The southern press., 1850-10-08
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Thess ~ three Whig pn9srs lptlished in
Rrhnond. vieginiA-ths Wkig, the &epsb'ican
and the Times The course OF these papers on
the controversy between the North and the
South would DC amusing, If it were not morti-
flying.
The Richmond Wing supported the resolu-
tons Of the Legislature Of Virginia threatening
resistance to Northern aggression, and advocated
the Nashville Convention Afterwards the Whig
opposed that Convention and opposed its rcsolu-
tions-then il advocated Gen. TAYLoR's plan Of
manufacturing American States by military
power-then it rejoiced at the passage OF the
Clay Compromise bills-and now il denounces
every movement and every sentiment in the
South hostile to Northern aggression, and is en-
gagged in labored arguments TO prove how weak,
how contemplate tn, South would be without
Northern protection. Nay, the Wing has even
made the discovery that the Southern opponents
of Northern encroachment propose to apply, IN
the event Of Disunion, to the government OF
Great Britain for protection-a story about like
that of the correspondent Of the North American
some time ago, of Southern confcderncy with
Mexico
The Richmond Times undertook some months
ago, occasionally to deprecate, II not denounce,
some of the measures Of the late mockery OF
Compromise. Now il has made the original and
brilliant discovery that the South has actually
rot the advantage of the North in these meas
ures, or ut least has acquired stronger position
than she ever had before.
The Richmond Republican, however, was for
year or 30 past, one ofthe mostdecidedly South
ern and spirited papers in that place. Ncomplaned
of Northern aggresson-it threatened resist
ance-it talked of Southern independence Now
Il is the most humble of submissionists-it is
rejoicing submissonst.
IT publishes such an article as this:
V,RGINrA.-Thc Southern Press says
"Vireinia will do her duty. And let nobody
imagine that this will be done in falterng or
half. way manner. The case demands energy and
decision When Virginia takes her stand for
Southern rights, the question will be settled And
Virginia, we think, will make that stand wnen her
Legislature next assemblies.
virginia ~'ud1 tuhcH uCI oIAbN iVAS "e3Vt e'>'
has the proud satisfaction Of seeing its results in
the adjustment measures of the last session OF
Congress Virginia is now tired Of Standing
position, and, having secured Southern Rights,
she will 90 for,card at the next Legislature in
securing Southern improvements and other like
practical and important matters. But she does
not dream of any such 'stand" as the Southern
Press desires An oyster "stand' would com
mand. Mt this time, more devotees in the Virgins
Legislature. than any such blood and thunder
position as the Southern Press wishes her to
occupy.
We can assure our contemporaries OF the
Press that the greatest cause OF indignation
which is now felt here in regard to the North, is
that Jenny Lind has not yet crossed Mason q
Dixon. The great inquiry is, "Where IS Bar
nun % The great demand is "Come, and bring
Jenny Lind to Richmond Not until she ar
rives will Virginia consent to go to war; we
want her here to wear off with her sweet voice
they wiry edge Of our impetuoes heroism vir-
pinsans, in their high-tempered valor, are like
fhe Spnrtans. who, Thucyidides says, used not
the trumpet in their march into battle, because
the wished not to excite the rage Of their war
riors, but charged upon the foe, to the @Dorlan
mood of flutes and soft recorders" AS soon rs
Jenny arrives, and some prize poet prepares hel
n song commencing eDeath to the Yankees,
Death" Virginia will take up her line of march
for California. Some future poet or poetess
may hereafter sing of her sons -:
"And Jenny g throat, their path around,
Sent forth Eolian breath
They needed not a sterner sound
To marshal them for death
So moved they calmly to their field,
Thence never to return,
Save bearing back Virginia shield,
Or on it proudly borne"
Virginia has produced statesmen, warriors.
and orators. She can produce buffoons. AS
her soil when exhausted by over culture is
abandoned by the farmer, and produces sponta-
neously a crop of scrub pines and cedars, SO in
the city, where the voice of HENRY awoke to
resistance the people Of Virginia, there barren
and scanty crop of submissive papers may now
strive for sickly existence, and lean in humble
adulation on the Northern dispenser Of federal
patronage here.
For ourselves, we believe that although the
spirit, like the soil of Virginia, has in many
places been reduced to sterility, and in some
never was rich, she has still an ample quantity
left to Wind cate her ancient rcnown and opu-
lence.
rW- The N. Y. Tribune thus expresses its
opinion of the practical efficacy of the Fugitive
Slave law--an opinion, the correctness of which
Indications of popular sentiment at the North
strongly confirm:
THE FUe1r1vE IMw.-Beau Brummel was
once asked to indicate the best joke he had ever
heard in his life. After considering minute,
he said he thought it was bequest OF live
pounds left by man in his will toward paying
off the British National Debt.
The Beau lived in one of the darker ages
Had he been blessed with the daylight of 1850,
he would have confessed that the passage Of the
Fugitive Slave bill (among others) expressly to
"setile the slavery question" was joke entirely
ahead of his Aud the vehement assertion of
Messrs. Duer Bush, &C., at Syracuse, that the
entire slavery agitation, present and future, had
been settled, quieted, put to sleep, by these
measures, went even degree beyond the other.
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