The southern press., 1851-05-10

Z territories
And now, their eduals Ia the confedoracy, and
more than their equals in our sacrifices TO ac-
quire them, zoe are to be, thrust out from every
foot of these magnificent domains. The mode
in which this wrong has been accomplished, is
Of no moment to any but those who are content
with the Aimsiest subterfuges to hide their cow
ardice or treachery. Indirect fraud can no more
) reconcile brave man to the Dissertation Of his
rights, than direct or opcn aggression. On the
contrary, il may only deepen the indignation,
which inspires the determination for redress.
\ Congress indeed did not directly by law pre-
clu ie the Southern STAKEHOLDER from settling
with his slaves in California, but il did the same
i thing indirectly Under an administration hostile
to the rights of the South, California is made to
apply to be admitted as State into the Union,
with a constitution precudng slavery. Under
the pretext, that the people have right to rule
themselves, a handful of emigrants from all
climes and nations, inhabiting small portion Of
this territory, large enough for six great States,
undertake to exclude from it portion Of its
common proprletors, the Southern people Con-
gress ratifes the fraud. Congress gives validity
to the constitution thus made for California,
which had no validity before, and thus renders
the Wilmot Proviso triumphant throughout her
boundaries. The same policy of indirecti0n IS
carried out to exclude the South from Utah and
New Mexico They are not, like California, ad
mitted as States into the Union; they are or
ganized into territories, and nothing is said pre-
Guiding slavery, in the law ordaiaing territorial
governments. Lo! how the South has tri
umphed, say the mean apologists in the South
of Northern cunning and rapacity. Triumphant
and yet excluded excluded by Mexican lawsex-
listing over these territories, before they became
our property, and which they left unrepealei
Legislation by Congress to exclude US, is thus
unnecessary, and for this cause alone does not
prevail. An executive pledged to enforce these
| Mexican laws, for our exclusion, is left to ac-
con,plish this result, by the appointment of ju-
dicia and executive officers, who will carry out
b;s policy He has accordingly appointed such
officers ; and we stand excluded by all the power
| Of the general government, from entering these
| territories. This is the contamination of non
| Intervention. which means only cxrctly such in
terventon as is deemed necessary to exclude the
South from all participation in our acquisitions
! We had thought that it was the great duty OF
all governments to protect persons and property.
| For these ends alone governments exist. A
government which does not protect property, is
entitled to no support. II ought not TO exist
day. Yet the government OF the United States
has not only failed to protect the slave property
Of the South lin the territories belonging to them
| in common with the other States in the Union,
but has, by its positive Legislation, robbed them
of portion ofthese territories themselves. Did
not falsehood and oppression usually 60 to-
gether, we might well be amused under such
circumstances, at the brazen profiigacy and au-
dacity, which proclaims the Wilmot Provso is
dead, the South triumphant in her exclusion
| from California, Utah and New Mexico. 1t is
impossible for sophistry or mendacity to dis
4 guise the truth We have been despoied. We
have been insulted, dishonored and dsgraced,
stricken down from equality, and spurned from
the enjoyment of our unquestonable rights
/ Turn il as we may, there lies that magnificent
region of sun and gold, better fitted for our in
situations than any spot on the habitabe globe,
open to the labor and occupation of every peo
pie of every. nation, but of that people who
| fought for and won it, and who are yet to pay
two-thirds of the debt by which il was acquired
/ All actions are to be estimated by the motives
which originated them. Even when they work
injury in their operation, if innocent in intention,
we drop the veil of charity, or extend the hand
of forgiveness to the perpetrators. But, where
a wrong is deliberately done, with the design
not only of injurying, but of destroying, we can
have no other feelings towards the actors, than
those of indignation, defiance and resistance. =
What is the openly avowed object of excluding
from the territories, the shareholders Of the
South!
If the North sought to exclude US from our
territories, with the selfish design ofappropriat-
ing them all for themselves, this would be base
enough on their part uncomfortable on ours. II
their object in our exclusion was political power,
by which they might govern us, and hold in
their hands forever the mastery in the confed-
eracy, this would be more Than freenen or SOW
ereign States have ever borne. Bot the design
Of our exclusion il more foul and deadly than
these. Not only selfshness, but hostility, per-
vades the policy of our excluders. Not merely
TO lift themselves 10 power. but TO accomplish
our destruction, is their aim. They bar the ex-
tension of slavery, and confre il territoraIly,
that Il may he destroyed. A Roman Emperor
wished that the people Of Rome bad but one
neck that he might cut il off, Our afectionaie
brethren Of the North aim at policy, compared
with which the Roman Emperors was tender
mercy. No sudden catastrophe Of blood, and
murder will satisfy their pious ongings for our
rclf're. BY confnng slavery to restricted
territory they expect 10 annhiate IL, by the slow
process Of starvation and want. forcing competi-
ton for bread, and rendering free, only 10 die.
Servile insurrpctinns and CONGREGATIONS are oc.
casionally 10 Gil M the slow details, to their
consummaiion Of final emancipation, run and
horror They know full well. that throughout
the cotton region of the South, the white man
can never laber They know that we will never
submit.to live on footing Of equality with the
negro rnce. The consequences Of these things
they clearly see and in them discover the utter
destruction NJ the South, as the browning resnlt
If their policy. They may indeed, when we
shall have submitted, and they shall have 10.
creased in arrogance and power, graciously ex-
tend 10 us Nero's policy Of q speedy extinction,
and spread over ne at once the gladstone catas
ircphe Of St. Domingo: but shor or long in
IL process ruin. and ruin utter, l. their deter
mined policy towards the Southern States
Now. with .uch motives and designs govern
ing cur confederate, in excluding as from our
territories. shall We submit 10 be excluded
Even IL we could evsde or battle their policy
with respect TO our institutions shall we con-
tnue an union with those who are our deadest
enemiesl What IL their -oliey but war--un
disguised war---by hostile Legislation frst--to
be followed M, if we dare 10 resist, by its usual
instruuenfe tho cannoo md tho award They