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From the Richmond (va) Examiner.
Letter Of the Hon. James A. SeddOM.
The Richmond Republican is essentially mistaken
when it supposes that the IS Compromised " will in
the end secure the undivided support Of the South;
representative from this Congressional District, in the
following letter, assumes position which we know
to be that of his colleagues from Virginia, with the
exception of one or two members OF the House of
Representatives. That these gentlemen would refuse
TO surrender, together with their rights Southern
citizens, the principles they have every one advocat
cd during the whole of their existence politicians,
and that they would refuse to make their State the
butt Of that insulting mockery which Federasts and
Free Soiers have concocted for the South,-we felt
assured long before any intimatons of the fact had
reached Us from themselves. Without setting their
faces against the whole of their lives with
out the abandonment of every particle of selrespect,
every emotion of patriotism, and the last shadow of
personal and political consistency-these gentlemen
cannot do otherwise than resist that ignominious
measure. The weak and the timid will urge them
TO close with the offer of the North ;-on the ground
that organization is impossible at the South and con-
sequently efficient resistance to further petensions
But even suppose these ideas correct Is our impo-
,ence for efficient resistance sound or manly reason
why we should desert principle, abandon honor, and
choose the part of paroons subdued by fear instead
of men overpowered by physical force sit ourselves
down lawful slaves rather than as prisoners OF war;
Thieves sometimes overcome and bind the honest
man that alone does not diminish his title to respect
But when from the inbecility of terror, he makes
gatutous surrender only of the purse that is in
his pocket but of his house and lands at home, he
approves himself destitute of manliness. So also
will the representatives of the Southern people, if they
surrender at discretion-as they will do when they
help through this compromise-because they feel I'M
potent to prevent its passage over their protesting
votes. The compromise may be the best thing they
can get but is certainly the worst thing the North
can give We can lose nothing therefore by follow
ing the path which courage and consistency point OUT
and by resisting to the last, like men, even though
resitance be inefficient ;-whe by that course we pre-
serve our dignity and our position intact, and keep
still the right of resistance when resistance will be
be worth more. But when we "cose with this Of
fer and pocket with cheerful face this most griev-
Gus insult advertise ourselves as the football
of the North:
WAsH1NGroN, May 22d, 1850.
10 the Editors of tie Examiner:
cannot forbear from expressing to you, cordially
and warmly, my Acknowledgements for the able and
manly attack you have made in the Examiner, on the
insidous propositions, mis-called Compromise ten
dered by Mr.. Clay, from the Committee of Thirteen,
to the South. for the settlement OF the sectional Is
sues, which have agitated the country and for
your appreciation and able vindcaton of the
purpose of those Southern members who oppose and
denounce the ignominious concessions demanded OF
them. 1t is, indeed, amazing to mel that among in-
tegept and true hearted men, there should be diff
Guilty in discerning, and doubt or hesltancy IN repnd'-
ang, the specious pretences ofths deusive Compro-
mise. As you justly insist, the opposition OF the
South to the WiImot Proviso was not to simple
name, to mere instrumentaity, but to principle
system and end sought to be established and ac-
complished by that measure. The whole South war
le ~ IL, tod
exclusion of the citizens of the slave-holding States
from participation settlement, and equality Of prv-
lege in the vast expanse of territory acquired by
common government by joint exertions and sacrifices,
from Mexico.
The South was demanding a right, believed to be
clear existing constitutional privilege, and although
asserted by them the negaton of the power to pass
the Wimot Proviso, such negative position was sim
ply because the unjust prohibition had only been
sought to be accomplished by that single measure.
Any other decree or instrumenaiy invoked to accom-
psh such unjust exclusion, be equally repugnant
to their honor and safety, and be equally the ground
of resistance at every hazard and the last extre-
nifty" You are therefore clearly right in insisting
that acceptance Of the present scheme Of Compromise
uou1 be ignoninious backing out from the position
the substantial rights heretofore asserted by the South.
The scheme seems to me one of the most odious ev-
er prescribed to u.s. 1t demands concession-conces-
sion of vital rights at every point, and. So far as can
perceive, gives no compensation whatever-not even
the poor boon of equal privilege and simple Protec
ton of our property in the territories of Utah and
New Mexico, the least valuable of new acquisi-
ons. 1t sanctions and consummates the outrage of
total exclusion from the immense extent and ex-
haustless treasures of California in which, if we of
the South had had fair play and equal rights, We
should have had, at this very time, ten or twenty
thousand slaves yielding to their in the slave
holding States from ten to thirty millions of yearly
while the moneyed value of the whole slave
property of the South would by the natural demand
for laborers in so profitable business, have been
increased at least one hundred per cent.
Is it not monstrous outrage, that the only labor
ing class in the world debarred from participation In
the mineral treasures of California, is the laborng
class of one half of the Union -and this done with
out law, against the assent of Congress, on the mere
invitation or instigation of the Executive, by the
horde of adventurers and trespassers attracted from
all parts of the world by the thirst of gold. by
this scheme, not only the whole Of the claim oi
Texas to the Territories acquired in her right and in
her name, but also very large territory heretofore
confessedly part of Texas, and under the jurisdc
ton of her laws establishing slavery is surrendered
nay is paid for by millions of treasure, to be sub
jected. as all must admit, to the doubtful hazard
and as believe, to the certain destiny Of Free Soil
ism. The right of Congress over the institution oi
slavery in the District of Columbia, is, by this
scheme, implicitly admitted and is only arrested
now by the concession of interference with one oil
the direct and essential incidents to property in
slaves-the right of buying and selling them. The
clear constitutional obligation of the North sur
render fugitive slaves is indeed acknowledged; but
only be hampered and restricted by cumbrous con.
'rivances to appease their preudces, and delay the
vindication of our rights For all these concessions
on the part of the South. the only compensation pre-
tended to be offered by the bl is the forbearance
to Utah and New Mexico, Of the needless insult o.