Southern sentinel. [volume] (Plaquemine, Parish of Iberville [La.]) 1848-1858, 1850-07-27
PLAQUEMINE PARISH OF IBERVIIE, LA, JULY 27, 1850
Letter from WASHINGTON.
Correspondence Of The N. o. Picayune.)

Correspondence Of The N. o. Picayune.)
WASHINGTON, July l3, 1850
The city is in deep mourning. All the pub
lie buildings, and many private ones, the en-
CINE houses, taverns, banks, &C., all dressed in
mourning; but the town is not so full of dis
tnguished strangers as it was at the death of
Gen. Harrison. We are principally borne with
demagogues and politicians. Parson Colquit
has been looking after his nullifying flock, and
with him number of nullfers, er protesso,
have thronged the avenues of the federal city
but most of them have left.
No immediate change will be made in the
Cabinet on Monday. The resignation Of the
old Cabinet, or sealed communications from its
respective members, supposed to contain their
designations, have not yet been opened; but
they will be opened on Monday, and all, with
out single exception, be accepted. At the
same time President Fillmore will request them
to continue in Office till he shall have time to
appoint their successors. If any of them re-
fuse to hold on on this condition, then the Pre-
sident, under the law, has a right to make tenn
porary appointments, which he will undoubt-
edly do.
The Compromise bill will certainly pass,
though not without dividing the Northern whig
party in twain. A conflict between Fillmore's
moderate and wise views and Sewardism, Benz
tonism and jeff. Davisism, is unavoidable; but
if the President has firmness he will put them
down, and lay abolitionism and notification in
the same grave.
have seen many Northern members and
and they are all ready to support the
amendment which Mr.. Douglass. proposes to
offer on Monday, and which in fact establishes
3 territorial government south of the line of
IS deg. (the natural boundary of Texas) for
South California, if the people Of said portion
Of California, in convention, prefer such gov
ernment to being part and parcel of the State
Of California. You will see that this is the ut
most verge to which Northern men can 90,
without destroying the principle of non-inter-
vention, on which they stand as on platform.
To say that they have not met, and will not
meet the South half way, is to keep up agita-
lion for impracticabe purposes, whatever other
color may be given to agitation North and
South by the aextremists."
In like manner will Mr.. Clay's bill be amend
ID, by fixing the boundary line of Texas at "a
leg. north latitude, instead of 81 deg, as now
contained in the bill. With these additional
the Southern ultras, Mr.. Soule at
heir head, are still dissatisfied. They want
low California to be remanded back to the
erritorial state. There is, am afraid, good
leal of what the French call wounded amour
'ropre in Mr.. Soule's opposition to the Clay
compromise. This defence of extreme South
IN measures seems to be an acquired taste,
which, perhaps, accounts for his adhering to it |
With greater tenacity than if it were . natural,
'ealthy appetite. Mr.. Soules constituents do
lot require him to play mad-cap and disunion
'rator here in Congress, nor is his ambition |
justified in conjuring up the storm for the pur-
lose Of afterwards aiding in a'laying it. Ma
lame de Stael, who was so ambitious that she
:ould throw man into the water, for the pur-
nose of saving his life, is not = fit model for
imitation by an American Senator. Le sens
onnun est le genie de rhumanis.
...-- LIE D1ABLE Bo1rEux.