The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-10-01
THE NEW ORLEANS PRESS.

We rejoice that amid the ~free-soil detection
of the New Orleans press we can find one pa.
per which commences, in spite Of all contrary
influences, to speak boldly upon southern rights.
1t is the Delta, from which we take our extract
which we give below.
The tone OF the New Orleans press, and the
recent excitement OF our country, has eviden-
ced that it was under the control OF men with
northern feelings, We verify believe that
tina. there are now in New Orleans a majority ol
men, who are endued with couetousnesS as to
have totally lost their patriotism, They may be
found amongst the merchants, the traders, the
class OF men engaged in business and they are
indifferent whether the South have her rights
and her honor secured to her or not they are
them who care not whether the Wilmot proyiso
pass or not, so that they may remain undisturb.
ed to hoard their gaimngs, Many of them are
men, so essentially northern that they are alb
olitionists, and these men control tho press +.
and more yet, they give tone to the politics OF
their property -hoIdlng, selfish debtors residing
in other parts of their State, We are glad that
the people OF ono county of our State (Hinds)
have resolved not to patronize these men. be.
fore many weeks, every other county in the
State will have come to a similar resolve, we
hardly doubt.
But to the Extract. After r%eciting the deia.
cling by some villains OF the South Carolina
| hIncL IA tha Na,;nnal Innn.,,,, oal -
ayowed hostility OF the whole northern people
to us, the Delta proceeds:
another manifestation of hostility 10 the
South, we observe IN a quarter from which a
more honorable and just spirit was to be ex
peeled We refer To the fuIIadeIpnIa Ledger
Ia paper OF vast circulation, and generally Oh
moderate views. In this Journal 1t Is stated
that ALT. alsh will DO removed from the Con-
sulsllp IN Pans, ON account OF his attachment
to Mr.. Calhoun, and his pro-Slavery OPINIONS.
The writer iurtner suggests that MIR, Clemson,
Charge 10 Belgium, ami son-In-law OF the il.
l~uSlllJus patriot OF South Carolina, ought 10 be
removed Tor a like reason, as no is known to be
devoted TO Southern views.
This suggestion is thrown out by one who ap-
pears ~ be familiar Win the aIlalrS in Nasu-
lngton. We nope, ior the sake vi the peace Of
the States and ol the Union, that 1t may have
no other foundation than IN the S~peUuIauuns OF
a Washington letler.wrter. Snould 1t p,ove
true, ana "a rule OF action like TINS be establish
ed at W asnIngton, that men oil the S0utn are
10 be prescribed, oSuaclsed Tor tner devotion to
their own homes and hreSides, and to those
rights without which those MONIES Will De con.
Verted into scene OF deSolauon and dsbaSe
nnent, we regard the peru, which even now
begins to darken in the future, as near and In.
mlnent. And yet, Is not TINS but one step be.
yond the doctrine SO extensively maintained al
the North, winch oonlemplates excluding the
South tIom all participation in the advantages
OF the new Territory, acquired by the Joint VAR
and labor oil all t1e StateS-a pretension not
abandoned even by many Of those who SUI.
ported the late COMPROMISE Onlt Inc an-
sorption OF all the common territory of the
Uidon, by the North, renders but one step tur.
ther necessary TO complete the enslavement
and proStratlon oil the South, and thai we ind
IN TINS suggestion 10 exclude ali Southern pco.
slavery men from office, Under such circum.
stances as these, in the face OF such nantes.