The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-12-21


Tho southern Press aud IL. Cause OF D'sun,on.
This journal affects alarm at the determination of the
Union not to allow few men, sailing under the flag OF
Slae-rghs. to appropriate the character and fame OF
General Jackson TO facous purposes Ii was at first
said that General Jackson controlled by kitchen
cabinets next that he merely signed papers prepared by
others; and, finally, that he fell into the hands of few
ederas,s, such Mr. Livingston and the present Chief
Justice Mr. fancy who seized the 10 ngraft upon
his administration the old doctrines of Alexander Hamil-
ton These and thousand other such ISLANDERS have had
their day. and those who uttered them have been obliged
to acquiesce in the public sentiment, which, having
indicated the truth, willing throw the veil over
those who would have endangered the public interests
by following into lis of passion and prejudice
The journal alluded opens its batteries upon us in
long article yesterday morning, in which it pretends to
separate itself from the Hon. MIR Rhe OF South Caro-.
lina and prses OF it's being the organ OF no man or
clique, but of "being devoted to the great cause OF
southern rights. and the maintenance of all constitutional
guarantees on which the peace and prosperity OF the
South depend" Our readers will Judge the value OF
such professions when they recoect that the leading OBJ
ect of the editors Of the Southern Press during the past
year has been organize resistance to the Compromises
and sgmalize, traitor TO the South, every who
raised his voice against the scheme of southern confed-
eracy. In this respect their position is Identical with
that OF Mr. Rhe, who openly declared in the Senate the
other day that he is a disunionist
When the corner of the extension OF the Capitol
was laid last july the Southern Press instead OF sym
pathzng with the national hope that government and
Union might be perpetual used the occasion to array the
South against the Noh and declared that the period
had arrived when it was necessary TO put in practice
the doctrines which carried fathers through The
olution The language Of this organ OF treason and
dsunion was that the Lord North Of these days was
greater oppressor than the Lod North of the British min
isy, who turned deaf TO the petition OF the Amer.
lean colonies in ITS. In this respect there is
plee identity between the views of these editors and
those expressed by the Hon. Mr. Rheu in the recent de-
bate in the Senate.
The scheme OF southern confederacy was openly pro-
claimed by Mr. Cheves the Nashville convention who
breath of life could be again infused In the speech
of this once respected and distinguished man. whole
federal system was denounced a failure-as thing
which had passed away, and mus, be superseded 6y
creation more in harmony with the of the ~se, and
the lights that could be given to the science OF govern
ent by those who had been taught by the modern south
Southern Press Of this city, and was distributed over every
hill and dale OF the southern country In accordance with
the objects OF this speech the Nashville convention laid
down platform preparing the way for southern con-
gress for the armed resistance Of the southern Safes and
finally for southern confederacy, which to be the
most perfect model OF good government that the world
had He who refused 10 endorse that speech
was denounced traitor TO the South, renegade from
the principles forth by Mr. Jefferson the declaration
of our independence and what intended be still
more odious, an abolitionis, and higher-law man.
II certainly cannot be termed "puerility" OF the
Washington Union" recall these facts, and show that
they assign the Southern Press pre- eminent place
the organ OF the party which TO excel all other par
ties in the to create for the South
The chief difficulty in the progress Of this party consisted
in the fact that such statesmen Washington Jefferson.
and Jack son-he great men that bad most to do with
the formation and preservation OF the existing govern
ment and Union-had warned the people to look with
dis,rus upon all those innovators who would destroy
either the one the other But this difficulty could not
be insurmouniable 10 minds constituted those were
which had conceived the design of southern con.
federacy II supposed that it could be obviasd by
arfu representations showing that the opinions OF these
great men had reference 10 circumstances which had
changed and that but old fedealsts school boy
politicians would undertake to array the an,qua,ed
ideas of $780, 1900. and 1884, against those which
guiding such statesmen Mr.: Cheves in 1851. Hence
the indocrnated OF this school instructed
to insist that General Jackson had rccanted his procla
nation. that Mr.. Madison in his dotagc when he
wrote his celebrated letter declaring tina, the Virginia and
Kentucky resolutions secession nulhca
ton and that General Washington, though good sol
der did know anything about politics. and in
fact in the hands OF Hamilton all the time he Pres
dent This mode OF assang the authority OF the great
name, mentioned having proved entire abortion,
nothing is left to the wise heads who recommended it but
to inss, that the who have exposed their folly
great bockheads and that the world not yet efficiently
enlightened to appreciate the blessing which is contained
in the scheme OF a southern confederacy.
In the presence Of facts like these, may be in good
taste for the Southern Press TO talk OF the "puerIites
of the Washington Union but we inclined to think
that the great body OF the American people will pro-
nounce nothing puerle than the attempt to bolster
up the schemes Of the Nashville convention by John
Randolphs Charlotte resolutions These resolutions had
about as much relation to the practical issues growing
out of the notification of Mr. Calhoun the toass OF a
few OF Mr. Rhe's fre.eating companions have to the
defence OF the South against northern aggression Mr.
Randolph was fond OF splitting hairs-and we have
heard that he did po object T. splitting hair after had
been split bu, we have never understood that he
champion of notification, had any sympathy with