The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-09-20
Northern Policy.

We qdverted yesterday to the progress OF
colonization in California of the Chinese. AL
ready we have acquired large number of Ce-
lestias as citizens we presume, and already are
the pagan rites of sculpture and worship pub
licly celebrated in California, by these new
American citizens This is the result If ex-
Guiding the Southern people from California,
for they could have supplied with slaves that
demand for labor in California which 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 INST
slavery, and having been rendered populous
enough by the Texas ACKNOWLEDGMENT bill to en-
ter the Union as State at an early day, is thus
made barrier to the ingress of slavery into
Utah by the overland route. Utah is thus
set apart to the Mormons, and they have adopted
poygamy 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 little re-
garded.
BY the frauds and devices, therefore, of the
last compromise, We have provided for the for.
nation of three States out of the territory &C.
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 is 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.
lygamous institutions, the Christian slaveholding
people of the South are excluded fol
adhering to an institution founded in America
by the venerable Catholic bishop and philanthro
pist, LAS CAsAs-an institution which was
adopted in New England when the Presbyterian
church governed the State, and which subjected
Indians as well as negroes to slavery-an insti.
tuition that WILLIAM PENN and the early Quakers
adopted.
1t is remark iLle that the section Of Che Union
which has thus closed the gates Of our Western
empire to the South, and pened them to Z static
institutions, 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. 1t has
become foreign also in it's opinions and in its
hostility to African slavery-in its tendency to
socalism-in its hostility to property-and the
tide of European population and opinion grows
stronger and stronger
We are Boosting of our power, of our num-
bers 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 subjugation, from the Eruption Of
mightier masses from Europe and Asia than ever
advanced on the Roman Empire within the same
period of time