The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-07-31

should feel under lasting obligations Of gratitude
to those who shall defeat it. For that alone can
save them from the undying curses Of every true
hearted patriot from the Potomac TO the Rio
Grande But will that honorable sentiment ami
mate their bosoms' A few brief months will give
the answer. A vIRGINIAN.
For The Southern Press
To Messr.. SrERLrNc r. ScARREr, A. L. ARpIs,
WILLIAM A. DRAKE, Jr., J. s. BACON, MILEAGE
GALpuIs, H. GrBBs, T. E. PAxrEs, THos. f..
M CALBERr j. GIBBs, A. G. Hill, and MAR
TIN CoNFUsER.
GensLemsn:--W When received your communica-
ton of the 9th instant, disappearing, IN no mea-
sured terms, of the opinions advanced by me IN
my speech on the Compromise Bill in the Senate,
on the 22d Of May, 1850, determined TO take no
notice of it. because did not know the subscri-
bers 10 it, or whether it was genuine or hoax;
nor did | consider the arguments Of sufficient inn
p,rtance or the Interpretation Of SO few persons,
couched in such terms, Of sufficient consequence
to require an answer; but since, few days after
wards, it was published in the Southern Press, at
your request no doubt, over not your own sigma
lures, hut the imposing one Of "Your constituents,
&c,nI have concluded to reply to il. One SEN
tence in it explains who you are, and the reason
why you addressed me so courteous and modest
letter. You say
ssIn this quarter the people are principally emil
grants from South Carolina and Georgia the
papers subscribed to are principally printed in
those States; with them are their sympathies, and
with them viii they determine their course, in or
out Of the Union"
You are then g emigrants from South Carolina
and Georgia" read the papers of those States,
sympathse with them, and will go IN or out of the
Union with them. Very well-you have right
to think for yourselves, sympathise with and go
out of the Union with whom you please; but l
would suggest that if you go out of the Union in
Louisiana you will have less company and less
sympathy than in some other parts, whose news
papers you so much admire. will not impute TO
YOU that $ ignorance " which you apply TO me so
freely, but If was disposed to do so, might in
quire whether you have so much of it as not to
Know that not only in your own quarter of the
State, but in many others, there are emigrants
from other States besides those you mention, TO
say nothing Of the natives, who have just as much
right to sympathise with read the papers of, or go
out Of or stay in the Union with their former ASSOC
cates MS you have, and just as much right as you
y to call home and applaud or denounce Senator.
What, would ask you, should do under such
circumstances, You ii South Carolinans and
Georgians disapprove of my course and desire me
TO come home and learn wisdom, you do not say
from whom, but suppose you mean yourselves,
while not eiepen but hundreds Of Tennesseeans,
Kentuckians, to say nothing of the Northern
Free-soil influence in New Orleans, as you call it,
and thousands of LotisiGnans, both "Anglo-Saxon"
and others Of all parties approve Of my course.
Do you really think ] ought to go home on your
CALF Well, I shall think of it. In the meantime,
as you have just as much right to appoint my
successor as to recall me, perhaps you had better
send him on, to be here ready when conclude to
obey your summons. And as Ignorance" in
your opinion, seems greatly to prevail in LOUISE
ana except among emigrants from your native
States, per. APPS you had better select him from
one of those States at once-a certain distinguished
Charleston orator for example, who is just now so
orthodox on disunion. But seriously, you ought
to pardon all my delinquencies, for they arose
only from the ignorance Of supposing that repre-
scented Louisiana and Louisianans instead Of
South Carolinians. As you have now set me
right in this matter, perhaps may do better in
future.
With a modesty that characteristics your whole
letter (pity that you have so much Of that weak
ness,) you say
ssOne, if not the great source, of the opinions
YOU entertain, seems to be the opinion that the
measure is approved in your State. In this We
respectfully believe you are in error You proba-
bly know that the .Netc Orleans Courier newspa-
per is confined in its circulation mainly to the
coast, where the popular sentiment is kept down
by the Northern Free-soil influence of New Or
leans. The journals Of the northern and western
portions of the State are not in situation to as
sumo an independent stand upon this subject,
while the population is generally so sparse, and
without any means of public communication, as
to have taken no active part in the contest. /"
Well, guess should know something of the
Courier and its circulation. What Democrat does
not know that able champion of our cause for
more than quarter of century, bearing our
banner galantly under our great leaders, Jackson,
Polk and Cass, conducted by the veterans in war
and of the press, ST. Rowes and Wagneri You
seem to be wholly ignorant" that there are any
such papers in Louisiana, as the Delta, The True
Delta, Statesman, Crescent Picayltne Bulletin Bee,
and Others which are known and read by others
in all the States of the Union if not by the semi
grants from South Carolina and Georgia in the
parish Of Bienville, and may, without much pre-
sumption on their part or mine, be presumed to
know as much of public sentiment in Louisiana
rs the papers of these two States.
But the journals in the northern and western
portions Of the State, are not in situation to be
independent and the people there are without the
means OF information, and take no active part In
the contest. Pray then, how did you become SO
wiser so wellinformed, for you live within the ex-
treme Northwest, and in the worst and most
sparce settled and inaccessible portion Of the State
aOh that the Lord would kindly gle us,
To see ourselves as others see us,
Itwould fra many a trouble free US,
And sad mishap-"
As the character of my reply is to be JUSTIFIED
chiefly by the extraordinary manner of the attack,
will quote from it again:
"Can it be that you are worried by the business
OF legislation as to be brought to this dolorous
condition, If SO come home we entrcat you, come
home, for the sake of your reputation, and the
feelings Of at least this portion Of the Sateof all
her American born citizens Of Anglo-Saxon origin
come home, and learn something of what is &C.
ing on in Washington"
Well, if I knew syour own regulations "
could better Judge how far ought to follow your
advice know enough Of your honor to decide
who compose " this portion ofthe State-of all her
American b, rn citizens Of Anglo-Saxon origin =