Southern Dictation And Northern Submission

Hardly a week pases but we learn of some new instance of southon dictation and northern 6iibserviency in Congress. Legislation such as will satisfy the slaveholders appears to be confüdered such as will satisfy thenation; and.by the sycophancy of Northern representatives, Northern self-respect is undergoing a continual sacrifice. To illustrate this we will allade to a fewofthomapy disgraceful transactions of which our present Congress has, within a few weeks, boen gtiilty. Inihc apportiomnent of representatives for the nextten years the slaveholders delermined lliat the relative power which Ihey possessei in congress should continue about the same The house of Rep. at first, passed a bil!, giving to each portion of the Uniou the represt n tation to which it was entitled according to our republican principies, but, at lengtb, by order oj the Señale, the pliant instrument o John C. Colhoun, the House gave way - sub mitted to the dictation of the slaveholders - and,instead of establishing a number by whic 17,000 000 of people should be propnrly repr esented, fixed tipon ono which, in 1832, wouh not have been considered a proper number fo a population of 12,000,000!The slaveholders nsisted that none ofthit class of personsj who are indebted to their God zYxi our God Tor a dark skin,sftcvW bc ad,-miiled inl9 the yarii Qf tfa Capítol : our reprosentatives submitted to this contemptible dictation, and our Congress passed a law excluding1 colored people from that sacred spot! The slaveholders insisled that Congress ehould pass a lavv ofïering inducements to persons to emigra! e from the States mto the swamps and marshes of Florido. Our Congress, as is usual when the slaveholders insist, yielded, and passed a law authorising government to hire men, with our property, to settle in that Territory and thereby render its population sufficienlly numeroua to allow its admiasion into the Union , aa a Slave State, at an early day! The slaveholders, through Mr. Calhoun insisted that American citizens who are obliged to wear a dark skin, should not bo employed in our army as salors or soldiere. Altho' it was proved that they made some of the best sailore and soldier?, our Senate submitted to the dictation, and passed a bilí prohibitingthese persons from being employed in any other capacity in the army and navy, than as cooks, servants and musicians! Our House of Representatives, ofcourse, will follow suit, and then will be added another link to the long series of out rages upon humanity, of which our nation,throu?h its representatives, is guilIn view of this state ofthings, is itnot the duty of all good citizens to see that their votes are given for men who have a proper regard for the interests of their conatituents, and of the nation? who have not only capacity, but independente and honestyl - The subject is