Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1850-03-15


Vermont, New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island
Connecticut New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and De
aware with seacoast 6i times larger than the average
of all the States exclusive of Foridaas great
indeed the of all the States from Maine 10 The
middle of South Carolina, and almost threeonrhs hf
length of the entire coast of the original thirteen
antc States. The South is indeed admonshed that sh
insists the line of the Missouri Compromise the territory
South of that line will become free State and cast the odds
OF additional Senators against her That may or may
not be; but is not half so sure MS that If the present s
remain they will be paroned oil from California IN &c"
years with half dozen others free States Tor bare
maioes in the Legislature of California and in Congress
do that whenever and as cen interest and ncna
| tion shall prompt the partitions, &c.
These formidable obstacles the admission of California
at the time and as she is stand clear and ec from
all sectional issues They raise none they touch none lhe
address themselves The sound unbiased judgments oil
every member of Congress- TO decide in the hrst instance
whether this is without precedent and 80
whether II be that is fit be established! Would mol
to formal abandonment by Congress OF lis hd-
cary and parental of the public domain, leave prey
TO the first Is 10000 adventures who should hurry thl-
tcr and appropriate il and its sovereignty without leave,
and without adequate numbers a voters atordlng
fair opportunity TO others to and MAKE settlements
give them the sanction OF Congress through snch prece-
dent the functions of Government form State
Constitution fix its dimensions choose Senators and
Representatives unrestraned BY the alto OF representative
numbers and claim and admission into the Union =
These are which the North las never permitted or
insisted upon before and they being soreyouonay in their
character and subverslye in their consequences OF The rights
of the Southern States and of their citizens the South
be otherwise than dsrustul of the Sorths justice, when
she witnesses the determinations which made in lmpos-
ing upon the Northern territories OF Oregon
and Minnesota preliminary admissions in The union
while the Southern territory of California for the nigh
handed and awess service of shutting out the sonh for
from the whole Pacific coast Is 10 be rewarded win
sovereignty and brought into the Union wholly deficient IN
representative numbers and void Of all naiopa organization!
With the ready admission upon all men slips that had Cali
orna presented herself for admission Under the same cir
cumstances but with clause toeraiig African slavery
within her borders, she could scarcely lave commanded
single Northern vote in either House Of Congessif i'm
aities she is 10 be forced into the UnoLn compliment 10
her slavery clause alone thing else be expected
but that the South should feel that abe wa, wrongea ana In
suited that her feelings would revolt and Ind refuge in ami
mostly and defiance and that she would nerve herself Tor
such determined and effective resistance the oppression
| and indignity should demand of her!
i The objections have enumerated 10 dc admission oi
California insuperabe while they astbui there IL moi
OF them which California may not herself overcome and
remove within the year She OF Congress must re-
move one OF them prior 10 her admission OF h IN nhe
peril the Union Of these States. This cann3 e otherwise
ii the Southern States have meant "hai ufy saa IN oeit
Legislative resolutions. The admission OF California, with
her present boundaries excluding slavery In the new terrific
~ South OF the line Of the Missouri Compromise would be
that very "kndred measure which those resolutions have
classed with the Wimot provso and the abolition o slavery
in the District of Columbia usliying the call OF the
Nashville Convention, and demanding resistance ai all
hazards and every extremity II would be The very
casus reis upon which the Southern Executives are re-
qured issue their proclanaons recommending the State
Legislatures State Conventions 10 meet and provide Tor
the geu emergency. II is the Souths fixed and inpregna,
BILE position position which the North fully conceded and
confoed for thirty years after the Constitution was
absed that she has under the Constitution an equal un-
divided share with the North in the and enjoyment OF
their common territory in whatever latitude oil longitude II
may be situate and ana that Congress has 10 more pow"
exclude slavery thence than has 10 esablshi there
power refuse adnanco h,hcr 10 citizens rlM
slaves than power 10 refuse admitance 10 citizens r!hGH
them Her rights of migration and settlement with her
property extend the roe territory and III the terri
tories and such her claims For peace akoor the Un
ons sake she stands ready atoete 10 abide thc poa
tons of the Missouri compromise and 10 reno@e her rg-
OF settlement and inhabiiancy 10 all territory North Of that
ne though that would secure 10 The Norm thcfrd"ste
use of 32l sos square miles and Joint Nth NE Soh in
the lesser portion of 20i 1888 square mle use the com
mon paance and call il comproiss 10 have myself un
derstood but such operation bears semtlanc" to
compromise which calls for mutual concessions for heie The
North takes al which the South renouncrS and sill retains
an the rights South of the line which she hnd before
Such is the heavy sacrifice Of her constitutional ts and
political equality which the South stands ready 10 make upon
the altar peace and for her love OF the Union Upon he Illus
tngs as well as in Congress- the North far vehement
and enthusiastic in her professions Of devotion 10 lts Nor
than the South bnt will she make such sacrifice a this ic
secure il No. Will she make any sacrifice secure? No
Will she accept the Sous sacrifice it? No She vi!
