The southern press., 1850-08-31

/ NV Mexico Is for it. too And does any ON
doubG that Utah b u ply tks ssise psicc for hc
admiaion - 6tate! Is ~ largo portion o
slsve-holding Texas bought out BY Free-soil, ana
paid for principally out Of the pockets Of slave
holders! IL not Jurisdiction to be given u
Congress over the slave trade in the District
the first step towards the assumption of sucl
power over the traffic between the Statesl
Is not the broad principle of the Provist
stretched all oscr and all through each and every
one of these separate measures And is thi'
the great measure Of deliverance and liberty
which is & to give peace to this distracted coun
tsyw
Veuly, if it be so, then indeed will we believe
that those cautiouS calculating timmers, who
would save appearances, and nothing else, for
the South-who would yield up her just claims
and consent that she should be robbed ON con-
dition that she be not kicked--who would sur
render up to Northern dictstion and Northern
insolence every acre Of soil acquired by joint
blood and treasure--who hold the union of the
Party paramount to the honor Of their section,
and hug an injury with transport to their bos-
oms, because needless insult has not accom-
panied il: we repeat that we shall then begin
to believe these men the true exponents OF
Southern sentiment--5u moi TIL then!
Why is the country sdistracted!p Has the
South done anything have the Southern Ul-
tras" nude any aggressive movement, or threat
ened or assailcd one Northern right The most
cringing Southern g Dae-face" dare not pretend
that such has been the case he can only whine
with hypocritical regret about the Extremists
North ard South" as though for the defence Of
person or property, or honor, unjustly and un-
lawfully assailed, any man or section could be
reproached as erireme
No, the agitation, the strife, the distraction, =
have all been caused by Northern aggression, fos-
tered and encouraged by Southern detection
for had the whole Southern phalanx stood firm,
the Northern horde would have been dashed
back like waves from rock Yet now the
South is called upon-aye, and by some Of her
own sons-to "give peace to this distracted coun-
try" by asayish surrender to this scheme fspolia
ton, and the holy name of patriotism" is invoked
to sanction this renegade desertion Of the rights
and the honor transmitted us by our fathers.
The South is to be made the willing scape-
goat to atone for all the sins of all the Confede-
racy--the sacrificial knife is to be placed in the
hands Of our moderate Northern friends, Books,
MUCLEREAED & Co., who will not use it SO ruth
lessly, but as surely as RooT and GIDDINGs,
while the victim
Pleased to the last, must crop its Aowery food,
And lick the hand just raised to shed its blood.
n Such is the choice afforded us--a choice of
cxecutions-a most pleasant juste nilieu of
private execution in the place of the open igno-
miny of public one, by the hands Of the COM
mon hangman.
NJ ,st desirable consummation--most signal
triumph Of the love our national brethren of the
North bear u.s. Who would not .sIcep sound
upon his pillow" after having aided in giving
such finality to the struggle? The anxious doubts
and fears Of the editor Of the Union as to the
Wilmot Proviso, and his triumphant grntula-
tions at every new reputation Of it under these
circumstances, suggest irresistibly coinci-
dencc which we cannot refrain from referring to,
without intending the slightest personal disre-
spect, and as in many respects it will be obvious
that the personal parallel would not hold good
We refer only to the identity of position. We
allude to that scene in Henry Nv, where FaIstaff
finds himself living on the field of battle by the
side Of dead Percy, and conquering his first fear
that he 9might be counterfeiting too and rise, .
stabs the body in the thigh, shoulders it, and
triumphantly throws it down before Prince
Henry, exclaiming
There is Percy! IF your faiher ,oiH do me
any honor. so If moi, lei him Kill the neat Perez
himself. Ilook to be Earl or Duke, can assure
you.
P. HEN. Why Percy killed myself and saw
thee dead,
!; FAL. Didst tho,-Lord, Lord, ho,o this uorld
is giuen to lying. Igrant you ,oas dozen, and
out of breath--d,1d so nds he--bM ,oe rose both
al an instanL and fought long hour by Shre,Os-
bury clock"
The whole recent war Of words on the part
of the Union, against the 4odious, the execrable
Wilmot Proviso," for far more than hours by
Shrewsbury clock" has been on par with
the feat of FALsTAFF-and the curious analogy
must strike every observer Of the late course Of
the former.
No danger is to be dreaded from that thing
now-it is dead enough, slain by the stalwart
arm Of Southern men-but in another and more
insidious shape it has reared its hydra head
and the South must bruise that head as it is ex-
hibited in these Omnibus measures, or own a
final defeat and future degradation.
The Omnibus.
On the day before yesterday, the attempt which
had failed in the Senate ofcombining and passing
the most inconUruous measures that could come