The southern press., 1850-10-31

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Ifrard abon ths Soaih, tass have stieessded4--
Isucceeded in every part, and that tod, blash tc
say II, by the aid Of Southern votes--of South
ern men with Northern principles.
u But this is not all yet. One hundred millions
Of debt and expenses have been incurred in these
immense acquisitions, and while the South ID
required to pay her portion of the purchase
money, at least sixty millions of the money, she
obtains not an acre of the land. have shown
you that ali--Californi,, Utah, New Mexico and
the disputed part Of Texas, all are gone--the
South is despoiled of every foot, and her spoilers
are already preparing by new tariff to make us
i pay a still larger portion of the purchase money,
Chinese, Lascars. Hindoos, Sandwish islanders
and Mexicans Of every shade and color--Rus.
slams with their serfs, and Mexicails with their
poems, conyicts escaped from prison ships and
Botany Bay, all, all, may freely go to California
with whatsoever property they may have hon-
estly or dishonesty acquired, but the Southern
man! he must pause; he cannot go; he has a
brand upon his forehead he must first become
a Northern man, and must part with all his pro-
perty that the Northern man does not choose to
! reecogniz! *S1a.
I Whence has the North acquired the right thus
to trample upon us! Have they paid down more
than their portion Of the purchase money? Have
they poured out their blood more freely! Look
at your army rosters of volunteers, of killed and
wounded, and zee If the South is deficient! Go
to the soil of Mexico and count the graves, and
you will find four-ffths of them filed with
Southern corpses. .
/ have now satisfied, think, every person in
this assembly, that the Wimot Proviso has in
substance been applied to the whole territory
acquired from Mexico. will next nsk you to
!
which must follow.
In minor and pecuniary point of view, the
figures are 80 large, that they will probably
stagger faith, but they not the less true.
1t would be very moderate estimate to sny,
that if the California gold mines, and the whole
Mexican territory were open to Southern enter
prise, that it would advance the value Of slaves
at least fifty dollars per head South Carolina
has upwards of three hundred thousand, and
consequently the loss to her property would
amount to the enormous sum Of fifteen millions
Of dollars! ..
But. it is in political point of view that the
consequences are so fearful. Northern ascen-
dency is now secured. The South can by no
possibility acquire a new State from any Of the
territory, and in a few years, new States will
arise in sufficient numbers to give to the North
an absolute control over the destinies OF the
nation. California will no doubt, be received
graciousy whenever she may propose,to divide
herself into two, three, or four free States--
Oregon may be allowed three more, Utah two,
New Mexico two, and two can be had from the
Northwest. ... ..r ..H
| Here are thirteen new States, which may be
increased indefinitely at the pleasure ofthe North
ern majority, and the day may not be distant at
which they shall come in. A free gift is already
offered to every foreigner who will join the
North, of one hundred and sixty acres of land,
the joint property of the North and South
Does any man hope that the Constitution of the
United States will furnish further protection to
the South! The North have already avowed
their purpose to alter it, and in less than ten
years they will have the power. But, they will
not wait for that they have already found a
means of avoiding it, by declaring that there
are other paramount obligations. Look at the
constitutional provision in relation to fugitive
slaves. Can any obligation be more clearly de-
fined Aud yet, is it not known to all OF you,
that Legislatures, courts and uries ut the North,
have so eiiectua ly combined against it, that even
the law of Congress just passed, is considered
by every one as a dead letter!
!. Nay, so far has this matter gone, that a court
of Justice in New York has decided that it is
no crime for IL runaway slave to steal a horse.
and by parity of reason, it will equally follow
that it is no crime to murder his master and as
for the negro stealer he is elevated to the rank
of n hero. Chaplin, the negro thief, who armed
the slaves of Messrs. Toonbs and Stephens at
Washington the other day, and encouraged them
to shoot their masters, is run in the Empire State
of the North as candidate for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, and since his achievement has been for
mally nominated as a candidate for the Vice
Presidency of the United States Nay the run
away negroes themselves are made heroes, and
at a meeting Of two thousand persons in West
ern New York they arc plraded on stage, and
made to publish an address to the Southern
slaves, advising them to rise upon their masters,
steal their horses, and murder them if they Op-
pose them.
:: (Here Mr. Memminger read the proceedings of
meeting at CaZenova, New York, at which
were adopted seventeen resolutions, the last of
which declared their watchwords to be CHAPLIN,
CIVIL WAR;
And to add to the interest of these proceedings,
subscription was started among the women Of
the North, those who, at least, might be expected
to feel some sympathy with their white sisters OF
the South, limited to ten cents each, for the pur-
pose Of presenting a silver pitcher 10 the heroic
Chaplin, and one thousand women came forward
Immediately with the amount required
These a.e indications which are highly express
i've. But some men may say it is the mere frenzy
Of fanatics. Turn then to the Halls Of Congress,
where Northern wisdom and prudence stand to-
gether in council. What have they been doing
for the last ten monhs-I may say for the last ten
years? Has any opportunity been lost Of inact.
Ing blow upon the institutions Of the South
: Did not the House of Representatives adopt the
resolution OF Mr.. Gott denouncing the institution
of slavery? Did they not actually pass formal
vote aholishing slavery in the District of Coum.
bia Are they not occupied day after day in add
= ing insult to injary' What means the bill which
has at last found its way through the Senate also
abolshing the right of carrying slaves to the Dis
; trct Of Columbia to be snldi Does not every mar
see that it is but Introductory to another law for
bidding them to be carried from one State tt
another' And even since the passage of those
n measures which we were told was to terminate
0 this agitation, twice already have efforts beer
q made to abolish slavery in the District Of Colum
bia. The measures failed, not because Of any op
s position to the principle-but because, in the Ian
r guage of Northern Senators, the time no
- - proptious. That is to say, the poor, bleeding
South must ave a little time to over the III
cisions already made, before she would bear a new
d operation.
IS And now, fellow-czens, the spectacle is pre-