The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-09


faction at the North. those who manufacture
California 10 order into frcosoiI State, (wit
an area extensive enough to constitute doze
foreign rrincipalities,) have the odds In the
favor in the struggle which is even now takin
place.
The wants and wishes of the people of Cal
fornla are matters of but slight consequence
many Of them, who look to Washington, rathe
than their nominal place of residence, both TO
instructions and rewards. Hence it will be see
that the same stereoiyped slang which is use'
by the consolidalionists in the Northern States
and caught up by their Southern echoes to an
swer the just claims, and silence the stern warn
ngs of Southern resistance men, are used will
equal hippancy, and quite as current in th'
f" Commonwealth of California"
We are pleased to learn, from the admissions
of hostile print in that Commonwealth" tha
this scheme" of introducing slavery into the
southern part of California, has recently been
espoused By many Of he most enlightened ana
responsible men in Me Democratic party"--and
that al has assumed more serious aspect
These admissions are most encouraging; but q
question like this is above party, and we hope
may be kept so in California, as at present in
the Southern States where the anmating 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 contemporary. Here it is :
/. 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
g IMITATION, got up b. 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 a few restless, ambitious,
ultra, Southern disunionists, 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 it warranted the belief that
it could never disturb the peace or endanger the
welfare of the State. But since it has been es-
poused by many of the lost enlightened and
men in the Democratic party-men
who are the acknowledged opponents of the
principles and policy of that party--it has as
more serious aspect, and invites the
scrutiny and earnest attention of every man
who has an interest in the honor and prosperity
of the State Il *
The plan was conceived in the first place by
few restless spirits who cannot exist except in
strife, CONFUSION, and revolution-men to whom
excitement and notoriety is the breath of life.
They have since been joined by the emissaries
Of disunonists in South Carolina Alabama, and
Texas, who have been sent here to create dis
cord, division, and a foothold for Slavery
San Francisco Picayine, June 10.
We hope that this movement will be success
ful--not because of the simple right of ind-
vidual shareholders to 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 t-e tide of abolitonsm, 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 it's natural increase and its additions from
the States bordering on the North will put the
free men of this section in Il condition of ex-
IRENE peril. With nothing but enemies without,
and servile population within, twice as strong
in numbers as that of the whites for those ene-
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 to the destiny of things around
them, will exist only in terror. 1t is to avoid
this calamity that we demand outlets for the
South. 1t is in tie presence of this calamity
that we have appealed to the North for Justice
1t is in seeking a 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 il
and its terrible consequences.
The public should lay these things TO heart
Our enemies at the North are deeply |
interested in the progress Of their cause I; and, |
having heard that the South is divided against |
ITSELF eagerly casting their eyes in this direc-
ton for the proofs. Any one who observes, ms
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
themseves-that their election will be consid
cred the evidence that the South is divided
against itself
We say, then, that there is something more
important now in the Southern elections than
our abstract right to portion of the hardwon
territories of the confederacy--it is whether new
proofs shall be given to the North that the South.
ern party is OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES we, ourselves,
shall furnish fuel to the abolition flames which
threaten to consume us. This is the question, |
and it is more important than any single sub
Jet which has yet been presented in the cam
paign.
s5g~ There is nothing in all the "glorious
Union" speeches of Messrs. Conn, FooTE g. |
Co., to equal the following burst of patriotic en-
thusiasm, which we find in the New York |
Knckerbocker. AS the essence of a hogshead |
of rose-leaves may be found condensed in