Mississippi palladium. [volume] (Holly Springs, Miss.) 1851-1852, 1851-07-04
From the n. o. Delta.
More Deception of the mproniise.

/ More Deception of the Compromise.
/ There is not in our annals, certainly,
and we doubt if there be in the history
of other nations, parallel case to the
/ imposture, bad faith, and deception
on the one hand, and the blindness and
/ tame subInissiveness on the other which
were displayed in the circumstances
connected with the measure called the
Compromise bill. Every day developes
some new fact in proof of this allega-
ton. 1t did not require the admission
of Northern politicians TO satify us that
the pretended Compromise was a mere
surrender of substantial rights on the
part Of the South, TO a mere empty
show Of the execution by the North of a
Constitutional guaranty. But we have
such admissions, such Civilizations
thrown in our faces daily, to add to the
modification of our position. We read
daily in their speeches and editorials,
that the North has gained everything
by that Compromise, and the South has
gained-a shadow, the very pursuit of
which is more costly than the substance
would be valuable.
The North has gained the whole ter
ritory for which the South shed its
blood and expended its treasure. 1t
has taken it all, and the States which
stood ten to three when this Constitu-
ton was formed, who could have con-
trolled and shaped its character, but
who were content with a few clearly
expressed guarantees, find themselves
excluded from that equality of rights
which constitutes the basis of our Gov
without which it had better
at once crumble into disorganization.
This great achievement was accom-
/ plished through the new guise OF f"Non-
Intercourse" The Whmot Proviso
was, comparatively, frank and open
avowal of their intent to rob the South.
We saw its purpose.-understeod its
character, the whole South resented it
manfully. twas discovered that there
was more effectual mode of gaining
the same object, than by this bold pro-
cedure.
The new plan went much further
than the Proviso ever proposed to go.
That aimed at the limitation of slave
/ territory,-at hemming it in between
certain metes and bounds. But the
idea of non-intervention aimed higher;
it contemplated the positive prohibition
! of the admission of any slave territory
into the Union. The workings of this
system were happily Illustrated by Mr..
benjamin and other whig orators in
this State, in their structures upon Gen.
Cass' Nicholson letter Gen. Cass pro-
poses, they. said. to leave this question
| to the decision of the people, who are,
now, or shall hereafter settle the terri
tory. Well, with the Mexicans and
Indians already there, and with the IN
/ fiuence of emigrants from the free Sta
4 tes, and the restraint upon emigration
from the South, caused by the appre-
i tensions of the application of the Pro
4 viso, this non-intervention actually ap-
I propriates this whole country to tht
exclusive use and benefit of the North
1t is far worse than the Proviso. Tha
Z gave us chance for some of the terri
tory, but non-iaterreatioa shut US on
from ALL
J. Despite these arguments, non-inter
/ .vention carried the day. constitutes
. the chief element and characteristic