The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-09-23
The southern Press.

The southern press, as general thing, are
well pleased with the disposition of the
questions which so recently agitated the
country. Those who dislike the manner in
which the question were settled, are not in
clined to be pleased with any arrangement
short of disunion. Such papers we are hap
pyto state, are only to be found in South
Carolina, tho saetler Of tl,e diaunivu ni0vr-
mep., and Georgia.
The Columbia (Tenn.) Democrat, in
gratulatory article upon the passage Of the
bills referred TO, says:
We hail with the profoundest joy, the set
Element of these dangerous questions, which
have threatened the safety of the Union fol
SO great period. Tranquility will succeed
agitation, maternal love, bitter elimination,
and recrimination and concord, will speedi-
ly take the place of discoid. We hail it as
the dawn of a new era in national legisla-
tion, and national feeling. For those, who
have SO nobly struggled for this happy result
we entertain the highest admiration and
deepest gratitude.
rhe Nashville Union, has the following
paragraph as preface to the announcement
that the Fugitive Slave bill had passed Con-
gress:
The information contained in the follow
ing dispatch to our neighbor of the True
Whig, will be read with joy and sorrow
Throughout the length and breadth of this
land-joy by the millions who desire to see
peace and tranquility restored to distracted
country--and sorrow by the few who wish
to keep up the slavery agitation for their
own especial benefit! The five wounds are
now healed and political destruction awaits
the man-whether in the North or in the
South-who attempts to open them. We
give loud and enthusiastic response to the
shout of our friend Ewing. -" Three cheers
for the Union!!w
The Charleston Is. C.) Mercury comments
severely upon the passage of the California
bill, and styles the action Of Congressa VIC
tory over law and the Constitution. In
speaking Of the salute which was fred in
honor Of the passage Of the bill, at Wash
ington, the same paper says the burning of
gunpowder may not stop there.
The Savannah Georgian, talks insanely.
Hear il:
m We may unite great seas by the mastery
gained over an intervening continent--we
may Danish beggary from this land, making
"a starving curiosity by boarding oceans Of
wealth--the government may school every
man, woman and child-it may make its
every square acre garden, but after all this,
Of purgatory, in which the spirit Of liberty
is imprisoned, withouta union of the hearts
of the people. That Union no longer
Erists. As honest men and faithful chron-
iclers we are bound to say, that never in the
history of this people have men--yea, whole
states of men, been more miseably divided
more hopelessly sundered by bitter heart
hatred, than now divides members Of this
Union. We really doubt if the patriots of
l778, ever felt towards the Hessians more
intense and unrelenting enmity than has
now become the general temper Of whole
communities, North and South.
The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, under the
head Of The Union Safe" says
n II is with feelings of the most profound
gratitude and unmingled joy, that we an
:, llounce to our readers the passage Of the
Senate bill to settle the Texas Boundary and
10 oestabisiIa territorial government for New
\ Mexico, This is indeed cheering Eews to
The heart Of the true patriot and the lover
N me Union. We therefore cougntu!ate
our readers on this suspicious event."