The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-28
what we have to expect.

ueeh practcaily peace melsufes--outtnuspla lnly
tells us, what we have to expect from the g Ma
tional North"
THE NEXT SESSION OF CosGRRss-From all
present indications we are compelled to say, that
we fear that the ensuing session of Congress is
to be devoted and appropriated to the execrable
work of anti. slayery agitation The interval
between the last session and that which is APP
preaching, has been no interval of rest or cessa-
ton on tho part of the agitators. Defeated by
the glorious success of compromise and pacif-
cation Mt the close Of the previous session, they
returned home, not to acquiesce in obedience to
the laws, but to infect, with their own malignant
passions and maleyolent designs every neighbor-
hood and society to which they had access
Their labors have not been frutless. They have
exasperated the minds of many, and kindled with
new born fury the elements of discord. Re-
freshed and invigorated by the sympathetic res
ponse Of fanatics and furious demagogues, they
return to the national councils with the frantic
purpose of agitation, more fixed and resolute
than ever. Presses like the Courier d. Enquirer,
tell them that there is no danger Of disunion
While those like the Erening Journal stimulate
them to war on the Constitution rs an Airoci
Gus Bargain" The pulpit thunders forth the
Higher La,o," and religious congregations de-
nounee the law of tho land, W0 regret, there
fore, that We can anticipate at present no early
abatement Of this phrenzied excitement AS we
have before said, "things must grow worse be-
fore they are better" 1t must be apparent TO
all, that they are growing worse very rapidly.
The edge of the precpcc is not far distant. 1t
will soon DO REACHED. The Washington cores
pondent Of the Philadelphia North American,
who belongs to the Clayton and Seward factlon,
and therefore ought to kno'e, says;
slrTha ~ tho Slouory ouooftnp
be looked for with unerring certainty. All the
lavish hsroism of Mr.. Clay, the ndomtable de.
votion of Mr.. Webster. and the patriotism Of
Mr.. Cass, placed in the scale tagether, will fail
to overcome the stormy opposition which has
pledged itself to a renewal OF the struggle this
winter Mr.. Senator Chase Is not the only
Abolitionst who gives assurance of future zeal
to his faction, nor the only demagogue that hopes
to keep his place by continual agit1tion upon
the subject"
The Albany Evening Journal says.
"The constitutional obligation to surrender
Fugit,ves is part of the "ArRocIoUs BARGAIN"
made by our fathers. 1t is nominated in the
bond" which the master presents when he claims
service and labor" from the fugitive.
The Globe also says:
Note the phraseology of this precious speci-
men of Sewardism! The Journal does not say
the obligation to surrender fugtives is an
atrocious part ofthe bargain made by our fathers"
but it is part of ,the atrocio1s bargain" So
then the Constitution is, according to the Jur7,al
I'M ATRocroUs BARGAIN. We could look for no
more disgusting language from Garrison & Co.
We have again and again predicted that Messrs.
Seward and Weed would make the Wing party
of New York an abolition party. And now We
hear from the Evening Journal, the organ Of the
Wing party Of New York, the identical language
Of denunciation Of the Constitution which we
have heard SO often from Garrison.
The views of the. Globe find further con.
firmation In the following soornful response Of
the same organ of Seward, (the Albany .Journ1lO
which very plainly shows the game is to be
played out:
From the Baltimore Patriot.
To WHAT WILL THIS AGITATION LEAD =
That the agit.aton'at the North,-under pre-
text of opposition to the fugitive bill-has done
more to foment the spirit of dsunion and to
destroy the fraterna feeling between the people
Of the States, than any thing that has ever oc-
Cured since the Union was formed, is not even
doubtful. That this continued agitation, with
any appearance of its beihg supported by the
majority of the people Of any Of tho States,
would ultimately sever the Union, Is not only
not doubtful, but the leaders of the agitation do
not attempt to deny that this is their purpose.
The question then comes to this Those who
aid in the agitation are disunionists.
The patience of the North is being put to
severe test. While the game of dsunion, which
began many years ago, is boldly played in South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi,
charge of disunion is brought against that por-
ton of the people "who Indignantly frowncd on
the first and only dawnng" of treason, and
where, for more than thirty years, the voice Of
disunion has scarcely been heard.
The Baltimore Patriot, usually liberal jour
nal, charges that the "North has done more to
foment the spirit of dsunion" during the last
three MONTHS than has been done elsewhere
since the formation Of the Union!
This very reckless accusation. South Car
DINA has been for a quarter Of . century "fo-
menting disunion." Governors Of Southern
States have threatened and recommended its dis
solution. Nashville Conventions have met to
dissolve the Union. Numerous and distin-
guished members Of Congress consumed most
eating disunion, if California was admitted free
into the Union.
Bnt all this goes for nothing. Disunion is
taught by the South with mpunity. Slavery
seems to enjoy patent or prc-emptive right to
"agitate" eternaly The Union has been kept
in shot water on account of slavery these thirty
years. That "pecuiar institution" secured pc
culiar advantages in the Constitution, and its en-
croachments and aggressions have ever since
been rapacious and ntolerable.
Had the North. openly avowing its object,
seized upon free territory for ii purpose of in
creasing the political power Of the free States,
as the South seized on Texas, slavery would
have been rampant for dissolution. But the
North, obnoxious as the Measure was, yielded
without whisper of disunion. We took Texas
with its slavery, assumed the payment of its
debt and fought out its war with Mexico.
The North is content to leave the admission
of new States MS they arise, to the influence Of
natural causes, leaving their people to establish
their own forms of Government. But slavery
must resort to a forcing process-a dollhouse
growth of States Florida and TEXAS were pur-
chased to preserve an equilibrip II between slave
and free States.
Nothing, however satisfies the cupidity and