The southern press., 1850-08-31
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The growing and snarling Of the Northern
members over the Wimot per Sc, which the free
soilers proper will persist in dragging up, to the
great yexation of their moderate brethren who
60 for the thing without The name would be
amusing if not disgusting.
Is there any real difference between the posi-
ton Of these two classes of politicians, as to the
point Of public policy or is not their quarrel
only selfish one, for supremacy at home?
Wherein consists the difference between the
attitude of Mr. Roor, so denounced, and the
position Of Messrs. Mr. McCLERNARD and BRooKs
so Landed in the Union of yesterday except
that the former seeks openly to effect that which
the latter would corertly carry through lending
bandage for tire willing eyes Of submissionists
of every stripe and every party in the South.
Tho painted devil" of the Wilmot Proviso
has become so utterly odions to the Southern
people, that even the stagnant blood Of the most
servile submissionists is stirred up by the name
that name has become sound of such hateful
significance, that every pap and party loving pa
triot at Washington knows full well, that as we'll
might lighted torch be flung into the midst Of
a magazine, as that proviso be engrafted on the
Territorial bills. Its passage, every man in the
country knows, would be mn invitation to civil
war, unless the Southern people have most sud-
denly degenerated into the basest braggarts and
most craven creatures tn at ever skulked away
from duty because accompanied by danger. The
North knows the South too well-she knows her
own interest too well, thus openly to fling down
the gauntlet. It is no part Of the tactics Of her
politicians to employ force, where insinuation and
indirection Jnay more safely and successfully be
resored to-and accordingly in spite Of oil the
affectionate braying of its children, The Wilmot
Propiso (by that name) has been for months
past dead ASS on the public highway as dead
as that over which Sterne shed his bitter tears
tainting the air it is true with it's unpleasant
oiors, when some Of its friends would stir the
carcase- but otherwise utterly innocuous.
How utterly factious and frivolous therefore.
its re-introduction now, by the g few but faith
full" whose first love it was-and who will not
believe it will smell as sweet" under any other
name and how shallow the denunciation
of it by set Of men, ready and anxious to force
the rial principle down the throats Of a strug-,
Cling minority, who can neither be hoodwinked,
nor consent to humbug others, by laying all the
stress on the name alone.
What is there in the name of Wilnot to ex-
cite such ire and defiance! The name is avery
good namc-and the person whose original pro-
perty it was, is sleek fat man," looking like
one Of those who" sleep O. nights'-not lean
Cassius-like conspirator. He may be fanatical,
but seems open and honest in fanaticism. There
is nothing in the name itself, or its antecedents
then, to make it odious, but the hateful degra-
ding discrimination which is couched under the
name has given it the evil report which it bears.
What is that discrimination? The refusal to
allow to Southern citizens the privilege accorded
to Northern, of removing into the new territories
with their propcrty-the exclusion now and
forever of shareholders from new acquisitions
and the fat that no new slave State ever shall
be admitted hereafter into this confederacy.
That is the Wilmot Proviso there is its
substance, its soul--and though its Putrid ear
case rot upon the dunghill: though the high
priests Of party solemnly pronounce their Re-
quiescatr over its cold remains: yet its spirit will
still, in new shapes, control the councils OF the
North, and shape its measures OF policy
while Southern sycophants and submisslonsts'
like the old slaves of Royalty, will cry in one
breath aThe King is dead y and in the next
Long live the King"
aThc infamous Proviso is dead pass the
Omnibus bill and give peace to this distracted
countryr--is now the watchword. Can those
who use it, deny thai the Proriso is a passenger
in the Omnibus, which by piece-meal was pushed
through the Senate, by a coalition between the
Compromisers and Abolitionists! Is ''lc VII
mat Proriso. word for word, not incorporated in
the California bill ?-Is il not fixed fact that