The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-10

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haps as much as to any other cause, that we are
in our present condition. If the South had been
united and actuated by grand unanimity, worthy
Of the danger and the occasion, the great parties
at the North would have been obliged to re-
pudiate the fanatics, to conciliate the South.
We would have dictated our own terms, and
Government would not have been as they now are
for fa9aticism, but for the South.
Truly, we have been our own worst enemies.
We have made the welkin ring with shouts for
the triumphs OF party, forgetful that we had a
country over which great dangers impended. In
the madness of faction, we have not heard the
fury Of the coming tempest, we have done every
thing for our party, we have done nothing for our
country. What thrice Knocked fools we are. u
Another great cause Of the suptne indifference
Of the South, which has enabled fanatcism to
advance without opposition, is the treachery OF
the leaders Of the South. The ambitious men OF
the South can only attain their desires by concili-
ating the North. Treachery is always from the
weak; the strong are never betrayed. The North
has the control OF the Government; Southern am
btion can only be gratifed by counting the
North. Ambition hath ruined angels; it is not
strange that politicians should yield to it. When we
know that Southern ambition can only reach high
Federal honors, by subserviency TO the North, and
we such subservency by men in search of these
we are betrayed, that those whom wetrusted have
sold our trust as merchandise to conciate our
enemies.
Why should Mr.. Clay, a STAKEHOLDER, pledge
himself against the further extension Of slaveryl
Why should many others, who are now figuring
upon the stage, truckle to the North we cannot be
so dull as not to see their motives and purposes.
Southern traitors recommend measures to the
South, acceptable TO the North, and thus1ee are
sacrificed. The extent Of Southern treachery,
and the injury done thereby, is Invaluable.
Another great cause OF the divisions at the
South, is the press OF the South. The press is
the natural guardian of the institutions Of coun-
try; it can best and widest diffuse knowledge ex-
cite alarm, produce enthusiasm and unity OF ac-
ton. No government could stand against the
press, no revolution could succeed against it. The
press is the fourth estate, it is the embodied in
teilect Of country, it is the Jupiter tonans of the
moral world. This great power is to a considera-
BILE degree lost to the South, only portion of the
press Of the Soath is Southern. This arises
from several causes. The political division
Of the South give character TO the press to great
extent. The partisan press, absorbed by the
presidential contests, is compelled in order to gain
a national triumph, to advocate temporising mea-
sures il has to be national, which is half Southern
and half Northern. This partisan press passes its
existence in suppressing the true and suggesting
the false. The Union and the h,ieuigencer are
types Of this class.
And further, which is most important fact, the
leading journals of the South, the city journals,
are under n orthern influence, they are edited pa
tronized sustained by Northern men. Hence
we an influential part of the Southern press in
Baltimore, Charleston, Augusta, Savannah, Mobile,
and New Orleans, entirely Northern in their tone,
as much so, as they can possibly be with safety
The commercial classes are Northern in those
cities, and these presses their organs. From
these different the press Of the South is not
Southern, it does not interpret truly the feelings
and policy Of the South. There are some noble
exceptions to this general rule; some presses
which are an echo Of the sentiments of the South,
but their voices have been UNDECIDED in the voice
of so many other false counsellors. This fall
sifcaton by the press Of its high mission is Of
the saddest signs of the times, has nurtured
divisions, ued us to sleep, encouraged our enemies
and cooled our friends. 1t has much to answer
for.
have thus gotten through with the considera-
ton Of the causes, both at the North and the South,
which has produced the present abolition tendency
Of the Federal Government, and made it fail in its
mission Of internal protection.
1t is proper now that we should consider the
remedy, if remedy there be. How can the Fed
eral Government he restored to its natural cond-
ton, and be made to afford domestic protection TO
the South II the thing be possible, it is in this
wise:
First and last, before all things, and after all
things, union, union, union; union of the South;
union of the weak and the oppressed; union,
not for the sake Of party, but for the sake OF
country; union for Gresides and affairs; for the
charities Of social, and the purties of domestic
life; union, not for conquest, but for defence;
union, not to advance bloody standards in foreign
trumrhs, but to retain our homes; union to
stem the tide Of barbarism, which threatens to
overrun our country, and reduce it To zimmerman
darkness; union to Withstand Northern fanati-
csm, hatred, ambition, avarice and aggression;
union that we may hand down to our children
unimpaired-the Inheritance we have received;
union for property, for security, for liberty;
union for all that is dear and valuable in life;
union for the present and the future of our country;
union for her existence, her independence,
her greatness and her glory; union for civiliza-
ton, for religion, for history; union that we
may continue the abode of intelligence, refine
ment and virtue; union for our wives and our
union that knowledge, genius, poetry, oratory
and glory, may not be supplanted by African bar
barism; union that our children, and our chill
dren's children, may gather around our graves,
and be able to say, these the graves Of our
cestors, they have slept in peace; the institutions
they transmitted to us, are unmpared; the
frenzy Of fanaticism, the lust of power, the
hatred Of nan, have not prevailed against them.
From this union of the South, the specific and
appropriate measures Of safety would arise.
AS intimately connected with, and dependent
upon the idea of union, we must cease our party
dissensions. Let us tear from our hearts and our
memories, the odious words Of Democrats and
Wings, and trample them under foot. Let US
break these hateful chains which have hthcHn
bound and enfeebed us. Let US rise abo, the
petty contests of party. Let us elevate our Ives
to the magnitude Of our country danger, Let
US offer up, upon the altar OF our coun ", the
distinctions and the emblems OF party. L. us hr
one people-no party. Let us rise as Il ma on.
and forgetting all minor matters, make common
head against the aggressors Of our rights.
Furthermore, we must hold our public men to
strict accountability. We must abolish man wor-
ship. Upon the first symptoms Of weakness or
desertion, let US discard our Leaders. Let our
great men know that they can no longer, with
mpunty, sell our safety for their own prefernent.
We must also observe the press of the South
closely. Let the political hacks, and the North
ern journals at the South, be abandoned, that
they may no longer disseminate their poison
through the land.
Thus, by union at the South; by getting rid Of
the corrupt leaders who barter away our security
for their own preferment; by destroying the in
auenee OF the unsound portion of the Southern
press, and by adopting the great measures Of
safety which the emergency would suggest,