The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-17
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
TUESDAY, JUNE II. 1851.

Icy With to-days issue wecoipPiete lh' hrAt
wear. and the first volume, OF the Southern Press.
Tomorrow commences new cycle, aud the
hopes of enemies and fears Of friends may now
both be oct at rest by the assured certainty OF
its having fairly passed the first trying period of
probation, and having emerged from robust youth
into Iusty manhood. Were we addicted to self
glorifcation we might find much food for its
indulgence in recurring TO the unexampled his
tory of the rise and progress of this paper, until
the attainment of it's present palmy condition,
TO its position an acknowledged power in the
republic, and the recognized exponent Of the
real sentiment of the South.
Ii is source of pride to us, that it has never
passed through the stages Of infantine feeble
ness, never needed the sustaining hand of polit-
ical patrons, nor been nourished, while its girls
tie was hardening into bone, on nutritious pub
lie "pap"
The Southern Press sprang at once full armed
into life-lke Pallas from the brain of Jove--
at the call of the Southern people, made through
their representatives here.
Its course and conduct have reflected the true
interests of that people, AS its conductors have
understood them. AS their strong convictions
have prompted, so have they spoken, without
fear, favor or affection, to parties to individ-
uals, relying not on partizans, but on the peo-
pie, to support and sustain them in freely and
fearlessly proclaiming the truth, and the whole
truth, to North and South. While those whose
"organ" alone it pretends to be. desire its con-
tinuance, and give to its conductors that generous
confidence and liberal support which are the
surest indications of that desire, 30 long will the
Southern Press survive-but not one moment
longer.
Cheered and sustained in our efforts and la
bors by the substantial evidences of approval
and support which have steadily accompanied
ourcourse, and more especially by the recent de-
monstrations of interest manifested by the in
creasng army Of subscribers through the en-
tire South, we commence our new year, with
mingled emotions Of pride and pleasure, conf
dence and hope.
While the same spirit lives in the South
while the same encouragement is extended to
our efforts in its behalf, we shall fight the battle
here unfinchingly, and insist that the despoiled
South shall content herself only with "indem-
nifty for the past and security for the future"
With this assurance to our friends, who will
have ampls opportunities in the coming time
and in the very heat of the great battle now has
tening on, to Judge of us by our performances
better than by our promises, we have only to
add that each and every one of them can aid us
and the cause, by adding friends name to his
own on forwarding his subscription for the new
year of the Southern Press.
To those far-sighted individuals whose pro
phetic vision saw the Southern Press
''Taking the measure of new made grave,"
on the the morning of its birth, and who pointed
out to us those tombstones of new enterprise,
strewing the path"--as memento moris-to these
kind undertakers of the Press, we really must
apologize for having lived so ongand still feeling
and manifesting such an obstinate and vigorous
vitality. What renders it more provoking is the
fact obvious TO every body, that they are totter-
ing down HILL stumbling at every step over
straws, and oppressed by chronic organic afIec-
tons, while we, with strong muscles and steady
strides, are mounting the steep
Where Fame's proud temple shines afar.
We are blessed by nature with an obliging
dispostion--but cannot carry it to the pitch
required in this case to verify the predictions Of
those who allowed the Press, in the first in
stance, three months lease of life--extending
it afterwards to six-stretching it finally to the
end Of the last session--and now anxiouslv
waiting, with mouths agape, to see if it can sur
vve its anniversary.
The most skeptical and foreboding among our
faint hearted friends must be satisfied by ocular
inspection that the Press is " alive"-"and kick
ing" as the truckers and trimmers at the North
and South have striking proofs in propria per-
soma.