The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-21
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 81. 1851.


Stauncn OHioni5ts anu Out-DaWi tne original
compromisers of the Constitution with the cry
of the GLORIOUS Union," the Abolition organs
everywhere have taken the same cue.
The National Era, and the National InieLi-
gsncer, are now striving which can display most
of theodor Of NATIONALITY" Boston Com.
mon,cealfh, and the Washington Republic stand
cheek by jow on the ''Union" platform; and
the sable countenance Of FRED. DOUGLASS
smiles benignantly on the group of goriiiers
OF this "glorious Union," which is to redeem
regenerate, and disenthral" this continent afron
the curse of slavery" by first sectionalzing, and
then extirpating it, by colonization and pro-
spectve abolition.
Hence the "glorious Union speeches OF
Senator SEWARD ut the New York reception
and the Erie Expedition-hence CHARLES SUM
NER's letter, and JOHN VAN BUREs's more than
loyal declaration of attachment to thence the
confident assurances of coercion of South Caro-
lima by the federal government, and its attempt
cd justification by Abolition organs, even those
among them hitherto pretending to uphold
States rights.
The Union orthodoxy Of the last accession to
the Unionists par erceglence, was thus authorize
lively announced by himself at the Syracuse con-
vention. We take the account from Rochester
paper. 1t is only necessary to add that the North
Star is the paper which this insolent negro owns
aud edits:
Among the closing acts of the Syracuse con-
ia Of & MI -
and in making it, the selection of journals for the
propagation Of its doctrines was proceeded with.
A resolution was moved by that rampant dis
unionist, Edmund Quincy, which commended
the Lberator, Standard, Pennsylvania Freeman,
Anti Slavery Bugle, and the North Star An
effort was then made to include the liberty party
paper at Syracuse, but it was promptly objected
to on the ground that it was not disunionia
paper!
When this announcement of what a paper had
got to be to get the endorsement of the platform,
was made, Fred Douglass rose and stated that
The North Star did moi possess the requisite quail
fcations for place on the platform !; that he did
NOT regard the Constitution as pro-slapery docu-
men, and therefore the Star could not say IL a0as.
Since the accession of Gov DoRR to the ranks
of the compromisers, there has been none of such
notorietyas DOUGLASS, He evidently goes for
the Constitution, as the compromises construe
it-and as the higher-hwyers define its powers
An excellent ant-slavery document,
In this matter, the negro is shrewder and
more far-sighted than his fanatcal white ASSOC
ciates. He jumps off of the ricketty Syracuse
platform, on one strong enough to bear, at
the same time, WEBSTER and SUMNER, SEW
ARD and FILLMORE, BENTON and FoorE, Co.'s
and HousToN,
''White spirits and black,
Blue spirits and grey"
and all the odds and ends of all previous or all
possible parties which could be disjunctivelv
conjoined by the cohesive power" which FIR
CALHOUN once so graphically defined. The
obvious policy Of this coalition with the Com.
promisers, and the great value of this cry of
Union" to put down Southern opposition, and
stife the voice of remonstrance or resistance
is perceived by the astute Abolitionists of the
Northwest. As proof of this, We subjoin a few
resolutions, out of series. adopted by an Abo.
lition mass meeting, near Cleveland, Ohio, on
the lakes. After speech from Glpprses. the
committee on resolutions submitted the follow
ing report, which was unanimously adopted
ResoLoed, That pe piu moi, for Shareholders
or sIdrery abandon tho Union, but DiH fight ON
and fgM euer, for freedom and The rights Of man,
as ihe best means Of saring The Union from die
destructive influences and reckless policy of the
advocates Of the lo,per lalo
Gould FILLMORE e. Co. adopt stronger
"Union" resolution? Another resolution runs
as follows
T.,esolped, That as freemen, we demand of
Congress that the Fugitive law and all proceed
ings pertaining thereto, be expunged from the
records of the nation.
Also these, proving their qualification at the
recent action of Massachusetts to be almost as
great as that of the President
Resolved, That we rejoice in the election OF
Charles Sumner to the United States Senate
that it is glorious comment on the conduct of
Webster and the operation of the Loloer Lar,
in the remanding of Sims to life of bondage.
RESOLVED, That Massachusetts is now entitled
to the FORGIVENESS, invoked in the following
lines of Lowell,
massachusetts God forgive her,
She is kneeling with the rest"
Resolped, That we recommend an early nom.
ination of candidates for president and vicepres-
ident, that a place OF refuge may be furnished
for the multitudes Of "fugitives" from the other
parties.
RESOLVED, That we recommend mass con-
vepton, of the friends of freedom on the Yves
tern Reserve, TO be held at Ravenna, on the 25th
Of June next
In view of such coalitions-such meetings Of
extremes" on the common platform Of Union
ism--such plots to subjugate a section by cor
rupt combinations-well may we apply to "this
cry of Union" the famous apostrophe of Madame
Roland, to the equally hypocritcal cry of 'liber-
ty," which heralded her, and thousands of Other
martyrs offreedom, to a cruel death.
Names and professions are only the counters
Of knaves--true patriots are to be known by
their acts, and often by their associations--anc
the most Jealous of the compromises must nd
NIT, that the GLORIOUS Union" party has lately
pained rnanv racr,,to Of charactar worsa thar