The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1850-05-23
THE SOUTHERN ORGAN CALCULATIONS OF
THE PRESS.

ton OF Its leading men to meet the opponents of
Slavery in the arena Of Free Discussion and it
gives us pleasure to know that they have been
aided in coming to this reasonable conclusion by
the establishment at Washington of the Na!ioaal
Era. There is no paper at the seat of Govern
ment," say the signers Of the Southern address,
through which we can hear or be heard fairly
and truly by the country. There is paper here
which makes the abolition Of slavery its main and
paramount end" any object" says the Hon.
d. s. Kaufman of Texas explaining in the Pro-
Slavery organ here his reasons for signing the
address concerning the paper, Z" was to counteract
the effects of the purely Abolition press estabs
lished here, and to have an organ in which might
Ssss% I -stta&s SEX IA : ~,tassS<ne SsaaaS~asCAa
Of the most distinguished intellects of the South
on the one absorbing question" The editor of the
Pro-Slavery press in this city, commenting on a
similar statement in his columns by the Hon. Mr.
Stanton of Tennessee, remarks
We do not object to the establishment by the
signers of the Southern address, of paper for
the objects stated in the address, if they think it
is expedient to put the cause of the South upon
like footing with the cause of Abolitionism
The Aboltionists of the North-not the North
as o section-have established paper in this city
to advocate their peculiar and disorganizing prn-
cples. And if the signers of the Southern ad-
dress think the movement of the Abolitionists of
such formidable character as to justify resort
to similar mode of counteracting them, instead
of relying upon the power of the South in debate,
as well as the press devoted to the just cause of
the South we do not object.0
We tender our sympathies to the Union Once
before, in vindicaton of the Freedom of the
Press found it necessary to take sides with its
editor against the Senatorial prescription to
which he was subjected on account Of an unfor-
tunate paragraph in his paper dealing too freely
with Senatorial motives. Although our courtesy
was unacknowledged on that occasion, we feel not
the less disposed now to vindicate his press
against the illiberal imputations of his Southern
friends who propose starting new paper "The
Abolition party these gentlemen say, "can al
ways be heard through its press at the seat of
Government but through what organ or press at
Washington can Southern men communicate
with the world, or with each other upon their
own peculiar interests % The imputaton against
our neighbor of the Pro-Slavery organ is unjust
and ungenerous. Not more vigilant and loyal
champion of slaveholding rights interests, doc
trines, claims, pretensions, breathes in the coun-
try Well does that venerable gentleman ask
"What journal in this widespread land has
vindicated with greater spirit the rights of the
South Who has repealed with more indomita
BILE energy the infamy Of the Wilmot Proviso?-
the threats to disturb slavery in the District o.
Columbia? Who has held up with more wither
ing scorn the men who have advocated those
alarming measures What paper has lashcd the
Abolitonsts and Free-Soilers, and the political
demagogucs who have associated with them, more
severely than the Washington UnionW
Aye-and if the subjects of this terrible wrath
have escaped utter humiliation, It'll only because
the Union does not happen to be thunder-bearer
The editors in great tribulatiou return to the
subject the next day, and in joint editorial
magnify their dongs and endurings in behalf OF
slavery.
eve have exposed, y says the senior editor
"and denounced the unnatural coalition which
has 20 long existed between the Wings OF the
South and the Aboliti0nists and Free-Soil Wings
of the North We have exposed and denounced
the unnatural combination which bore upon its
banner and supported at the ballot-box, the names
of Southern stakeholder and n Northern Abo-
litionist, for the two highest offices known to the
Constitution. And we have exposed and de-
nounced the unnatural alliance between the slave
holder and the Abolitionist, Ms existing in the
present Cabinet and its treachery to the interests
of the people Of the South in the PRONUNCIATION
and support of policy which, II successful, can
not fail to deprive the South of its just rights
under the Constitution, and degrade IL from that
position Of equality which it has right to claim
with the other sections of the Union
"The senior editor of this paper has waged war
with Fanaticism for nearly thirty years-from the
moment that she showed her hideous front to a
startled nation He warned his country of the
dangers which would arise from this alarming
question: in the midst Of the controversy which
caused Mr. Jefferson with all his liberal ideas, to
sound the tocsn against the restriction which was
then threatened upon Missouri. On another
theatre, he has never failed to warn his country
men against the danger of meddling with this
peculiar institution Of the South. !te has exhort-
ed his countrymen to beware of the only rock on
which the Union might be shipwrecked; and at
every phasis of this question: whether 1t came in
the form of restriction upon Territories, or of
emancipation in this district, or after the Will
mot Proviso was introduced into Congress-he
has wrestled with itn
The junior editor puts in his claim to the graft
tude of the South with equal pathos-
"And what has been the course Of the junior
editor Of this paper during the course Of his pub
lie career? During period Of six years, COM
mencing with the list session of the 26th Congress
he WAS n member of the House of Representative
from New Hampshire. II was then that the agi-
tstion of the slavery question assumed an impor-
lance which alarmed the South 1t was during
that period that the assaults of Messrs. Adams
Giddings and other abolitionists, upon the insti-
tutions of the South, were carried to a degree
which Justly excited and incensed the South and
during that mhols period The junior EDITOR of This pa-
per- po,ed ruth The Southern delegations on ererl
question obsetmg th1r psculmr sectional Interests
During the LIST session of the Goth Congress he
voted for the adoption Of the 2lst rule prohib-
iting the reception of abolition petitions, and in
subsequent sessions for its continuance and against
its repeal lie voted against the repeal Of that
rule when Mr.. Clingmsn, now one Of the active
agents in getting up q Southern press, ro,ed foy
US repeal. During his whole congressional course
he never gave vote inconsistent with the Mis-
Sohri ComPTouise nor INCONSISTENT Win Inc priu-
ciple Of non-intervention.p
We should feel ourselves guilty Of most un.
neighborly conduct, did we not add our feeble
testimony TO the great services Of the Pro-SiA'
very organ in this city, in the cause Of Human
Bondage Had the question concerned the Pres'.
dency, or even the Public Printing, instead Of