The southern press., 1850-10-09
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LrrLE CMln.-r" Nov. Esaa1ma' before you
suck this eGgs or more prnP6hy speaking. before
you extract the conteDls Of this egg by suction,
you mu.t make an incsion 81 The apex, and a cor
responding aperture al the base.
ON LADY" Dear me how ingenious. In
my time they used just 70 make a hole at each
end"
The Socratc method Of Interrogation, requr-
ing plain answers to plain questions, is very
puzzling to politicians striving to preserve the
unity of the party by an abstinence from trouble
some issues.
Horace GREELY of the Tribune, who can
also be ~rolitic with friend" when necessary
for his own purposes, puts this awkward inter-
rogatory to the chief of tire Syracuse seceders,
already answered by Mr. DUERs previous con-
gratulatory letter to his constituents on the
passage Of the bills
But I'VE stand by the Adjustment says Mr.
Duer, while they insist on renewed agitation
No, Sir! You can only make your case plau-
sible by continual mistatements. The majo-
rity's resolutions do mol call for nor imply per-
petual agitation They do not censure the
President as you seek to make out; they do
not condemn the Adjustment; they do not pro-
pose any disturbing action unless efforts should
hereafter be made TO introduce SLarery into the
Territories or 10 acquire ne,o ones wnh riem 10
the strengthening # The Stare Pomer In ease
Slavery shall attempt to creep in or march into
our present Territories, or to acquire new ones,
| the Wings OF New York mean to resist the
attempt to the death, and they deem it bu. simple
honesty to say so.
Don't you mean this! and il you do, what are
you kicking at! What do YOU bolt from il you
mean, as we do, to let Slavery alone in the
States and to keep it out of the Territories!
The passage is thus talicsed in the original
and conderses in nutshell the whole pro-
gramme of the Northern Wing party.
Now, for what reason do Mr.. DUER and his
friends " stand by the Adjustment
In the letter before referred to, and repub-
llshed by us at the time, that gentleman declared
distinctly that the Provisa was abandoned, be-
cause unnecessary, the Adjustment effecting
precisely the same resut--viz: the exclusion OF
the South from the territories
"Let Slarery alone in The States (ai present.
"and keep il out Of the Territories" that is the
inscription on the Frce-soil banner now, us
borne by SEWARD and VAN BuREN Mt the hend
Of their respective parties, and trough there
may be Northern men of both PARTIES who
repudiate and reject these men as leaders, yet
there ere none who dare dcnouncc the doctrine,
or if any have the manhood to do 80, they could
not Gf all counted) constitute corporsrs guard
What then does it. matter to the South
whether one set of men shall lead the party, OF
another! whc her VAN BUREE or RyNpERs shall
lead on the "unterritied ID. mocracy,' SEWARD
or WINTHROP the conservative Wbigs' of the
North-to exclude them and their children after
them from all participation ia the territory OF
the government Of our common country, and
from the enjoyment of that equality which was
a common birth right!
The devices to catch Southern votes are too
shallow to deceive any save those desirous OF
being deceived--the professions and the prac-
drawn between the different classes of "Nati-
onal" and Sectional" too uianilestly without a
difference.
If they "don't mean this" the Northern
Nationals" Of both parties practice more unne
cessary hypocrisy than any previous set of meI
on record.