The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-17

VI ~ SiCas cioHhiS duu CuuChitiiS Has pccu Iaiotu
and re-echoed by 9 The Best zoe can Gels" over
the proposed achowder and barbecue" at Mobile
The Advertiser Of that city $50 seryile sub
mission print from the commencement of this
controversy with the North, that number of its
leading Wing supporters protested through its
own columns, under their signatures, against its
principles and policy0 publishes long list Of
names, as vouchers for the rise in submission
stock in that vicinage, ~. ...s 60. ....
These representations have been rapturously
received by the acquiescents- become more
numerous the further North you go--and trum-
peted most noisily abroad to allay the anxieties
Of our Northern brethren, whose patriotism and
pocketnerves have equally been disturbed.
Now il is good plan in deciding case, to
look a little into the testimony on both sides.
We may admit, for the sake of argument, that
the Advertiser is a reliable paper--but the Iri-
bune of the same place, is certainly entitled to
equal credit-and is conducted with much better
taste and temper than its chowderian neighbor.
From the Tribune we extract the following
statement, made by citizen, cognizant of the
facts. 1t shows how the list was made up:
"MR. TRIBUNE The list of the names APP
pended to the call for the jollification oday, has
been published. 1t numbers about seven hun
dred, which, considering that the whole city was
diligently canvassed day after day, until not a
man in 1t was left unapproached, is insignificant.
If that comprises all that can be found to rejoice
over such measures, the opinion of the city is in
q healthier condition than expected.
But the list does not represent truly the
strength of this jolifcation party. A great
mann names on Il toere obtained under false pre-
fences. ! have such information rs leads me to
believe that large proportion Of the signers
appended their names from thoughtlessness or
an entire Misrepresentation of its purposes. Some
OF them, it is said, can neither read nor write
They, we presume, signed by proxy. Some
were told that it was intended to rejoice over
the passage of the fugitive slave bill the admis-
sion Of Free-soil California being kept in the
background. Many of the signers, it is said, too,
are entirely fictitious, and many are foreigners,
who are not naturalized. Some of them have
no country at all, and are without the slightest
knowledge of our institutions or regard for them
There are, too, comparatively teao Southern men
on it, and many of these would like to have their
names expunged. y as- =
On the whole, judging from what ! know of
how the names were collected, &C., our country
friends need not suppose that Mobile is yet sold.
We can turn out three times as many who are
earnestly with the public opinion of the interior
on this subject"
TIL, following echo from the neighboring city
of Montgomery-the capital Of the State, does
not seem very sympathetic, and SO long as the
heart of the State is sound no GOODNESS at the
extremities can do much damage. The Alias a
very able paper thus speaks of
The REJOICING IN MoBnE-As we stated the
other day, the first instance we remember to
have seen on record of a people rejoicing in
their defeat and degradation, Is the submission
meeting which took place in Mobile on Tues.
day last. The Advertiser published list Of
seven hundred and fifty names which were at
tached to the call for this extraordinary Demon
stration, headed by Arthur F. Hopkins, esq.,, the
Wing candidate for the United States
Senate. Their ostensible object was to cele-
brate the restoration of peace" to the country
But "peace may be purchased at too dear price,
honorable "peace" is always desirable, but there
is such a thing as a dishonorable peace. B..
There are two different modes by which the
South has had it in her power to obtain speace"
with the North any time these ten years past
First, to unite as one man in firm determine
ton to resist, at any cost, the first pal pabe in
fringement of her Constitutional rights So in
yincibie power as the united South, the North
would never attempt 10 overcome at the hazard
of rupture of the Union. Secondly, the South
could have had peace with the North at any
time, by simply and Internationally surrender
ing to her every thing in relation to the aboli-
ton of slavery, which she might have deemed it
proper to demand.
These are the only two methods by which the
South could have obtained the so much desired
IS peace" with the North at any period during the
last fifteen years and in our opinion these are
the only two modes by which peace and har-
mony ever DiH be restored to the Northern and
Southern sections of the country. And the only
reason that we have now a comparative lul in
the agitation of the slavery question, is, that the
North has fully accomplished all the objects that
she considered it advisable, for the present, TO
attempt to compass.
She has not, to be sure, applied the Wilmot
Proviso to the laws establishing territorial gov
ernments; not however, because she has aban-
doned the principle, but because she found it to
be unnecessary to the accomplishment Of her
ends-because she discovered that the abolish
ment of slavery in the territories could be sooner
accomplished by other means.
But are these men sincere in the belief that
they have, after all, obtained bona fde "peace?'
If they are, they are most grossly deceiving
themselves. If they can rejoice now at the
abolition of the slave trade in the District of
Columbia, they will have an opportunity before
the expiration of the next session, or ut all
events, before the close Of the next Congress, to
rejoice at the abolition of slavery ITSELF
But Independently of all these considerations,
the call for this meeting was not only in most
wretchedly bad taste, but it was a most wretch.
eddy bad policy; because it must operate as a
direct and powerful encouragement to the North
ern Free-soile to 60 in their career of insult
and outrage to the South. .. .. .....
On the whole, then, this meeting proves that
there are men at the South so utterly and shame
lessly destitute of all feelings of patriotism, as
TO rejoice at their own political infamy and de-
graduation who can rejoice at being kicked in
to state of political inferority and subjugation
who can rejoice at an infamous victory OBJ