The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-18

We advertsd yesterday to the progress 81
colonization in California Of the Chinese AL
ready we have acquired large number Of Co
lestials us citizens we presume. and already ar,
the pagan rites of sculpture and worship pub
Iicly celebrated ia California. by these new
American citizens. This is the result Of ex
GLIDING the Southern people from California
for they could have supplied with slaves that
demand for labor in California " ich the Chi
nese are now coming over to supply
The territory of Utah is rendered inaccessible
TO the South from the Pacific side, because
California and Oregon occupy all the seaboard
and prevent the transit of slaves by that route
So New Mexico has already pronounced aga nsl
slavery, and having been rendered populous
enough by the Texas ACKNOWLEDGMENT bill to en-
ter the Union as a State at an early day, is thus
made barrier to the ingress of slavery into
Ctah by the overland route Utah is thus
set apart to the Mormons, and they have adopted
polygamy as one of their institutions.
In New Mexico itself, among the Mexican
population, and Pueblo Indians, although but
one wife is authorized by law, the state of man
ners is well known to be so loose that, practi
cally, the marriage relation is but tile re-
garded.
By the frauds and devices therefore, of the
last compromise, we have provided for the for
nation of three States ont Of the territory ac-
quired from Mexico, and in all of them pagan
ism, polygamy, and promiscuous intercourse OF
the sexes, already exist, and threatens to be-
come permanent This 10 the work OF the
puritan North. This is the boosted progress
of the Union under the new system Of
piety, philanthropy, and politics which has
already become ascendant, and which has die
tated our territorial policy. From all this terri
tory, which is thus made free to Pagan and pc.
Iygamous institutions, the Christian slavehoding
people of the South are excluded-excluded for
adherng to an institution founded in America
by The venerable Catholic bishop and philanthro-
pst, LAS CAsAs--an Institution which was
adopted in New England when the Presbyterian
church governed the State, and which subjected
Indians well as negroes to slavery-an inst
tuition that WILLIAM PENN and the early Quakers
adopted.
IL is remark ,Lle that the section Of the Union
which has thus closed the gates of our Western
empire to the South, and opened them to 4 static
is itself largely Europeanized. Ii
increases now more rapidly every year by Eu-
ropean emigration than by its own offspring:
and has become already foreign in the extraction
Of about one.third of its population. IL has
become foreign also in its opinions and in its
hostility to African slavery--in its tendency to
,ocalism-in its hostility to property-and the
ide of European population and opinion grows
stronger and stronger
We are boasting of our power, of our nun
oers, of our area, but above all OF our peculiarly
excellent political and social systems-yet We
are undergoing, without war, the process OF
conquest and subjuga!ion, from the Eruption o.
mightier masses from Earope and Asia than ever
advanced on the Roman Empire within the same
period of time.