The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-25
{ HE SOUTHERN PRESS,
WASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1850.
The Peace Men.

| lUESDh NON 70, 1851
The Peace Men.
The peculiar champions of Union and har-
mony, of cancellation and peace, happen, un-
fortunately, to be men of very irregular temper
and belligerent character Perhaps the most
Jealous disciple of political love and affection
is General FoorE, who is quite as apt, we think,
to keep himself in perpetual hot-water, as the
most unappeasabe fre-eater in the land
Mr.. CLAWS love of peace also, is so devout,
and his passions so remarkably we'll controlled,
that he thinks himself invested with mission
for harmony and is snch an ultra in the cause,
that he is quite ready to declare war to preserve
it. His personal and gratuitous attack on Mr.
RHETT, and fraternal hope that he would be
hanged if he acted on his opinions, will long be
remembered rs an illustration Of temper at the
close Of long harangue on Cancellation, in the
Senate.
Nor can Mr. CLAY even in his advanced age
forego the arts Of demagogue any more than
the passions of an unsatisiied ambition In his
recent Frankfort speech, he calls the Nashville
Convention Il second edition Of the Hartford
Convention. The aluson is unfortunate for
Mr., CLAY. The Nashville Convention embo-
died the principles most hostile to those of the
Hartford Convention The latter assembled to
oppose and embarrass the resistance made by
their country against foreign aggression. The
| Nashville Convention, in time Of peace, opposed
domestic aggression of one section on another
The section in which the Hartford Convention
was held, is the one which commenced the re-
cent territorial aggression. 1t was consistent
for party that proposed to desert the South in
time OF war, to propose to rob it in time of
peace. But it is unlucky for Mr.. Clay, who acted
with CALHOUN and CHEvEs against the Northern
seceders them to be acting with what remains
of the men and the leaders Of the Hartford Con-
vention now, in aggression on his own section
of the country and in vituperation of the course
of his early associates, one of whom has Just
gone down to the grave, after giving the sane
ty of his death-bed counsel to the cause Of the
South, whilst the other also devotes to it the
vigor Of an undimmed intellect.
Very appropriately also comes the editor Of
! the New York Courier, to be delighted with Mr..
CLAWS attack on the Nashville Convention and
to join in it. He particularly admires and en-
dorses the comparison made by Mr.. CLAY be-
| tween it and the Hartford Convention-and pro-
nounccs the men who resist Northern aggres-
sion to be wicked and proclaims that any
Southern State which attempts to sccedc must
be :ohipped in.
Now it will no doubt very much distress such
men as went to the Nashville Convention to be
called wicked by such paragon of principle,
such II puritan in politics. and such model of
modesty, moderation and manners, as the editor
Of the New York Courier d. Enquirer So
also it must be Of immense consolation for the
Northern sanity spoilers, to have their cause
sanctfed by one whose life and conversation
have been so proverbial And then the threat
of whipping comes with such peculiar pro-
prety from chief scribe of peace and harmony :;
and above all from New York partizan, in
whose own State some ton or fifteen thousand
Anti-reners have for years defed the authority
of the State, disregarded its fundamental laws,
its right of propcrty-and continue to do So
fifteen thousand men in State which contains
nearly half million of mon. And this beli-
gercnt apostle Of peace, instead of marching to
whip in the insurgents who arc only three hours
journey from the great commercial emporium Of
the State and its warrior apostle, and much
nearer than tn t to his seat Of government, he
sits and scribbles and "nihs his pen victorious"
about Whipping in sovereign States and forms
a coalition with the rebel Ant-renters at home
to elect Governor
The Compromises are unlucky. They un-
dcrtook to legislate between Northern rapacity
and Southern right, and that ought to satisfy
both parties. It satisfied neither. The North
Is indignant that she did not get all-the South
that she loses 80 nearly all. In this difficulty
the compromisers discovered n new argument
and n notable one. 1t is, that the South ought
to be satisfied because the North Is not and the
North because the South is not And as this
has failed, the compromisers proceed with the
grand work of love and cancellation, by giving
US al appendix of vtuperative epistles, of odous
comparisons and finally, of threats that we shall
be whipped into fraternity and cudgelled into
oonOifation. And We observe, that as the North
got the principal part of the territory, the sub
ject of dispute, the South gets the principal part
of the hard words, and the threats of hard
knocks.
sBD Congress of the United States viii meet
on Monday next