The southern press., 1850-09-30
From the Justin State G0setts, IAN ub.
Texas ana the South.

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ton a, the time Of going to press, leaves the pae
sage of Pearces bill involved 10 great doubt. The
influences at work are, however, Of such char
acter as To secure IFS rassagc, II any thing call.-
| lhe money clause operates as powerful iDcen
tive 10 the most vigorous eXPrtons on the part OF
| large number of men nj present hanging around
Congress, and we may rest assured that such q
prize as is presented by the bill will not be allowed
to slip easily through their fingers. They to be
the recipients of the golden benefits which il prom
ises, without the hazard Of Inconvenience or injus
ry, either Immediate or prospective, which TIE
other provisions of the measure will entail upon
the people Of Texas. They are TO gan all and
can lose nothing. We cannot, therefore, wonder
that they should be moving heaven and earth TO
accomplish an object so favorable to their own in
terests, however detrimental it might be to ours.
Ii they do not succeed, It will prove that public
virtue has, in one instance at least, wIthstood the
temptation set before it by the votaries of mans
mon
We confess we have but little faith in the tri-
umph OF Just and fraiernal sentiments in the pre-
sent Congress The conduct OF the Senate IN
prescribing TO Texas the line Of boundary, as laid
down in Pearces bill, inconyenient, irregular and
injurious as il is to tile best interests Of the State
We look upon as indubitabe evidence that the
whole transaction was concocted and carried
through by its authors without the slightest re-
gard for our wishes or welfare. On the contrary,
it is apparent the most superficial observer, that
the interests Of New Mexico alone were consult
ed, with the positive design to infiict fatal blow
upon our growth, safety and prosperity
The course of the Senate upon the California
question furnishes conclusive proof, that the ma
Jnrity Of that body ready and willing to eX-
clude :he slaveholding portion of the country from
all participation in the common property of the
Union, and to subject the Southern people 10 Il
yoke as CALLING and intolerable ever inn
posed by the most hearlless and despotic Of con-
n IN n N q nur n u
Congressional abolition majority to deny the
Southern States, equal privileges IN the confeder-
acy, and to enforce their resolves by the sword is
too paIpable to be mistaken. II California is nd
mitted with her present boundaries and Texas is
dismembered to build up free soil State. without
a united and unfnching resistance on the part Of
the South the work of our degradation and uti-
mate destruction is already more than half com
pleted Can it then be that we will not awake to
our danger though the enemy are at our gates and
the incendiary torch CLEANS before our eyes p
The hour has fully come whenwe must arise from
the deep slumber INTO which we have fallen, and
gird ourarmorto do battle for seff-preservation.
The time is at hand when the Southern States,
as such, should openly declares III Legislative form,
their solemn resolution to submit to the out
rageous nfractions of the federal constitution and
the highhanded and tyranncal pretensions Of Con-
gressOnai maJorltIes, as lately manifested upon
the California and Texas questions. To submit
to them would be to seal our doom as surely and
as completely if we had been defeated in battle
by an uncOmpromisng foe. We would be in fact
if not in A%ne, subject people. The consumma-
ton of so much injustice the admission of Cali
fornia and the ACKNOWLEDGMENT of Texas, should
be the signal for the retirement from Congress of
every representative of Southern State. The
Legislatures should be convened and Council of
Public Safety established at some central point,
with power stitabe to the objects Of their creation.
Other measures dictated by circumstances and
wise discretion, would necessarily follow.
By the adoption of some such practical iniiia-
tive as we have suggested concert of action would
be established between those who have common
interests to protect and common danger to avert.
The time for empty declamaiion-for words alone
lin favor Of Southern rights, has gone by The
crisis requires, III our judgment, n resort to other
and more effective means of securing ourselves
against tyranny and oppression. We yield to no
one IN our attachment to our system of republican
governments but when the ends for which the
Unon was established have been forgotten, the
Constitution subverted, and the rights OF mnori-
ties trampled under foot, hold that il is our
duty to seek deliverance from it in whatever mode
will best perpetuale our Liberties md secure our
safety and prosperity. When the Union becomes
an engine of destruction and converts portion of
the States who entered 1t as equals INTO subject
provinces, it is impossible to entertain for it any
sentiment of respect or affection.
1t may be that our own State will be called ere
ture safety and prosperity OF the South. If
Pearce' s bill should pass the House Of Represen-
iatives it would come before our people for their
ratification rejection, We look upon the boun-
dary prescribed by it, as startling invasion OF
the limits Of savehodng territory for the benefit
of abolition ism, to the serious and lasting detri-
ment Of Southern interests. For Texas to ACCEPT
it, would, in our humble Judgment, be tie sorest
calamity that could possibly befal mot only hers elf
but ali the Southern States. To say that we be-
lieve she would assent, under any circumstance
however pressing, to such deed, would be to
inipute to her total disregard of her own inter-
ests and those Of her only friends. We live in
hope that she will not dsappoint the Just and rea-
sonable expectations Of the Southern people, and
that she will be true and faithful in the duty she
may have to perform
The anxious gaze her Southern sisters is upon
her, and we trust she may come out of the trial to
which she may be subjected, without spot or bIen-
ish The golden covering which conceals the hid
eous features of the project which may be pre-
sented for ner acceptance, may lure away the
weak or the avercious from the path of honor and
duty but we have too much confidence in the in
tegrity, good faith, and intelligence of the great
body of her citizens, to apprehend that they can
be drawn into the fatal chasm in which Pearce' S
bill would inevitably engulf them. One good re-
suit may yet come out of annexation. Having
tested the value of the promises of the generous
and magnanmous" government at Washington,
at cost of more than million of dollars and sew
eral hundred lives, and having found them utterly
false, the people may not be quite ready to fall
into like snare again, only to be humiliated con-
temned, despoied, and crushed into the earth by
an arrogant despotism, vltalized and controlled
by the willing instruments of he!l-born and God
forsaken fanaticsm. Gold may buy the votes of
members of Congress, but we rely upon the un-
corrupted and incorruptible people of the lone star
State for a glorious triumph over Abolition arti-
flee and the intrigues of spectators. MIR. Fill
more may brandish the sword and point the bay
onets of the regular army at the breasts of our
citizens, but we cannot believe that he will be able
to coerce them into the acceptance of the propo-
sitions of his man in the Senate--the senator from
Maryland. We trust there will be found none
among from the Sabine to the Rio Grande, so
poor as to do them reverence. Duty to ourselves
and duty to the South imposes upon our citizens
in this matter n cautious and patriotic decision,
conformabe the honor of the State and the great
interests to be preserved forever surrendered
Let us make no mistake.
From the Hantsritfe 7sras) Hem.