The Madisonian. (Canton, Miss.) 1850-1855, 1851-01-09

ScflDGu lHt q"uditlCdtHpiS OlHtltG NOtGISi l
aud put in motion all the preliminary {
proceedings. He was but the agentof
The Federal Government. 1t is an es
tablished principle, that every govern
ment becomes responsible for the act
Of its officers, if, when those acts ate
complained Of. they be not ~disavowed,
the agent punished and rsparatina
made. The Government Of tue Unl>
ted States has done neither of these,
although the South has bitterly re-
mohstfated. The whole series of
measures, from the proclamation Of
Gen. Riley to The admission of Calls
fornla as a State, finds nothing to re,
deem them from the character Of usur.
patton and revolution but the action Of
The Government Of the United Slales-,
it hence fnllows that the act Of Cali.
fotnia was but the act of the Federal
Government, andJliat the adventures
whr gathered upon its shores, and
seized upon the soil and the sovereign
ty without right to either, were hut ins
struments IN the bands Of Congress;
to carry obt its determination to *
clude slavery from the shores Of the
Pacific. Though Congress has The un.
doubted, power to admit new States, it
lis vain to look in'lhe constitution for q
sanction Of these irregular proceed
~tiIgs-thoy vsere unauthorized, frandu.
lent aud void, and we have veto learn
that the confirmation of a void act can
give il validity.
The bills forming territorial governs
; ments for Utah and New Mexico are
J no departure from tins line Of policy,
to exclude all further admission OF
slave States. Congress was ready
. enough by intervention to shut out
+ slavery from California; but was firm
: to the principle Of non-intelvention a:
q to the repealo of the Mexican law in re
t gard to slavery in these territories
; That law was deemed as etIectuaI fou
+ the exclusion of slavery as the Wiimo
d Proviso. The territorial legislature.
: are forbidden to touch the subject, am
it is thus rendered certain, as anything
a future can be, that these territories
g when they come into tie Union, mus
g come in as free States.
Il By this action Of the Governmcnt
= the Southern States have been dc
pliyed of all benefit from the countr
. acquired from Mexico. The mar 0
. every cline under heaven, has free ac
cess to these regions with all his cap
~ tai, except the citizen Of the Souther
- States. His capital consists chiefly I
slaves, and if he shonld 60 he mu:
IL leave them behind. The blood, an
d. treasure, and vaIor Of the Soaih di
Eo more for the acquisition Of the terrlt,
~ than any other poftioh Of tho u
- ion. Had these vast acquisitions bee
Id made in the absence of IA Constitute
of Union. by thirty States, as eqn
sovereignties, what would be saii
Gu lhe attempt Of sixteen of these STAT
~ 10 appropriate the whole of these c
:" r~itolies lo themselves, to The e~Xclual'
~ of the people of the fourteen slay
y! holding Statesl Can any legitima
~ action of the Government OF the y
lou result IN what, without the Unlo
would be undisguised ~pIunder!
~ hisSdiscTimination against the rights
'nS the Sollh just and if not just, "
the South sit down under it, III uncol
u; planning ac4niescence does.
But it is NOT in regard to terrific
alone that the recent acts Of Congrt
,ni1' have done i'jary to the South.
OH. this same action Of the Governme
the balance Of power between the t
M, sections of the Uuion has been d.
troyed. A permanent sectional MAJ
,,ch ily IN Doth brauches Of Congress
been secured, hostile TO The institute
,he Of slavery. The struggle for eqnil
aral rum, which lasted for thirty years,
- been ended The North has now
i power-has il likewise tho VIII
ian crush this institution He must
n, blind to tho warnings Of the past, "
o,n. does mol SEE unquestionable mauil
tations Of this Will. The church,
nan pulpit, the school master, the pre-
m the public meetings, the legisiat
- halls Of the North, and all the depG
III menls of their State governments, v
a few bright exceptions, arc all agal
this institution. Where, then, is til
.844 room for hope, except IN the united
,er. ton and counsels Of the South4
t as We pass over the abolition of
the slave trade in he District Of Coli
" bia, with but a single remark. IL
ions portentious sign OF the times. !
erri- the calryingiof another ~ post, r
the paratory to the final attack, upon
aded citadel itself Is
orth, Another most significant sign;i is
ority opposition SO generally manifesto,
II Of the North, against the fugitive q
theI bill. This rivht tO %recapture fugl