The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-09-19


The wisdom, the frmness, the moderation of
that body have already won the confidence and
support of the South. Hundreds of meetings
of the people have been held since that body
was last in session, and in nineteen eases out OF
twenty its course has been emphatcally APP
proved and endorsed. And as the discussion
goes on the cause of the South daily gains
strength.
The power of Federal patronage and the
letters party are giving way before the resist
less tide of Southern sentiment and reason.
Every man who is capable of reflection knows
that the hour of Southern destiny is come.
Some are too timid to meet the exigency, and
magnify the danger Of attempting to maintain
Southern rights. But the danger is not in
asserting but in deserving them. 1t is ques-
ton not merely Of honor, Of right, Of interest
it is question Of safety-of existence
The South cannot retreat--for she has ac-
cepted the issue. Her States have with great
unanimity asserted common right with the
North in the naw territory. That right has
been denied by a series of acts not in the pre-
else words of the Wilmot Proviso, but as every
man of common sense knows, with the precise
design and effect. The difference is mere
verbal quibble-that would hardly be tolerated
| in county court from the youngest petit
| logger Every man knows that the issue is
vital as to honor, as to character to property,
as to power, as to everything essential to civil
lized States.
| Let then the South send her chosen sons to
| the great Southern Council at Nashville. Let
them be men of high and pure character, and of
exalted ability. Let them be men in whom the
South hasconfdence. Let them be men worthy
of great crisis-men of moral courage.
When they shall have taken counsel together
and decided, their conclusions will in our opinion
be sustained by the Southern people with patri-
otisn,, fortitude, and energy worthy of the best
days of the country.
Let us never forget that the South has the
power without civil war, to re-establsh her
rights triumphantly.
The Nashville Convention will abound with
ability, and will discuss the most important
questions of the age and country. The present
system will be thoroughly examined-its evils
ascertained and the remedies proposed Let
/ every section of the South send its quota of
talent and patriotism
.B The sympathy for the black race in
Ohio--thc great seat of Abolition, and the city
of refuge for runaways-s taking very pecu-
/ liar turn he main efforts of her philanthro-
pists nor being directed towards Kidding the
State of the unfortunates whom they have
seduced there, by professions of fraternity and
good feeling falsified by their acts.
The petition from Hamilton county to tic
State Convention, published by us some time
since, affords the strongest evidence of popular
sentiment, while the projects proposed by the
| affiliated associations of colonizationists, eman-
cpationsts, and open Abolitionists, show their
anxiety to relieve themselves of the presence of
their coored brethren. In all the winning
variations of which tuneful cant and hypocritical
pretensions are susceptible, the song Of emigra
ton to Liberia--to that African Eden--is
chanted in full chorus by the whole band and
their anxious affection displayed in most moring
manner.
4 Like the lannon's John Gilpin,
4 g Although on pleasure they are bent
4 They have a frugal mind"
and expecting large accessions in the way Of
plumber, are already providing for it, as we learn
from the following paragraph in the Baltimore
Sun, in which it is inserted as an item of news
without any comment whatever:
The Ohio Colonization Society has purchased
a tract of territory on the Coast of Africa, with
view Of settling it as far practicable with
j colored emigrants from that State. Ohio being
on the borders of the slave States, receires a
large amount of runayays and emancipated
slaves In anticipation of future evils from an
undue proportion Of thai class of population they
favor the colonization project as best for both
whites and blacks.
Harmony, Cancellation, Compromise.
The Hunkers and Barnburners, at Syracuse
having, like LIE Sages two devils, embraced il
i public, and sworn eternal hatred privately---art
already giving vent to their feelings
4 The N. Y Erening Post having claimed the
triumph for the VAN BrREN wing, and treated
), the Baltimore platform as a mere nudity, the
Globe thus retorts:
4 The Abolition and Free-soil organ of yester
day repudiates the Baltimore platform just sane.
toned and adopted by its friends at Syracuse
This Reputation of Convention proceedings is
/ game at which two can play. If the platform
erected by the Syracuse Convention is to be re
viled and disregarded there are other proceed
! inss which took place there which may meet q
similar fate.
Not content even with this significant hint
the same organ of the Hunkers follows it up
with the subjoined editorial, which is by NO
means calculated to inspire confidence in the
stability of the coalitions:
THE PUsILLANIMoUs AcTroN OF THE SYRIA
cUsE CONVENTION admission of John Van
Buren, to the Syracuse Convention, as the repre-
1 nf tba of no