The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-10-01
From the Natchez Free Trader.
THE PROSPECT.

We have SAID IN our last, tnal II the pre-
s sent bills in progress through Congress pass,
4 and the Southern States submit, the non
slavehoIding States can in six years amend
the constitution, do away with the three
fifths basis of representation, and abolish
slavery; and that, too, without assuming
any new position, or any which has not re-
ceived the sanction of one branch of Con
gress. We stated that we could prove this
position by plain mathematical reasoning
and fair deduction from the principles as
sumed by our enemies.
We are aware that many will be startled
at this statement, and that the pubic mind
. is not fully awake TO the real dangers which
threaten us.
When propositions for "compromise" and
adjustment" were made in the United
States Senate and advocated by Southern
men, the confding spirit of the Southern
people induced many to believe that those
propositions contained something tangible
and substantial and that a way would be
opened by which the slavehoiding States
would be enabled to participate in some de-
gree, at least in the advantages to be de-
rived from the vast territories conquered
from Mexico.
These delusions are dispeIled, and the
stern truth is forced upon ALL that the whole
of the territories of the United States are de-
i voted to free-soilism.
We have laid before our readers the opin-
1 ions of Mr.. Clay, Mr.. Webster, Mr.. Badger,
Mr.. Atchison, and Others on this subject,
but as we wish this matter TO be well I'M
derstood, we will give the evidence of Mr.,
Chase, which is conclusive. That gentle
man said in the United States Senate
ut has been said here, on every side OF
the chamber, that every foot of the soil
which the United States acquired from
Mexico will be free-soil. Senators from the
South have urged it, and Senators from the
North have not denied It,
This matter is hardly debateable. If Cal
ifornia is admitted, all inducement for a
STAKEHOLDER to move to any of the territories
is taken away. Can any man point to sin.
gle individual whU conlempIates moving
with bis negroes to New Mrxico or Utah
1t may be said that the Wilmot proviso
+ is not attached to the territorial bill i'll the
Z Senate. That is so. But it is expressly
understood that the provlso is omitted, be
cause it is not necessary; it is not aban
doned.
There were but 35 votes on that measure
1 Northern Senators absenting themselves tt
avoid passing it. And why? They fee
sure of the territory without it, but the,
will pass it, if there is the least necessit,
therefor.
The Mexican laws are arrayed against US
the people of the territory have been incite'
to declare against slavery; the territoria
bill gives the writ of "habedS corpus" u
the slaves, and the Judges are to be appoint
ed bya President adverse to the South; and
finally, if it were necessary, State govern
ment would be formed before a suficien
number of shareholders could 60 into New
a Mexico to have any influence in the forma
ton of constitution. Who will G, there
We assume, then, the position, that ther
Is not the least probability that anothe
slaveholdng State will ever be admitted ii
to this confederacy.
1t will be years before there will be poI
nlation sufficient to divide Texas, and, q
this time, a majority of the North are OF
posed to carrying out the compact of anne1
alton.
necessary to our argument is a couet
understanding of the present relative poit
cal strength of the slaveholding and moi
slaveholding States.
There are sixteen non-slaveholding State
and fourteen slaveholdng States. The 70
mer have thirty-two votes in the Unite
States Senate and the latter twenty -eigh
In the lower house of Congress the Mort
ern majority is upwards of forty, and 1t
supposed that, by the census now taking,
will reach between sixty and seventy.
But this should be borne in mind, tn
the strength of the North is entire, Will
that of the South is divided There a
four slaveholding States which are tendt
to aboltionism, and in which it is not CO
sidered reprehensible for their represent
tives to act in conjunction with the eneml
of slavery. But let the present measuI
pass, and the South submit thereto, and
will be evident to all that the fate OF sla'
ryis sealed; il will no longer be consider
honorable to be attached to slaveholdl
Stale, and abolitiouism will make rapid P
gress in the doubtful States. Maryla
kentucky, North Carolina and Missouri
already considered lukewarm in our cat