The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-10-12
From the .9dreriiser and Gazette, .aiabcmn.

- EAcE--BE STILL. --Our contemporary OF the
Columbia, South Carolina, Telegraph hos an able
article in review of our present position the enpr-
mites just heaped upon US by the Northern ma
Jorty IN Congress, what is our course and duty
IN the emergency, &c. We regret that We have
not space Tor the entire article, but the following
extracts hits oil so completely this parrot cry Of
. cease the agitation, which has been not unfre-
quenily rung IN our by the submssioniss
hereabouts that we cannot refrain from copying il
entire We have little doubt that those in the
South who would drown this Southern sentiment
for the rights of the South, by the cry of treason
and rebel against its friends, would, if they mad
then lived, denounced Patrick Henry and the
patriots of '76 in the same way. But treason and
rebel soon became distinctions of honor Men--tbey
are fast becoming so no,o. But to the extract:
Such advice at such time looks more like
taunt than serious suggestion, for never could
the Southern people hope, Gin the emphatic words
of Patrick Henry, against whom the parrot cry OF
" treason" was raised by loyal vassals Of power,)
:" to escape a danger by shutting their eyes to It's
approaches" Why should these opiates be adj
ministered to the people, and these counsels be
urgently repeated on all sides, if these measures
be as their advocates pretend, just and honorable'
Truth and Justice never yet feared scrutiny, and
if such be the basis of this " settlement" agi-
taon will tend but to disabuse the public mind Of
any prejudices hitherto entertained, and the fasi-
ty and folly of the ultras' be exposed Why
then, we repeat, should this lullaby, such as
soohes into rest froward and fretful children, be
so anonymously chanied by the dry nurses Of the
compromise
The reason is too palpabe. "They shun the
light because their deeds are dark" The more
the real features of this galvanized corpse, the
compromise, are exposed to public view, the more
hdeous will appear the grinnng mockery Of its
deaths head, and disjonted limbs. 1t is the
Frankenstein of legslation-a monster wrought
by the cunning hands OF science into the semblance
Of yet only half made up, and u painful!
parody upon humanity. t}HAt GA't aI tHi
And yet when this thing is offered to us an Il
"great plan of pacificaton and compromise
which pacifes the North by giving il all the spos
and Texas by paying her ten millions Of dollars
for the privilege Of selling out her slave territory
to Free-soi, and which Compromises the South
by wrestling from her every acre Of the disputed
territory, and portion Of Texas besides, for
which she is to contribute her quota OF the hush
money--as well as extending Federal jurisdiction
over the domestic slave trade--under these circum-
stances the South is earnestly counse'led and af-
fectionafely advised to do what To sLuMBER
souNpLy for The people need repose -!
II the South does slumber upon it-her1oom is
sealed--she will make sport for the Philistines
henceforth as a newer Of wood and drawer of
water for her Northern tnskmnster, when she
awakens.
$50 rose the DANTE strong
Herculean Samson from the harIot lap
OfPhilistean Dalilah-and awaked
SonOrn OF MS strength.
History is full Of example ami illustrations OF
the fact that the price Of liberty liz perpetual vigil
lance''-and that domestic apathy has always
paved the way for foreign aggression. For ten
long years Troy resisted the assaults of the foe
but one fatal night, when the people "slumbered
soundly on their pillows" they awoke to find
their city in flames ond in thehands OF the enemy,
introduced through the Trojan Horse--a gift as
hollow as the compromise, and filled like it with
the engines of Observation-Disclosures through a
breach in the walls.
The Trojan Horse has been prepared here with
great care and labor--it is now formally rendered
to the Southern people, and brought in through a
breach in the Constution--will they, more be-
| sotted and more blind than the Trojans, with a
full knowledge OF the periIous freight its hollow
grave-work bears within-nccept the gift and "re-
commend repose" that the doom of the South NAV
be that Of Troy or worse--snce living vassalage
is far more degrading than the passage of the
plough-share over the burning ruins Of what were
the homes of free people.
| 1t is indeed slime that our countrymen Of the
North should command fnaticsm to be sti,'
not in these bills by giving it substantially all
it claims-for submission to them would but
pave the way for new outrages and insults, since
| submission to one aggression ever inspires adj
ditional ones-but by doing '.justice to the South,
when, as 1--WE cannot permit ourselves to doubt
they WILD the legislatures Of her sovereign States
sternly insist upon their chartered rights and
present the alternatives Of equality or indepen-
dence. /"