The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-10
FrOm the Columbus Sentinel.

THE TRIUMPH OF SOUTHERN RGuTs-lIc
who has attentvely marked the history Of popu-
lar sentiment at the North, cannot be mistaken
as to the ultimate tendency of public opinion at
the South. We have seen a power there which
few years since was ridiculed for its insight
ficance, gradually acquiring Importance, until
now it overshadows all others, and reigns the
supreme element in Northern politics. We
mean, Of course, the power of anti-sarerl In
the great State of New York it has made Will
liam II. Seward, an avowed Aboltionist, United
States Senator, and in the recent election has
returned twenty-eight Frce-soilers, out of de-
legation of thirty-four, to the lower House of
Congress. In Massachusetts, it has broken
down the power of the Wing party, defeated
the election of Governor by the people, and
holds the sceptre in the State legislature. These
are but the first fruits of anti-slavery in New
York and Massachusetts. 1t has but entered
upon its career of triumph in these States, a
triumph to which it is destined throughout the
North. Nor is it strange that such should be
the case. The issue which it presents has, of
all Others, the strongest hold upon the popular
mind; for however various and different in de-
gree may be the shades of sentiment on this
question ut the North, it is vain to deny that
feeling Of hostility to the institution of slavery
pervades all classes, sects and parties, in that
section. Nearly every Northern man is ut heart
an anti. slavery man. He is so by education and
prejudice, and it would be most remarkable if
he were not AS n matter of course then, when
the question Is raised, and he is forced to take
sides either for or against it, he arrays himself
on the side Of anti-savery. Thus it has been,
and thus 1t will be. The demagogue Seward
platform is to-day the very Gibraltar of North.
HA ia ha orr n,up FL tha
Presidency in the North, and every day adds to
his popularity
In the South, the opposite cause is producing
the opposite result Pro-slavery has just entered
an element into the politics of the country
IT has been dragged into the arena by the cham
pions of anti-savery. 1t has for the first time
in the history Of this government rallied party
in the South. That party IS now Mt work in
Georgia, and as the anti-slavery party i'll New
York, it may be doomed to defeat at first, but
like that same party, it will rise and triumph in
the end and for similar reasons. An over
whelming majority of Southern men are pro-
slavery, and when the question is made II prac-
teal issue, and they are forced to take sides, they
must rally under one banner, the banner of the
South. No matter, then, whether we triumph
or are defeated in the approaching election, ~
certain as the sun shines in heaven, ust so GER
tain are We destined to ultimate triumph The
day is coming, and is not far distant, when the
Southern Rights party will control every county
in the State when the miserable catspaws of
national leaders, and the disappointed expeetants
of national honors, will find themselves the very
bottom dregs of the stagnant pool of party
Those gentlemen of enlarged patriotism, with
souls too large to recognize the petty distinc-
tons of States and sections, are doomed to an
early extinction. Henceforth there is but one
stepping stone to preferment at the South, and
that is the platform of Southern Rights.