The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-06
zysssriosl Patriotism Of Pusnaoious Paoi-

SDouiu De--hiu WHICH PoiillcitiiS uo PciPctu"iil
proclaiming their own patriotism, and pratins
about their nationality, the same impression il
apt to be produced.
aThe wicked feeth when no man pursueth;
the uneasy conscience wreaks itself in protesta
| tion--and the patriotism which makes sucl
hysterical demonstrations in public places to at
tract public notice, is not the product either O
healthy mind ora heart at ease, any more
4 than the convulsive distortions of the Epilepti,
indicate the yigor of sound health.
There never was blackleg that did not ap
peal frequently to his honor---a damsel Of doubt
1 full chastity, who did not affect the airs of ,
prude--nor party hack that did not parade his
own independence of dictation, and stern adher
ence to principle, before any audience that coulc
possibly be humbugged by the farce. "The
fantastic tricks"a played before high heaven" or
the Congressional boards by some of the @stars,
| and stock company,'to full houses during this
sesaion, have been sufficient to excite the risibi
ity of misanthrope, and sickenthe very soul OF
disinterested spectator, who could see through
the shallow game and detect the selfish schemes
hidden under the sounding professions of devo-
ton to the public veal.
fessions are but breath, and breath is only air
but the sacrifice of selfish interests and party
connections, to promote public ends, these, and
| these only, prove the patriot.
"Nor ford prose, nor honied lies of rhyme
Can blazon evil deeds, or consecrate a crime
and Of what value are sounding professions
when accompanied by betrayal of the nearest
and dearest and most sacred rights deputed to
the protection of Representative or what
crime more b ok in dye, than such betrayal of
confidence and of trust? This crime cannot be
charged on those termed by their enemies and
those of the South, the Southern Ultras =
their sin can only be an excess of ZEAL an unsef-
ish fanaticism in the cause of the South, which
would compromise no principle, abandon no vest
ed right, though exclusion from party spoils,
and the enjoyment of place and power, might
follow their stubborn resistance to those
now paving the way to !" the succession" by the
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compromises and concessions which "saved the
point of honorto the South" nothing else
| if that
And yet, to listen to the spasmodic shrieks Of
the hysterical patriots who dub themselves Pa
cifcators, and who would give the South that
peace so we'll described by Tactus, as the gift
Of the Roman Despots, who
Made soltude-and called it peace
one would suppose that all the safety, peace
aud happiness of the whole country was crushed
in the upsetting of the Omnibus, and only to be
preserved by picking up and patching togethe,
its fragments again.
To those who have wrought themselves uF
into this agony or hysterical passion, and seek
to relieve it by the parrot-lke repetition Of the
slang Of the scribbers, who like scourged hounds
howl at those whom they dare not bite-anl
season their daily bread by SANDER and defama
tion--the cold dash and low diet, with abstinence
from all irritants would be beneficial
Darkness and anti-phlogistic diet
Will tend to keep their pulses quiet"
and calmer and better feeling succeed the ebu
litions ofbitter disappointment
The angry repetition Of certain words, sucl
as Treason, Dsunion, Notification, Ultraism
or the resort to such stupid slang as South
ern Chivalry," "Ghost of Gen. Jackson" &C. &c.
will not answer the Dr. Townsends of Pacifica.
ton as panaceas, on the contrary they are sour
and fermenting compounds, and must do damage
to the Constitution, if their use is persisted in
| No spectacle can at the same time be so lu-
dicrous and so painful, as to see people actually
foaming at the mouth to inculcate the blessings
and the necessity of patience, forbearance and
mutual conciliation--while every word is steep
ed in gall and bitterness--or "a Great Pacifica-
tor preaching mp the necessity of @healing the
bleeding wounds of this distracted country" with
a rope dangling from his pocket, and menaces Of
Kentucky Regiments to quell rebellion on his
lips. -.
The most Incorporate, both in their language
and in the measures that they Familiarity pro-
pose-through whose speeches, racks ropes
bayonets and gibbets adance in all the mazes Of
metaphorical confusion ARE the "National Poll
ticians," the Compromises" the sPacifcators, y
who like mile posts point out the road they never
attempt to follow, and discover higher law thar
the Constitution hidden, in an Omnibus
There has been cant and twattle enough Of
this kind already inflicted upon a patient public
who do not--and a yet a more patient proof
reader who mustered these lastdeclarations Of
patriots ready /" Pro Patria Mori," to take theil
own declarations, but who infinitely prefer
living for The party" The whole country
is sick Of quack nostrums and sham specifics, a nc
spurious certificates of their sovereign efficacy
and desire and demand return to The regula,
practice, as recognized and established by the
generation of statesmen who framed the Con
stitution in such manner as to secure the
blessings of equal privileges and equal rights
forever to themselves and to their posterity
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