The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-16

dun and Tswccdle deg One a big and tke otl5sl
Democrat ~
" 'ris thenthe Gods desc<8dnrg swell the tight,
Then tumuIts rise, fierce rage and wild alright
1t matters not what is the character Of the
men who are candidates. IF the man whose
party is in minority of one hundred. be Of
irreproachable life, of unquestionable qualifica-
ton, these patriot politicians will denounce
repudiate, prescribe him from an office with
which his Presidential partialities have about as
much to do, as with the theory of the tides
Wings to the rescue !-Democrats the country
is in danger. Freemen TO the polls And
brothers will vote against brothers, and sons
against fathers, lest great Wing or a great
Democratic triumph should be achieved. And
thus it has become the practice to prescribe and
exclude from all public trusts, those who differ
from the majority, not in race, not in color, not
in origin, but in Federal politics. And this
system excludes from office and from honor, as
if they were Pariahs or lepers, the minority that
happen to be minority on Presidential
canvass.
The result of these fierce and low contests is,
that there is more intemperance of language and
personality in the party papers Of Kentucky in
one canvass, than in South Carolina ten years.
And that whilst each party dcnounces proscribes
and degrades the other at home, each has a most
afIectionate and fraterna attachment for its dis
tant friends in Massachusetts and Maine.
Lock at South Carolina Behold how breth-
rem dwell together in unity. Look at Ken
tucky-a family divided against ITSELF and each
party seeking a foreign alliance. A family may
make loud professions Of patriotic love, for
Maine and Massachusetts, and phanthropic af-
lection for China and Kamschatka, but if such
a family quarrels at home, persccutes its own
members, and abuses them we have poor opin-
ion of its universal patriotism.
But the people of Kentucky, although they
have tolerated this course in their politicians so
long as to be good deal perverted, SO much so
as to adopt this dsgraceful system Of inferno
cine war-haye wisdom, spirit, and virtue enough
not to sacrifice thoir own institutions to it.
When tho movement was made in that State for
emancipation year ago, the Northern party af-
finities of the leading presses made a sort of
milk and water opposition only to it. The OPP
position of the people, however, was quite 9TH
erwise---it was thorough, determined, and decis-
i've. We trust now, that Kentuckians will con
slider how much more reason they have to cult
vate feelings of union with one another, than
,,tb Tho noo,,la ~ ra,nnta Stufac ,.yhoi bu AZ
unanimous vote Of their repre- sentatves here.
have prescribed and repudiated from our vast
acquired territory, that institution which Ken
lucky has recently re-aflirmea as her own.
AS for Virginia, she is neither so much united
as South Carolina, nor so much divided as Ken
lucky. Although Virginia is one of the most
steadfast of the Democratic States, large por-
tion. of her State officers-we have been told a
majority---are Wings She has refused to be
governed internally by Federal politics. She
has refused at the behest of party scattered
through thirty States, and governed beyond her
borders, to sacrifice her own sons, even for the
benefit of one another. But we are sorry to see
the course of portion of the press and people of
Virginia in the present exigcncy. Virginia led
the State of Kentucky in 1898 to successful
resistance of the alien and sedition laws. Now
there are men in Virginia led by politician of
Kentucky, not in resisting but in abetting an
aggression of the Federal Government, greater
than the alien or sedition laws. y.
S The senior editor of this paper may be per-
~ ~,
an emigrant in boyhood from his native soil, to
that magnificent domain she gave TO the Union,
and for the Union, he may exclaim;
.sWher'er I've been, whatever cmes to see,
My heart untravelled fondIy turned to thee"
Nor did his affection content itself with mac
tive sentiment. He stood for her character, her
honor, and her principles, in the land which,
though it was her gift, had no honors to confer
let him tell the mother Of States and states
men, mother Of the political and military chief
tains of the Revolution, and Of the great foun-
ders of the Constitution, that the glory of her
destiny will have eliminated on the day of her
submission-to the subversion of that Constitu-
ton so much the work of her hands-and to
her own degradation and that of those States
so much her own offspring and there is no Ian
guage to express her own fate so impressive as
that of one of her own poets:
tAlas alas for me "
Ambition g dream is 'er.
No more, no more, no more,
(Such is the language of the sea m
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