The southern press., 1851-09-08
From hs .uisskslrpian.
The Cempremiac Measures.
Charge Home up,a tts Southern Kenegades
soAo assisted Ia passis them

Charge Home upsa ths Southern Renegade
soho assisted Ia passiS z them
Read the following extract ispm an address
just issued by the Democratic State Centrs
Committee of Pennsylvania" Il contains th'
whole truth with regard to the ccmpromiss nse .
ures upon whose merits the election on Monday
and Tuesday next should turn.
READ 1T VOTERS, and charge home upon fh
submission lead RS for aiding and abettng IL
the perpelration of such foul wrongs upon you
Charge home upon them for aiding the Aboli
tionists in prohibiting slavery n California, BY
sanctioning an Illegal act Of an unorganlzet
band of adveutnrers. Ii that territory had beer
left open TO African slave labor, it would have
drawn vast number OF slaves from the cottor
fields of the Southern States, and thus dmin
ished the amount of cotton raised, and thereby
vastly enhanced the price of our great staple
Ii would, every season, have put hundreds OF
dollars in the pockets of every cotton gsoweri-
Mississippi
Charge home upon them for refusing to unite
with the true men of the South 10 procuring the
repeal Of the Mexicsn anti-slavery laws, which
Mr.. Clay, Daniel Webster, and all the leading
advocates of the compromise bills, declare to bt
in force in the territories of Utah end New
Mexico. 99 le
Charge h nc upon them for their agency II
the Texas dismemberment bill, by which (or',
thousand square miles Of territory was "removed
from the jurisdiction Of slave State"
Charge home upon Them on account OF the
District Dill, in the passage of which the Aboli-
tonists secured one of their favorite objects
a precedent for legislating on the subject OF
slavery, and an expression fr0m the GENITAL gov
ernment of hostility to the institution.
Charge home upon them for making all these
vital concessions for the Fugitive slave law, to
which the South was justly entitled by the Con-
stitution-for a law which their candi to for
governor declared (see appendix to the Congress
sional Globe at the first session of 3lst Con-
gress, page l60D before it was passed, would
be inefficacious;
EXTRACT FROM THE Pennsylvania ADDRESS.
"But a compromise was at length effected
This compromise consisted Of five distinct
measures all Of aohich, except one, gare The adj
uaHtoge TO The opponents of slapery ard tie Soulh
Let us ennmerate them: sr
L. California was adm tied into the Union,
with constitution prohibni stapay, not,oM
Standing all complaints Of irreguiarity and u1,
justifa6le ertension Of her boundariss. ~
@ Utah and New Mexico was organized into
territories, ,1ihout any change IN The erisfir 2
lao, vhich forbade slnery.
g. Congress agreed to purchase from Texas a
urge part Of h'r territory, for the consideration
of ten millions of dollars, and thus renlo0ed The
territory, 50 purchased, from The jurisdiction Of a
s'aue State.
a. A law was pa ssed abolisbing the slave trade
in the District of Columbia
g. The Fugitive slave law was passed.
None of these ia,os, except the last one, aodS
any Advantage 10 The South or calculated TO do
the South any serpice The Fugitive slave law
theg asked for IN return, and ii ,oas granted them
solely because they acre entitled TO ii BY The er
prees aof rds of The Consultation"
But we have been told that these measures
would put an end to ag .tation 1t is not so.
Charge homs upon Them for attempting to
deceive you with tls glaring falsehood. Read
the testimony Of Northern man. 1t is based
upon the results of close observance Of the
effects of those measures. We copy the follow
ing extract from Brownsons Review, published
in Boston. 1t will be seen that they have in
creased ag'ation;
"Both parties, Cat the South Wing and Dem
ocra' Wings more especially till lately, have
crimnaly tampared with it. and aided it (tae
Free-soil party to acquire its present formida-
BILE power-a power which, perhaps, is no longer
The measures hitherto tsken
against it have thus far exasperated and
strengthened it. The compromise measure Of
the late Cons iess, which it was hoped would
allay the excitement, and extingush the party
by depriving it of all pretence for further aeits-
tion haue had only contrary effect. We do not
agree with the s. called distsnionists of the
South, for we are Unionisis, but IL must be Goa
fsssed that they hare been The only considerable
party in The country that has any tolerabis appre-
citation of The Free soil Increment They ioere
correct in their predictions that the compromise
measures 'ohold be Intellectual and they have MOI
OF erstated the dar yer."
I'VE say not danger to the institution of
slavery, for the question OF slavery loses itself
in a much higher question, even higher and
m re important than the simple maintenance of
the Union--in the question of tbe maintenance
Of society itself The Free-soiers are to American
society what Red republicans and Socialists are
to European society, and their iriumph 3 he
triumph Of anarchy ari despotsm Z"