Democrats, Wings 3--Democrats, 2.
fDeianne:--Mr. Houston, Whig,-l. mo
| Democrat.
OF Missouri :-Messrs Bay, Bowlin, Hail. and
Phelps, Democrats, 4.--No Wing.
| OF Urginia:--Mr. Raymond, Wing, 1.--No
| Democrat.
! Of.N6rth Carolina: Messrs. Caldwell and Stanly
i Wings, 2.--No Democrat
Totas.--In the Senate--W Wings, Kentucky p
Democrats, Missouri and Texas, 2--Totals in the
House, Wings 17,--Democrats, 10.
| Had these Southerners been united with theii
Brethren, from the moment these territories were
acquired, land remained firm to our rights and
united Of purpose, AL the probabilities are, thai
the South would have had free access to the mines
and that the public domain would have been cared
for, and screened from escheat, land to say moth
Ing Of other most important results, both political
and monetary, 1.-THE consideration alone, of the
vast enhancement in value, of the s.ave-property
| in those States respectively, which those South
erners represented should have been temptation
enough, to have prompted a trial of the effects OF
| union upon the rights and fortunes of the South
! Cast an eye the following table, showing the
| States which these Southerners represented -tht
estimated number of slaves in each under the cur
j rent census, in round numbers their presen
value, and their enhanced value upon the contin
gency of the South access to the mines; Her
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