The southern press., 1850-09-06

LoursViiic HOuffHd mas, w hio poochSo aoi thc
senior editor, frequently indulged in attacks
on the Senior editor of this paper. We have
abstained thus far from any retort, but as he per-
sists, we can spare him no longer. AS We like
to exhibit our adverssries at full length we insert
the following, his last and longest
A BELLIGEREST QUAxER-Wheneve Qua
ker becomes savage and belligercnt, his neigh
bors may look out for some funny develope-
ments That calm and consistent disciple of
George Fox, who is principal editor of the South
ern Press, the organ Of disunionism, has recently
become as mad as March hare, and talk as flip
PANTY of swords and guns and cannons and
other unquakerish cOntrivances as il his broad
brim had suddenly been metamorphosed into
three-cornered cooked hat and himself into SOL
dier, with as much experience in blood as dear
old Uncle Tobey had 1t is astonishing how
valorous his pen is growing. His military cal
culatiOns are worthy OF scholar in that great
school in which McDufiie taught that by length
ening bayOnet you render its owner safe and
his assailant rs dead as julius Caesar before he
can say Jack Robinson.
According to this profound military Quaker,
the South will certainly take possession Of all
of Texas, New Mexico, and California, in the
event Of a rupture, and hold possession Of them
despite all that the anti-seceding States can do
Further, he says that there are six States that
are ready for disunion and civil war. BY the
way. this exemplary Quaker never speaks Of
disunion without associating il with civil war,
thus giving it as his opinion that peaceable Sc
cession is, as Mr.. Webster calls it, most absurd
and impossible dream. The six States now
ready for the fight are South Carolina, Georgia,
Alabama, Florida, Arkansas, and Mississippi
Mr.. Fisher says these States have half a million
of men, zone half of whom owns each his own
horse and his own rifle and knows how to man
age them" Further than this, they control the
navigation of the Mississippi and can cut off the
communication with Oregon and California The
editor then grows prodigiously eloquent and ex-
claims
Let collision arise between them and the North
ern States, and the-spindles of Massachusetts, be-
come silent, the grass grows in the streets of New
York, and the grain of the Northwest rots in her
granaries.
We hope this bombshell explosion of elo-
quence will have the effect to frighten the Will
mot men into the path of propriety and eompro-
mise. As the penalty Of longer persistence in
faction, they have presented to their minds the
frightful picture of silent spindles in one State,
cows pasturing themselves to fatness in the
thoroughfares of the great commercial emporium,
and wheat, rye, corn, barley, and oats rotting in
granaries ofall the Northwestern States Ii this
picture does not frighten them into propriety,
we fear they are utterly incurable.
The martial and heroic Quaker forgets, we
suppose, that, while Il quarter of million of
mounted rifemen would be taking possession
of California and Utah and New Mexico, and
controlling the navigation Of the Mississippi,
there are several millions of men, genuine men,
not braggarts, who would probably take ma
ton into their heads that the six seeding States
were going rather further than the cause ofg good
neighborship requires, and undertake to raise
and equip few regiments and send them into
different parts of the South. At the same time
they would send few ships Of war along the
sea-coast, in which event the two hundred and
fifty thousand seeding men, rifles, and horses
would find ample employment. The fight would
bers backed by formidable navy would soon
put an end to the civil war and fog the six Sc
ceding States into better behavior.
Seriously, we really think if the disunionists
can read Friend Fishers gasconading military
articles without intolerable retching of the
stomach, they are in most hopeless condition.
We advise the follower of Fox, Penn, and Bar
clay, to let the military men among the disanion-
lists make their own calculations. If they are
not better fitted for the business than he is, they
will be sadly off when the veterans in the United
States service are directing operations against
them. We have no particular admiration for the
ditch-diggcr at Mat 'moras, but we would prefer
his bunders to those of the Quaker editor of
the Southern Press.
We suppose that the reference to us by name
and by other personal illusions, is designed to
induce us to respond in like manner and give
the name of this aspirant, to the public, through
our columns. We shall do no such thing, to
redeem him from the hopeless obscurity to which
he is doomed, and from which he has all his life
been attempting to emerge without success
But in addition to the exhibition he makes Of
himself in the preceding article, we shall give
some features to complete the picture of this
small unknown"
One would hardly suppose, from the tenor of
the above article, that he is himself a pretender
to Quaker principles, the son Of a Quaker
preacher, and born member of that society.
Yet such is the fact. AS he grew mp, however,
he took it into his head he was a genius, and
undertook to write "powerful" tales, to rival
BYRON and BULwER, for monthly and weekly
msceanies. But the attempt was a failure.
They evinred, indeed, a propensity for fiction
without imagination or taste. The usual initials
attached to them, r. II. s., might as we'll have
been written out "Too Horribly Stupid as the
readers soon discoverel
This genius, mortified by failure, became mis-
anthropic--and thus acquired the only quality
he possesses in common with BYRON. He be-
came a sub editor of the Louisville Journal, but
the proprietors of that paper have always been
too prudent to permit his name to appear There
are other reasons for this exclusion. He is an
emancipationist, bitter and vindictive, but has
not the courage, or is not permitted, to write his
real sentiments in the editorial columns Of the
L,ur,oJ IJa theroforr somntimpS writes what