The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-01
The Compromise.

Tho Compromise.
Our space will not permit us to enter into any
lengthy review Of the Compromise question to-
day. We wish merely to make few remarks
for the calm consideration Of every honest South
ern man.
"The Senatorial Compromise" proposes to
admit California as State, and re-afirms in the
accompanying report the right of earring out four
additional States from the territory of Texas, and
readmitting them into the Union. Here we have,
under this arrangement, one "free State" Cali
forna) and four slave States, Chose to be formed
out OF the Texan territory The North gets
one and We get four This is the doctrine of the
friends of Mr.. Clay Bill. 7"
In forming correct opinions on such important
subjects, we must go beyond the intent and inquire
how far the practical effects will work out the in
tention. We will admit them that Mr.. Clay's bill
will give the whole of that golden country to the
North, but by what process are we to carve four
immense slave States out Of the territory of Texas
Are the physical Developments of the country,
the influx and character Of population sufficient
to warrant this conclusion or is it the mere alb
sense of the Wilmot Proviso, that we build our
hopes upon having this amount Of territory suffi-
cient to make four slave States'
We must recollect that Mr.. Clay IS bill proposes
to purchase Of Texas her disputed territory, to
form Territorial Government for the people Of
New Mexico; people who have given US the
to form that territory into free States. Where,
Them is the value to be derived by the slave States
in excluding the " Wilmot Proviso'' Is not the
feelings OF the people declared in open assembly
synonymous in its effects to that Of the Wilmot
Provisol How then are we to establish laws to
govern slavery among people, the common mass
OF whom are scarcely above its levell and the adj
venturers and party leaders breathing the infu-
ences Of their Northern feelings Give to New
Mexico that territory claimed, and the only man.
ner we can save it to the South, would be to up
root its present population, drive them into North
California, and transplant it with Southern plan
ters. No rational man who would consider cause
and effect can say, but that something more than
the effects of Mr. Clay bill would be required to
give us four Stare States from the territory Of
Texas. Recent demonstrations are conclusive on
this point.
But the North gets but one. True we admit
it, but we must go beyond the mere abstract Of
numbers. Can the South be blind to the over
whelming influence which this one State is destined
to sway, when compared with that territory, (by
Mr.. Clay's friends called barren) sufficient to
make four States, as claimed by Mr.. Cay's bill.
Practical truths good offsets against fgurative
calculations, and We have only to point the reader
to every, avenue leading to California, filled it
is by fortunate adventurers, and ask what will
be it's influence in few years. #
If we take that territory from Texas and admit
the people Of New Mexico to advance on us with
the broad picture of their already formed consti-
tuition before us, we do it with full knowledge Of
the consequences How then can we foil off the
effect, when we find her marching upon US linked
hand and heart with that chain Of Northern inAu-
ence, which already boasts its triumph in our
capitol.-Sapannah Georgian.
G5-Dr. Drake, Of Cincinnati, il very right in
the following remarks upon cooking in the interior
OF the United States. He explains enough for
scientific men but not enough for cooks, although
his positions are entirely correct.
l. With the mass Of our population, bread of
every kind is apt to be baked too soon after the
-four or meal has been wetted-that is, before
there has been sufficient maceration. But what
is still worse, it is scarcely ever baked enough.
g Biscuits, as they called, are baked in close
ovens, by which process the fat they contain, il
rendered empyreumatic and indlgestbe. g
3. When the dough for leavened bread, by ex-
cess of panary termination, has been charged with
acetic acid, that product is not in general neutral
lied by the carbonate &C potash or soda, but the
bread is eaten sour. H
A. Pastry instead Of being faky and tender, is
often tough and hard, sometimes almost horny.
S. Meats are often baked and fried, instead Of
being roasted or broiled, whereby they become
impregnated with empyreumatic oil, and not un-
frequently charred on the outside. In general /,
they are overlooked.
g. Fresh meat, and especially poultry, are COM
monty cooked too soon after death.
I. Soup is often prepared from parts deficient
in gelantine, and Astounding in fat, which swims
upon the surface, and is much more indigestible
than the meat would have been, if eaten in the
solid FORM @ .
g. Eggs are generally boiled SO hard as to rem
der them tough, and many often fried in fat, to
a still greater degree of induration. Fried bacon
and eggs, eaten with hot unleavened biscuit, con-
tanning lard, and then butered, is favorte break
fast in many parts of the valley.
6. Vegetables, Astounding in fecula, such as po-
atoes, rice and pulse, are often boiled so little,
that all the starch grains not burst open while
those co tanning albumen, as cabbage, are boiled
until that element is firmly coagulated and depos-
tied in the structure the leaf.
AN ARAB TENT Sc ENE.-The following we ex-
tract from Urquhert's travels in Spain and Mo-
rocco, work recently published by Harper G.
Brothers
"The chief lady Of the douar was too busy
for ceremony she left that department to her
husband. She was first lieutenant. But one
evening, as we were returning to the douar, she
signifed that she had something to say, and con-
Quoting me into the tent, made me sit down and
seating herself opposite, said-"Christian, since
the wives and daughters Of your country IS sheiks
neither cook nor weave, nor make butter, nor
look after the guests, or sheep, what do they do"
Having already avowed that the greatest shiek
in the English country had not in his tent, or in
our ladies' occupied themselves. She shook her
head, and said--"It is not good but added, after
pause. l." Are your women happier than we"
answered, "neither of you would take the life
Of the other but when tell my countrymen
about you, they will be glad to hear, and they
will not say, 1t is not good Christian, she
said, what will you tell Of me'' ] answered,
Il will say have seen the wife of an Arab shiek,
and the mistress Of an Arab tent, such as we
read Of in the. writings of old, such the
models held up to our young maidens such as
we listen to only in songs, or see in dreams. -
Had voice spoken from the earth, l could not
have been more startled. Il was nature saying to
art--What is thy WORTH What dc we know Of
the happiness and the uses that belong to the
drugeries of lifei Our harvest is Of the briars
and thorns of aspirit uneasy and over-wrought.
Here are no changes in progress-no revolutions
that threaen-no theories at war--no classes that
hate--and whyi The household works. There
is no subdivision Of labor--the household. not
the man, is the mint of the State
New EDIroRs.--From the cards of James E.
Heath and Alex. Moseley, Esqrs, published in
yesterdays Wing, we learn that the latter has