The daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1848-1851, 1851-05-30
Views Of a Candidate for Congress.

We have already noticed that in the " Southern
Rights (secession) Convention in Mobile, Ala
bama, on Monday last, to nominate candidate to
represent the District in Congress, the Hon. John
Bragg received the nomination.
The whole proceedings of the Convention are
now published. In these, we find that previous TO
the nomination being conferred on Mr.. Bragg, a
correspondence between that gentleman and a
Committee of Delegates from Mobile county, rela-
tive to the great questions now agitated by polit
clans, and through their agency by the people, was
| read to the Convention
The committee addressed these three questions
to Judge Bragg:
| commonly known as the compromise measures-or
do you regard the measures unjust to the South
and aggressive on their rights!
I'D. Do you believe State has the right to
| secede from the Union!
"3d In the event that State in the exercise offs
sovereign power, secedes from the Union, do you
believe that the Federal Government has rgh
10 cOerce the seeding State to remain in the Con
federacy9 10 the event that such an effort should
be made, what, in your opinion, will be the duty
1 of the other States -
The Judge says in answer 70 lha frs. hefut TIA
tsssaIe has right 10 secede, for adequate cause
that being a right paramount to the Constitution
necessarily residing within the States for self.pro
lection, unalisnated and inslenable; but that II,
compromise measures do not furnish adequate caus.
fora resort to the right Of secession. Third, thai
he Is opposed to the General Government resortinp
TO force TO compel a seeding State to return. In
the event of such force being meditated il is diff
cult to determine the duty of the seeding States
Before the use of force, the States should remon
strae and protest against it but if all such appeal
were unavailing, those having common interest.
should naturally unite to protect them. The thinf
would be resolved into a simple matter of sympa
thy and interest; consequences would be left tc
take care of themselves.
Judge Bragg announced that he would immed
ately resign his office, and enter on the canvass
| In that canvass he will be shown how humiIiatipe
will be the position in which he would place those
who might unite for +" common interests" South
Carolina has already told the Southern States thai
they would have to accompany her, but not unit
she has grossly insuted Virginia, Georgia, and
other Southern States, and falsely accused them o
tame submission to violations of their rights.
The Terre Haute Journal SAYS that over ter
thousand acres of the land lately belonging to the
Boston Land Company, were sold at Terre Hau,s
on Wednesday, the l4th instant, at an average
price Of two dollars per acre. These lands lie in
Illinois. mostly in Coles and Edgar counties and
in Indiana, along the vslley Of the Eel River Neal
seven thousand acres Of the lands sold were in the
vincennes Land District. OF the canal lands
situated in the district, nearly twenty-seven
thousand acres have been sold within the pasl
four months. The sales of Congress lands are also
very large. The probability u.s. that during the five
months, ending on the first day of June next abou,
seventy Thousand acres will have been sold within
| the Vincennes District.