Georgetown weekly news., 1855-02-01
Southern Route for a Railroad.
The Sacramento Union says:


as the Qualification, Disunion Road, not to
San Francisco, but to Guaymas.'
After which it gives extracts from the
Democrat averring that the Southern Dis
union Convention at Charleston, has shown
that foreign road, outside of the present
United States, was the object of the present
administration, and of all the nullifiers
wherever they may be.
The Democrat charges upon the admin
istration Disunionists and Nullifers spirit
of hostility to the free part of the States of
this Union, favoring an alliance with Mex
leo and the Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and
Cherokee Indians, and even subsection to
Mexican laws" Thus says the Democrat,
''at page 50" (refering to proceedings of
convention)
Mr. Albert Pike, Of Arkansas, after a
long enumeration of northern aggresSions
upon southern institutions, driving the
South into self-defence, &C., &c, submits
such resolutions as these:
Resolved, Sd. That in this emergency it
becomes the South to provide for her own
welfare and that she is entirely able and
competent to do so, without further hum
bling herself by asking assistance of the
North.
1t then adds the subjoined comments and
appends the fourth resolution:
This resolve though brief, is like small
key which opens a large door. 1t shows
the temper Of mind in which the whole res
olutions are conceived. The South is in an
| "emergency," that is to say, in critical
and dangerous condition, which calls for
| immediate action as means of safety
that this action is to come from herself,
without humbling herself to the North, be-
ing entirely adequate to her own relief
The next resolve was a logical sequence
of the third, and went on to show how this
provision for their own welfare was to be
effected by the slave States, and runs thus:
Resolved, 4th, That in order to make
such provision, this convention respectfully
recommend that a Southern organization be
effected of the States Of Maryland, Virgin
la, n Orth Carolina, South Carolina, Geor-
gia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisi-
ana, Texas, Arkansas Missouri, Tennessee
and Kentucky and Of the different railroad
companies and corporations in these States,
for the purpose of building a railroad, with
! one terminus or more on the Mississippi, in
a slaveholding State or States, to run by
or near FL Paso, to some proper point on
the Pacific, or the Gulf Of CaIifornia-ask-
ing nothing of the General Government, but
negotiating the right of way, if necessary,
with foreign government.
To such dangerous and disunion move
ments as these, the Sacramento Union goes
on with the following able remarks upon
the subject, with suitable interrogatories to
our California Legislature, in regard to
their position upon the Pacific and Allan
tic Railroad measure:
The resolutions, if we recollect correctly,
were not adopted, although discussed at
great length. They looked at a concentra-
tion Of effort to render the Southern emphat-
ically a sectional Southern States route. to
be built by the States; to have its terminus
in a "S'aUeholding State on States . "ask-
ing nothing of the General Government, but
negotiating the right way, if necessary, with
a foreign government"
These resolutions undoubtedly embodied
the real sentiment of the leaders of the Cal
houn ultra States Right anti-national and in
tensey Southern wing of the Democratic
party in the Southern States; but they deem
ed it not prudent to publish them at that
particular time. But mark the result-one
portion of the plan has been executed; the
negotiation with a foreign nation for RIGHT
Of way, has been effected at cost of ten
million Of dollarst
The next step is to unite, as proposed in
the resolutions, all the slaveholding States
in a sectional band for the completion of this
road. which under no circumstances can ev-
er terminate in San Francisco.
1t is evident the present administration
concurs in the anti-national views enunci-
ated in those Charleston resolutions. 1t has
in the Gadsden Treaty fully consummated
one of the prominent features ofthis section
al plan.
From the opening of the discussion of the
Pacific Railroad we have insisted that moth
ing direct and positive could be expected in
favor of the road by the people of California
from the Administration of fPresident Pierce
because he and his policy would be in the
hands of this same Southern ultra sectional
Democratic wing-that the leaders of this
abstraction wing of the party were bitterly
opposed to internal Improvement by the
Notional Government, and to purchasing
territory, unless On their side of .sUpcie
Sans tarm''-that they would dictate the
policy OF this Administration; and in sun
port OF our position, we point to the course
OF Gen. Pierce on the Pacific Railroad, and
to the negotiation Of the Gadsden treaty for
Southern sectional route, at cost ofSlO.
100000. They furnish proof strong as ho,
y writ" in support of our previous decIara-
tons upon this point, of such vital impor
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