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also fear that mistaken want Of conf

mississippi willglye IL candldly. The peo-
pie of this State are more generally united than
those of any State except South Carolina. ~ ~
For a time when propositions for compro-
mise were made in Congress and Senator Foote I
sanctioned them, there was disposition to wait,
under the belief that compromise must mean
mutual concession and advantages. But hardly
any could realize that under so popular name,
measures should be proposed which would cf-
fectualIy debar the people of the Southern States
from participating in any of the advantages Of
the territory conquered from Mexico without
leaving their slave property behind them. s.s..
~ As this fact ID made manifest That the whole
drift Of the compromise, or the bills passed sepa-
rately is to foreyer exclude the Shareholder, the
public minds busy in calculating the result OF
this, state of affairs They are satisfied that it
will be most deplorable ruinous. s.y.s.,.,..
All see that If California is admitted with the
exclusion of slavery in her constitution, she car
ries with her the balance of the territory No
one can point to stakeholder who is foolish
enough to move to Utah or New Mexico
Thousands upon thousands will move to Cali
fornia, if they could do so with their slaves
but to 90 to New Mexico, to have their negroes
appeal to the laws of Mexico, and sue out
"habeas corpus to be tried before judges to be
appointed by an Abolition Presidents would be
too great an act of folly for any sane man to
commit. And then he would know that even
if the courts should decide the Mexican laws not
to be in force, Congress stands ready to pass the
Wilmot Proviso the moment they deem 1t ne
cessary to exclude slavery.
Set it down, that if the South submit to these
INDUSTRIOUS aggressipns there will never be
another slavehodng State admitted into the
Union A child can make the calculation as to
what will be the fate of slavery.
You may rest assured Mississippi will be as
staunch in support of the principles she has
avowed, as any State in the Union.
| You sneak of the course Of New Orleans as
shown by the papers ] do not believe that the
State of Louisiana will support the Compromise
bill collectively or separately. The upper part
of that State is as sound as the State OF Mis-
,.:ssppi, and have understood that the citizens
- E.-. descent may be relied on; but 1t 10
~ H. : io"o' * with certainty, as New Or
iaans 10 ye. . " spe', "f the State, and has
great influence, and the overflow reside
sippi has fora time paralyzed the State. ..,',1
in Louisiana, and feel confident that she will be
in short time alongside Of her Southern sister
States .i
You refer to the course pursued by Speaker
Cobb. read his letter with great pain. To in
sist on the doctrines of 'non-intervention' at
this time is to insult our understanding. When
the door was open for the admission Of slavery
Into the territory, we could not get 'non-inter-
vention"-but now when the door and every
avenue is closed against u.s. to ask US to support
"non-ntervention" to keep the door shut is pre-
posterous.
Propositions are made with reference to time
and situation. When Mr.. Webster made his
great speech at Baltimore in which he stated
that all the North wanted was stability in our
tariff laws-the tariff was high-now when the
tariff is lower hS'does not want stability he wants
change. Who bames him His propositions
were made for purpose. We had purpose
when we proposed "non-intervention," and the
most Of those who now proclaim that it it is
the true Southern doctrine" would not 90
with us. No attempt was made at the Philade-
phia Convention in favor of "non-ntervention."
But{when intervention" has done its. work we
are asked to ratify it by "non-ntervention.
Intervention" began before the Territories
were acquired by the attempts to annex tho Will
mot Proviso to the three million bill and to the
treaty with Mexico.
The refusal of Congress to pass territorial
bills without the Wilmot Proviso, and to estab-
fish thereby courts for the protection of property
was intervention"
The passage of the Wilmot Proviso in the
Oregon bill was intervention"
The instructions of Northern Legislatures to
their Senators and Representatives to vote for
of any more slave States, was intervention"
The assumption of Northern adventurers
not attached to the soil, who had never laid
rail or built n house, of the rights to make
State Government in California and exclude :
slavery, was most unconstitutional intervention
The most garing act Of thirteen thousand
voters of all languages, colors, and countries, not
three thousand of whom would have been EMIT
led to vote under the most liberal franchise law
of any State in the Union, by which they under,
took to exclude slavery from ten degrees front
on the Pacific, and from sufficient to make
six States, was most insulting, unwarrantable,
and unconstitutional intervention"
The action of the Executive Department of
the General Government, in sending agents, and
turning the officers of our army into emissares,
to excite gold seeking rabble, to form State
Constitution, when it was known that the slave
holding States would have no voice therein, and
their rights destroyed thereby, was most gross
and unconstitutional Intervention"
Why, sir, we have had nothing but "interven-
Lion' for the last three years"
Why, sir, the lukewarmness, the support Of
and the treachcry ofSouthern states
men has been intervention and tended greatly
to exclude slavery from the territories.
And now when intervention" has done its
work, we are told that it is violation Of our
own doctrine Oh NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. loL Us w Scth
to remove any of the barriers which have been
thrown in our way. 4.Ls eye
And forsooth, our honor will be saved il the
North will magnanirnousy be content with ALI
the Territory conquered from Mexico and bribed
from Texas, and not pass the Wilmot Proviso.
Our honor was gone when the Wilmot Pro-
viso was annected to the Oregon bill, and do not
see how it can be redeemed by stultifying our
selves, now by applauding the miserable tricks
md jugglery which are for ever excluding us
rom our Territorial rights. "aad Ea.
AS for myself, sir, l am openly for secession
do not think that the North will attempt to use
orce to compel a political connection which
hey have not esteemed above the most narrow
minded prejudices- But if they do, we will whip
Them into their senses. Very truly, -.~7.'
I2' ,a.%usiR@l eis e FELL HUSTON.