The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1850-09-05
From the Charleston Mercury
Consolidation, .abOEttiOls and
the BNyOMet."


We said yesterday that the North
was marching down upon US with the
above device emblazoned upon her /
banners. The article was written be.
fore the telegraph brought the news
Of the Presidents message on the Tex
as squestion. To-day we lay that mes
sage with the accompanying corres>
pondence before our readers, and ask
them how long it will be before our.
words are literally made goodl Mr..
Clsy's truculent threats are here calmly
and coldly repeated as the settled docs
urine of the party. The constitution.
and laws of the United States are para
ded as enjoinlng the high duty of wag-I
ing civil war, aud President Fillmore,
finding that the laws allow him to use
armed force for putting down mobs en-
gagged in resisting those laws, feels not
scruple of hesitation about employ
ing the army Of the United States in
resisting the constituted authorities of
State. In fact, the administration
have made the striking discovery that
the constitution and laws should be
construed so as to allow the executive,
in all cases, to choose whether he will
aid the Stats in putting down rebellion,
or aid the rebels in putting down the
State. In the case Of Texas aud New
Mexico, the president has decisively
adopted the latter policy.
The justification given for this atro>
cious proceeding, is so void of sense,
that none but men whom party servi-
tude has made shameless, could ever
have stopped to use 1t. The pretext
is, that by the treaty with Mexico the
United States guaranteed to the con-
quered Mexican population certain
important rights and immunitles." The
inference is plain; that these rights and
immumties would be infringed by the
extension of the jurisdiction of Texas
, over them, in short, that Texas aud
r her citizens are not under the protec-
3 tlon of the United States, and that the
: government of Texas does not secure
: to her citizens "the free enjoyment oI
+ their liberty and property" and the
g free exercise of their religion" I'VE
quote the words Of the treaty.) Il
these are not the conclusions which
= the president and secretary OF State
intended to he drawn from their sol
emn references to the obligations q
the treaty, then were those references
h mere senseless impertinence. But the
e the treaty itself committed no suct
: folly. 1t proposes these guarantees
not as safeguards against Texas, bu
as temporary securities against the ex
cesses of the military government
: which ruled the conquered region a
J. the time of the ratification of peace
n The treaty expressly regards the in
y corporation of the conquered people
into the Union, under the jurisdiction
J. and protection of sovereign States, a
: the one grand and permanent guarant.
e that was TO supersede and swallow NJ
n all these Temporary securities. AM
n yet the president Of the United State
commits the absurdity of alleging tha
the extension Of the jurisdiction 0
Texas over a part of this region anc
q people, will be in violation Of treaty
u stipulations.
II But Texas is not free soil State
% All the world knows that this is tn
e sum and substance of the matter. M
d Fillmore's threats of armed vlolenc
81 against Texas are only repetitions {
y Mr.. Clay's threat against Georgia.
~ They have all the same end and breath
n r. the same spirit. They express the in
w. tense love which the North has for tn
n South, and their determination to Ell
le force the earnestness of their affection
at by an iron embrace and the kiss of tn
y bayonet, as often as it is called in que
y ton.
le The doctrine Of force is now open
a. avowed as the fundamental princiP
q of the general government, and tn
e the States are as legitimately the sui
~ iects of coercion as mobs or individu
ne disturbers. And This doctrine Of fore
Of let the Southern people remember,
now paraded as the means Of securlr
nr the triumph of abolition. 1t is to al
their cause that the sovereignty of Il
States is denied and derided, and it
for the sake of securing to them pr
dominating superiority in every branC
as of the government, that the remoI
en- strances and opposition Of the Southel
by people to lawless measures, are al
ty swered with fierce menaces of civ
d, war against our States and the halt
is for our patriots. AT moment wht
of the sovereignty of the States has b
ch come the last remaining security OF Il
Dir South against utter destruction, at tn
It's moment the sovereignty of the Stat
is secuted and derided in the Sena
chamber, and the Infamous and revolt
t;nnarv lanUna0e ia uraafad with shOu