The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-06
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For he Southern Press.

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For the Soufhera Press
The charge of raising sectional issue has
been made against the South, and the advice Of
Washington has been literally quoted, against
her effort to meet the crisis now impending. Let
us see which section is obnoxious to this charge,
and which il wasthst first raised an Issue Of this
character, Il needs no elaborate argument to
prove that the, North is the aggressor, for the
South is in an attitude of defence, and not offence
For series Of years, the North has been aiming
! It's blows at Southern institutions. Proteus like,
it has changed its shape TO suit it's objects, but
in every shape, it has been the mrelenting foe
to Southern quiet and Southern progress. II is
true, this charge is not applicable to the North
an entirety, but only to an organization known
among them, as Abolrtionists and Liberty Party
men, Yet it is not to be denied that these parties
found resting place there, and if not absolutely
countenanced, were yet tolerated by the Northern
States till sufficiently increased and recruited, to
become an important element in determining Wing
and Democratic ascendency. The time has ar
rived, that a platform sufficiently comprehensive
should be erected to embrace the whole Northern
people, now anxious to. conciiate Abolitionism,
and sectional party has been reared in the North,
whose object is to degrade the South, and destroy
its equality in the confederacy. Confessedly,
the object Of the North is prevent the accession
Of any more slave territory. II this be not sec
tional we know not what is. as
The South having had presented to her sec
tional issue has banded in defence, and forthwith
the cry, Of disunon and ultraism is raised, and
she is warned of the danger Of a geographical
party. What rank hypocrisy is this, and how
unworthy of honest men No Northern senator
or representative, dare so far do his duty under
the Constitution as to give the South herrights.
| Even the Missouri line is refused, and the
most worthy Northern men say, they dare not
vote for measure that will give foot Of terrific
| ry to slavery. Those who have compromised SO
far as to give seeming recognition Of South-
ern rights, under the Constitution, are threatened
with extinction, and are compelled to admit in
their defence, that the measures they advocate
give the kernel to the North, whilst they pre-
sent the shell to the South That, in effect, they
but give the South an opportunityto abandon the
contest for their rights, gracefully, Contrast the
grasping policy of the North, with the generosity
OF the South. When Texas, slave State, was
| admitted into the Union, Southern votes yielded
| all North of 500 30t to the free States
Yet the South is falsely accused Of raising sec
| tional issues the aggressive wolf accuses the
| lamb Of disturbing the waters. Can Pharisaism
60 further in its hypocrtcal assumptions Of right
eousness Pin its making of long prayers for a
pretence, whilst it is appropriating the spoils Of
| iniquity' @-a .. ra-. 4
The stand Of defence taken by the South, is
highly conservative, and may be the means, under
Heaven, of saving not only herself, but the North
| also from commissions, and the destruction inhe-
rent in the principles they are now madly foster
ing. Abolitionism for the South, is red republic.
. anism for the North. The issue, though now
geographical, is not long to be SO, but viii shape
itself into one, alike interesting to every lover
of true freedom. -..,..e
| None can fail to see, that the principles or
which Abolitionism is founded, is capable of ap.
pication to the labor of the North, as well as thai
4 ofthe South. That the kind Of liberty they adj
i vocate is of that absolute character, demanded by
the Red Republicans of France and the Radicals
of England. 1t is not liberty founded on reason
1
is as much the right Of the savage as the sage, o
the hyena as the dove. 1t is the kind Of liberty
| that has brought desolaton to the West Indif
Islands, massacre to the Parisians, till arrested
by military despoisrn, and anarchy wherever il
has been tried. II is not the liberty of the Cos.
pei Of Christ, but of Yoltaise and transccndent-
alists. a,.,a 49,, H. 49, ~. azs
The issue, then, is truly, whether liberty re-
strained by reason, or liberty aboye law, (such as
MIR. Seward spoke of, as being above the Constr
| tution,) shall be in the ascendant sEat..
appears to U.S. that this issue is as interesting
to the North as the South, and that so far from
being sectional, is eminently national This is
the mission Of the Southern Press above PARTY
it will recall both parties, to their allegiance to The
Constitution. AusTER.
LETTER FROM
| Hon. v. e. HOWARD, Of Texas :.
/ To the Editors Of the So,sthe,1, Press:
GENTLEMEN: desire through your paper to
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