The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-13

NOT weigh feather against those made to the
North. ~
Is This curious compromise, this Omnibus Iii
which was upset in the Senate, and SO damaged
to be incapable ofrepairs, has been swept up in
fragments and rolled on three wheels into the
House of Representatives. If il should be patched
together its effects forsoo.h to be little less
than miraculous. It. most infallible panacea--a
perfect anodyne. Ii is to quiet both North and
South, by disappointing one, and administering
new irritation to the other. Though it is noto-
rious that the Abolitonsts who are at the bottom:
Of all these troubles, will repudiate this compro-
mise, and that great portion Of the people Of the
South, have been arrayed in opposition to its prin
ciples ever since the adoption ofthe Constitution,
the hostility of these two extremes, is considered
by our Northern peace-makers as nothing because,
as is frequently the case in politics, they unite
in one single point, from motives Numerically OPP
posite.
These sanguine seers of the peace and union of
their country, who seem to think they will spring
up like mushrooms in single night, and all diff
by act of Congress- fear, nay, am convinced,
will be deplorably disappointed in the result Of this
mode Of compromising conflicting claims, by taking
all and giving nothing. The passage Of these
State and territorial bills will not be the end but
{" the beginning of the end' Of these sectional
struggles. The Abolitionists, though not salts
fed, will be encouraged by what they have gained
from the South; and the conspiracy against the
constitutional rights, the property, the repose
will every day become more bold, as well as more
difficult to resist. Every department of Govern
ment is gradually either becoming subservient to,
or tnctured with Aboltionism. Our accidental
President, animated by the anticipated support of
all those philanthropists who rally under the black
banner, has already aimed deadly blow at the
rights Of the States, which alone stand in the way
Of the giant strides Of fanaticsm. His first mins-
ter would be called an Abolitionist anywhere but
among fanatics. Judges Of courts and juries be-
ing governed by " higher law, are no longer to
be depended upon when the white man and the
negro are at issue; Church and State are equally
arrayed against the South; and when the rights Of
its citizens are brought into question, they are no
longer to be settled by the laws of the land or the
Constitution Of the country, but by the conscience
of hypocritical politicians, the assumption Of a
dogma
Yet we are told, that when the holy oil of this
inspired Compromises poured on the waters, all
will be calm; that it is not the redress, but the
infection of wrongs that heals the rritations of the
mind; and that the Union will infallibly be pre-
served by violation of the great fundamental
principles on which it was originally founded.
Under this strange delusion, we are pressing on
ward to the contamination Of measures equally
hostile to the constitutional rights, the property
the repose, and the safety of one-half the States
of this Confederation; at the same time that we
have the assurance to come forward as the ex-
elusive friends Of that Union of which they are
members. say one-half the States; for, how
ever, a portion of the slave-holding States, in
Huenced by political leaders and party distinc-
tons, may hang fire for the present, they will
eventually be forced into the Southern Confede-
racy in self-defcnce. They cannot, and will not
associate with those who are daily assaing their
rights and insulting their feelings; and to remain
neutral will he impossible, without faring like the
bat in the fable, and being devoured by both
parties The personal influence of Mr.. Clay, in
Kentucky, will end with his life; that of Mr.. Bell,
in Tennessee, is already on the wane and the pre-
sent position Of Missouri too unnatural to last
II is not within the province Of "the Father of the
Senate who l wish would set better example
to his cliildren--or any other man, to keep that
State in the ranks Of aboition; and though he
may fancy himself Sampson, he will resemble
him in nothing but his fate. His political IN
1uence is now limited to the power of doing mis-
chief, and in all probability, little will soon remain
OF him but the wreck Of bed-ridden ambition and
superanuated vanity. If he remains much longer
OH the stage, he will be Missed OF by the au-
dience.
Tie people Of the North are most deplorably
deceived, if they believe that the passage of the
California territorial bills and their Insignificant
apppendages Of concession, viii either, in the
present or the future, tend to the restoration Of
harmony, or the preservation Of the Union, which
cannot long exist except on the basis of State
equality. On that it was originally founded; on
that, alone, can it be sustained; and when the ark
of the covenant is broken to pieces, the States,
like the tribes Of Israel, will separate, never to
unite again / am sir,
A NORTHERN MAN AND A
FRIEND TO THE UNION.
~ We are informed that the Legislature
of Texas adjourned on learning that the Texas