The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-27
~ The Richmond Republican of yesterday
contains the following article:

contains the following article:
CALL yE THAT BACKING YOUR FRIENDs.-Tht
Southern secessionists, as is well known, look
with hopeful eye to an alliance with England as
the great panacea for all the ills which they suffer
under the American Union. We commend to
their attention the following extract from the Lon
don Times 1t is the close Of characteristlcally
abusive article in that paper, paper which never
mentions our country without exhibiting mex
tinguishable hate. How do our Southern friends
relish this piece Of ''advice" from their London
friend:
Z" But every wrong perpetrated against the negro
by unjust laws will be treasured up in the remem-
orange Of an injured people, and in time the inhu-
ence which led the white man to forget the great
principles of Justice in the Of his black breth-
rem will extend itself, and induce injustice where
injustice may be convenient, though it should af-
feet the free (whe) citizens Of the republic. Let
Carolina, and those States which contemplate Sc
cesson from the great confederation Of the United
States, calmly ponder on these considerations.
The white chvalry of those portions of the repub-
lie may make to themselves false glory, and a
reason Of exultation, because they boldly resist
the rest of the Union upon question respecting
which they feel strongly if not wisely. But sup
posing for moment that they were successful;
suppose that they were able to vindicate to them
impunity, few years only would pass away, and
they would be utterly powerless because Of the
desertion that would follow their own complete in
dependence.
language, in which States the black man would be
free and protected, the institution Of slavery, .or
which they had risked everything, would at once
be destroyed, and their very victory would be the
signal for their irremediable defeat. What, then,
is the moral we should draw from these conside
ratons, what the advice we should give! 1t is
this Let the Southern slaveholding States yield
to the onward pressure of the time, and let them
do so in time. As we would say to the protection
ists of our country, as we would say TO the slave
States of AmeriCa-Fight not against an inevitable
necessary. We live in times blessed by the spirit
of improvement, and he is an unwise man who
rests his happiness and success upon the chance
of maintaining ignorance, misery, and degradation.
Float onward with the advancing tide, and link
your hopes Of triumph with the Improvement and
elevation Of the race to which you belong
The Republican may well enquire how its
Southern friends relish this piece of advice from
the London paper, for it is precisely its own pet
argument that secession would give us a Can
ada on our borders" The home organ Of the
Abotionists, the National Era, has also appro-
piiated and amplifed the same idea; and it has
gained great currency in Northern abolition
and Southern submission journals, throughout
the country. That foreign journal, animated
" by inextingushable hate" to the South, should
counsel her to a course, it seems to us, should
cause anything rather than exultation to South
ern print which had given the same advice" on
the main question.