The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-28
to the Fugitive Slave bill Hear how lie stans.

to the Fugitive Slave BILL Hear how the States.
man (Dem.) treats the Stale Journal (Whig):
THE SKULKIsG.-The Journal, to skulk the
questions we have put to it in relation to the
Fugitive law, its party leaders and party organs,
endeavors to skulk them by asking us the fol-
lowing:
We have often expressed our dissent from
the law. We could not have voted for it with
out essential notifications. We have had no
concealment on this subject. And now, permit
us to ask question. We shall expect to be
answered. We wish the editor of the Statesman
to answer US whether HE is in favor of the Flu
gitive slave law or not? Would he have voted
for the law, if he had been in Congress-
We should not have voted for the law with or
without essential mod fcGtions" Is the Journal
anspereda Dare it answer the questions we
put to it last week, or will Il skulk from pillar
to post, and each time chameleon-like change its
color. Dare il speak?
The same Democratic organ says:
Every member Of Congress elected by the
Democrats in Ohio, will vote to repeal this Fu-
gitive law"
The following extract we give as scrap Of
comfort to the major organs here, as it will show
that their minors have their own difficulties in
trying to reconcile contradictions too The
eagerness to repudiate the responsibility of this
law on the part Of the two factions in Ohio,
would be ludicrous, We're it not suggestive of
such grave results. The Democratic Statesman
thus complains ...:.... r.
The Journal copies an article from the Wash
ingtOn Union favoring this law? Why does the
Journal not publish articles from the two Wing
organs at Washington opposing IL! 1.-THE Wing
organs are advocates of the bill, as every body
knows they are, would it not be MS well for our
honest Sugar Alley friend to say so, and first
take the mote out Of the eye of its own house
hold ?" .E.- .@'@ "+& -.
Now none of these proceedings or resolutions
will find their way to the Southern wings of the
respective parties through their sleepless senti-
nels here-for the good Of the party it seems,
requires wholesale suppression of all such in
convenient demonstrations, and blissful igno.
rance OF the existence of any incompatiblity.
Both must go it blind"-each enjoy the express
sion Of its own set of sentiments and views Of
policy, without troubling the other wing with
any such sectional differences as the inanaaterial
issues involved in the slavery question. The
facts however, will leak out, and patriotism rise
superior to party in true Southern breasts.
Devoted as Southern men may have been to
their old parties through good report and evil
report they yet cannot fail to recognize the
solemn truth that no further dependence or reli-
ance can be placed on either of those old organi-
cations for the projections of their rights, their
persons and their property, and, dearer still,
those oftheir wives and children Over the Demo-
cratic party of the North now floats the black
flag Of the Barnburners-while SEWARD, like
Colossus, bestrides the Wing party-and both
drag as trophies after their triumphal cars
the minorities that first resisted, and then sur
rendered at Syracuse. Look to the three con-
trolling States of that section. Where do they
stand!
New York, the heart of the North-Massa-
chusetts of the Northeast-Ohio of the North
west. What attitude do they assume /? Let the
voices of the people, rising like the roar of Nj
agara from their mass meetings, answer this
question. These three are indeed the keystones
of the Northern arch, and all these are Abolition
to the core. In vain does the mercantile in
terest raise its feeble voice-in vain has the
cost of all this been ciphered up-and the value
of the Union to New York and Boston "cacu-
lated automatically. Madness rules the hour,
and Moloch is stronger far than Manmon--
guile and ianaticism more potent than gain.
The South must fall prey to this fell spirit,
if she cannot command sufficient union among
her sons to resist and repulse it. Strong in
every other respect, her own internal divisions
and distractions can alone give it the advantage
but we believe that the instinct of self preser-
walton, if no nobler motive, must finally lutte
her sons as band of brethren to repel the CON-
mon enemy.