The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-26
me way Of . Keeping both Parties

lie Boston Atlas has long been the most IN
fluential as well as the most able exponent of
the principles and policy of the Wing party in
New England. II has, in fact been far more
potent as their organ, than the two metropolitan
Wing presses here.
That print has devoted four elaborate leading
articles to an examination of the causes which
led to the defeat of its party in Massachusetts,
and calm exposition of its present position.
Tha: defeat it attributes solely to the suspicion
of want of full abolition orthodoxy, and urges
the prevention of further Democratic triumphs
on this ground, by correcting this error and
placing the matter beyond dispute The fourth
and final one will be found below.
The passages we have italieised, display the
real state of public sentiment in New England,
in the light in which we have regarded it, and
the facts which are brought to sustain the state
ments so decidedly made, it will stagger the
most doubling Thomas" among the skeptics to
gainsay. ..,...
Southern men who seem so desperately bent
on preserving the unity of the party" " at all
hazards and to the last extremity" will now see
the price which they must pay for such fidelity,
in the insulting and manstrous proposition so
cooly made them by this national Whig"-
who claims to be true exponent of the party.
After laying down the proposition that, q the
party in the free States that sides with slavery
or that shows by its acts that it cares but lille
about IL! and would remain passire! MUST GO
DOWN." The Atlas predicates thereon propo-
sal to the Southern Wings insulting at once to
their intelligence and their manhood.
1t says in plain terms to them, eve MT
want to interfere with your local politics, and
you must not interfere with ours: we will work
together as national party, but whenever" we
(the Northern Whigs) " can act, with n due re-
gard to our constitutional obligations for the
advancement of free principles, WE SHALL DO IT. I"
I" If they vote us down, we submit" chow kind,
with an overwhelming majority to propose thisD
" if we vote them down, they (the Southern
Whigs) must submit. We want no threats Of
notification to interfere with our just rights no
Nashville Conventions to overawe the action of
Congress-" Of course not, for as the devil hates
holy water, do all the enemies or the betrayers
of Southern>rights, whether styling themselves
national Wings or national Democrats, abhor
the Nashville Convention, and all movements
that place the safety of the South above the pre-
servation of the party.
We rejoice that the Union has found such Il
fit coadjutor in its disinterested efforts of keep
ing both parties alive" on its favorite plan of
% non-interuention," never so clearly expounded
before as by the confident and confding Atlas.
Its invitation to Southern brethren to submit to
its short and easy method, gives them credit for
degree of selfdenying devotion to the party,
unparalleled by any modern instance, except
that of the ducks which were so much attached
to their mistress, as everymorningto waddle into
the garden and stuff themselves with sage and
onions, in anticipation of their immolaton to her
appetite.
1t is difficult indeed to treat such proposals
seriously-t is painfully humiliating to contem-
plate the bare possibility of the acceptance of
such terms OH the part Of Southern men, yet
such, in sober sadness, are the only terms on
which hereafter they can cling to their old party
ties. The fiat has gone forth against the South,
from those who feel that if they can divide the
Southern people, and turn their fiery energies
against each other, they then must subjugate her
once proud spirit and bend her once naughty
neck under their yoke. As in old times the
cry went forth from robber Rome, L" To day, to-
day, Cartilage shall be destroyed!' now sweeps
on every Northern blast the rallying cry Of the
united North against the divided South,
"DowN WITH THE SLAVE POWER"
And down it will 60 in blood and ashes, after
4 brief respite of few years of vassalage to the
victor, unless her sons unite and rally to the
rescue.
The man must indeed be smtten with judi
cial blindness, that cannot see and interpret the
handwriting on the WALL" in such avowals Of
policy and of purpose on the part Of those, who
seek the aid of Southern allies to open the pos
tern gates to allied armies Of abolition, rallyng
under the tattered banners of the old Wing and
Democratic organizations. Let none therefore
be deceived by this new phase of Non-lnterven-
ton " with local politics. whether cloaked under
the jesuitical sophistrics of the Union or thus
markedly displayed by the Aus:
Our DEBATING. An commencing this ar
tice, which will probably be tile last Of the serles
we would repeat the points we have endeavored to
enforce. They are few and simple. First, that the
Wings have been defeated because Of the impress
sion made, that they were responsible for, and favor
able to, the present Fugitive slave law, and were
cold or Indifferent towards the question Of freedom
in the territories. Second, that in order to
regain our lost ground and once more obtain pos
session Of the State government, it is necessary to
correct these impressions, and to plant ourselves
upon the old platform upon which the party stood
one year ago.
We are glad to find that the views we have ex
pressed, in the three articles which have preceded
this, have been met with unusual favor by the
Wing press of this State, out Of Boston, and by
the Wing press Of the neghborng States. They
have been written with the single purpose of do
ing good-ofplacing the Wing party uponthe only
platform upon which it with safety stand in
this Commonwealth, and in New England The