The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-14


weeks time, and whsa shc hears Of i, she will
also hear, that she has been the absolute owner OF
that very domain from the moment she was adj
mitted into the Union State! She may ren-
qush then, undoubtedly, that is, II she chooses,
| and II she should not, who could force her out of
the Union for breach Of the condition Who ever
| heard before of a condition binding any body,
until il was made known and assented TO by the
party charged with its performances? Who ever
heard before, Of compact between soveregntes,
| dependent upon the performance of precedent
condition, being executed by the party to whom the
performance was due, before the other party was
aware, that any condition had been namedi Who
but fanatical Free-SoiIer intent upon the fraud
i of despoiling the South, would not have known
| that waiver of the precedent performance of a
| precedent condition, equally waiver of the
| condition ITSELF But could the condition have
been binding at all, then would the section have
| quoted, have borne an unbushing falsehood upon
its face, in declaring that California admitted
'supon an equal footing with the original States, in
all respects whatever" while here was a condition
| onerous to her, which had clogged the admission
/ Of neither of them
This duplicity in phraseology seems rather pc
culiar to the realms Of the West; for ripe
scholar as General Cass, has spoiled and blasted
a compound word Of very fair meaning, through
| the Janus faced doctrine of NoN-iNTERvENTIoN
| Daring the canvass for the Presidency the South
was made believe that 90 non-nierreniion was to
i prevent the North from interfering, through Con-
\
equal right TO migrate with her property, into any
portions of the coded Territories; whereas, since
| the canvas, the South has been made TO realize
that :. Intervention neans---that it is the South
who is not TO intervene or encroach upon single
foot of those Territories to the overthrow or pre-
JUDGE of the Norhs paramount right to appropri
ate the whole of them exclusively to herself At
/ he Baltimore Convention in 1913, the friends of
Mr.. Buchanan offered as platform for the party,
that old, smooth-trodden turnpike of 36o 80
- r. l..
dred fold, by proiferng to the South the imposing
Platform of NoN-INTERvENrIoN, which was not
only to secure her equal rights with the North
inhose Territories south of thirysx degrees thirty
minutes, but north Of it, and the General had the
nomination by heavy odds But, wo worth the day!
he lost the election and returned the Senate, and
there for the instruction and warning of mankind,
Ohough absolved from all restraints by the patrl-
| otto Legislature Of Michigan, that he might do the
South justice and give the Union peace, d.
behold him as another Delphic Oracle, with a
fresh glossary FOR MISREPRESENTATION utterly deinol-
ishing both Mr.. Buchanan platform and his own,
j and taking counsel Of Messrs. Clay, Webster
and the Free Sellers, stripping the South Of eve
ry vestige Of her rights in the Territories and de-
voting the whole OF them free soil and the Free
States, Ito the total ruin Of his party, and final
4 rupture Of the Union! There is gratitude for you
men Of the South If Gen. Cass had doubted the
power of Congress originally to have established
the line Of the Missouri Compromise las we'll he
Z mighty then should he have striven from the time
that he doubted to have restored to the South all
the territory Of which she had been unconstitutior-
II ally deprtved,-t0 wit: to all that is now Iowa,
Minnesota, Oregon Nebraska and the North w est
Territory being about four-ffths ofthe whole Slave
! Territory acquired through he Treaties Of Louis
lana and Florida:-but without budging an inch
or even proffering his counsel to induce Congress
to retrace It's steps,to insist on his scruples and
4 repudiate that line, when new territory has been
acquired, and mainly from the South's votes and
contributions, and thus strip her of the whole,-
is senatorial revival of that dexterous morality oil
the MacGregors, which graced the Scottish heatIls
: in past century,to
f Let him take acho has The poicer,
find let him Keep who can!
+ Henceforth and for aye,--pass over General
Cass' Compound Of " MN Iaterrention' and Gen
Taylor's simple Of g Intervention, - to the Como
Ter ofthe next Edition of Webster's Dictionary
sNoN-INrERyENrIoN.- Trap to taftt potss in.--
4 The Science Of Misunderstanding - The ari Of looking
one ,cny and roWing another. 'tssf 5aatt4a a
n IsrERvESrloN. '--.4n Erecuiipc plan of super
ceeding the oicers and action Of Congress, BY calling
Conventions through military proclanations and for
ming Free Soil States out Of the Federal Territorie.
and passing the poicers T Government into fhei,
hands aciihout the sanction OF Congress. 1
The ENHANCED VALUE OF SLAVE PnopERTY,
THROUGH A FREE ACCESS TO THE MINES.
II Heavyas are these deprivations and losses, they
are not all. Had the South been fairly dealt by
and shared in these Territories proportion to he,
contributions in men and money towards their ac-
d QUESTION, consequences Of immense importance
: politically, and of incalculable value financially
must have resulted from it. The South would
; have had free access to the mines with her slaves
and her citizens, having ampIer and reader means
> of working them than all others, would have mi
= grated thther earliest, and in numbers sufficient
IN have olled
: would California inevitably, and Utah and New
Mexico, through the force of position and circum
stances, have become Stare States, and augmented
and improved the South's political dominion and
destinies beyond estimate or measure! Now lool
at the collateral results upon the enhatced value
Slave property, coming from so vast demand
tor Slave labor, as such field for its profitable EN-
J poyment would have created. The present mar
ket values for men would have been trebIed o,
quadrupled--but intending TO be moderate, / shall
only estimate the average increase upon all cond
tons, at 80 per centum. The present numbers OF
Slaves IN the Southern States are estimated to be
, 5000, 900, and allowing them an average value o
$500 (Which is much below the present average
market value) and we have aggregate valuation
of Slave property amounting to $1,000 900 600, &c
4 which free access to the mines would have gver
an increase of so per centum, and added $500 900
: 600 Of yalue to the slave properly Of the South
g And now for the results -
Through the action Of Congress-, I'm sanctioping tn,
unauthorized proceedings ofsome IL or 90 900 Cal
ifornia adventures, most of them with brief resi-
dences, without domlcis, the intention having
any, or ofbecoming citizens of the country--intru
ders upon the public domain, and despoiIers of the
public shutting out the South from all ac
to the placers and the mines, (where all oie,
slaves but Southern slaves, are permitted to 90
by the Constitution of California; She is forever
deprived, not only of the $500, 900 900 of enhanced
value upon her slave property, but Of even larger
amounts it may be, through the employment Of
her slave labor thither, and in course Of years.
Through the action of Congress,--iH not sxactipe
Z Of California a Conventional Ordinance, ren-
gushing all title or claim to the public domain
within her borders, before receiving her as a SOW
ereign State into the Union, that domain has been
suffered to escheat to the State with treasures, II
may be, sufficient to build up cities, and support
an Empire, which may, in the current hall
century, wield the sceptre of dominion over this
great Continent, and command the commerce oil
the world tn
Through he acfion Of Congress,--in receiving
n California into the Union without a reduction nj