The southern press., 1850-09-03

SOUTHERN PREss--The Louisiana Courier ex
presses our sentiments in relation to the South
em Press so forcibly in the following para
graph that we copy it for the information of
our readers We take it from an article which
contains some structures on Mr. Fillmore which
we cannot commend:
THE SOUTHERN Pass This journal was es
tablished by disorganzers and some few good and
true men from the South, who were deceived and
deluded into the giving Of aid and assistance, for
the avowed purpose Of putting down the Union
newspaper-but the real project aimed at nothing
less than putting down the Union Of the States
The editor Of that edfying sheet is wrought up to
the utterance of ferociously savage anticipations
by the passage Of the Texas and New Mexico
boundary bill He says there is " good reason to
believe that the people of Texas will never con-
sent to be bought off nor to sell any portion of
their territory to the Free Soilers and we greatly
mistake the temper ofthat people, fthey will ratify
such an act, passed while the threat of the Presi
dent was suspended over their heads, like a
scourge."
OF course the "Southern Press" rejoiccs in
view of the defeat of all measures calculated to
settle the exciting sectional questions which are
now agitating the country, and which promise
to give peace aud quiet to the nation. The
Southern Press is battling for its existence.
Let Congress pass the measures which it so bit
terly opposes and its end draws near. 1t sprung
into eXixtence like the gourd OF JONAH i'll one
night, and the rays of the unclouded sun of
peace aud Union would wither it in Il day. 1t
was begotten in agitation, brought forth in az
natiOn, can only live by sectional agitation, and
is destined to die for the want of agitation, if
the House pass the bill sent up to them by the
Senate.-Nobiie Advertiser.
1t is true the Southern Press has been called
into existence by agtation--an agitation, there
fore, which il did not bcgin-nor did its friends.
When great events arise, they demand the in
tervention Of minds that can comprehend them.
The louisiana Courier and the Mobile Re
stagnation and submission.
They are not equal to the existing exigency.
They would flourish in the atmosphere of Aus
tria and Russia, or in any other tranquil dispot-
ism. They will perish like the mosquitoes and
wigletails that are generated in torpid and mala-
rious elements, and die when the air and waters
arc purified by the storm. When therefore the
present commotion shall cease, when aggression
is driven back and liberty rcvives, such journals
as those will sicken and disappear.
If it is thought the Southern Press will not
survive the restoration Of tranquility, we invite
Il trial of the experiment. Give US justice-and
give us peace. And when the minds of men
are restored to calmness and deliberation, they
will be astonished that such papers as the Courier
and Register were ever countenanced in Il free
country-snd equally astonished that they had
the hardihood to attack the Southern Press
Sydney Smiths Views OH Progress.
There is Il certain class of well-meaning pco-
pie in public and private life, who are etcrnally
initiating Lots wife, and looking back when
they should be looking forward. With them
"the wisdom of our ancestors" is intallible, and
WAsHINGToN's Farewell Address a specific for
all the evils the Constitution is heir to- AS pri.
vate individuals, these gentry believe in the
stage lines yet, in preference to railroad cars
as pubcists, they never have travelled past Null
Iification and CLAWS Compromise-and in look,
ing back at these, bid fair to share Mrs. Lots
destiny.
For the benefit of such laudators Of the
"tcmporis acti," we subjoin q leaf from SYDNEY
SMITH on Progress:
1T is Of some Importance ut what period
man is born. A young man, alive at this pc
riod hardly knows to what improvements O
human life he has been introduced and bring
before his notice the following eighteen changes
which have taken place in England since be-
gan to breathe the breath of lifc-a period
amounting now to nearly seventy years. Gas
was unknown; groped my way about the
streets Of London, in all but the utter darkness
of twinkling oil lamp, under the protection
of watchmen, in their climaterc, and exposed
to every species of insult | have been nine
hours in sailing from Dover to Calais, before
the invention of steam. 1t took me nine hours
to 90 from Taunton to Bath, and now | can &C
in six hours from Taunton to London! II
going from Taunton to Bath, I suffered between
10000 and $4,000 severe contusions, before
stone breaking Macadam was born. | paid
El5 in single year for repairs Of carriage
spring, on the pavement Of London; and now
| glide without noise or fracture on wooden
pavcmcnts. ] can walk, by the assistance of
the police, from one end of London to the
other, without molestaton or if tired, get into
ii cheap cab, instead Of those cottages on wheels
which the hackney coaches were at the begin
ming of my life. | had no umbrella. They
were little used and very dear. There were no
waterproof hats, and my hat has often been re-
duced by rains, to its primitive pulp. | could
not keep my small clothes in their proper place,
for braces were unknown. If had the gout,
there was no colchium. If was bilious, there
was no calomel. If | was attacked by aguc, there
was no quininc. There were filthy coffee
houses instead of elegant clubs. Game could
not be bought Quarrcls about uncommutcd
tithcs Were endless. The corruption of Parlia-
mcnt before reform, infamous There were no
banks to receive the savings of the poor The
poor laws were gradually sapping the vitas Of
the country. Whatever mseres suffered |
had no post, to whisk my complaints for sim
gle penny to the remotest corners of the en-
pire. And yet, in spite Of all these privations,
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