The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-15
From The Kasoo (.Iiss.) Democrat.

| HE iouBMiSSIONlSTSj WHO ARE THE lINEnIIE
OF THE SoUTH!-Under this head sou,e wind
Animal came braying through the Wing Of tn
27th ult., evidently intending a most grandilc
quent bust, and Which was no doubt designed |
be inte ligible. Eso, it was splendid failure.
If it bad ben the bray of the Madam, we shout
| think her in earnest, when she promised to pre-
gress so rapidly under our tuition, that .non
bat her best Lawyer Subscribers would under
stand what she said:"l''Y ~ wv 'l2tttEslI
After running and snorting, with head an
till up, through an entire column, keeping u
an immense degree of "s0uhc and fury, witnou
sense" tie animal winds up with the folowin
blast, which surely strained, his wind-pipe, an
which needs All Interpreter: ,i.,l.,s.. ,,,,.,. 4
r"lf the South is in danger, it is not fror
Northern aggression, but from Southern tre0
son-'l reason to the Constitution--treasen /
the rights Of the majority of her citizens, and i
the dignity of human nature. The present crisi
is a fiery ordeal that will purify the Wing part
OF the South OF many OF It's excrecences, am
bring into cooperation with it, the Independent
aud patriotic. OF the other political party. AL
good men ind true will seek protection undx
the broad wing of our national eagle, from tn
anarchy and civil strife that the Submissionisi
of the Nashville Convention seek to bring upol
our fair, broad land" 5
What is to be understood here by g Souther
treason and the dignity OF human nuture |!
Are the supporters Of the !. Nashville platform,
the traitors and placed beneath the "dignity d
human nature" by the contemplate s.ribble
WHO seeks impunity behind .petticoat? Is
opposition.to the unjust legislation of Congress
he styles treason! Such All assumption is will
fully false. The writer knows full well thu
the actors in, and the supporters of the Nasl|
vile Convention, as mass, are as true patrod
rs ever lived; and that their country and I'll
South are as q dear to Them as the rudy drt y
which visit (their) sad hearts" Instead Of ploj
ting treason they plot only against treason.
|" That there are traitors among us, howeyeI
we are willing to believe---persons fit only ia
(" treason and spoil"-but that they are NASH
vile ccnventionists We deny. No doubt vi
often meet them, at our tables, firesides, an
altars but they are those, If any, who are reared
in iEid climate, where the generous sens
bities OF the soul are so !roze up, that not eve
a long residence under the genial influences I
our Southern cline has thawed them--thos
raised to abhor our manners and institution
and come South to instruct and write and co
public sentiment for us, and to poison the publ
mind aud that of our youth with their abomin
Bile hcresies---he who. for the emoluments J
some lucrative office, or the ephemers,l glory J
a filthy newspaper scribbler, will mortgage SO
and body to the devil. s;i l a 49, s
How molly Southern! How truly patrioti&
The South is not in danger from Northern agere
sion, but Southern irrdson And 60 law abidlrI
too! The submissive creature will submit to 1
Constitution and the laws, - to the - decision
the Supreme Court" andany - honorable compr
misc His Southern heart warns with pious
dignation at the thought Of having slavery excl
ded by ido from the territory north OF So de
and 80 mln.," but he is willing to see slavery e
cluded from all the territory South Of that HI,
where nature would permit il to go, by an " no
orable compromise" And the patient fellow
willing for this to teat the opprobrious epithet
submissionist--a real second job -.