The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1850-09-28

slings Of injustice and the lash Of contempt,
stay and submit to the rule of a reckless ms,
iorisy, which has already shown itself bitterly
opposed to Gus interests, and determined to
subveit our institutions. II has been said by
OeLolmc, that Every people who have gained
their freedom have either given il away, or
had il taken from Ihem.' Shall this be our
case? Patriotism, honor, selcPreseIvatiOn, the
determinations already made, the actions now
being taken, all things, tend to assure US that
il will not. We must and will secede from
This Union! Either we must submit to Dis
grace, and soon TO ABOLITION, with all its horA
furs, or we must PREVENT it. There is but one
way to PreVentit, and that is by SECESSION"
The above extract is from the Wood.
vile Republican Of the l7tA inst. The
Editor may be honest in his views; we
hope that he is: but how he could ma, o
come TO the conclusion expressed above,
is more than we can comprehend. He
must have looked through a double mag.
nifying lens, with a jlundiced vision, 10
have been able to see in anything that
has recently t~ranspired in Congress, a
ae Of the compact which
binds these States together. What has
been done: Why, Congress, acting in.
strict accordance with the authority
delegated to it by the Constitution of
the United States, has calmly consider.
ed the petition OF California for admis-
sion into the Union, and finding that she
has a sufficient population, and that she
has framed a constitution for her gov.
eminent, republican in its character,-
the only requisition which the Constitu.
ton prescrlbes-has admitted her into
the Union.
Congress has passed bills establishing
territorial governments for Utah and
New Mexico; and those bills are entirely
free from any slavery clause whatever,
leaving it to the people Of the territories
to decide that matter for themselves,
when they come to frame their constitu.
tons for admission into the Union, as
California has done. This is the true
constitutional doctrine-the doctrine Of
non Intervention.
Congress has passed a bill settling
the Texas boundary question, which is
to be submitted to Texas for her rati6.
cation or rejection. If she rejects the
prolered settlement, then the question
is simply left open for adjustment here
alter, by the two powers alone author
lied 10 act in the matter-the u. s. Gov.
ernment and the Government Of Texas.
If Texas acquiesces in the bill, as IL is
firmly believed she wilI-then surely
the other Southern States have no lust
cause OF complaint-unless it should be
found that Texas is unable to manage
her W affairs, and that she should be
taken under the peculiar guardianship
OF Quitman, QuattIebum and Towns,
Congress has also passed a bill abol.
lshing the slave trade in the District OF
Columbia, BY which the country has got
easily rid Of a long vexed and harrass
ing question, and the District-which, it
should be borne in mind, belongs to the
Union, and not 10 the South, exclusively,
is freed from her slave marts and ne.
gro dens, which all just.minded and good
men conceded to be a nuisance. Upon
this subject ex-President Tyler, Of Vir.
ginia, in his letter to Gen. Foote on the
Compromise bill, said /:
"The only remaining subject is that which
prohibits the introduction of slaves for sale into
the District Of Columbia, and the estabIishs
ment Of slave depots within the same. Do me
the favor to turn to a code Of laws made for
the District of Columbia, prepared BY joint
committee Of the two Houses-I think in 1882
but never acted on. | was,a member Of
hat committee, being then a senator from this
State You will readily find a statute on the
slave trade in the District, containing substan-
TALLY the same provisions with the reported
bill That statute was prepared BY myself.
need say no more, therefore, on this pOint.T
Who will say that Mr.. Tyler is un,
sound on the slavery question, or that
ne would surrender the rights Of the
SOutha Yet he, nearly twenty years ago
framed a bill " substantially the same
as that which has just passed.
Some unfair politicians attempt to i'm
press the people with the belief thai
this is paramount to the abolition Of
Slavery in the District of Columbia; bu.
there are none so blind as 10 be gullec
BY any such claptrap. The right o
slave property in the District is not Al
all impaired. ANY one can 60 out Of
tha District 6ve miles ;n,o mS.