The southern press., 1850-11-06

unionl Then he. believes that Southern dis
grace, dismemberment and dishonor are either
probable or inevitable at the hands Of the
Federal Government sr iAsstsa
And now comes the editor Of the Union and
proposes that the South shall desert or surren-
der her territorial rights, and be content and re-
joice in the recognition of the right to reclaim
her fugitive slayes--and that the States which
have great and peculiar interest in this right,
shall be released from their other pledges, whilst
those who are thereby the most despoiled and
deserted, shall be held to this. No. The COM
pact was composed of several provisions, which
are connected and inseparable-one and indi-
visible To break one--is to break all. RI.
The right of reclaiming fugitives turns out to
be the most obnoxious to the North--amongst
the least important to the South of all her
rights. Is this the case for the South to take a
stand that will justify her desertion of every
other! No, we are for one--and ALL The sur
render of one only involves the loss of all, and
of honor. .st ssl ~ a,r ..
If the Southern States do not keep faith with
one another, how can they expect the Northern
will keep faith with them. And if the South
will not maintain the position she has already
taken, how is it to be expected that she will
maintain any position! -ra. ....'., .
AS for the Fugitive Slave law, We said the
day after it passed that it would never be exc
cutcd. We said that the reason the North per
mitted it to pass was, because they knew il
would not be executed. The North got every,
thing by the Compromise South gota law
Ion paper--of no efficacy. We said then we
say now, that the Fugitive Slave question is i'm
medieable under the present Constitution. The
old law was seldom enforced, the new law will al
most never be enforced. Not all the Federal
army and navy can enforce 1t. ...n
The Union may talk of the opposition to it
as that of few free negroes and Aboltionists.
But there is the city of Boston, with hundred
and thirty or forty thousand people, every man
of whom the Marshal is authorized by the law
to call on, to assist in its execution. The at
tempt has been made-for a week. The tlgi-
tires are still there-recognized as citizens an
their casies-vtheir claimants are ttgitires from
The laacs Of Massachusetts and speopte Of Boston.
The border submissionists may swagger and
threaten they will next equiyocate, then quib-
bic, submit and rejoice when that, the last YES
tige of Southern right in this controversy is
gone. We shall be duped by none oftheir pro-
fessions. We shall aid in giving them no more
consequence as Southern champions, to enable
them to regain their lost standing in the South
again to betray it, again to exhibit their ma,
tionality by deserving their allies, again to sub
NIT and rejoice. And we tell them now plainly
that there are cotton States, who will deliberate
before they will again send their delegates to
Congress, again to vote for the rights of the
border, until they have some guarantee that their
own rights will be asserted. The border States
may thus be left to test that great spirit of con-
cliation, Union, and nationality of the North, of
which Southern submissionists have told US so
much But when they find that the cotton
States will refuse to receive their negroes as
slaves, and that the North will welcome and pro-
tect them as fugitives, they will begin to under
stand the value of good faith, and the value OF
Northern and party nationality.
The Union says that "the Press has pub
lished that its editorial control was nomnally at
least under the supervision of a Committee u
consisting of Messrs, BUTLER, Morton, TooMBs
and THOMPSON. The Press has published no
such thing-and no such thing is the fact. The
Press has published the reverse. 1t is under no
| control, in supervision whatever, but that of the
editors whose names are at the head of its col
umns.
But who controls or supervises the Washing
ton Union, especially for "several weeks past, "
whilst it has been striving 10 keep both the Ma
tionaL parties aHre ?" Isit joint committee of
the Cabinet and of the Democratic candidates
or is it common council of Northern or South
ern Compromises Or is it governed excu-
sively by the minority of Southern members
that supported the Peace measures? Or by the
still smaller minority of Southern Democrats in
Congress who voted for them? Or is it directed
by the "friend" that advanced some "ffty
thousand dollars aoithout interest,"" to enable the
editor to 60 on?