rather risk whatever of value there be in peace union and
eyampled prosperity than renquish the power and purpose
of expressing and degrading brethren who have nevefwrog
cd or injured her. Notwithstanding this the South still
ready stand by the line of 36 3d. Those deceive you mcr
of the North who persuade you that she will ever yield on
inch promises force. Rely upon IT, sht
will have that much she will have nothing and look
herself for remedy for the wrong. Such ia the South
timoit and she will depart from H. II she wot
submit a she would infinitely prefer 10 submit 10 The bof
Wholesale rapacious spoatons Of Mr. Clays resolutions
than be suppiant the feet of power suenderng territory
absolutely hers buy pary share Of what the Consltu
ton makes her own yielding most OF The rights ana all o
the principle she had asserted through the concang con
ccssions of the undgni6ed humatng resolutions OF Mr.
Bell But she will submit to neither She will submit L
NO further sacrifices She has told the North frankly ant
in solemn FORM substantially declaring thai she cannot sub
nit to- but will oppose and resist, the "mot provs9 ap
piled any of the territory acquired from Mexico ana yn
South of 36 90 until adequate numbers and the authority
Congress entle such territory to assume The functions
sovereignty and decide as she will then have the right
do whether she will admit exclude slavery from her limits
The North surely holds the South in too much respect t
suppose that it would contest through legislative denouE:e
ment the power of Congress TO impose the restriction ye
aney submit, when the restriction is imposed and the equa
rights Of her fifteen sovereign States amped upon ard dc
MED her By Calfdrndcss than Satein no sense ihei
elavod of oil jurisdiction, and without any authority
whatever II the South dishonorcd and deprived OF he
equal rights by the process what matters to her whethe
the restriction he imposed by the direct action of Congress
or that il be indirectly accomplished BY prompting Cdorn
do it, and then of supplying her want OF authority by tn
post fdctum process of recognizing her as State, and re
ccivng her into The Unon1 Under either process the dis
honor her sovereignty and the destuon OF her rights mr.
Just the Be noted moreover that was quite rs wei
known in California il here that onehaf OF the sove
reign States of this Union unappy engaged in porten
and alarming struggle with the other half and lhIt Ih
turning point Of the controversy was whether slavery shout
be admitted excluded south of 81 30. VAST then 10 b
allowed be borne WITH that the Caofnans-a people
of Yesterday possessing territory north Of that line, lar
ger than eight of the ourshng States of the unionwiti
sea and numerous islands, stretching through five
and half degrees OF latitude and OF greater extent thar
that of six of the Atlantic States covering the entire regoI
of the gold mines with of the most magnificent her
bos in the world, with commerce, prosperous and in
creasing beyond all example, repeat was decent, or
borne with for them claim cognlzance and control OF sucl
conroversy-cbltcrae the line of the Missouri compro
mse-setch her dimensions down to the Mexican
bordcr-reject the Souths sovereign rights of migration
and settlement and shut her out forever from the sea
this presumpuous intermeddng with what did not concern
her-his pacious graping after than her owncon
duct fit TO be rewarded by casting aside every safe preceden
we haye-dispensng with territorial governments cen
ss of the inhabitansproofs of populaton-legal quaih
cations voters and the previous sanction of Congress
and receiving her into the Conlcderacy sovereign State
| With equal propre,y, California might have stretched he
dominion the entire domain acquired from Mexico an'
if she had with the aid Of the prnvso and admittanc
into the Union she would have ecciuay excluded the South
by this shallow and fraudulent artice from oil entrance in
to or settlement Of any portion of the territory Bu
4 would the South have submitted 10 the spolation2 II sh
would she never meant what she said about resisting III
Wmot Proviso ANY kindred measure" II she woui
moi she cannot submit the admission of California viii
her present boundaries and The Wmo proviso stretching
South the line Of the Missouri compromise deprivng lie
of the last acre of the cesson that is Of value and which,
undivided moiees, wac indefeasiby her
But apart from all the disquaying objections 10 the ad
mission of California al the present time and with her pre-
sent boundaries is there not something strikngy oensy
and exasperang in forcing her into the Union such c
this A deeD and omnous excitement peryades tn