The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-13

""S "uoP'ou, anu cousatuAu& many m6n Wno
had assisted in forming the Constitution itself
was either Ignorant of the Constitution or false
to it. For the law which provided for the gov
eminent OF the Southwestern territory express
y adopted the Ordinance of 1887, accepting the
clause prohibitory Of slavery The law for the
government of the Southwestern territory was
passed without material opposition So that the
North at that time, when the objects of the new
Constitution were we'll understood, did not pre-
tend that it was an anti-savery document. That
discovery was reserved for the new lights and
latter day saints of Free-so Abolition.
Mr.. JOHN VAN buren, is still more reckless,
ground!ess and INSCRIPTIONS, in referring to
the social. economical, and moral effects Of
slavery, than in relation to its constitutional
rights. He says
while the Presidential election was con-
Quoted with the greatest animation, the dis
covery of gold mines in California attracted
large population to that territory. They went
there with the light that public discussion had
shed upon the evils Of slavery, upon its miser-
able economy, its insecurity in peace, and its
hazards in war, upon its inhumanity and its sin
fitness. They went there with their minds
deeply impressed by these great truths; and
they formed a State constitution which pro-
hibited slavery"
1t is certainly extremely refreshing, in this
arid age of avarice and ambition, to find the
hopeful scion Of the house of Undertook 80 at
tentive and regardful of morality and religion
in the morning OF his political career, and to learn
that the conglomerate of all nations, called the
people of California have gone to that attract
i've region almost as much in pursuit of godliness
as Of gold. 1t is unfortunate, however-but
such is the fate of merit-that scoffing world
ascribes the pious zeal of the young VAN b.
Rem against slavery, to the antecedent pronun-
ciamento of the Wilmot Proviso by the North
ern majority President-making States-whilst
there are railers 80 incorrigbe as to accuse the
Californians of design to monopolize the gold
to themselves, rather than desire to consecrate
that sacred territory to freedom, morality, and
religion. 1t is also still more unfortunate for
all the pretences of California and JOHN VAN
buren,, to pity and philanthropy, that the as
saults on African slavery for its immortality, |
"inhumanity, and sinfulness," are founded on
trashy newspaper statements of the condition
and progress of the South, which the returns
of the Census have utterly demolished. And
to the horror Of the latter-day saints it has been
demonstrated that in all the elements of COM
fort, health, exemption from pauperism, vice,
and crime, the South is far superior to the North
To be sure, it suits the policy and the capacity
of Messrs VAN buren, g. Co. to be ignorant of
results that now rest on evidence the most I'M
questionable and overwhelming. But we are
determined that this boasted and Boosting party
of progress, of philanthropy and of intelligence,
shall be refuted and exposed SO long as it per-
sists in its ignorance or Misrepresentation, until
it becomes the derision of all classes.
The complaint of JOHN VAN buren, against
Mr.. SEwARr. for not being sufficiently agitated
and ngitating on the subject of slavery in the
Senate, would be extremely amusing, if it did
not reveal the melancholy and despicable con-
dtion Of Northern popular sentiment and intel
ligencc Mr. SEWARD got into the Senate by
the agitation of this question, begun before the
precocious philanthropy of young VAN BUREE
learned to lisp its topics-began whilst JOHN
Wax BuREN's father was President-eccted by
Southern votes, on pledges Of fidelity to the
Constitution. But VAN buren, the elder, is
left out, and VAN buren, the younger, has not
vet been in federal office. So when Mr.. SEW
ARD, had carried his fanaticism on this point in
the Senate to the verge of the uncomfortable, and
paused-his moderation, nay his apathy, is act
ually charged against him in the North, by rival
candidate for the Senate, to get him out and
bring in the more faithful more jealous and
more loquacious VAN buren,.
Such is the struggle in the North for Federal
honors between rival asprants. Whoever goes
farthest and loudest for Southern spoiation, in
suit, and obloquy, is the favorte. And major
ity Of the North decides the fate of the South
| We'll may the crew of VAN buren, e. Co., who
count their spos already by millions of miles
Of territory and by mines of gold wrung from
the hands of Southern men that worked and paid
for them-wel may these political banditt of
the North who find in this government the phi
Iosophers stone, that by a vote instead of q
touch converts their hypocrisy into gold--well
may these gh-priests of new idolatry, preach
up the religion of Union, and the divinity of a
majority But in the South
"That spell upon the minds of men
Breaks-neper 10 unite again.
The Administration and South Carolina.
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