The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-07-17
COLUMBUS. MISSISSIPPI. THURSDAY, JULY r. 1851

fed waves--all safe cotton u cents and ne
groes $1,000, and other things in proportion
the steorsman and many of the rowers start
for a tripover the Niagara Falls, we are thar,
too--but pulling the back stroke like the
d-l.-M Mississippi Union.
From the Washington Union, 18th July,
"THE WASHINGTON UN1oN.-Major Don
elson, the new editor of the Union, promised
in his Introductory address to give cordial
support to The compromise, so called, of Clay
and Foote. No true-hearted southerner
could say that, because the compromise abol-
ishes the slave trade in the District of Column
bia, and in doing that, declares by implica-
ton that Congress has the power to abolish
slavery in that District when it is expedient,
and to prohibit the slave trade between the
States
"Again: No true hearted southerner could
give cordial support to set of laws that
will keep and cheat the south out of an en-
pire for the benefit Of the AJolitonists and
Freesoilers. The southern man who talks
that way about laws, most of which were
concocted and designed by that greatest of
southern traitors, Henry Clay, ought not to
be trusted by southern people" II Ahississip-
pr Jacksonian, May 20.
We have forborne any notice of repeated
declarations like the above, in what are call
ed papers devoted to southern rights, not only
} condemning the sentiment which recon-
mends an acquiescence in the compromise
measures of the last Congress, but denounc-
ling as submissionists and traitors all those
who concurred with US in that sentiment
It was our hope that such declarations would
soon cease to be characteristic Of any party
at the south, since very slight reflection
must show that no public good can be attain
, ed by them. There is not citizen in the
Union who is not now su6n1iSSioniSt, in the
contemplation of law, to the compromise
2 since that measure, in every instance where
its constitutionality has beeu drawn in ques
ton, has been sanctioned by the legitimate
: civil tribunals. But, if by the term subn,is
; sionists, it is meant to imply the existence
Of an opposite party-one aiming to defea
c the operation of that measure or to obtain it
j modifcation-and that there is enough o
such persons to constitute what may be ter
med party in the south, then we have n,
: hesitation in saying that we are not mem
c Der of such party by whatever name
l. may be called. 1t is difficult for us to con
n ceive how such party can exist at the sout
or what can be the motive of its organize
ton The interest of the south is to obtai
q the execution of the fugitive slave law an
d men of all parties there have common il
d terest in disarming those northern fanatic
i, who would nullify the provision of the col
= stitution which entities the southern slave
U holder to a summary remedy for the recover
le of his fugitive property. But if submissio
l to that law be denounced at the south,
what means arc the Abolitionists to be r
strained If the southern STAKEHOLDER thu
takes ground in favor Of disturbing and VII
y lating the compromise, including the fugiti,
ut law, by refusing to submit to its provision
d. does he not plainly strengthen and emboldel
and, so far as his example goes, justify Il
northern Abolitionist in has infamous effo
Pe to resist the execution of the law, and efe
its repeal Undoubtedly he does. In pri
ID ciple and in fact, therefore, the individual
he the south, if repeal or agitation be his obje
who applies the term Su5ntissi0niSt in an o
probrious sense to the individual who acqt
We esces as good citizen in the compromis
commits fault nearly as great as the Ab
ut, litionist of the north does when he oppos
nut the authority of the marshal in executil
nd the law.
. But the editor of the Mississippi JAG
sonian alleges that the slave trade has be
up abolished in the District of Columbia. III
the is not fact, as everybody must know W
he; has paid the slightest attention to the fl
IN. ture Of the compromise thus misrepresentt
o., The whole effect Of this law is to prevent t
.n0 slave-dealer from making the District of {
ing lumbia mart for the collection and sale
md slaves brought from the surrounding Stat
md Similar laws have often been passed by
~ States without complaint; and it has be
generally held that Congress had the sa
ola power over the territory within its jurisd
ton, that the States exercised within til
I'M respective llllltS. w HliSO HOWeFcIy RGui
,ov never assented to this opinion, and co
- not, therefore, have voted for an act ella
my ing this authority for Congress, we are
his far from flying into a furious passion beea
Darn it has been exercised in very limited m
ner, so as to prevent the use of the Dist
as a slave mart. Mr.. Randolph, one of
? W most ultra State Rights men, insisted I
be- such slave mart in the District was disgr;
o of full to the nation, and ought to be suppr
,cos ed by Congress. Under the act in quest
the owner of the slave within the Dist
has all the rights over him that he has c
where; as a nonresident of the District,
as an immigrant to it, he has no other
straints than what were once imposed
Mississippi in respect to the importatio
!, negroes for sale within her borders. II
= - is at least, no such injury resulting from
q on has been done by Congress-, that can n
tand excusable to our conscience furious on
wish that the liberties of the south are thel
A. endangered, and that the imputation of
graceful submission and treachery can
alu be avoided BIZ resorting to extreme measl
cor It is in vain, perhaps, to argue With {
now who apply to Us and toothers the term 9
Il ri tor, z because re prefer manly supper
the compromise to an nnmeaning discont
an which has neither the patriotism 70 purs
aoke, constitutional remedy nor The eo0rag