The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-06

from subscribers more than four times as
much money as the expenses Of printing thus
Far amount to- and that we have received
from no person whatever, any contribution
or guaranty, nor have we bargained for
any, nor do we expect any Tor any extrin-
sic support of this paper beyond regular
subscribers and advertsers--unless the re-
ceipt of fifty dollars from one lady for ten
daily subscriptions, and two or three other
cases for q smaller number, may be 50 con-
sidered. ..g.
We assert, also, that we are now re-
'ceiving, on an average, more than hum
bred subscribers, and more than'a hundred
dollars, cash, daily, for subscriptions alone,
although neither our prospectus nor our pa
per has as yet reached one-fortieth part Of
the South.
And, while on this subject, we may take
the opportunity to say, that we know the
miserable faction who are engaged in the
attempt to inure this press, because they
know its success is the ruin Of their hopes
We know, also, that they are not engaged
in the business Of defamation alone by their
understrappers-but we know that they
would like to perpetrate still more darls
and diaholical design, if they had the cour-
age. We tell them we are prepared, and
shall not permit their malignity and cowar-
dice 10 avail themselves Of the courage OF
others. Let their leader dare to attempt
the execution of his own plans. !,
The Compromise aSd it's Opponents.
There is very general desire in all parts
Of the country, for an equitable settlement
Of the slave question. 1t is this feeling,
chiefly, which gives support to the bill Of
the Committee Of Thirteen. In opposition to
it, there are three distinct forces,- aa
First-The Free-Soil party of the North,
embracing majority Of the Northern mem
bers Of Congress. These men not only de-
sire to exclude the South entirely from the
newterritory, but they are bent on SO ex-
GLIDING her, viz by the Wilmot Proviso,
that it may be manifest to all the world that
she has been overthrown and trodden down,
in utter disregard of her constitutional rights
They feel that this will give them great
political triumph, and facilitate their future
movements: This party, therefore, is deadly
hostile to any compromise or measure which
may even, in appearance, recognise the
rights Of the South to participate in the
common territory.
The second force, in .antagonism to the
compromise, is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., and such
influences as it is able to bring to its aid
It has brought forward a plan Of its own,
different in form, but in all its practical eff
fects, substantially the same with that of the
Free-Solers; since it, inevitably, if car
ried out as proposed, will exclude, by Legal
enactments, shareholders from all the Mex,
can Territory. Should any other scheme
such as that of the Committee of Thirteen
be adopted, the Cabinet would regard itse
defeated and Frustrated before the country
Hence all the means within thereach of the
Administration are exerted' to defeat the
compromise VI ... -....,. Sd. ...f ....s. Al. !.
Lastly. The measure meets opposition
from the South, because, in the Judgment
of Southern men, it does not give the South
a fair share of the new territory, or, in fact,
any. part OF it, in the opinion of many per-
sons. ~ "sa ssts,'e ~>frft W. @
These three opposing forces are sufficient
to defeat the bill Of the committee TX Nv
n What then ought its friends to do As
the Free-Soilers and the Administration
have political objects in view, and therefore
desire continuance Of the agitation, any
settlement would be fatal to the hopes of
10th. In fact, these two forces, though
separate at first, seem at this time to have
coalssced and completely united, so, as to
form single element only in opposition to
any comprehensive and just settlement.
The friends Of the compromise ought there
fore to see that they hcve nothing to hope
from them. I'D ,.
With the Southern opposition, however,
tits different. Having no Interior objects
in view, the South only desires such set
Element Of the difficulty as will recognise
her constitutional rights, and leave her in a
condition of.salety for the future Hence
the Southern members of CONGRESS. will