The southern press., 1851-08-09
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doubt, and that such was the original desire OF
that part of the population located below the
line of $500, there has been abundant evidence,
both from public and private sources but
whether that design can be speedily carried out
is matter of doubt.
Those who have wriggled themselves into
controlling position under the existing organi-
cation, which they perfected to subserye their
own selfish ends-those who have the lions
share of the spoils, will not relinquish their
grasp upon them without desperate struggle.
Backed and sustained, too, by the influence of
the federal government, and the predominating
faction at the North, those who manufactured
California to order into freesoi State, (with
an area extensive enough to constitute dozen
foreign principalities) have the odds N their
favor in the struggle which is even now taking
place.
The wants and wishes Of the people Of Cali
fornia are matters Of but slight consequence to
many of them, who look to Washington, rather
than their nominal place of residence, both for
instructions and rewards Hence it will be seen
that the same stereoiyped slang which Is used
by the consolidationists in the Northern States,
and caught up by their Southern schoes to an
swer the just claims, and silence the stern warn
ings of Southern resistance men, are used with
equal fppancy, and quite as current in the
" Commonwealth of California"
We are pleased to learn, from the admissions
of hostile print in that Commonwealth" that
this scheme" of introducing slavery into the
southern part of California, has recently been
espoused By many Of The most enlightened and
that "h has assumed a more serious aspect"
These admissions are most encouraging; but a
question like this is above party, and we hope
may be kept so in California, as at present in
the Southern States, where the animatng spec
tacle is now presented of old political foes
battling shoulder to shoulder in defence OF
Southern rights, and in resistance to Northern
aggression.
But we are delaying our readers from the ar
ticle of our Alabama cotemporary. Here it is:
1t appears from the following article from
San Francisco paper, that there is movement
in California to restore to the South portion
of the rights which Congress has taken away
from it. 1t will be seen also from this extract
that the slang which here in Mobile makes every
man who is in favor of slavery disunionist, has
made its way down to the shores of the Pacific.
SLAVERY IN CALIFoRsIA.-We have some
time past been aware of the existence Of an or
Q g.nization, got up by leaders of the Democratic
party in this city and elsewhere, the object of
which is to divide the State with the view to the
introduction Of slavery in the Southern portion
of the present commonwealth. Until within
the last ten or fifteen days we looked upon the
movement as the offspring of a diseased imagi-
nation on the part Of few restless, ambitious,
ultra, Southern disunonists, that would result
in nothing but ridiculous farce, and draw upon
its projectors the contempt of the public. When
the scheme was first concocted, the character OF
the men who headed il warranted the belief that
il could never disturb the peace or endanger the
welfare fthe State. But since II has been es-
poused by many of the most enlightened and
responsible men in the Democratic party-men
who are the acknowledged exponents Of the
principles and policy of that party-it has as
sumend a more serious aspect, and invites the
who has an interest in the honor and prosperity
of the State. y
The plan was conceived in the first place by a
few restless spirits who cannot exist except in
strife, convusion, and revolution-men 10 whom
excitement and notoriety is the breath of life.
They have since been Joined by the emissaries
of dsunionists In South Carolina, Alabama, and
Texas, who have been sent here TO create dis
cord division, and foothod for slavery
San Francisco Picdyune, June 10.
We hope that this movement will be success
ful-not because Of the simple right of ind-
vidual shareholders 10 portion Of that country
but for much more important reason (;
namely, the necessity the South has for more
room In an article last Sunday morning, We
showed that the negro population, receding be-
fore the tide Of aboilionism, is coming down
on the cotton growing States. Within the lapse
Of twenty years, or before one-half our readers
are laid beneath the sod The negro population,
by its natural increase and its additions from
the States bordering on the North, will put the
free men Of this section In condition of ex-
treme peril With nothing but enemies without,
and serve population within, twice as strong
in numbers as that Of the whites for those enc
mics TO work upon, panic will fall upon many
of our people. Those who have the means will
abandon us, and those who, by condition, are
obliged to submit 10 the destiny Of things around
them, will exist only in terror. II is to avoid
this calamity that we demand outlets for the
South II is in tie presence Of this calamity
that we have appealed to the North Tor justice.
Il is in seeking defence from this calamity
that we have called upon the public here TO
support no man for Office who is so blind as TO
see no injustice in Northern aggression, or, In
his heat for office has the hardihood to deride it
and It's terrible consequences.
The public should lay tbose things TO heart a
moment Our enemies at the North are deeply
interested in the progress Of their cause; and,
having heard that the South is divided against
itself are eagerly casting their eyes in this drec-
ton for the proofs Any one who observes, as
we do, the encouragement they give to Cobb and
Toombs and Shields, and even Langdon, will
have no difficulty in seeing that the triumph Of
these men will be hailed as a triumph among
themselyes-that their election will be consid
cred the evidence that the South is divided
against itself
We say, then, that there Is something more