The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-23
THE SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, DECEMBER %, 1850
Our Consistency,

1t is quite amusing to witness the expe-
dents resorted to, by one or two of the most
ultra submission editors Of the South, to assail
our consistency. We are rather too indolent to
write an auto biography but are not willing to
indulge those petty calumniators, either in their
perversions of fact, or stupidity Of inference.
We find the following in the Augusta Ga
Chronicle and Sentinel, and insert it at full
length:
ELwooD FISHERS HIsToRY. - PROFESSOR
SAUNDERS, the editor of the Memphis " Daily
Erpress," an ultra organ, furnishes the follow
ing sketch of the history of ELwoop FISHER,
who, in his position of editor Of the "Southern
Press' at Washington CITY, assumes to be par
excellence, the organ of Southern feeling and
the cnlv reliable advocated Of the institutions
of the South--so much so, that he dares to
brand as traitors and submissionists, the thou
sands of true hearted Southern men, who, in the
maintenance of their loyalty to the Constitution
and Union, repudiate his favorte measure of Sc
cession and disunion. We commend the sketch
to the FISHER organs of the South, and to the
careful consideration Of all those who have, in
the honesty of their hearts, defended him against
the charge of abolition and anti-slavery. The
editor of the Erpress, although himself ultra, or
"a fire. eater" looks with jealousy upon the new
born zeal of ELLwOoD FISHER in the cause of
Southern institutions, and well he may. Hence
his graphic sketch of ELWOoDs history, which
is in the following words
awe have known Ellwood Fisher from our
earliest boyhood Ellwood was raised in Ohio,
and we do not know but that he was born there
if not, he went there while mere child ana lived
in the State several years after he reached man
hood. We recollect the time when Ellwood would
not wear cotton upon his person in any form, nor
take sugar in his tea or coffee, nor touch any
Southern product because 1t was raised by slaves.
These opinions he carried to the most ludcrous
excess. He was at one tIme-ln fact during the
whole of his life till some time after manhood-a
rabid Wing. but turned Democrat, and by this
maneuvre went to the Indiana legislature; but
the members Of that party in Hamilton county,
Ohio, having no more confidence in him, threw
him aside, nor would have anything 10 do with
him. We do not know so Vulnerable man as
Ellwood Fisher but we hope that as he has now
got into a good cause he may exhibit little more
consistency than review Of his past life would
Givulge."
Such is the testimony of one who has known
ELwooD FISHER from his earliest boyhood-
one too, who, to a considerable extent, favors
or endorses the ultra sentiments of Mr.. FISHER,
but who doubtless regards him a mere S,oisS
guard," ready to do battle in any cause for
consideration. Let the South, therefore, mark
the men who commend such man to their con-
fidence and support, as the organ OF Southern
rights and the defender of Southern institutions.
Professor SAUNDERS says, in the editorial
quoted above, I'VE recollect the time when
ELwoop would not wear cotton upon his person
in any FORM nor take sugar in his tea or cofte, nor
touch any Southern product, because II "aS
raised By slares.'
Such 10 ba mon Southerp mon who has benn
put forward by the dsunionists to defend
through the columns of the Southern Press"
at Washington, the institution of slavery. a
man who, but short time ago, was so hostile
to it, that he would not use any article produced
by slave labor
Quere? Can any man guess how many Of the
FISHER organs at the South will publish the cdi-
toriaI of the Memphis Cypress, or the triumph
ant defence! which Mr.. FISHER made few
days ago against the charge of abolition 1t is
very remarkable, as that defence was so triumph
ant, in the estimation of the Fisher organs, that
not one of them will lay it before their readers
Why is this Can there be any design on the
part of these exclusive and devoted Southern
patriots to conceal any thing from the public !?
DO they desire to hide from the world the evil
dence furnished by Mr.. FISHER himself, of his
violent anti-slavery sentiments There must
be- something rotten in Denmark" or the
organs would certainly publish the defence.
We certainly can have no objection to such
exh bitions of themselves, as our opponents
make, when they attempt to misrepresent U.S.
We are quite willing to give them circulation
which their own insectile character and feeble
wings could never reach. :,
As for this Professor SAUNDERS Of the Mem