The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-26

can we object to the iattudihous sense which the
Supreme Court have given TO the Synonymous
word 'needtulf How the friends of limited
constitution, OF State rights, object to Ma
tional Bank, to whole system Of roads and
canals
"We cannot compromise with the Constiu-
ton. Under that Constitution il now stands,
no such measure this ought t6 be adopted.
"Say, however, that the Constitution permits il,
what shall we say to its erpediency2
90 But the deed is done. The treaty is signed
sealed, and delivered. The compromise which
threw this city and this Commonw ealth into
flame, and suspended for week the electoral
caucus, is consummated We submit. 1t is the
duty of good citizens to hold by the sheet anchor
the law of the land, so long IT remains law.
We bow TO it, though no occasion with so
poor grace and so bitter spirit. The South
and the West are wronged; they must bear up pa
tienty.s This Union is too dear to us all to be
torn asunder We prize it too reverently to med
tate any blow at it. Some have, indeed, thought
fit to augur dissolution of the Union from the
late agitating discussion; but in truth, the present
question never seriously jeoparded it, whatever
might have been the panic which got up for
the occasion. We take leave of this question
with the btterest disappointment. But with all
disquietude and regrets, there is intermingled
one pleasurable emo,ion-that the hgh-minded
citizens Of Missouri have succeeded in their
wishes, and are about to enter the Union 'unshorn
OF their beams'--free sovereIgn--on an equal foot
ing pih the original States.'
*They owe it to themselves to keep their eye
firmly fixed on Texas. III we are cooped up on
the North, we must have elbow room to the
West.
Now in reference to the denial that "the great
body Of the North leading all their force, and
aiming with all their might at the consumation
of one object-the abolition of slavery"-a de-
NAL made by the Union of what was not asserted
in the Proclamation-we present certain evil
serious attention.
But three days ago, after all the pretended
Compromise bills had been passed, and after
the Union and IateAigencer and all the little
organs of the spoliation had proclaimed the end
of agitation, ofaggression, and the return of love
and affection, Mr. PRESTON KING made motion
in the House of Representatives to suspend the
rules to offer bill to abolish slavery in this
District. The yeas and nays were called, and
ftly taco Northern members in thin house an
swered in the affirmative. We are assured by
a most intelligent member of Congress who was
present, that he saw numbers Of Northern mem
bers leaving the Hall, the moment the yeas and
nays were demanded, to evadc the vote and the
record He also told us, that from the thnness
of the House many notorious Frce-soilers were
absent. He looked over the schedule of mem
bers and designated t,centy nine more Northern
members that had left the House, or were pre-
viously absent, whose votes are invariably given
in favor of that proposition. This make eighty
one Northern votes in the House, noe in favor
of abolishng slavery in this District And eighty
one members a decided majority of the
members in the present House And yet this
vote was given a few days after the passage of
measures, the avowed, the known, the inevitable
design and effect Of which are to exclude slavery
from all The new territory, and from large part
of Texas besides, down as low as 80 degrees
The districts represented by the members
thus voting, and ready to vote when present,
will, by the next census and apportionment,
send, perhaps, a majority of the members to the
next Congress. So that the result of the sys-
tenn, ironically called Compromise, is already
as palpable failure in Cancellation, as it is a
fraud in reference to the rights of the South
IF it had satisfied the North it ought not to have
been submitted to by the South--as it has not,
it is only another of the countless c..ses of the
folly of trying to appeasc aggression by con-
cession, or arresting pursuit by retreat. The
editor of the Union asks in what form the Gov
ernor of Georgia expects wrongs to be re-
dressed, and dangers to be avoided The Union
says, ''Does he insist upon California returning
to her territorial condition The Constitution
forbids it; for California is as much sovereign
State of this Union now, as Georgia herself
Will he propose to rescind the boundaries of
Texas? There, too, the flaming sword of the
Constitution guards her rights
To talk noap of the flaming sword of the
Constitution as guarding any rights, is ridicu-
lous fustian and twaddle. But if the flaming
sword of the Constitution guards the bounda-
ries of Texas now, or as Congress proposes to
make them did not the same sword guard them
before2 And if, Notwithstanding this flaming
sword, Congress can offer Southern State ten
mil ions to abandon her sovereignty and terri
tory, in vast region cannot the same agent be
applied to California? Is the title of Califor-
MIA, down to % deg. any better than that of
Texas up to 40! And if this Government may
buy out the soil and sovereignty of Southern
States to make Free-soi States, it can be taught
to buy out the usurped jurisdiction Of Free-so
States to restore the rights of Southern States
And that we trust and believe the South will
make sine qua non, The Union is advised
that majority of friends of the Union" by
which it means submissionists, will be sent to
the Georgia Convention. Yes, and we believe
the Union was also advised that the convention
would not be called at all; because the law, as
was alleged, contained a conjunction copulative
instead of a conjunction distinctive We sup
pose the advice is about rs important in one