The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-12-23

Mr. VAN BUREE in 1888, in a Wing county
from the independent movement we made fol-
free trade, on our return, against both parties
and from our subsequent course in favor OF
hard money, against what was at the time large
majority OF the Democratic party in the State.
II is true, that from difficulties resulting from
the controversy on the currency, schism once
occurred in the party, and we were nominated
against our wishes and against our remonstrance,
to run against the regular nominee for the Sem
ate. And it seldom happens that men who are
unpopular with party, are selected to oppose
the regular ticket. We were Misunderstanding
only about five hundred votes-two other Demo-
cratic tickets being run against ours-the regular
nominee protesting the very same doctrines with
us-and having been nominated when we were
absent from the State, and not candidate
That occurrence, however, would have been n
very trivial obstacle to future promotion in the
party, if we desired it. In fact, in 1916, we
were recommended to Mr.. Polk for Commits
sioner Of the General Land Office, and the then
member from that district, Mr.. FARAN, together
with the Democratic delegation of Ohio, and the
Northwest generally united in that recommen-
dation.
We have now shown that our present opinions
are of about twenty years standing-and that
we never were an Abolitionist, and that in the
sectional quarrel between the North and the
South, we al,oays took the side of the latter
The Professor SAUNDERS says he don't know
of more vulnerable man than we are. We
don't know Of one less vulnerable, and it would
take more Professors than the Mississippi could
float down to Tennessee from Ohio, to pierce
with their puny shafts the adamantine shield of
our political integrity and consistency.
AS for being "a mere Swiss guard" the ed-
tor Of the Chronicle d Sen incl seems to sup
pose that we sought our Present position We
never asked or applied for it directly or ind
rectly, or desired it. We were selected for it
we understood unanimously We accepted it
with reluctance, and from sense of duty We
did not need any pecuniary advantage it could
bestow, and if we had wanted money, wo should
never have thought of making it by conducting
a paper.
AS for the editor of the Louisville journal,
who is such lover of consistency, what are his
pretensions A Yankee schoolmaster from
Connecticut he went to Kentucky we are to
presume, with all the hostility to slavery peculiar
to the common school education and pharsaic
religious faith of that State. He wrote n bio
graphy of Mr.. CLAY, and extolled his early
movement for emancipation in Kentucky Well,
the question of emancipation recently came be-
fore the people of that State in amending their
constitution. What was the course of the
Journal! Did it advocate emancipation or had
it become "upostate! ~ or did it discourage eman-
cipation, from spirit of craven submission to a
predominant sentiment in the State?
Is not the Journal a beautiful champion of
consistency?
So much for the attac ks on our Consistency
made by the holy quadruple alliance of the sub
mission editor of the Sentinel! the editor of the
Louisville Journal!! WILLIAM J. BRowN!!.
and Senator FooTE !! to say nothing of two
or three spasms on the subject by the editor of
the Union.