The Sumter banner. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1846-1855, 1851-01-15


tories, and therefore saved the South from
Tho insult of the Proviso-is even more III.
dtcrons. Mr.. CLAY, the loving parent Of
The Compromise, certainly ought to know
Its features, and he told the North that the
Proviso extended over That territory already
by virtue of Mexican law. The peculiar
boast OF frccmcn is Tint tbey govern them.
selves, and that they submit to no laws but
those they themselves enact; but, by tho
benign provisions of the " Adjustment"
the people of the South (Crcemen zee used
IN caN hcm) are degraded under, and have
to submit TO. laws, insulting and injurious,
enacted by n people they themselves have
conquered. Mr.. Clay told them SO from
the beginning, and Mr.. WEBSTER coinci-
dcd, but some Of the people OF Georgia are
still so blinded MS to believe that the terri.
torres are open to slavery. The Tribune,
no partisan Of The Compromise and there
Tore, TO some extent, a disintercsted inter.
prefer OF It's provisions, makes the follow.
ing upon the appointment of a
Mr. CALHouN,a Georgian, as Governor Of
New Mexico.
Mr.. james 8. Calhoun is a rood Union
man a good Wing Of the Southern stripe,
and wo presume will fill the office crcdita-
bly but the Governor of that Territory
should not have hcen taken from Georgia.
lie ought TO have been chosen from a Free
State. The country will not believe the
location accidental it knows that the
Gcorgians hold that no legal impeachment
now exist 10 The Introduction of slavery in.
to New Mexico and il docs not know
that Mr.. Calhoun disscnts from this opin.
ion.
The Tribune evidently thinks that the
course ofthe Government should be open
aud candid. That Journal would not steal
covcrtly upon The institution of slavery, and
rs therefore impatient and irritated al the
prospect of a mistake prevailing with re.
gard to The free soil of New Mexico, pro-
dnccd by some scheme Of a polite prcsi-
dent In its opinion, the dignity of the
SUBJECT, the majesty Of Freedom. requires
That not doubt should be permitted to OK.
isl OF the imposihility of slavery ever pol-
iu''ng That SOD, consccratcd as il now is
10 Liberty especially when the existence
OF that doubt ian have no other influence
'hah OF recondling these victimized Union
lists with the Zap they have been lurcd in.
TO. With tly; blinded class however. tho
IriOnne iat very little to do. Il passes
over them with great Indifference, but ad-
dresses n 'ex caustic remarks to another
class, who BE not blinded. who are tho
leaders ct sfp Unionists, but are for the
INC on'on or account Of its perquisites.-
IL dcprccatet,'as follows, the greediness Of
these latter:
WhoeverSmay have been the .ceicbro.
leu roman fIonai2 who first remarked
that tfpsre isFueha FIXING as riding a free
horse 20 sdsth. tite fact: is SO, and our
Onloa5. sfsn at tiie South ought 10
heed { kSsaafs rsaesdfng NIessrs Fill
6a. 30" mercy and be-
yo''s. - ,,taaeHsAz$on ofa Georgian
for Civil Governor Of New Mexico is an ex.
ample. U,ionism is very wcll-we 90 in
Tor 1t under proper rcguiaimns-but Union
ism which is all give and no take is nc. The
regular thing. We think the President
should not have been asked to appoin, n
Southern Governor of New Mexico, and
should not have consented if he were.
y kecn eye is upon the movement
UnIdhism has been arrested in its rapid
course of ascension and brought back to a
stand below par, where its own intrinsic
wor'hlcssncss will keep it, for the present
at least, much to the discomposure, it may
be imagined, of the political jobbers who
counted it such valuable stock and calcu-
lated to speculate so proftably upon it
And so it Is. The ca,'s.paw generally
gets BURT without getting any Of tho chest
utS.