The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-26

Union MeatinRa.


We have attached but little importance, al
though we have paid considerable attention to
proceedings of the so-oalled Union meetings
in several of the Northern cities, one of which
has been held mt New York, another at Cincin-
natl, and another at Philadelphia, and yet another
to come off shortly in the law-abding city of
Boston. The cheapest things in the world are
professionalism we see them reduced to.
practice, we will place some confidence in their
sincerity-for even SEWARD and his crew pro-
TESS to respect the rights of the South under
the Constitution, with mental reservation
and no man has proclaimed more loudly than
the arch priest of Abolition his love and rever-
ence for "this glorious Union" and derided
more the idea that it could be dissolved for any
cause. If this Union platform is to be build up
for the benefit of the gentlemen most lauded at
these meetings, it is too late--for their places
have been pre-oecupied long ago by BENTON,
the "great | did," who mounted it when he
first commenced to desert the South, and assail
rs nulfers" all that were true to it.
We doubt not, that some few Of those who
figure in these meetings are sincere in their con-
victions-and would muzzle this demon of Abo-
ltion, if they could. We know there are a few
even among their politicians who are friendly to
us-but they constitute but drops in the mighty
pillows that surge down upon the South, threat
ening to sweep over her fertile fields to leave
on the subsistence Of the flood the slime Of
Abolition everywhere.
OF the thousands that assemble at those
Union demonstrations, does any candid man be-
lieve that handful would aid in the arrest of n
fugitive slave ! Does any one doubt that it
would have been the worth the life Of any
man to have sought to re-captnre one, even in
the midst of the Philadelphia meeting? When
we see the laws executed, and the Aboitionists
repudiatcd through the ballot-box, and by the
voice of public opinion, at the North-then we
shall place confidence in such professions but
not till then.
Why even in Ohio, the very fostering focus of
Abolition - the city of refuge for fugitives,
whose two Senators in Congress are its expon-
ents--even there in their capital city they have
held monster meeting, and passed resolutions
which take the most national ground, and give
us our right to reclamaton-on paper-most
fully Yet what IL miserable mockery in such Il
State, whose sentiment is so we'll known, rs
that of Ohio-must such idle professions seem,
to every man Of common sense.
Yet the Ohio Stale Journal, with the most
refreshing GOODNESS, thus refers to the meeting
rs unnecessary" the loyalty of Ohio being so
well understood, and so universally admitted !!
Yes, they will be Union men as long as all the
burdens are to be borne by the South, and the
acquisitions monopoized by the North. Well
can they afford it.:
The UNION MEETING AT CINcINNATL-Yes-
terday We received the Cincinnati Commercial
containing the report Of the proceedings of the
Union meeting at Cincinnati. 1t will be
found in another column.
We have no objection to persons expressing
their attachment to the Union. But we doubt
the cxpedency Of getting up such an affair at
Cincinnati. 1t carries with it the idea that there
are persons Of numbers and influence enough to
make them formidable here, who are opposed to
the Union and that, to counteract their labors,
it was necessary to make a demonstration on the
other side. Such, we venture to say, is not the
ease. However foolish and unthnking some of
our people may talk when they say they will
oppose and trample on the laws of Congress,
and thus practice disunion !; they do not mean
any such ting. There can hardly be found Il
man in Ohio who is willing to avow himself an
advocate of disunion. Hence we think that
meetings of this kind and with this name create
false and injurious impression abroad, and are
inexpedient,