Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1852-04-22

stand on the Journals, that the clause or
(" Article" rs expressed in the act Of admission,
and taken from the +" Ordinance of l7S7," is an
Official act of Congress: but is there man I'D
the United States of perception and reflection.
who can believe that the Northern "majority'
in Congress would have passed the bill and ad-
mittcd California into the Union, unless they
had knorn that the clause, or article for the
pillasc of the South, had been incorporated in
her new Constitution They knew it had been
forced there by their own corruption, and by
taking advantage Of the South, whilst the terri
tory was under the abolition "pupilagc" Of their
" majority" in Congress. This they Knew
Mr.. WEBSTER knew it, for he said so, in his
Speech at Buffalo, and spoke of those extra
ordinary events which occurred in California"
for three or four years, so that they could neither
grant her Territorial or State government. It
was an infamous trick to borrow that land clause
referred to- and to apply it to that vast territory
in question, and to Utah and New Mexico, in
some way, by which they could efectually rob
the Southern States and people Of their just
estate, for which they had lavished their treas
urc and poured out their blood. MIR. FILLMORE
knew this as well as Mr.. WEBSTER. In fact,
they all kner it, They knew, that the land
robbing clause was in the California Constitu-
tion-and their guilt, therefore, shows with a
double criminalty, when they annex their hypo-
critical Proviso to the Sd Section, Thatnothing
herein contained shall be construed as rcchghi-
1ng or rejecting the articles Of compact in tie
Ordinance adopted by the Convention which
formed the State Constitution uf California"
This Proviso carries most damning fllsehood
Upon its very face. Ii shows upon the record,
in IN Act OF Congress, that those Northern
holy-facc Purtans would induce the South and
the broad world to believe, that they claim no
right for Congress "to recognize" any nterfer-
cnce with American slavc-labor in the Southern
new State of California: While, at the same
time, f,r three or four years, they refused her
an authoritative government, until they forced
her to adopt tia, Objectionable clause, extracted
from the old Ordinance, alluded to, Of 1877. in
order to exclude slavery from her borders.
They dictated to the Convention of California,
BY special Government agent, THOMAS BtTEER
King, sent out expressly TO pnnder with the
Convention and people there, and to procure the
insertion. in their new Constitution, of M Arti.
Gle prohibiting slavery. After all these facts
which arc matters Of record, for that Puritan
"Majorty in Congress- TO falsify their OWL
Journals, by inserting in their act of admission
of California that Congress docs not "rccos
nizc the right TO interfere in the matter of slave
labor, as touching California, is q blackcr instance
Of hypocrisy than ever disgraccd the govern
n,cnt of Ilcrod of old. or that of Rome or Greece
They never would, repeat, have pissed tha
Bill for the admission Of California, had the,
not known, that the Constitution was ininical tt
Southern interests, and TO the institution of sla
rvrJ -rrrru-r, rrrrrorr; uTrr; Jr6VIkf
foul blot upon its very front: And if there il
any Constitutional i" freedom Of the rrcss'' il
this country, those perfdious aboliti"nis,s. who
would enact so base a deception ought to be ex.
posed AMI published before the people. not only
Of the United States, but Of the whole civilized
world.
Those hundred guns fired by the righteous
Pilgrims and Freesoers in Washington City, OF
the night Of 9th September, 1859, the day Mr.
FILLMORE approved the California Bill, is further
proof that they knew the robbery was consun,.
mated and that they did recognise" is con-
summation as the only condition Of admit G
California into the Union, or Of granting her
any efficient government.
Those Hundred Guns, celebrating the pcrpe-
tra,ion of that dark fraud, may justly be styled,
the Sun-down guns" Of the Republic A
Republic that cost WASHINGTON and his CON-
patriots seven long bloody years TO establish
Such government to be destroyed BY the ruth
less hands Of robbers, makes the heart sick, and
almost ready to welcome even an absolute mon
archy! We are to be absorbed by cxhorbitant
Tariffs, and the taxable resources. blood and
treasure of the Southern States are TO be wasted
in fighting battles and acquiring Territories for
the exclusive occupancy" of these Northern.
manufacturing abolition States
Sir, you never read Of more diabolcal and
revolving system of oppression, in the history Of
tic Autocrat of Russiu, or in that of an Alliance,
called foly," Ito make it mnrc blaspbcmous>
Of the Crowned Dcspots Of Europe, for the
plnndcri sabjagatiosr and destruction of man.
Kind
plead for tie lawful Territorial rights of til.
South on the principles of universal justice and
regret to say, that those principles have be-
come extremely unpopular, not only in New
England and the Northern States, but among
vile factions even in some Of the Southern
States. So long as can raise a vote or a voice,
never will CONSENT that an irresponsible polili-
cal Z" majority Of Congress-" from any Of the
States, shall become Omnpotcnt, and rob the
balance Of the States by Statutes Of prcmcdita-
ted fraud, Of their country, Of their true inheri
tancc, and Of their blood and treasure.
To those to whom these principles are unpopu-
lar, have no apology to make and those who
,nDroyp of them mood No onolony