The southern press., 1850-11-06
''sIiying to keep both the National Par
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''6Iiving to keep both the National Par
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The editor of the Union, in astriving," as he
told us few days ago, for several weeks past
TO akeep both the national parties alive" and to
be the organ of both, is decidedly OVERRIDING his
functions. He has been telling US for several
days, that the President was determined to en-
force the Fugitive slave law, has given US as an
ecdotes, statements that the President said so,
and has then begged him to do it.
These manifestations of Executive confidence
were as amusing and curious in an, opposition
organ, as its magnanimous striving to keep both
parties alive. - ,.. er
Finally, yesterday the Union publishe the
following ..1..r
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun
's 4- .. ..' WASHINGTON, Nov, 3.
Important order Of the Concentration 9f
Htanfry and Artillery at Bosto,l-Deela,ations Of
the President-Union or Disaaion.
The President yesterday gave orders for the
immediate concentration ofthe dis2osable force of
the United States artillery and infantry in Boston
harbor. There were some few troops at Fort
Independence; and the companies at Fort Preble,
Maine, at Newport, New York harbor, Fort Nc
Henry, and Fortress Monroe, are ordered to that
station. All the troops that can be spared from
. Florida, and some of those that had been sent
to Texas for the defence of the frontier, were
: also ordered to Boston. The larger portion of
, the army is employed in California, New Mexico,
and Texas, and probably not more than ten or
twelve companies can be now spared for service
) in Boston. Seven or eight companies will be
, concentrated at Fort Independence within two
days. .'..'. :. . ..
This important movement seems to have been
| suddenly determined upon, and in consequence
| of information received by the Executive from
the United States Marshal in Boston. To show
that it was not contemplated on Friday, it may
be mentioned that the troops in Florida were on
that day ordered to Texas, but the next day they
were ordered to Boston.
And prefxes it with the following quite semi
official organism remark
f We find the following letter In the Baltimore
Sun, and can state that we have some reason to
believe that, IN the main, the facts are cor
rectly detailed We are glad to see that a spirit
Of energy animates the executive proceedings in
this Boston affair. We hope there is no mis-
understanding in the business. .a,t-'t.
But behold, there is quite misunderstanding
in the business. For yesterday the Repu5.
lie, the acknowledged organ of the President
comes out and refers to the very same stateme
in the Baltimore Sun-(and other Journals)-
and puts the following official extinguisher upon
it.
1t is not true that any communication has
been made to the PRESIDENT by the United
States marshal in boston, or by any other mar
shal, III relation to any actual or apprehended
obstruction to the laws the cause assigned by
the SUMS correspondent for the alleged orders
of the PRESIDENT. 1t it is not true that the
PRESIDENT has issued amy orders with regard
to the concentration Of" any force in Boston
harbor, or anywhere else, with reference to
any such information or apprehension us is
above suggested ; the PREsInENT has received
no communication from any marshal, and has no
Information that leads him to believe that any
peculiar disposition of the military force will be
, rendered necessary for the execution Of the
laws.
1t Is true that there have been some changes
made by the War Department in the position of
the troops, but not in the directions nor for the
!, purposes alleged. 1t was deemed proper to re-
eve some Of the companies that have been sta
=, toned in Florida; some of which have been
, ordered North, and some to TeXas.1 Others
have been ordered from the North to the South
2 Among the changes, cne company was ordered
t to Fort Independence, in Boston harbor; but on
6 information from the proper bureau that the
barracks there were not ready for the reception
, of troops the order was cOuntermanded. These
} changes having no reference whatever to the
, causes assigned for them, have given rise to
suspicious and rumors that have assumed the
shape of positive allegations in the Suns cor
respondence.
Thus then the lately assumed grandiloquent
official Executive robes of the opposition organ
are stripped off, to the merriment of the specta-
tors
The editor of the Onion deserved this fate
I1o was anxious to give aid and comfort to the
submissionists of Georgia, who were rather caved
in by the failure of the Compromise they were
trying to submit to, and rather confounded by the
imprisonment and expulsion at and from Boston,
of their own fellow-citizens, for claiming the
benefit of one of the peace measures. But the
organ forgot that the New York election was
pending, and came on before the Georgia cleo
ton, and that it might ruin the Wing purity in
New York, to enforce the Fugitive slave law by
armies and navies in Boston,
The recent coalition is attended with many
other awkward consequences. We learn by the
papers, that Senator FooTE, in Mississippi, is
extolling the President for the energy and effect
with which his influence was exerted over Wing
members of Congress- in getting them to voto
for the Fugitive slave law. Mr.. FoorE says, the
President Sent for them, and earnestly urged
them so to vote. Does not every body see that
this will play the mischief with the popularity
of Wing President at the North? Can any
edtor-can any organ, keep "both the national
parties alive" against the intervention of such
awkward and indiscreet friends!
A Sign of the Times.
Every one knows that during the notification
contest in South Carolina, Ito which the sub
missionists seek to assilniate, the present
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