The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1850-11-30
From the Fedora! Uaion
thrown.


"about this time look out for humbugs." The
Government at Washington and the people of
the North, are all colleaguing with the submits
sionists among US, TO elect "do nothing" con-
ventlon-a convention that will summarily adj
journ. In the same way last spring they duped
the South and defeated the Nashville Conven-
ton. The great Uuion meetings, we set down
as humbug No. l.
In another column is humbug No. 9, letter
from President Fillmore himself, addressed to
DR.. Collins a submission candidate of Bbb 1t
talks mighty pretty, mighty patriotic, not of what
the President has done, but what he intends to
do. WE'LL has he helped the Macon "slave
catchers," as they were sneeringly called in Bos-
ton, to get their negroes? No, in the face of
her law abiding people, they have sailed for Eu-
rope Has he turned out of office those who
failed to discharge their duty! No, he waits for
proof? If he turns them out, can he get others
to do any better? DIR, Collins negro Is no,c
the law the law to be meted out by Boston
jury-who owe featy to the higher law" in
preference to the Constitution. Will not this be
the case upon every successive demand made in
Massachusetts? Do not the Bostonians boast,
not tho rabble, but her Quincy, former Mayor
of Boston and President Of Harvard University,
that Massachusetts under the act of 1893 never
surrendered single fugitive, and point TO her
evasions for the past, as guarantee for the fu-
ture President Fillmore may wish to have the
law executed. If he does, let him act, not talk:
perform, not promise. At all events till he does
thus, at this eventfal crisis, his declarations
should be looked upon with suspicion,
We cordially concur in the annexed comment
of the Charleston Mercury:
OF course, every one will understand that the
object of this boosted letter from President Fill
more is to aid his political friends in the pending
election for delegates to the State Convention
He pledges the Army and Navy, forsooth. for
the execution of the Fugitive law: and what is
that but an admission that the people of the
North are every where up in arms against it !?
Such is VIGOROUSLY the fact, and in spite of these
pompCus pledges, no fugitives are restored,
and no Southern man crosses Mason's and
DiXon's line to recover his property, with
out the certainty of being mobbed, and the hazard
of being killed. The Federal Government is not
only powerless in executing the laws of the
United States against the sentiment Of the North
ern people, but it is absolutely contemplate in
the shuffiing prctences of doing so with which
it is now attempting to amuse the South.
GEoRGA's PosITIoN-THE PRosPECT.-The
accounts from various parts of the State, in our
estimation, leave no doubt that the Convention
to be elected will be one, not of submission, but
action 1t will be one that will repudiate the
Toombs. Stevens and Cobb theory, that the late
acts of Congress gave to the South more than
she asked, and the absurd notion that they are
to be regarded as the "omcn of better and hap
pier times"
While there Is not a candidate in the field that
we know of, who is not pledged against seees.
sion, the senseless cry of disunon, disunion, has
been kept up to the last But the people are be-
ginning to see that it is but the watchword of
party asunmeaning as it is false.
The Convention then, we confidently predict,
will net be for submission on the one hand nor
secession on the other. 1t will without doubt,
adopt some middle ground, securing, if possible
redress for the p;st, and defining with unmis-
takeable certainly, Georga's position for the flu
ture,