Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1851-09-01
MIR. COBB'S REPLY
To tIic Macon Committee.
ANTHEMS. AuC. I2. lSi

letter until NV return E,o., lhc loucr ,,,r,
| ar ,ho S,,,, ,ho,,t ,l,, S., - H., -,
month and have NOT. therefore. repled ~
!, ot an rlier dcv.
AsIbavc received deommun;cn,;ons rrn,,
other nor,s or III, Stnt, on I'm, so,,e lin.
dred subjects. hnve determined n ,h;s
| renlv "a copsiIcr ,ho o,es,ions ;,volyeJ u
some length, As | desire that Il NAV bc cnn.
silered as resnonsive 10 Inc v,r;ons ed,,,.
munica,ions 10 wbirh have referred
| yopr Ict,cr nronnpnas tbc MA f,llow
mo intcrrocatories
III. "no van brlicvc that \ State bv ~.
tue ofbcr soy,reiopty. has the r;obt ncorc.
nbIv 10 sccrdr fran, tbc JJu;on I or i II
yonr op;nion that the General covern,pcn,
has the constitutional authority to coerce
ber 70 remain in The Union And sbonlJ
n call be made unon the miIitia 10 aid in
a,temntinotoco n seeding State. .woulJ
Won. if in The executive Office obcv such
r,ou;si,;on1
ID. "Do vou be,ievu that the late nets
Of CONGRESS-. termed the "Compromisc !"
were ,orstit,irional. inst and eoni,,ble q,
/ shall consider these questions in the
inverse order in which Won have PROPOSED
them.
| In order That NAV be distinctly under
stood in reference to the late acts of Con
orcss termed ,hn "Compromiso I cons;J.
cr il proper 10 make n brief references to
each of the six bills which composed thai
Compromises, and shall. in that way. be
enabled to give tho most satisfactory an.
swer TO vonr second intermediary.
The bills ESTABLISHING territorial ctuyorn-
| nents for Utah and New Mexico rest up
on d great constitutional principle, which
has Il wave rcroivrd III, warm md cordial
| vocatcd Win mara zcol tLon ,bosc now no-
Etic,Ilv ossocint Il vii, Yourselves. THAI
pr;nc;i,lc Il. ..tbc richt ol tbn ncopl, as do
| tcr,nin,t CIR themselves whether or moi
slavery shall constitute a part OF their So
cial system" In these bills On the slave
nv question Is found Ills provision. "And
said Territories shall be received into the
Union with or wthon. slavery, as their
constitution may prescribe at the time Of
their admission" If fthis important prin-
ciplc. so long contender, for by the South,
and so long resisted by the North, be now
rcpudatcd by the South, then these bills
are obnoxious to the objections urged a.
gainst them by the dsunionists but ifthc
South be content TO abide tho operation of
her own cherished doctrines on this sub
iect. then these bills arc in strict conform
ity with the requirements of the South, and
should be entirely satisfactory to us. 1t
l = =
is too late TO talk about the repeal of the
Mexican laws, after the almost unanimous
support by the representatives of the South
ofthe CIavto,,-compfornis bill, which no
more repeal those laws thou the bills we
arc now considering nor were our re-
| prescnta,ives in their advocacy of the CLAY.
ton-conpromsc bill moro united than
were their constituents in their approval OF
the votes of these representatives. The
eight Southern representatives who voted
against that bill. on the ground that they
reauired the repeal ofthe Mexican laws,
| we're denounced as traitors to tho South
for making the demand, by those who are
now most noisy in their complaints against
southern representatiycs for not recurring
the repeal Of the Mexican laws. / voted
for the Clavton-compromisc bill, and was
univors,Ily sustained IN GEORGIA n tLot
vote. Wbv i II that | am now condemn
ed for nv support Of those bills By the men
who then approycd of nv coiirsu !!
The Clavtan.comp bill contained
no erDress suaranfee for the admission Of
slave States, If the people desired it; whilst
these bills pledge the faith Of the govern
n,ent to admit these territories as States,
with or without slavery, as the people
NAV determine when they come to organ
| ize their State constitution. These bills
| received the support of a majority Of the
representatives Of the South Your own
representatives from Georgia were unani-
nous upon the subject. The only violent
and decided opposition made 10 them pro
cceded from the abolitionlsts and irec-soil-
ers, who saw, in the provisions to which
| have referred, the rcpudiation Of their Ia
vorite doctrine Of congressional interdic-
tion of slavery in the territories, and the
recognition Of our favorlte doctrine Of lcav-
ing to the people the decision Of the ques-
tion whether or not they would have slave
nv among them.
The Lill TO settle the disputed boundary
between the United States and Texas rests
upon equally sound and constitutional prin-
cipies. It's provisions simply contain n
proposition from the general government