Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-10-16

government, two winters IN succession,
without its being granted to her. In the
meantime, she had grown immensely in
populaiion-far exceeding the number
which entitled her to admission as State.
This population was, moreover, more intel
lgent than usual. and they felt that their
claims to full citizenship with the States
had been neglected SO thinking and SO
feeling. they took the unusual step Of form
ing themselves into State, and demanded
admission as one of the thirty sovereignties
of this Confederacy. Coming up along
with the general adjustment Of the difficult
ties between the North and the South, and
as one et'the Number ef Compromise meas
ures, she was admtted-thc South yielding
something in this, because she had obtain
ed her demands in many other things, and
in nothing else had lost. Was this dis
gracefull' Did the Southern men who
voted for it, infict disgrace upon them
selves and their constituents, in yielding
something to notwithstanding Of
slave territory. if you choose-for the sake
of peace and the Unioni No. Was it
"uncons'itutionalr What part Of that in
strument was violatedl We defy any
man to point ii out. But we shall not give
our own reasons in support of the consti-
tuiionality of the proceeding--pretcrring,
as we shall do in all this thing, TO rely upon
Democratic testimony. Mr.. King, a De-
mocratc Senator, from Alabama, in let
ter written a short time ago, in stating
some objections which he. and every South
ern man, had TO the admission Of Califor-
MIA. says:
But am free to declare that | have
not been able to see in the measure vio-
laton in the Constitution as contended
for by many; did | so consider it. | neither
could,or would have expressed the opinion
that the South could with honor, and under
the circumstances, should. acquiesce in
what had been done. The Constitution
simply gives to Congress the power to ad-
nit new States, and the only restriction
upon the exercise Of this power is, that
the State Constitution shall be republican.
No territorial training is required, no as
sent of Congress to the formation of the
Constitution. previously given, is to be
found. The whole matter rests with Con
gress to exercise a sound discretion"
Mr.. King, ike US, had objections TO the
California Bill an itselE but not upon the
ground Of disgrace or unconstitutional
ity." He says if he had SO regarded it, he
never would have recommended aeqaies-
cence in 1.-THE South could not, and
ought not to, acquiesce in any thing un-
constitutional-he could not, and would
not
What says John C. Calhoun. the great
idol of the Southern Democrats, on the
right of territory to admit or reject slave
ry in the adoption other Constitution!
In lis celebrated resolution of lS47, in
the Senate Of the U. s., he said:
THAT it devolved upon the people of a
territory when it was admitted into the
Union as a State, to determine for them
selves the terms on which it should come
IN, that the only condition that the United
States bad a right TO require, was, that ii
should have a republican form of govern
menr, and that it was for the people Of
the territory themselves to determine.
when they came into the Union, whether
slavery shoald be admitted or excluded"
We might introduce other, and distin-
guished Democratic testimony, but we
deem it amply sufficient, and proceed TO
the next charge:
The s.SOutltern Press
"2d. That he aided in establishing, and
now sustalns, paper published at the
Federal Metropolis, called the Southern
Press" which is not only opposed to the
Compromise, but bitterly hostile to the
Union itself and is, at this moment, exer-
cising all its talents and influence in per-
suading South Carolina into a hostile col
lison with the General Government, with
a view to the rupture of the Union, and the
formation ofa Southern Conicderacy-a
state Of things that would speedily kindle
the flames of a bloody and disastrous war
among ourselves, and render Us an easy
prey to the machinatons Of the crowned
despots OF Europe
This charge being undcnied, but few re-
marks are necessary. We do not charge
that this paper was established with the a.
vowed objcctof assailing the Union, but
such has certainly been its course since the
was established as the organ Of the "Souih-
ern Rights" party of the s5ouih-thc anti
Compromise party of the South, and in
opposition to the "Union," which was con
Quoted by Thomas Rltchie -the"Napoleon
of the Press who had led the Demo
cratic party, in State and Federal politics,
ever since its distinctive formation. He
had siriven for the preservation of the I'm
ion, and had dared to pronounce the cx-
treme measures of Mr. Powell and others,
as dangerous to the country, and the cdict
went forth that he must die. But some of
those who made this onslaught upon one
Of the fathers Of Virginia Democracy, have
themselves, falen. Hopkins L. Turney,
of Tennessee, one Of the leaders OF this en-
terprisc, and who did more than any 9th
er man to defeat the bill for the just relief
of Thomas Richie, in the U 5. Senate,
has been repudiated at home. There be
ing no possibility Of his reelection to the
u. s. Senate, he offered for a seat in the
State Senate, and was defeated by 400 or
500 majority. This is the man whose
Ants Compromise Address to the people
Of Tennessee, Mr.. Powell has circulated
among his constituents. Will they heark-
en- TO his teachings! viii they listen TO
one who aided in establishing Disunion
Press-who aided in depriving a grey
headed old man of his hard earnings, and
who has been repudatcd by his own peo-
plel We will never believe it.
Cheap Postage Law.
The next is as follows.
I'D. That he voted against the Cheap
Postage Lava measure demanded by
every consideration of justice, because,
whilst the wants Of the Government did
require it, it relieved the people ofan oner-
ous and unnecessary taxa tax not only
upon the pocket, but upon the spread of
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