The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-10


or friend Of The 7smsi hhoald take greater
care--he trsads ON tckliaA ground he must
not talk OF disunion yet ae must wait TIL our
houses ara burned over car heads, our wives
nnd children murdered, and ourselves reduced to
haUr.rv He must wait to see us rode over by
Northern outlaws, and trampIed under foot bv
a people whom few fanatics call " Northern
brethren" !. and then we may venture 10 calcu-
late in earnest the value Of the Union
From the Montgomery (.ata.) .4slas.
SourusRs CLuRs."-The movement has
heen commenced in many p,rts OF the South OF
forming Southern States Rights Clubs The
suyceston has been made BY correspondent
in oar last paper, and by the Advertiser, to set
the hall in motion in our own State. Inc plan
Ia nm excellent one, against which no objection
.,r hs made. A variety OF benefits will flow
from .nch am institution, one of the chief OF
which i the facilities it will afford OF concen-
tratinp and acting npon public opinion. II Is
o,I;te time it were known who is for the South
and who is against her. II the people Of the
sl,yeholding States are for submitting uncondi-
tionally to every wrong and Outrage which an
uns.rupulous and despotc majority may, IN pur-
anti Of their unhallowed purposes, commit upon
them, there il many good reason that could oe
given why it should be known. !,
Through these 'clubs' the public mind could
be informed and enlightened, the friends OF tlie
South thoroughly organized, ana their s'rehg'n
axactlv ascertained. 1t is all important to know
,rhstbar or not the South can be united, and II
not. ,chy not. We hope the people Will take up
IL, ~ .I ,>.a,,,ot1y oct upou IT.
We mos. firmly and religionsly believe,
if the measures which have recently passed
Congress- are Quietly acquiescei in by the slave
holdino States, that in less than fifteen years
the Constitution will be so altered as to per-
init Congress to emancipate every slave IN the
Union.
THE GRAVE OF WORDswoRTH.-A letter ~
the Concord IN. H) Statesman, written from
Grasmere, the former residence OF the poet
Wordsworth. describes the church-yard in which
Wordsworth is buried 1t is near the ancient
church, around which repose the dead OF many
generations a rivulet flows along the southern
side of the church, where II substantial wall re
sists HE action OF the water, ana the eartn Is
filled in so IA to admit grass plot, extending
to the water, and as high us the wall Ihls Is
no new disposal OF the grounds; Tor trees OF
large growth line the brink OF the strc,in, ana
all the surrounding circumstances afford evidence
that the grounds have been as now for long
course OF wears. Wordsworth's remains arc in
that corner or side Of the enclosure nearest the
stream. beneath The trees and foliage there ;
and surrounded by all the objects which can
possibly be combined to leave agreeable inn
pressons when one has been among the resting
place Of the dead Near his grave are the tomb.
stones of two children OF the poet OF lake ana
mountain in close connection is that OF ne
phew, and through the enclosure the Afore-
fathers Of the hamlet Sleep" gathered through
the course of years within this reposing place
of what remains Of man when mortal has put
on Immortality. His grave is designated by
slab at each end-of material closely resem-
bling Welsh slate-painted black, and no-Way
differing from others in the enclosure. Inc
earth upon the grave was gentle, not an alb
rupt, RISE covered with thick, closely shorn luX-
uriant grass on which were laid, ny some trav-
eller recently there, or the hand OF family
friends, few unwithered flowers Upon the
slab is merely Wn.LIAM WORDSWORTH
From tie Franklin Democrat, Tsscun'bio, (.4'a.)
If any thing has been saved to the South in
the territories-if any thing has prevented the
application of the Wilmot Proviso to New Mexl-
this measure. in every form, by the ultras OF the
South-those who are called by the submis-
sionists traitors" disunionists" factionists"
and "Rhettites."
We can see nothing in the action OF Congress
on the territorial bills to produce rejoicing in the
South On the contrary. we see much TO pro-
duce mourning. Her rights have been tranpIed
on. She has been excluded from all the most
valuable territory acquired from Mexico. Abo-
lition has thrown its arms around her with the
avowed purpose of combining the negroes to the
States in which slavery now exists, and making
them free men, equals with the whites.
From the Wetumpka (.qla) State Guard
We consider the Southern States are now
fighting their last battle IN The Union for the
maintenance of their rights The great strength
of the South has been her unwearied opposition
and warfare against oppression, come from what
quarter or in what shape it might. That spirit
of independence once gone, and submission to
wrong for the sake of the Union, or for the sake
Of peace, LAYING once become prevalent senti-
ment among the people, and liberty, with every
blessing, that flows from repul lean govern
ment will depart forever Resistance now to
the gross wrongs Of dominant majority, even
to Il severance of the Conftderacy, is ten-fold
more preferable than submission, with the train
of dire evils which must inevitably follow it.
The evil is less now than it will be few years
hence and it is the part of wisdom and prudence
to battle or overcome it at once.
From the .Mississippian.
THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SOUTHERN Press
IN NEW ORLEANs.--Thc proposition to cstab.
lish in the city of New Orleans true South
ern press, is received with decided favor in al,
parts of Louisiana and Mississippi. The fact is
extraordinary that both the political and social
ed neutral press Of that great city are hostile to
the movement Of the people all over the South
crn country, in opposition to the .gcressons OF
the North upon our rights. 1t would seem that
the entire press of the city is chained to North
ern interest and supported by Northern capital.
This shameful f.ct cries aloud to the planters OF
the South, in whose power it is to cut Oft these
Northern men, with Northern feelings and North
ern minds, from the heavy profits they have here
tofore derived by their patronage IT is graft
fvinU In sao that the plnuterS are resolving TO do