The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-20
The Beginning OF Con sroversy

The N. Y. Ereaing Posi-, referring to the Co.
alition Convention at Syracuse, uses the follow
ing language
sin the meantime we have plenty of evidence
in the proceedings of Congress, that the con-
gratulations contained in the resolutions reported
by Mr.. O'Conors Committee in the Syracuse
Convention, last week, on the final settlement OF
the slavery question, were premature. In the
Senate, Mr. Pratt has introduced a bill providing
penalties for enticing slaves from their masters
The subject is pregnant with matter of contro-
versy as our readers will readily imagine, and
though Mr. Pratt cannot expect to get much agi-
tatioa out of it at the present session, he will
of course, be early in the field with it at the
next in the House of Representatives. Mr..
Stevens has brought forward a proposition to
amend the law providing governments for New
Mexico and Utah, in such manner that they
shall not recognize the legality of slavery, and
another for the repeal of the obnoxious proyis-
ions of the fugitive slave bill, whicl-cutting
off the right Of the citizen who is accused of
being slave, to that form of fair trial which is
secured to the felon in all cases of criminality,
the most open and fiagrant-has just received
the approval of Mr. Fillmore. Mr.. Stevens will
be able to do little for either of these projects
during the present session, but the next session
is close at hand, and with it, we perce e, the
discussion will begin.
All that Congress has done in relation to this
subject during the present session, with the sole
exception of the admission of California, has
been only to vary the form of the quarrel lit
tle it has done nothing to quiet or to decide it.
The new matter introduced by the new laws,
has rather had the effect of giving certain fresh
ness, new interest," to controversy which was
getting to be a little tedious"
From this quarter--the North---all agitation
on this subject has always come; and that those
who sternly stand on the defensive, and are
leagued only in resistance to wrong, should be
stigrnatized by pretended friends as fostering
and exciting an agitation so fatal to their inter-
csts and happiness, is only adding insult to in
jury. AS well might the highwayman, and the
traveller who resists him, be thus coupled to-
gether as equal disturbers of the public peace.
NY Our Savannah contemporary will doubt
less be rejoiced to find that its course is APP
! plauded to the echo, in BostOn!--the liberality
ject, is testified by the course of the two Mas
sachusetts senator's, who voted on Tuesday for
the abolition of slavery in this District That
its position is truly "nationa"-that is, opposed
/ to sectional interests-the following pat on the
! head from the 30 ton Courier establishes be-
yond doubt The Northern gentry know their
real allies, though they do not often commit
themselves so far as openly TO commend their
[course Every day proves where the natural
! allies of Abolition are to be found-most of
whom are prompted in their course by timidity
few, indeed, we hope and believe, by treach-
| cry
GEORGIA PRo-sLAvRRY CONVENTION. 1t is
officially announced that the Governor of Geor-
. gia will issue a proclamation for State Cow
vention in few DAYS The Milledgeville Fed
eral Union states that the convention will doubt
+ less decide upon the immediate secession OF
| Georgia from the Union! The clustering lam
guage of the Union is well ridiculed by The Sd
rannah Republican.
tE- The nameless editor of the Louisville
Journal, writhes at our cast;gation like a rattle
snake with shovel of Goals on his back
He threatens what he'll do, and winds up with
! the line a
"whistle, and IN come to thee my lad
If he means any thing by that let him under
stand us to whistle. 1t is the way we usually
call animals like him, and having never yet wit
messed case of hydrophobia, we should like to
take look at one.