Southern standard., 1851-07-05
From tAe Y. o. Uelt0
More Deception Of the Compromise.

FROM me ". O Deft0.
More Deception Of the Compromise.
| There is not in our annals, certainly. and
we doubtif there be in the history of other ma
| tons, parallel to the imposture, bad faith
and deception the one hand and the blindness
and tame submissiveness on the other, which were
displayed in the circumstances connected with the
measure called the compromise Bill. Every day
developes new facts in proof of this allegation.
1t did not require the admission of Northern poll
tncans to satisfy that the pretended compromise
was mere surrender of substantial rights on the
paf' OF the South TO mere empty show of the
execution by the North OF constitutional quar-
anty. But We have such admission, suci 4xnlta
tions thrown in faces daily to add to the NOR
tlfcaton ofour position. We read daily in their
speeches and editorials, the North has gained eve
rything by that compromise, and the South has
ganed-a shadow, the very pursuit of which
is more costly than the substance would be val
liable
The north has gained the whole territory for which
the Sou.h shed It's blood and expended It's treas
ure. 1t has taken it all, and the States which
stood ten to three when this constitution was form
! ed who could have controlled and shaped its
character but who were content with few clear
" expressed guarantees, find themselves excluded
from that equality of rights which constitutes the
basis of our government, without which 1t had
better at once crumbe into disorganization. This
great achievement was accomplished through the
new guise of "n "non-intervention. The Wilmot
proviso was, comparatively, frank and open a
vowel of their intent to rob the South. We saw
its purpose,-understood its character, and the
whole South resented il manfully. It was discov-
cred that there a more eteetual mode
| of gaining the same object, than by this bold
procedure.
The new plan went much further than the pro-
yiso ever proposed to go. That aimed at the lim-
itation of slave erritory-at heming IL in between
certain metes and bounds But the new idea of
non intervention aimed higher; it contemplated
the positive prohibition of the admission OF
slave territory mo the Union The workings of
this system were happily illustrated by Mr. Ben
! iamin, and other wing orators in this State, IN
/ their structures upon Sen. Cass Nicholson letter.
Gen Cass proposes, they sald to leave this ques-
ton to the decision of the people, who are now,
or shall hereafter settle the territory. Well,
with the Me xcans and Indians already there, and
with the influence of the Emgrants from the free
States and the restraint upon emigration from the
Sou.h, caused by the apprehensions of the appli-
cation of the proylso, this non-nteryenlon acru-
ally appropria,es this whole country to the exclu-
sive use and benefit of the North. 1t is far worse
than the proviso. That gave us a chance for some
of the territory but -interuentton shuts out
/ from all.
Despite these arguments, non-intervention car
and characteristic features of SO called compromise
Southern politicians fell into the snare, some blnt
ly and stupidity, others willingly and contentedly
We cannot they said, dispute the rights OF people
to select and regulate their own political institution:
$50 we will give up all California to the few thou
sand adventurers who have gone to dig gold ii
that new FL Dorado; We will give up New Mex
leo to the Indians-half-breeds &C.. we will sur
render Utah to the Mormons; but we do SO on th,
I,tb.
, own governments. This is taking the question
out of the power of the General Government. an,
killing the Wilmo. pfo,iso, that execrable sugges
ton ofaboliiion-
Such liberal concessions as these could not wei
be refused by the Nor.h. They might well waiv
pro tempore the proviso, when. there was no nee
!, for it. Indeed, if the South was wiling to Civ
: up the whole territory, why should the North ap
i Div rule which would still allow the Southa shar
!, init And yet, when all this was done, the soul
reioced that it had got rid at least of the Wilme
Proyso Itconsoled itself, too with reflection
that the doctrine Of nen-intervention might, som
: day or other, tnrn to advantage. There migl
be slave territory to annex to the Union, and The
: we would claim the application of this rule, of th
precedent. The north has got all it can get, an
we shall have the next claim.
= , Such were the views of the Southern comprt
:, misers but what were the intentions OF the Norf
Il er0 QafllcS 10 lnlS UuHule Vi SoHCtSSioHS. LIZ
one of the most moderate and able of their poll,
= clans answer. Let one speak who has been II
plauded here as an illustrious friend of the Sou.
d the prop and mainstay of the Union, has attrac
- ed an unusual share of censure, reproaeh and ii
~ ~ suits from the violent South politicians at Il
= North. Let Daniel Websterspeak Here al
y his words as they fell from him in the hearing
!. the President, his cabinet, and the people:
- g 1.-THE South aoished any concession from hi
. they s0ould not get 1t, not a hairs breadth.
- = =
ssHe had oIsroys scontended that any measure ca
cuioted to add to The slove territory Of the Unit
States fcas unconstitutional. He aeaer uould co
m sent that there be one foot Of stase territory beyo,
- ,cAat Me-otd thirteen States had al the andati
! rs of the Union. Aeper! 4vever Never ( -
p And thus We repeat, has the grand scheme
~ deception, injustice, wrong and fraud, received
e- capsheef and the South stands before the world
H. pieable subject of folly, delusion, blindness al
Degrading submission.
IT Census OF 1850.
e !; We have on hand tables Of the census of 18t
by which we haze been trying in vain to find roo
for They present very interesting subject
,c-] study. The whole white population of the sla
AT States, including the District of Columbia, is
en- 3o6, 1856; the slave population is ), 2l0, ll2;
10, negroes in the south Al 8, 573-of which, Marya
of has 73, ,943, or nearly many as slaves, and
m. ginia has 23, ,9U9 The total population OF
of south is 8, ,75o, / 59.-
re The ronulat;on ff the free States includi