The southern press., 1850-11-02

while he disapproves of The agitation of the sub
lect OF slavery, until becomes necessary 10 future
4 aggressons on the rights Of the South
/ Do the people of the South!know the true secret
OF this hugger -muggering' They may think il
mere farce, but assure them it is not So 1t is |
serious comedy, if not high tragedy, as you will |
! find when the fifth act commences. The spell is
cast, as well TO concentrate the Whig party here
at home for this election now pending, as for the
purpose of putting the South TO sleep, by per-
suading the good people in that quarter, that there
is party, or at least powerful section of par
ty IN the North, if not friendly to their rights, at
least ayerse TO any further encroachments and To
the continued agitation Of the subject Of slavery.
The letter is perfectly true. They satisfied for
the present, having got all they want; while the
more numerous section of the Whig party is for
pushing the South either into ablect submission,
or out of the Union. s'..t|.
see their object in this pretended difference, as
plainly if had been admitted behind the scenes
aud acted as one OF the wire-pulers. One wants
votes in the South for the next Presidential cleo
tion, and il apprehensive that though it may sub
init TO past, ii will resist future aggresslons 1t
obvious that great struggle is now maturing in
the South, between the advocates OF submission
and those of resistance, the issue of which will
decide whether they are to be the slaves of their
slaves, and that it is indispensabfy necessary to
strengthen the former, as well as weaken the lat
ter, by throwing tub to the whale; in other
words, soothe the scrupes of the disciples of en-
durance, by assurances that if they will only be
quiet under the blow already received, and acqui-
esce in the late picking>of their pockets they will
not be knocked down and robbed again---at least,
till the Southern Conventions are disposed OF, and
1t is thus ascertained whether the South is fairly
placed hOrs de combat now henceforh, and forever
These jugg ers begin to fear the people of the
South really in earnest, and have concocted this
plan of backing them, by approving all the meas
ures OF which they complain, denouncing the only
one that is satisfactory to them, and coalescing
with the rankest Aboltionsts in supporting their
candidate for Governor. This Is one of the most
impudent, bareaced attempts at imposition ever
seen, and could only have been hatched by men
grown grey in the school of political iniquity, and
hardened by long series of success disappoint-
ment. But the South has been so often deluded
by similar charming artlfces, that it is doubtless
hoped she will again be cheated with her eyes
wide open.
The other section of the I" National Wing
party" constituting two-thirds Of the whole, on
the contrary, know perfectly we'll that they have
| little nothing to expect from the South, and
that all their hopes Of success, both in this State
and in the Union, depend on the support of the
Abolltionists, Anti-Renters, Socialists, and run
away Negroes, aided by the scrapings Of all other
factions; They, therefore, come out boldly
They tell the South what it has to expect, in flu
ture, from the "higher law" and the sensitive
consciences Ex-senator Seward, Washington Hunt,
Gerrlt Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, Sam.
Ward, General Chaplin, the martyr, and the rest
of the party -colored " friends of the entire human
race" | see that the advocates of Southern rights
seem to be greatly at loss to the means of re-
Dress or of resistance. Let them take care, or it
will be on this rock they will split. Dsunion
among themselves has placed them where they
now are, and nothing less than union among
themselves, in measures of redress, or defence, or
retaliation, can po: slbly remedy the past, give
security to the future. They must not only make
themselves heard, but felt. At present, there is
not one man in thousand of the people here in
the North, that knows what is going on in the
South. None see the accounts OF meetings in al
most every county Of Alabama, Mississippi, Geor-
gia, and e!sewhere-though not so frequent; or
know that they are called and presided over, not
by the tags and scavengers Of party, but by the
first citizens of these States, of both parties, the
holders Of the land. the lords and the cultivators
Of the soil. If solitary meeting is called at Mo-
bile, or elsewhere, TO rejoice the degradation
of the South, 1t is trumpeted forth in every news
paper of the North evidence that the magic
compromise has restored peace to the country,
and that the Abolitioniss may safely proceed to
new aggressions. The press is muzzled here,
with perhaps one exception. There is certain
line beyond which 1t dare not pass and the South
is condemned without n hearing. n1ence, no one
is aware of the real state of things, and all are
alike shouting the Union is safe, when, at mo-
ment of its existence it in such danger.
There is not newspaper in this city--I may say
, in this State-nay, may extend it to the entire
= North-that would dare to publish the truths
which ! am thus under the necessity of addressing
to my countrymen through paper where they
will probably never be seen by those to whom the
warning Is most necessary.
In the mean time, our State elections ap-
proach more near, the Abolition steam is getting
higher than ever. The gentlemen Of color are all
literally becoming gentlemen OF choler, dealing in
nothing but bowie knives, patent revovers, de-
nuncations of the South of the church, the Bible
the Constitution, and the law the Abolition par
; sons grow more vociferous and blasphemous the
newspapers more devoutly philanthropic the
female devotees Of anal gamation more in love with
Orator Douglas; Abby Folsom is in Mysteries
, Lucretia Mott in eXtacies and the politicians
more busy in forming coalitions, all based OH the
sacrifice Of Southern rights. Such is the ascend
ency OF the Abolitioniss--who are the great UNI
pres in this contest-that no leader, and no tool
of either party, dares raise his hand or his voice
in behalf of the South and if he did, no one would
hear or heed him. One would think we had all
turned Turks, and believed every mailman and
idiot inspired. The newspapers, with scarcely u
solitary exception, are devoted to Abolition doc
trines in different degrees, and Gerrit Smith-the
ass laden with gold--and Cuffee Ward-who is
of opinion that the Constitution ought to be tram
pied under foot-are the great oracles.
The negroes are daily and nightly melted to vi
olations Of the law and bloody excesses, by rev.
erend preachers of the gospel, universal philan-
thropists, and white and black orators, instilling
into them deadly hatred Of the whole race Of
white men, and bitter hostility to the church,
the State, and the Union. They already are pre-
pared for any species of outrage and violence, and
for practical application of the benign principle
:, of British philanthropy, which teaches them that
, " the condition Of slavery absolves from all the
obligations Of mankind" Were they sufficiently
numerous, they would cut all throats without
scruple. Ifthe Southern reader thinks | am deal
ing in random shots, or wide exaggerauons, let
him look at the language Of the pulpit the senti-
ments in the Northern newspapers, and the pro-
CeedlngS &
political, in all parts of the country, and then ask
himself if what say is not literally true.
l have endeavored, in my former letters, to call
the attention of the people Of the South to the va
rious schisms and coalitions daily developing in
the midst Of the chaos around us, and to caution
them against placing any reliance on either one
or the other. They all have and the same OBJ
jject--to conciliate the Aboltonists here, and at
the same time, afford the Submissionists of the
South decent pre,ext for submission, by holding