The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-09-19
Y AGO DEMOCRAT.
The Prosnaot,

basis Of representation, and to abolish slave
~; and that, too, without assuming any new
principle, or any which has not received the
sanction ofone branch Of Congress. We
stated that we could prove this position by
plain mathematical reasoning, and a fair de.
GucIiou from the principles assumed by our
enemies,
We are aware that many will be startled
at this statement and that the public nina
is not fully awake to the al danger which
threatens Us.
When propositions for "compromse" and
adjustment" were made in the United
States, Senate and advocated by Southern
men, the confding spirit of the Southern peo-
pc induced many to believe that those prop
ositious contained something tangible and
substantial and that way would be opened
by which the slaveholdug States would be
enabled to participate la some degree, at
least, in the advantages to he derived from
the vast territories conquered from Mexico.
These decisions are dispellcd, and the
stern truth is forced upon all, tina, the whole
Of the territories OF tho United States are de-
voted to igeesolsm
We have laid before our readers the opin-
lU0S OI MI Oldll WI W tbSiCll WI BdARNl
Mr. Atchson, and others on this subject, bu
as we wish this matter to be well understood
we will give The evidence Of MIR. Chase,
which is conyulsivc. The gentleman said in
the United States Senate:
at has been said her, on every side OF
the chamber, that every foot OF the soil which
the United States acquired from Mexico will
be free soil. Senators from the South have
urged it, aud Senators from the North have
not denied it,"
This matter is hardly debatabIe. If Cali
iornia is admitted, all the inducement for q
stakeholder to move TO any of The territories
is taken away. Can any man point to a
single individual who contemplates moving
with his negroes to New Mexico or Utah?
1t may be said that the Wimot proviso is
attached to the territorial bill in the Senate
That is so. But it is expressly understood
the that proyiso is omitted, because it is no
necessary; it is not abandoned.
There were but IS votes on that measure
Northern Senators a6sening themselves tc
avsjd passing it. And why' They fee
sure Of the territory without it, but they viii
pass il, if there is the least necessity of it,
The Mexican laws are arrayed against US
the people oithe terrific y have been indict'
cd 10 declare against slavery; the territorial
bill gives the wri, of'habeas corpus" to the
slaves, and the Judges are to be appointed
nv President adverse TO the South; and
finally, iii, were necessary, State govern
ment would be formed before sufiicieR
number Of shareholders could so into New
Mexico to have any influence in the forma
n WI ,,.Il
We assume, then, the position, that their
is not the least probability that another slave
holding State will ever be mued into thi
coniederscy.
Il will be ears before there will be pup
u,alion sufficient to divide Texas, and, q
this time, a majority of the Moth are oppus
cd to carrying out the compac. Of annexation
Necessary 10 our argument is correC
understanding of the present relative polilica
strength Of the slavehOlding aud non-s!ave
holding States.
There are sixteen non-slaveholding States
and fourteen slavehodng States. The for
mer have thirty two votes in the Unite
States Senate, and the latter twenty eioh
In the lower house Of Congress the Norher
majority is upwards Of forty, and it is SUI
-
reach between sixty and seventy.
But this should he borne in mind, that /!
strength Of the North is entire, willis; that
the South is divided. There are four siav
holding States which are tending to alb
litionism, and in which it is not consider,
respectable for their representatives to act
conjunction with the enemies Of SLAYER
But let the present measures pass, and Il
South submit thereto, and it will be evide
TO all that the fate OF slavery is seald It W
no longer be considered honorable TO be a
tached 10 a slaveho ding State, and abolition
ism will make rapid progress in the doubt
States. Maryland, Kentucky, North Car
lima and Missouri are already consider
Iukewarm IN our cause, and there are tho
who, from the course Of New Orleans, a
deceived as to the true position of Louisian
We look at these things practically. II
Political power is in the han6s of the North,
aNorthern man is in the Presidential chair, a
there is not the least probability that there CIV
will be another Southern Presdent-Southe
in location and principles. The power n
patronage Of government which collects a
disburses thirty five millions of dollars anr
ally, and controls governments, contracts. f
eign missions, and thousands oflucrative q
honorable oihces, VIII always be tremendo
and those powers, welded by Northern m
and Northern influences, can at any time c,
troll the votes of at least four Southern Sci
tors for any purpose. It will be well that
In our downward course, they cannot cont
more in few years; but we assume, what
mink the present and the past will justify, t
Tour Southern Senators at least actuated
ambitious or more unworthy motives, can
ways DC relied on by Northern statesmen,
tpem propose what they may adverse to ST.
AZ TINS time we could point to more ii
one Southern Senator who for orosnoot Of