The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-18


disposition manifested in,
non-intercourse principle. :.
pant'within the State. The Sol.
against Sewardsm ergo, concluded
chants, 1t will not do to seem to be in al
a member Of this ISM Disguise it as we III.
this is the origin OF the movement in New York.
Indeed, the papers avow it. They started it by
appeals to the dollar and-cent principle, and used
in no great degree any other means to make it
imposing.
In ordinary cases, it would perhaps be mani
Testing too much curiosity for one who receives
the benefit Of good effect to go poking about
hunting up motives for it; but this OCCASION is
not Il temporary one, and, therefore, it is well to
see how long the cause may last, and how useful
it is likely to be. -
1t isquite obvious that no mere temporizng
will bring peace and security to the South; and
it should be content with nothing less than some
thing which promises this security. The meet
ing in New York was mainly got up to put dorn
Sewardism, and thus to show to the South that
that metropolis, whilst living in some great
measure by the South, was not prone to harass
and destroy the source of its prosperity. The
Evening Post declares that among the signatures
to the call for the meeting are many of the most
devoted friends of freedom meaning thereby
! Aboltionists.
"Many of them (quoth it) during the excit-
| ing canvass of l848, exerted themselves in no
ordinary degree, by their money! their influence,
and their roteS, in support Of the Buffalo cand'-
date far the Presidency, and whose advice and
commentator strengthened our hands and in
vgorated our resolution during the memorable
struggle which preceded and followed that cleo
ton. Others will be found in the list who have
never placed the Evening Post, nor the Free-soil
section of the Democratic party, under any such
obligations-men who have usually attended to
the business they understood, and let alone poll
tics, which they did not understand, but who
| are known within the circle of their acquaint-
ance to be conScentiousy opposed 10 The extension
of slavery, and TO The 1eras corruption bill, and
10 The hidnappers' bill, just so far Us it aLridges
the guarantees of freedom"
| In short these men were a little while ago,
Gin ls4S,) when there was no danger of losing
Southern custom, the bitterest enemies of the
South, and now that there is danger of losing
it, are apparently its most devoted friends. -
The motive, therefore, is not good--lt is sell
fish, base, mercenary motive, and IS likely TO
last only until the press of ant-slavery sentl-
ment shall make it more profitable to pander to
that interest, and the home market. This will
be presently, for Just as sure, in our opinion, rs
that the sun rose last Tuesday - (the day of
election in New Yorkl-the Seward ticket was
successful in that State. This, we hold, will be
the end of the Southern feeling in the CONNER
ciul order of the great city. But if Sewardsm
was beaten, what avails it to our purpose that
10000 men in New York will give quasi sup
port to this section Shall we thereupon re-
solve-in chowder or other doings"-that the
country is safe-that the laws are well obeyed
that the South is treated justy-that the ter
ritories won by all of us are distributed equally
among all of us? What are 10000, nay, 400,
900, men in New York, compared with the rest
of the enemies of the South
Yet, doubtless, the proceedings of the meet
ing will be held up here in every mans face and
prefaced with stereotyped phrases about the
'soundncss'' of Northern sentiment how patri-
otto it is to rely implicitly on its sense of justice,
and all that sort of humbug, which has so far
distracted and paralysed the country, when,
united, it might have obtained justice and
cemented the stability of the Union
We say, away with this detestable fraud.
Let no man who uses it be countcnanced. II
| has come nigh TO ruin us, and il is time that it
should be strangled before it accompIishes the
end for which it was calculated. There is no
Justice Mt the Nor h for the s, nth. 1t has the
power to do us it pleases and it will not under
a profound impulse, abandon that power for any
abstract notion Of justice, or any respect to
parchment or other laws which it considers in
! human, if not unconstitutional
We do not declare that there are not men at
the North who look at this momentous subject
as we would desire them to look mt it. That is
not the question: it is whether there be Of such
men enough to secure us any show of justice.
This is the question, and any person who as
watched the development of opinion there
developed in the most ferocious and laInentable
| forms-wi lie down hopeless and in despair if
on these must depend the hopes of the South
We say, then, that the best thing we can do
is to agitate From agitation nature brings
health From it we can get justice eithe
within or without the Union, and we should
resolve to have it at any price--for justice is
priceless, and is worth seeking at any cost
Let us not be deluded by such meetings rs this
New York assemblage. 1t will make great
fuss on paper 1t will be heralded in Journals
which circulate everywhere in the South, and
| because much noise il thus made, many simple
minded people will be deceived into the belief
that all the world is engaged in the din. Not
so. A drop in a bucket is not more insignifi
cant of the measure of the bucket than this
meeting is of the measure Of the North. 1t is
good enough rs proving that commercial men
are getting their eyes open, but that is ALL II
ONLY teaches that the South should agitatc |
more SO as TO open the eyes Of less sagacous
persons Mt the North. We must wake them all
up Touch their cotton-mils as we'll as their
shipping mcrchants--cut them of by non-inter-
course and thus show our own power us well rs
build up our own cities and develope the atflu-
ence of our own resources.
s-55~ There are now three Southern candi-
dates for the Presidency spoken OF, Messrs.
CLAY, BENTON and HoUsToN. But for these
I,,l f,r t,n
Presidency, from the same section, all looking
to the North for votes, there would have been
no such compromise attempted, as has been in
Aicted on the South.
r-Se" There is n beautiful and a true moral