The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-08-01

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ELI.woOD FISHER,
| Washington City.
multitudes on the other. l am for no such union;
! am for the Union left by Washington and our
revolutionary fathers-a government securing the
rights Of the weaker section or humblest citizen,
as faithfully as those Of the strong, wealthy and
powerful. For such Union you had the blood Of
my father and his kindred in the Revolution, Of
myself and kindred in the last war and you shall
have that Of our children for. the continuance OF
such Union; but a Union formed Of bad men.
| to break up the rights secured to the South, to
put black and white races upon fopting Of equal
ity, and to degrade the Southern States from their
position in the Confederacy, to forge the white
man 3 chains, and fasten him to g government Of
snlimited poscers, under prstence of setting the
| black man ffee-I am for no such Union,s 1.
Before conclude, / wish to speak word 70
Southern members, and through them to the South
ern people, upon the subject Of our own miscon-
duct; arising from our jealousies and riyalships
among one another. II is our own divisions
which has enabled the Northern section Of the
Union to encroach upon the rights of our constr
tusnis. And our conduct here for the last ten,
wears reminds me Of an incident reported 10 his
| tory, where England was trying TO reduce Scot
land to submission by arms. Sir William Wal.
lace was the patriotic Leader OF the Scots, and
/ III,
many of the Scottish leaders into her armies,
Robert Bruce among others. In these contests, i
is related that day, after hard sought battle,
Bruce sat down to his meal with the English no.
bles with his hands all besmeared with the blood Of
his own counrymen slain in the battle;upon seeing
which, naughty English, earl could not conceal
his dgust I" Look, " said he, 8 at that Scot; see
| how he eats his own blood" This insulting taunt,
although true, cut Bruce to the heart He could
not eat another mcrse, but quietly rose from the
table without uttering word. That night Bruce
joined the standard of his countrymen, and never
rested or slept quietly until every hostile foot had
been driven far beyond the g Scottish border. " N
i, sir, never hear Southern man speak against
his section of country, or read Southern paper
opposed TO us, but think that some cool, calcua-
ting Northerner, but the English noblemen, is ex-
pressing his disgust for the fellow who eats his
own blood. ssft bst S3syasa
| When will every true, hearted Southern, like
Bruce, leave the camp Of the oppressor, and join
the standard of his own countryf Until then, the
North will neither regard ourrghts, nor respect our
feelings. faa I5sT ~ 1tsataa.
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! glaas5H ass APPENDIX. 7ttl4aa.sg s,sgt,
| The earl of Buccleugh is reputed to have a
yearly income Of one hundred millions of dollars
The principal according to the rate of interest in
England, must be about thirty millions. Lord
Durham is poorer his annual income amounts
only to three hundred and thirty-three thousand
|
the ncessant labor Of above sixteen thousand
white for forty years; and it will require the
constant labor Of twenty Thousand more white
men as long NJ the British Government lasts to
pay the annual interest.
Lord Durham estate did not require the labor
of abope six thousand iphite men, (giving up all
but food and clothing,) for forty years to make it.
and will not require more than the labor of seven
or eight thousand forever afterwards to pay the
I interest. 49,
i In Boston, we are told that one hundred and
seventy-nne men own together twenty seven mil
lions Of dollars. Their estates required the whole
labor of fifteen thousand ,chite men nearly forty
years. to create the capital, and allowing interest
at the rate Of eight per cent. per annum, (Which,
according to their own account, they divide out,)
il will require twenty-one thousand six hundred
white laborers to part with one hundred dollars
each annually, out of the proceeds of his own
wages, to pay the interest. @ sg
. Verify these men do net want black slaves
: among them when they much better served
n by white. aa 9E tE as1lt Is
But, sir, this is only the commencement OF the
evil in this country. For, when money or capital
increases at the rate Of eight per cent, and popu-
laton only at the rate of three per cent, the first
, doubles in twelve and one-half years, is quadru-
Piled in twenty-five, and goes increasing in this
ratio Of progression, so that one hundred years
! hence, our once plain Goldfish eating gentry of
! Boston, getting their eight per cent. dividends,
will far outstrip these English dukes, ears and
lords, in every thing but the titles will entirely
put them in the shade. II is no wonder, therefore
, that these pretended saints (if our worlies will
bear it) should desire to get clear Of our simple
republican Constitution Of eonfederated States, to
!, fasten upon the backs Of the American people a
u consolidated National Government Of Unlimited
powers, which, as in Europe, can add the coveted
q titles, as well as secure the wealth, and where
n people dare not even so much as speak of the
: crimes Of Government. ssE ~ aataStaa
b Were now to exhibit the enormities of per-
hitting Government to go in debt at rate of in
terest greatly exceeding the rate Of increase of
|, population or labor, it would open a new chapter
3 in political economy to the view Of the laboring
population Of the country, startling to them, and
which would f with dismaythe oppressors them
selves, from apprehension that certain and imme-
: date retrbution awaited them.
In making complaints against Northern Rep
resentatiyes on this floor, wish to make an ex-
ception in favor Of the gentleman from the Bucks
! district, Pennsylvania, [Mr. Ross,] who, not
withstanding the objections of his constituents to
!, the institution of slavery, will not give any vote
which he believes will violate the Constitution,
even to crafty their wishes. He, properly in my
. judgment, places the question upon the true and
e proper ground, the only one which can hold us
together one people--the Union as our fathers
left 1.-THE terms Of which connection are found
in the Constitution in the sense in which our
fathers intended when 1t was made, and not In
the sense in which abolition desires would inter-
pref it. s..-s. ~. t., ..-...-
: ~ Jenny Lind is the heading to very
amusing parody on Campbell's famous ode on the
, battle of Hohenlinden, which we find in Boston
newspaper .grlE WY
son Lind, when Barnum's sun was low,
u And bootess was the Mermaid s show,
The lessee counted for flow
u or rhno to his treasury. 10 r,...fr....-
"And Jenny Lind whose ready sight 81