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

SeA-ioho" oacu oSicf 90 last tnat IL IL lmpos
sible to keep the record Of them in the State
where the fugitives usually seek refuge--and i
the midst of this wild war Of angry elements, W
hear partizan editors and speakers rendering con
gratulations to athe pacc0tors," great and little
FOR RESTORING PEACE TO THIS DISTRACTED
COUNTRY - s @n
The tender Of congratulations at such
time and for such reasons TO those mistaken
men who idly deemed that they, like CASUrE
could command and force the wild waves I.
recede at thrir bidding -and who calculated 81
vainly on the credulity of the peoples in
deed a mockery, too bitter even for their enc
mics to scourse them with. They can look bach
only on a stormy sea which they have passed
and strain their eyes into the gloom beyo only
to behold the breakers on which their reputa.
tons and aspirations viii tie sunk in common
Wreck
We can imagine for these baff1ei political
p'otters no greater source of bitterness than such
tarcical and prerosterous thanksgiviugs for a
paciication" that has put SEWARD on a PEI
destal above the Administration, and convulsed
this whole land with the throes of an agony
more mighty than ever yet has tested the
strength ofits institutions. To the ears of the
sinking statesmen they must sound like the
shrill ppings of the little curlew amidst the roar
of the storm-for vanity the most infatuated
could never mistake such faint and feeble strains
for the voice Of the people. That voice from
the Northern to the Southern bounds of this
Confederacy, now speaks alond through popular
demonstrations not to be mistaken--through
The press-through the ballot box--on the stump
md in the market place.
From the North, it cries aloud that henceforth
md forever the slave power is the bound and
HELPLESS thr,ill of that Union whose new Const
Gution is the Adjustment-and arrogantIy denies
the South even the siadop" for which her just
lights were relinquished- still as the insatiate
law is crammed with all The spoils Of victory,
he cry of GIVE, GIVE ~ browns the voices Of
the nationals who counsel caution.
From the South there rise no such confused
md angry sounds Of clamorous cupidity--for
nth the greater portion of her people the argu-
ncnt is xhausted-they have most emphatcalIy
md repeatedly warned their Northern as atlantis
If the consequences of aggression-ahd repeat
IDLY declared, through the most solemn egsla'
i've forms, their fixed purpose ofresistance at all
laz 'rds and to the last extremity"
The hour is fast arriving when those pledges
must either be redeemed or forfeited-and the
sounds that now arise are the PREPARATIONS for
lction-lke the steady tramp Of men marshall
ng for the field. They leave vulgar vitupera-
Ton, ribad insolcnce. and staggering threats OF
: regmental" coercion, to the North. The. North
talks the loudest-it remains to be seen which
is the most decisive in action, or whether after
al the clustering and vaporing at public meet
ngs, the North will not be compelled to retrace
her steps, and give to the South what alone she
demands, equality and justice.
But again we ask of Messrs. CLAY and CAss
md their co-operators: Is this, THE rEAcE you
promised az the price of Southern acquiescence
in and support of spolation?