The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-23


Letter from Gov. Treup q g.. Jaskeeps
SONS slection Il .,,ssls q di65rsrt points 20 ~
district hecaese 81 HE vo<f upon the bill mrkr
ing lscnssals 10 Texas Tor ale 70 the Upil>d
Stats or psst Of her territory Ia this vo(e,
We Ne pleosed 90 know, Cuk jackson stands
fully Sustained BY his friend Gov. Troup. The
colonfI addressed a letter from Washington
city 10 Gov. Troup in September, 1850. asking
for his opinion--saying that il varying from his
own he would doubt, but if his own action
were confirmed by Gov. 1'roup's appreciation, he
should feel that he was still in the path of duty
to the South He received the following letter
from the aged and yenerated statesman in Octo-
Der; and has recently been permitted to give II
to the public.
GOV. TRoUP TO COL. JACKSON.
Laurens Co, LIST Oct, 1850.
My DEAR CoL:-If had been in Congress
and could have voted for compromise at all,
would have voted as you did. IL it had really
been compromise, that is to say, mutual con-
cessions and equivalents in good faith, 1 would
have voted for the Texas branch of the system.
IL California had been RENTED or divided at
$3.50, would have voted for it, (the Texan
members voting for it, and prospect Of Texan
ratification.) But never could have voted for
II under the circumstances which must have in
duced you to vote against it.
lst The original fraud and falsehood of the
executive movement, finally consummated by
the legislature. by which we were robbed OF the
whole of California.
I'd. The spirit in which the territorial bills
were framed which equally excluded US from
those territories-it having been declared frank
ly by the most friendly of Northern men, that il
we had not already been excluded by Mexican
laws, as well as by the laws of nature, Wilmot
Proviso or any other inhibition would have
been applied. Theirlanguage was, they never
would yield another square foot of territory to
the slave interest"
Sd. Every concession made by the South to
the Nor.h, and no concession by the North to
the South They have got all the territory -
The .forbearance of the Wifmot is no more a con-
cession than the forbearance to steal your horse
at mid day would be concession. The Fugitive
bill is only the sacred duty of an honest man
to fulfil his ecorded obligation, and for the non.
fulfilment o.. which in past time he ought now
to be rotting in prison.
4th When the concession was thus all on
one side, l never could have thought OF making
the condition of the injured party yet worse, by
taking from that party more territory, for the
purpose Of making the one weaker and the
other stronger-more especially could not have
done 50, when the great robber had foolishy
and wckedIy provoked war ard called upon
me, Southern man, to give him money to buy
territory to buy peace, that territory sooner OF
later to be used to rob and plumber more, now
and in all future time, not only of territory but
Of everything which we hold, and which they
covet.
Texas has right, if she pleaseg, even to the
detriment of the co-States having identical in.
terests, to sell her territory, and with the GER
tainty of that territory being used for our an
noyance; but you and of Georgia are under
no obligations to aid and abet Texas in what
however it may rebound to our interest, is full
of harm and injury to us. Affectionately, your
friend, G. Nj. TROUP.
N. B.-Pardon me for giving reasons, when
you have been surfeited with them at Wash
ton, but they are only in illustration of my
meaning.