Washington telegraph., 1851-07-30

| blessed with an Executive and Cabinet,
who get up new States on our common
! territory. and recommend admission into
this UnlOn with clauses in their organic
law that utterly prohibit aud exclude the
Southern people, their constitutional
property and rights.
Already, they have sixteen States to
our fourteen. California, with the ad-
vice, Invitation, and guardianship of oul
Executive, (and we may we'll say with.
om census. or citizens,) has formed a
State Government, elected her Senators
and two Representatives, and after ex-
GLIDING peremptorIly the entire South is
demanding admission into this Union,
for what! AS far as we are concerned,
to cast herself in the scales against us,
and to add to the already disheartening
disparity between us.
In few years also. Oregon, Minnesota,
New Mexico, Deseret, and Nebra ska,
must be admitted, under the same prece-
dent, with the same restrictions, as free
States and should Mr.. Benton's bill car
ry, new State shall be formed out of
that part of Texas which lies north of
SO 30, making i'll the next five or ten
years, twenty-three free States to our four
teen.
What will then be our hope, to defend
successfully our institutions, against
Northern aggression? Already New
York declares the proposition 10 cut off
from Texas the country which lies be-
tween the Nueces and Rio Grande, and
TO proclaim it free territory. This is The
policy they have so often announced, to
hem us in, and annually circumscroe
our limits. and crowd free-men and slaves
into the smallest possible space, until
they starve or destroy each other.
The most moderate men we have
men whose adherence TO the South might
almost be questioned, are inhamed at the
prospect which this opens up to our fu-
lure. I will not elaborate. Sensible
men OF our country can see the conse-
quences, horrible as they would become
IN halt century; and it is our duty, NOT
only to provide for our comfort, but to
leave TO our children such institutions as
shall preserve their throats from the knife.
and their country from waste and desola-
ton.
Should we adopt the recommendation to
admit California, aud should all the new
States enumerated be admitted in ten
years, making tWenty-three; would ag.
gresslon cease, or would the number of
tree States cease to Increase? Certainly
not; and we should still have all amount
OF territory TO make ten or twelve more
free States
Ii those should be admitted against us
Hvo
the end of this summary of adverse pow
ers! by no means; we can return TO
what we have overlooked. Great Brit
ain now offers independence to the Can
adas. Already the political parties are
arrayed for annexation and anti-annexa-
ton. Those who favor annexation, will
triumph ultimately. They are then to
be thrust upon u.s. and if this shall not be
enough. TO burst the bonds of our Union,
Great Britain will add New Bruins wick,
Nova Scotia, and her possessions to the
Rocky Mountains. 1t will be the price
of our disunlon, which shall throw into
her arms the only essential and richest
commerce of the world, that of the
South, aud open TO hel fabrics, on equal
terms with the North, market for mil
Lions and millions.
If productive of such results, the pol
icy would be to her incalcuable advan-
tage, aud the price mere bagateIle.
Can the South live in a Union, where
every power is h )stile to her institutions
and prosperity! Can she submit. where
every movement Of the North is agg:es-
sive and accretive?
But many will think the South would
do well to submit-be satisfied with her
present extent--her property is safe with
in the States-thOse States are protected
within the express words of the Consti-
tuition. Of what value is that protection,
if there shall be States enough in twenty
or thirty years to change the Constitution
and rob us and our children. We shall
not then he so able to contend with
thirty or more States as now with six
teen.
But, within ten years to come, there
Will be no necessity to change the Con-
stitutlon. Time sanctjhes wrong, and
constitutions change with construction,
TO suit power. A war of passion will
waste away the Constitution.
1t existed once principle, that petition
, could be received whose prayer was in conflict
with the Constitution. NO,o, you may petition TO
desecrate or destroy the Con uitution or Govern
lnent. 1t is recognized right. Time and sub
mission haue sdnctifed it. The Constitution will
not protect us in ten years. Already has Vermont
asserted, in solemn legislative action, that Con-
gress has poDer oper slnoery in eUery State, ex-
c-pt the original parties to the compact Five of
the slave States were parties; the other nine acere
not, and of course by this doctrine Congress has
power to abolish slavery in them. The doctrine
seems monstfous now, but did the same doctrine
when first applied to the DISTRICT Of Columbia and
the Territories. 1t excites unmitigated disgust and
| bitter denuu.iaton now, but did all the early
efforts Of abolition. Time will sanctiy this, it