The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-25
Opinions of Hon. g. R. Mallory.

THE NEWLY ELECTED SENATOR FROM FLORIDA.
We find in an exchange the following full ex-
position of the views of this gentleman, in
letter written by himself.
1t will be recolected that Mr. YULEE claims
the seat, on the ground of his prior election,
The sentiments of Mr.. MALLORY are too plainly
expressed to be misunderstood.
KEY 'WEsr, June 8, $780,
My DEAR SIR Your kind letter Of the 4th
ult. informed me Of the action of the conven-
ton at Ocaa, and my appointment, as your al.
ternate, TO the Nashville Convention. | duly
appreciate, and am gratifed for, this evidence of
the confidence of my fellow citizens of East
and South Florida, in my attachment to the
South---an attachment to which all Others, the
most holy and cherished, are subservent
The selection of yourself and General Her.
nandez is universally approved here and is to
me, personally, highly gratifying, confident as
am, that if your united counses could guide or
govern coming events, neither the honor nof the
interests of the South could ever be compro-
missed. But must frankly tell you that do
not look, hopefully, to the efficacy of the Con-
vention. II, however, it's action shall harmonze,
to any considerable extent. the discordan. opn-
ions at the South; If it ahall induce union Of
sentiment upon one or more prominent meas
ures-the admission Of California, with her pres
ent boundaries, our rights In the territories or
the recovery of fugitive slaves il it shall induce
the Southern States, as a body, to define the
bounds of their political forbearance upon these
questions, it will have accomplished a work Of
vital importance. Upon all these questions, as
upon Others equally important TO us, the North
is determined and united. Her local elections,
her public prints, her Legislative instructions,
do not permit doubt of it. prominent po-
itician here and there stands forth in bold relief
to the universal feeling Of his people but his
feeble light, like the towers upon our own fear
full coast, serves bat to disclose the extent and
character of tho peril and gloom which threat
en- us.
One by one these generous advocates will dis
appear, and, in less than ten years, there will not
be found, north of Virginia. leading politician
bold enough to break a lance in the Southern
cause. Free-soism is now fixed fact with
her people and their numerical majority, and
thorough union of sentiment, teach them to dis
regard or centemn our warnings, feeh|y uttered
thorough divided counsels. In union is our
safety. In union let us prescribe the limits of
our forbearance, and in union let us preserve
them. If the South can be brought to act
firmly and unitcdly for but six months, our
Northern friends, who count upon our dissen-
sions, will concede the justice for which we con-
tend. And to this united action ! look as the
sheet anchor Of our safety. To attain it, we
have every incentive which protecting Proyi-
dence ever placed in the hearts of a free people.
BY the soil we tread, by the air we breathe, by
a thousand ties with which they bind the heart
by the glorious past, the critical present, and
by our ability to carve out brilliant future, we
are called upon to unite for the preservation of
our honor and our political rights. To effect
the united action Of the South, doubt not the
notion of the convention will be directed. Its
members have not assembled to Discuss our
rights, nor to ascertain to what extent they have
been invaded
Upon these points. public opinion at The South
is settled Men begin seriously 10 regard the mo-
nent for action az near al hand, and 10 look the
probable consequences Of resistance 10 the political
oggressions, Of phich complain, steadily in the
Joce They are communicating earnestly with
each other in al quarters and betraying that 60
Iioitude for our political welfare which svinces
preparation for . political convulsion. The
means whish We may adopt, or which the con.
vent'on may possibly suggest, to preserve our
consetutloaA rights, are secondary IN import
ance TO Tie question of our united action,-
With thitu, VS. On make many different means
available; without H. none can prove eifectual