The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1850-05-14

yesterday copy Oh dlufesS 10 peO-
pie Of the southern States Recommending the esiab
Iishment at Washington city Of newspaper be de-
voted to the support and defence Of southern interests
The rights Of the slavehoding States have been most
wronguy and wckely assailed and presses have been
established at Washington and elsewhere to break down
southern institutions and TO denounce southern men in
the oaest and most offensive terms We do not com
plain that southern should epel the assaults which
have been made upon them and upon their just rights and
that they should establish and sustain presses whose
whole time be devoted exclusively to the support
and defence Of those rights. guaranteed 10 them by
the constitution leaving out Of view the other questions
which agalc The coun,ry--though we cannot very well
see how southern press be necessary, if the pres
ent agitation shall be settled every patriot hopes, by
amcable compromise. Nor can we very well see how
such press be necessary under proper arrange
with the present presses the addressers contend
Bat had the address adopted by the late meeting of
portion Of the southern members Of Congress stopped
this point and done more. would have rightly
planned OF such But the address does not stop
the right point for it casts or endeavos to cast
imputaton upon the press OF Washington and, indeed
of the whole South, which is unjust ungenerous and
unfounded To guard against msapprehension. copy
the words which convey that mputaton (The italics
are own)
There is paper the Of government through
which hear or be heard fairly and truly by the
country There paper here which makes the abolition
slavery its main and paramount end There are other
papers here which make the maintenance OF political par
their supreme and controlling object none chic con-
d ie yrsUpation Of sIteen HUNDRED ions o. properly
the equality and liberty Of fourteen fffses States pro-
lection of the hiie agafmst African equality az para
mount equal the OF some political
lrih . 70 ae1ea President and rho
of nf1es because he mil certainly rule pen hays rniw
the Sonih BAT cfy for The thar he H possess
bssfo1 Office and spoits The South has peculiar position
and important rights and interests objects of
ual from the majority and the party press depend
il is upon that majority for It's means Of living will
always be found aborng TO the assaiants and
paIayze all efforts sance How is il nowa The alb
ALTON pay always be heard through its press the
eat government; but through what organ press
Washington southern men communicates with the
d. with each other, upon their peculiar inter
e.sl So far fran rriting permitting anything Be
uria nhie calculated defend the rigais Of the South
truly its the here engaged lisg
the South fnto false security and in manufacturing there
artificial public sentiment suitable for presidentiaf
platform, though at the any and tU1y yos
may possess matter hoU dear hou pai and
This Of things results from party obligations, and
regard party and they but sobserve the ends
their eabshment in onsutng their own interests and
the advancement OF ths party to which they pledged
You look fem sentinels
repugnant the feelings Of the majority OF
party.
la tue federal legislature South has some voice and
some but in the public press /. stands
Of government North has controlling influence
Esgrsn Of thus city takes ats tone from thar Of The North
ErtH sothsn sslsed thu
ta-n Our public men--yrs, southern their
pablo standing and reputation often the commenda-
non and praise Of the northern press. Southern
pubsh from their respective party organs in thu. city,
and in doing reproduce, unconscious, doubtless in
instances, OF the wrong they do. the northern opinion
alon 70 public men and How dangerous such
state OF things must he the fidelity Of your
ives is needless say They bur men, and would
be unwise 10 suppose that they beyond reach
temptations which influence the rest Of mankind.
We have nothing to say with regard to the other
presses in Washington nor do know whether they
regard the mputaton upon them unjust. or that
they not Satisfied with the positions assigned them in
the quoted. They speak for themselves But
for ourselves. say emphatcally that il true that
there anything in conduct which gives even the
color Of truth the charge that there is no press in
Washington which considers the preservation Of SIR
teen hundred Millions Of property The equality and lib
ry 81 fourteen fifteen Ssates the protection Of the
pa'te against Afrean equality, paramount opsr
or epen equal The maintenance Of political organ
isaiiOn chi is to secure President and srho an OBJ
sa Of interest. not because he va etuiaiyrus or per-
ups rus" we oo"th, oW chtSb1 JW hhe reason tndi ne
TH possess and bestow Office aad spo,ls" No man
and no set OF men from any quarter Of the country
have the right TO speak Of us after that fashion,
shall they do 50 publicly with impunty--more
especially when see among them those who de-
isaied the Clayton compromise those who advo-
Gated the election OF General Taylor and Millzrd Fill
more, after the Signal letter. and the Pascagoua letter.
and the letter 70 the Erie abolionists and those who
were moving Heaven and earth 10 elect the real
original inventor and dscoverer Of the Wilmoi
Proviso as Speaker Of the House Of Represent
aives, while we were denying to Congress all
right to interfere with slavery. and labonng day
and night sustain great democratic principle Of
Intervention.
Where the necessity Of perpetrating this gross in
justice to the Washington Unionf What journal in this
widespread land has vindcaed with greater spirit the
nights Of the SOUTH Who has repellsd with in
domable energy the infamy Of the Wilmot Proviso-
The threats 10 disturb slavery in the District Of Columbia
Who has held up with more whitening scorn the men who
have advocated those alarming measures, What paper
has dashed the aboonss and the free soilers and the
political demsgogues who have associated with them.
more severely than the Washington Unionf What
paper has asserted with greater bodness the equality OF
the sovereign States Of this great
TO the benefits and subject to the same burdens
Whence the necessity hen Of denying tina, this paper