The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-01

care Of that: The line Of the Missouri Compro-
mise is less than the Souths own: Union aud
earnestness will make il hers: She can get it:
She ciA get ii and take my word for il, that Cali
fornia will never enter the Union, until the Sci
metar Of Congress has cloven her in twain lido
not say that it will be done just now, or even at
the present session of Congress II is idle to ex-
pect that the North will settle upon those terms,
70 long as she sees many of the South Is sons,
holding on to Mr.. Clay's Compromise, and ready
to accept, apparently, so pery much less than the
line of the Missouri Compromise. But that fam
lily scism is wearing itself out 1t will hardly
last the bills lifetime. There is spirit now
abroad in the South, fast blending her sons in
one resolute and harmonious purpose" to de-
na'sd nothing that Is not right and 10 submit TO moth
ing that is wrong" When that purpose shall be
fully understood by the North, it win be fully
respected, and she will give way. From fear say
your Aye, verify, from fear; but that sort Of
fear which none but the bravest and most vr-
tuous people have the manliness to own, or the
taste to be proud off, that salutary dread of doing
wrong, which holds the rights of nations in res
pect, and keeps the world at peace. But hst!--
lest become as prosy as texualist or expounder
of prophecy.
A parting word with the venerable editor of the
Union:
hold you in respect Mr. Richie, and mean
you kindly; but shall speak you plainly. You
are in strange position and trying one. In
forty years of efficient editorial service, you have
neither witnessed nor experienced anything like
it. In most Of that time, you have stood in the
front rank with the foremost, on the broad plat
form of the National Democracy; and upon the
great Southern issues, you have been the South 3
acknowledged champion and leader. And how
does the Union now rank among leading Southern
Democratic journals upon Southern issues' Need
l say more, than that it is at points of marked
and wrangling antagonsm, with about nine-tenths
of all the Democratic Journals in Virginia, North
and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Missis-
sippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas,
and of all Louisiana but Yankee-ridden New Or
leans. That it is maintaining Mr. Clay's Com
promise, in opposition to hoo-tirds of the South
ern Democratic Senators, of at least nineee nt,cen
tieths of the Southern Democratic Representatives
and isopposing the platform ofthe Nashville Con-
vention at the very moment when lis wooing and
winning all Southern hearts, through its wise,
just, firm, and moderate counsels, as five thou
sand letters, received at Washington, from all
parts of the South, amply and conclusively attest
Do you not see, Mr.. Richie, how hopeless must
be the task Of sustaining yourself against the
moral and political weight Of these overwhelming
numbers9 You preach the union Of the South
join you in it but how is it to be accomplished
You surely do not expect the vast masses of
Southerners to demolish all their defences against
Northern aggression, and become ultra-conces-
sionists with you, by Mr.. Clay's side! "When
must come to the mountain" Why art thou
wholly beside thyself, Mr.. Ritchie' Hast thou
taken final leave Of your excellent judgment, and
gone clean daft? Thinkest thou, to pluck from
the South's memory, all thou hast said of Henry
Cay's hostility to Southern interests, and to sink
it fathoms down in Lethe 3 dull oblivious waters
Forget, canst thou, thy standing boast of many
years, that in Mr.. Clay three races for the Presi
dency, thou had cut him off from Virginia Elec-
toral vote, in reproof and in requital OF his
wholesale abandonment Of Southern principles
and Southern interests' Forget, cans't thou, thy
memorable defiance to John Hampden Peasants,
of the Richmond Wing, to adduce single instance
from Mr.. Clay IS whole public career, in which he
had not taken part with the North against the
South, in all the conflicts and collisions between
them And did he not fail' And with no other
proof Of Mr.. Clay justice to the Southern rights,
than his scornful refusal to concede to her no,c,
that very line Of the Missouri Compromise he
foisted and forced on her thirty years ago, thinkest
thou to pluck out Of her heart that deep distrust
thou hast planted there, And thinkest thou, Mr.
Ritchie-layest thou the solacing JUNCTION to thy
heart-that thou cans I have the trust and conf
dence Of the Southern Democracy more, while
arm and arm with the potent Free-soilers, Milard
Fillmore and Henry Clay, you make yourself the
leading organ of the Administrations in its lead
ing measure, and that measure, aimed and effec-
tual to despo the South of all she claims and of
most she hasi Tush Pshaw! Fob! Tear
yourself away from them, and fly within an inch
of your life, or you are irretrievably undone!
sob! wad the Gods, the giftie gle US!
To see oursels ithers see us:
1t wad frae mony blunder free U.S.
And yawning ruin aa
NUNC PRO TUNC.
FIRST CARGO OF New WHEAT-The boat
President, Capt. Skelie, brought from the valley
yesterday cargo of 600 bushels of new wheat
for. c. Stone, Esq This is portion of lot
of 1900 bushels purchased by Mr. s. The
sample, which we saw on board, is very fine
one.
We learn that the harvest has progressed very
rapidly along the valley section, many of the
farmers having cut and secured their entire crop.
in some instances amounting to 100 acres of
stout wheat. The yield is very large, and every
farmer will return to his granary a product