The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-14
For The So,stksrn Press.
The Randolph Hpistles with Facts and
RsAsottons for tho southen People.

For the Sostksvn Press.
The Randolph Hpistlss with Faots and
ReAeottons for the southen People
,-.9f~ No. i. T tSstla M
The A6rth' triumph the Sosth Rae reUets and
rejoieings oper hsr--T Resolves " Virginia and
the Souih-Tz results CatifbyniA and tAe Wi-
moi Proviso-Utxk snd yNsse yMerieo through q
kindred me4surs''--ths SossiA 0ithoM foot II
the acquisition To pay three 5ourth's If the price
--CalVovnia takes to herself all The domain and all
Of the Gold nines-Frse to the mines
pouid haze gipsn $500, 900 Of eahsneed paias
10 sIaus property Through the action Of Congress,
the North obtains, and the South loses al--Sout'-
ern potes for the admission Of California - The
eDscss---T The measure unconstitutional, &c., &C.
FELLow-C IrrzENs or THE SourH:
One Of yourseves,--born among you-bred
among you--dwellng among you,-and hoiding
: an humble, but common share with you ~ the
South rights or rongs,-prosperity or adyer,
sity,-in all she does, or has, or hopes for, ana
who, in common with you, must prosper or
suffer, and stand or fall with her,--presnmes 10
hold counsel with you, upon the present gloomy
aspect OF her interests and destinies. Hav,ng no
great name Of his own to give weight 70 wnat ne
savs.-he must, as aforetime, borrow that OF
another. over which you have often honored him
with your audience, on matters OF eminent pubic
concern, in times gone by Over that non de
pi,n,s, he has lately been profering respectful
counsel in your behalf, to so great parsonage as
the Chief Magistrate Of the Union, and even now,
he puts aside his unfinished g Randolph Episties,
that he may hold closer and weIghuer communion
with you. M
Fellow -Southerners--the long agony in Con-
: press is over and the struggle is past The North
Is triumphant--and your native South has been
utterly routed in the contest, land Is hsrs' neiP,
lessly PROSTATE and trampled upon! Faithful
and intrepid minorities in both Houses, stood by
her to the last and kept Communicating hosts al
bay,-and would finally have vanquished them;
but Southern assertions augmenting their iorces'
and inspiriting their courage,-in serried phalanx
and with overwhelming odds, they charged once
more, and all was lost But even victory SO
thorough as this,--could not sufficiently Illuminate
and disgrace the South without public triumph
and exultation over her! Accordingly, from the
saye-soil of the District--and within ear-shot OF
Of Washington tomb, an l01 salutatory guns
announced this memorable Jubilee over the pros
trate rights and fortunes of his Native Land, ~
while iliumnations and bonfres, and rockets and
JOYOUS mnstrelsy, gave light and zest TO the cee-
bration, and oh incredible reality .--there were
So,ttheyT, members Of Congress who sanctioned
and shared in these exulting mockeries over right
;ustice equality and their own native South ~
And more than this. The bruit goes, that no less
than eight Of the asprans TO the Presidency-lve OF
them Democrats and three Of them Whigs-iour OF
them NOrthernerS anu TOUR Oh tHCH N'uutiCtHSi'
namely, Messrs. Webster, Cass, Dickinson, and
Douglas, from the North, and Messrs. Clay,
Hillard Cobb, and Houston, from the South,
made night and the thoroughfhres of washington
boisterous and eloquent with their grntulations
upon this glorious achievement! Let the renowned
occasion and these exultant exploits, men of the
South !--sink deep down into your hearts, and
carve il in your memories ,-shosld eyer IN coming
wears, man among them, claim the South 8 eiec.
toral help towards their National promotion =
II anything could enhance the indignation ana ire
with which every Southern patriot must contem
plate revels and rejoicings over such oppressive
and wrongful successes as these,-n would De the
paper huzzas and vivas--with which those South
e,s journals, the Union, InteAigencer and Rspote
nourished and enriched as they have been, through
Southern patronage) have hailed, recounted, anu
npplauded the passage of these baleful measures
and these greetings and gratulations over them
Rut let us pass from these exasperatIng memories
in quest Of what there be in these extraordinary
proceedings Of Congress, of such advantage 70
the South in frution or in promise that South
srners should have supported, or that Southerners
should have rejoiced in them!
A vast majority Of your legislatures, with Itr-
ci,sia in the lead passed resolutions last winter,
didn't they?--that the people OF these States
respectively, would not submit to " the Wtfmo
Propiso or anu kindred measure, y but would re-
sist the same g at all hazards and to every ertrep
ill.," They had no objections TO :. the Wilmo
Proyiso nor any kindred measure" had they
further than to the aim and tendencies Of either
TO deprive their citizens of their equal rights n
common with the citizens of the Free States, e
migrate with their property to any portions or The
territory acquired from Mexico. None whatever
1t was not then against the mere name Of the Will
mot Proviso, that so grave and imposing menace
was ained,-w it Most certainly not. Their
it was the deprivation of their citizens of then
equal rights in these Territories, which they
would not submit Ia, and would resolutely re-
sist, at all hazards and to the last extremity, -
whatever the measure, or whatever the name
through which, that deprivation should be eff
fected was it not so Exactly and to Ger.
taipty:--and for that very reason, and 'sto
make assurance doubiy sure, ~ and for no other
purpose whatever, they employed the alternative
language Of I" anu kindred measure; winch an,
measure must be, that would deprive them OF the
rights they asserted to be theirs, and which they
professed to protect. God help the recreant anc
bastard State, which should have sulIied her es
cutcheon with lraggart's menace, by now
q eating her own words" and recong from
her position in defence of her rights, and under
the cowardiy cqlivoque, that though equally beref
of her rights under the process resorted to, as u
it had been the Proviso itself yet that the form
Of cords, through which the bereavement wai
menaced, though substantially was not technical.
the same! Fob! That might do for vaporins
Massachusetts,, but such shutting poltroonery
will never brand with its disgraces, (may Heaver
forfend the shame y any Of the sovereign commn
lnel But passing from this, and we are at once
reminded, that Congress has at last taken sfna
action upon all the territory acquired from Mex
co, and it was about the disposition which was t.
be made thereof that all the State Resolutions hat
reference and this at once brings us to
THE RESULTS. y ,g
What is certain is, that the Wiimot Proriso IT,
self is no,c in full force and operation Throughout
California, from the 32d to the Add degree O
North Latitude, and that this act has been wholly
consummated through the action If Congress, ane
that Southerners are excluded entirely, absolutely
and for aye, from migrating and settling there
with their property! 9FfE
We have the high authority of Messrs. Clay
Cass and Webster-the first the originator, ant
all Of them the jealous and the ablest supporters
of these measures, for stating, that the principles
the Wilmot Proviso, in the form of a .Merican IN
ferdicion of slarery, in full force and opera
ton in these Territories, respectively, as note or
ganized by law,---and expicitely recognized and
adopted such by Congress Itself, in It's repeated
refusals,---to abrogate such Mexican laws,--or &c
empower the Territorial Legislatures to give poiic