The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-23
From the AUGUSTA (Ga.) Constituencies.

Is THE SLAVERY QUESTION SETTLED ?-While
the submission orators and presses are extolling
the late measures Of pacifcation, as they call the
Compromise bills, the anti-savery excitement at
the North is reaching height and intensity which
will soon surpass the widest Juror of Southern in
dignation.
The opponents of that adjustment $50 called) at
the South, are indignant at its practical exclusion
of slavery from all the acquired territories. In
exchange for all it takes from the South, it e ives
what the South was entitled tn already, q nomi-
naly more efficient law than that of 1913, for the
recovery Of fugitive slaves. This is all the South
gets, while she loses oil her share Of the terrific
ries.
But how long will the South be permitted to en-
Joy even this paltry beneft-this nominal benefit
Already it is clear, that even if the law is not
pealed, it will soon become nulHty. But will
the Northern people allow even the name--the
shadow of this piece of Difference to this consttu-
tional right Of the South to recover her fugitive
slaves, to remain on the statute book.
Here is plain statement by the NetD York
Herald, OF the state of the case in New York.
Let our readers pause on it calm y, and then ask
themselves, are these Southern men doing their
duty, and telling the truth, who are crying out,
" the question is settled, the South has gained
a NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. is put down, and the
rights Of the South are more secure now than
they have been for thirty years"
The condition of New York is only what is
now, or soon will be the condition of the other
non-savehodng States. The fires Of fanaticsm
are spreading, and will soon sweep from the high
places Of political power, every vestige of con-
servatism at the North. 1t is a prospect to appal
the best and most hopeful lovers of the Union.
The most determined diSunionst per Sc could
scarcely desire more certain prospect of the
destruction of the Union than the political hori-
zon now affords.
Let the Southern Rights party Of Georgia be
put down, and the Subulissionists triumph in
Georgia, and wild shout Of triumph and fendish
rejoicing will go up from the Abolition hosts OF
the North They will decide the fears Of North
ern conservatism. They will point exultingly to
the fact that Georgia can yet bear little moral
croachment-that the spirit of resistance among
her people cannot make head against the spirit OF
submission-that the North has an all-conquering
ally at the South in the cry of Union, Union,
which is potent to put down all Southern opposi-
ton.
But the designs Of anti-savery will not stop at
the repeal Of the fugitive slave bill. That will be
one more step gained. The Submissionists will
again cry out peace, peace, all 8 well, and will
again counsel submission for the sake Of the glo-
rious Union. But there must be point reached
sooner or later beyond which there can be no
more submission on the part Of the South, and no
yielding on the part Of the NORTH andTthen comes
the rupture. Then comes a dissolution of the
Union. The triumph Of the submission party in
Georgia is but one step more EDWARDS to that
point.
But if the people of Georgia would elect to her
convention men whom the Northern people will
respect and fear-men who will make them feel
that the rights Of Georgia are not to be trampled
on with impunity--men who will make the power
Of Georgia felt-by acts, not words-by legisa-