The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-14

extracts from Northern and Southern presses
favorable to their views, and thus seeking ia
produce the impression of universal assent
therein, and the end of the whole controversy
we lay before our readers this morning Others
of a very different character, clipped from oul
mails yesterday. We will first give small
taste from the Northern:
WHAT WE HAVE DoSE.--California is now adj
mitted rs one of the States of the ULion, made
snch unquestionably by the anti-slavery power
of the North.
Oregon is also consecrated to liberty by the
same power Thus the foundation of the great
Pacific States--pcrhaps a Republic ut some fii-
ture time-has been laid upon the principles of
human liberty forever.
And it should be recolected that the organi-
cation of Territorial governments without the
Proviso, by no means precudes its future adop-
ton. And when it is seen that slavery is get
ting a foothold in New Mexico or Utah, the
question will be Invested Of the sham pretences
that it cannot go there. BY sufficient energy
both Of those countries may yet be saved.
And it is possible the same agitation may
throw free-soip enough into much of what is
given up to Texas to secure it hereafter to free
dom, as States.
Slavery is also about to be driven from the
District and the whole system is shaken to its
foundation. All this the hated anti-slayery and
free-soil labors of the country have done, and
future ages alone can estimate the value.
While we have not effected all we desired, we
have still reason to be grateful to that'tavorable
Providence which has crowned our efforts with
so much success.
But no man must put off lis armor, except in
exchange for the winding sheet Work enough
is before u.s. and we have acquired great advan-
tages for doing it. These must not be lost II
we /" endure to the end" we shall conquer, the
poor slaves be free, our country redeemed and
the world relieved Of slavery's terrible burden.
1t is already circumscribed, exposed, condemned,
and must fall Who believes all that has taken
place for this object with the prayers, labors,
and sacrifices in its behalf have no Providential
Design? 1t is not so. Slavery is to cease
that IS what it means, and nothing else. Courage
then, and faith.--Portland (lMe) Inquirer.
CALIFoRNrA.-aTh California measure passed
as quietly as private bill."- Telegraph
What a commentary upon the mountain of
lies that venal press and mercenary and nn-
scrupulous politicians have invented
Where is the dissolution of the Union I!
Where's the civil war! What blood has been
shed? Where are the mangled remains Of
Quattebun and Barnwell Rhett! Where is the
last ditch the Chivalry was to die in! What
has become of the Nashville Convention Who
is to carry out the idea of temporary secession
Last of all, where were the men that were to
call the ayes and noes for thirty six hours in sue
cession, and not stop to eat or to drink? Has
the Chivalry become pacifed by taste OF Texan
stock ?--Albany Atlas, (Free-soil)
Sc Coming events cast their shadows before them"
Wings of New York read the following edi-
torial article taken from the Syracuse Journal
of the 9th inst, n well known satellite of the
Epening Journal, and not unfrequently used as
it's pilot fish:
"a SENSIBLE CoURsE-The true friends of
Free-soil in the State of Maine are endeavoring
to make their votes tplp ut the coming election,
next week The Free-soilers and Wings have
united upon the same candidate for
Congress. This is the right way of doing the
business. Men, whose convictions are the same,
are neither wise or consistent in voting against
each other"
IF the course thus commended in Maine, is
practical sound Whigism there, why should it
not be equally so in New York?
Wings Of New York, your citadel is assailed,
not by avowed enemies and open assault but by
treacherous pretending friends and by secret nm
dermining. BE on your guard Albany State
Register.
From our Southern exchanges we extract the
subjoined notices:
SOUTHERN RIGHTs-Thc last returns from
Washington bring us the intelligence that the
great end of the Free Sellers has been consum-
mated, by the passage Of the California, Utah,
and New Mexico bill All the territory acquired
from Mexico by the common blood and treasure
of all the States, has been dedicated to the pur-
poses of Free-soilism, and to the exclusion OF
slaves and save-owners, The balance of power
between the North and the South has been de-
stroyed, and the inequality between sovereign
States of this Confederacy, for the first time
since the formation of the Federal Constitution,
solemnly proclaimed by national legislation
But this grievance, bad as it is, is light in COM
parison with the provisions of the Texan Boun-
dairy bill. The effect Of which is to wrest fifty
square miles of Stare territory, made
so by solemn treaty, from the institution of
slavery, and to require the Southern people to
pay the largest portion of ten millions of dol
lars for the precious boon of establishing another
Free Soil State. = -.
And this end has been effected by the action
OF the rcueral Executive, III IlrSb puttiilS up
most unrighteous claim to part of the territory
of Texas, and afterwards by bullying her and
the Southern people into acquiescence, under the
threat of war and the apprehension of disunion.
We say an anu.ighteous claim.
Because Texas came into the Union at the
urgen solicitation of the United States, with her
boundaries Gncuding this very territory0 de-
clared, extending from the mouth to the source
of the Rio Grande, and thence northwardly to
the ancient boundary line between the United
States and Spain
Because she came in at the very time when
were before herfrom Mexico, agree
ing to acknowledge her independence and to
settle her boundaries Gas then elaimed) by ar
bitration.
Because she came in under an express ac-
acknowledgement of her right to this territory by
the United States, in the very terms of her adj
mission, which provided that all that portion Of
her territory lying north of 80. 80 should be
free soil, when any map will show that she has
no boundary north of So 80, unless it be that
claimed by the Federal Executive to belong to
the United States.
Again, before the treaty Of Guadalupe Hdal-
60, and consequently before the Government of
the TInted Stntps had ocuuirpd any territory