The southern press., 1850-09-03
Favorable Signs

from that region present the most indubitable
evidence of this. Even the Raleigh Star, a
Wing paper of great influence, and rather re-
markable for the moderation of its tone, uses in
its last number such language as this, in the
following editorial:
THE UNION OF THE South FOR THE SAKE OF
THE UNION.-let this be the watchword of every
Southern patriot who wishes to see the Federal
Union preserved on its Constitutional basis
Let us cease for heavens sake, all strife with
each other and present an united front to our
common enemy 1t is unfortunate for the
South to be in a MINORITY but her cause will
be hopeless if that minority is divided against
itself What Southern man but must be hu
inflated, as well as desperate, at the idea that
the South should be her own eXecutioner, while
her enemies look on with folded arms and de-
risive smile! p
1t also copies the following:
"Our Southern and Southwestern exchanges
are crowded with accounts of Southern Rights
Meeting, all of which breathe the spirit of calm
resolve. A resistless food-tide Of public senti-
ment sets strongly in one direction, and petit
| fogging politicians might as we'll seek to swim
up the current of the Mississippi as to stem that
resistless current, or change its direction. The
people of the South understand their rights, and
will most certainly maintain them. Neither
force nor fraud will avail now to prevent them
they will neither be bulIicd nor juggled out Of
their equality in this Confederacy."
From an article in the Register, also of the
same place and date, we make the following ex-
tract:
"But nothing, it seems, will satisfy Northern
fanatics.
Let us now come to the determination to have
our rights To the fullest ertem We must have
our share of California. as Territory or Terri
tories, and not as States, and also of New
Mexico. Utah has already received the sanction
of the Union to become Territory, saying moth
ing about slavery. The other Territories must
also be silem on that subject, or they will never
get any form of Government with the assent of
the South. 1t is the duty of Southern members
to defeat by all legal means the passage of all
Bills giving Governments to these Territories
that may have the Wmot Proviso" tackled on
to it. TO such a crisis have we come, by the
obstinacy Of Hale, Seward q Co., and few
"IIotspurs," of the South. The time has ar
rived that requires that every Southcrncr should
forget party animositics and present an und-
vided front to the North. If the voice Of pa
triotism is hushed in the North, the instinct of
sell interest is aS HNely IT'S ever lHt(
afford to lose the golden harvest that the manu-
featuring of Southern produce gives them. They
would be so much crippled in their commerce by
dissolution of the Union, that before five years
were expired, they would wish every negro in
Africa, or in much warmer climate. They
would be the first to propose reunion. If
these assertions are facts, Gas they undoubtedly
are) all we want is to be united, and present
firm aspect, and you will soon see our Northern
friends returning to reason, and descending from
that aerial moral elevation upon which their fancy
has placed them"
These and sim liar indications from various
quarters show that papers which have hereto
fore been halting, have at length yielded to the
force Of that great current Of opinion which will
soon sweep over the entire South.
t-Ey" We are glad to learn that the Planters of
Louisiana contemplate the establishment of q
Southern Press in New Orleans. 1t is high time
that certain Northcrn parasitic prints Of that city,
who live in Southern land by Southern institu-
tons, and devote themselves to Northern opin-
ions and prc%ch the drctriGe Of submission to
the North, should be rcpudi"tcI.
A single planter has offered thousand dol
lars to aid in establishing til" right sort of pa
per. and it is necessary for the emterprize only
to begin TO succeed.
We have long been surprised that the coun-
try people Of Louisiana could endure the dull
ness, to say nothing Of the herrsy of such papers
us the Bee, and the Couricr, But as it is a
warm climate, we suppose they are taken to pro-
mote the Si"sLaS, of the luxurious Crcoes.
We have not been able, ourselves, to under
stand how the editors Of those papers could
keep themselves awake while writing such prosy
editorials They belong to the class Of philan-
thropists described by Pope
'Sleepless themselves to give their readers sleep.
.Sy~ We insert to-day the advertisement of
Messrs. c. &, E. L. KERRIsoy g. Co., of Charles
ton, S. c.. They are importers direct of foreign
Dry Goods, and we commend them to the GUS
tom of our readers. A direct foreign trade is
one of the effectual remedies of the South for