The southern press., 1851-04-09
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
The Little End Of the Compromtse
TUESDAY. APRIL 8. 1851.


The champions of the Compromise seem bent
on rendering themselves as ridiculous as possi-
BILE North and South and the pretexts which
they set up to screen themselves from public
contempt, are so petty and frivolous as to excite
commiseration rather than derision. AS though
desperately bent on" whiting down to the little
end of nothing" the cause of which they profess
to be the champions, they have staked 1t first on
one issue and then upon another, until at last
they have suspended the safety of the Union,
and the success of the Compromise measures on
The delivery Of the runa,oay negro captured last
wesk at Boston,!!
With most melo-dramatic mournfulness and
affecting pathos, the Southern compromisers,
with tears in their eyes, implore their Boston
bretheren to give Mr.. POTTER his negro back, or
the dissolution of this confederacy will be fixed
fact while with firmness and self-devotion
surprising the examples of Roman story, the
Northern Compromise journals declare that the
Union shall be preserved, and the veneration"
of the Administration be still more exalted-for
MARSHAL TUKEY, like new Napoleon, shall
dispense the rabble rout, and do that which
WEBSTER, Glass; CLAY e. Co. failed to do
g give peace to this distracted country" Talk
as men may of the friends of the Administration
of the signal services of the new holy ALI
ance" that partitioned off the South like another
Poland among the Northern powers-the main
stay-the prop-the bulwark-the forlorn hope
ofthis Administration now, is MARSHAL TUKEY.
For if the safety of the Administrations
the acquiescence of the South in the Compro-
mise, depend upon the success of their new case
in Boston, who can doubt that TUKEY is the
man to whom that success will be due.
While that Achilles remained in his tent,
CRAFTS eoolly defed the friends of the Admin
istration, and SHADRAcH was triumphantly torn
from the very horns of the altar. Vain were
the struggles Of the Commissioner-equal i'm
potent the telegraphic messages Of the Secre-
tary of State, in the former case--ludicrously
futile the effort of his son, the collector, in the
latter, whose ill-directed demonstrations in ia
vor of law and order, resulted in his own incar-
ceration. The genius and influence of TUKEY
and his constabulary alone could ride and rule
the storm-his marshal arm alone could curb
the g fierce Democracy" of RANToUL, or the
frantic g Whiggery" of CHAs FRANCIS ADAMS
and the pious exhortations of Parson PAR
KER, like new Peter the Hermit" preaching
new crusade.
Honor then where honor is due. If the Union
is to be saved by the efforts of TuKEY, let the
praise be given where it is justly merited-and
let it not be monopolized by those who did not
take the responsibility, nor front the danger of
those carving knives, ground and sharpened,"
taken from the persons of those desperate dogs,
the two colored men," who seemed to consti-
tute the effective force captured by the "New
England Guards" ..
The perils that environ the people of Boston,
and the excitement which prevails there, may be
judged from the following minutes of the pro-
ceedings, which we clip from the Boston papers.
They are sufficiently terrific to freeze the blood
of peaceful citizens, and cause their horrent hair
to stand on end I" like quilts upon the fretful
porcupine." List Oh list
ARREST OF ARMED MEN-After the crowd
which gathered in Court Square last evening
had dispersed, four or FIVE negroes, who had
been lettering about the square throughout the
day and evening, continued to remain in the vi.
cinity, and about two o'clock this morning de-
manded admission into the armory of the New
England Guards, in Franklin Avenue, where
that corps were quartered for the night They
were told that there was nothing for them to
see, and, as they had no business there at that
LATE hau nod hiatt raft he
groes refused to do, and continued TO annoy the
company, and caused so much disturbance that
Capt. Bradlee and Lieut.. Col. Boyd called upon
the watchmen, who arrested and committed two
of the number, named Charles s. and Isaac Fl.
Snowden, upon whose persons were found pis-
tolls with powder and ball, and a large carving
knife, ground sharp on both edges, with an ar
tiicial hilt around the blade next to the handle
These two colored men were brought before
the police court this morning, for examination,
when Messrs. PHILIPPE, Norris, and others or the
Vigiant Committee, appeared for the defend
ants. The examination had not been concluded
at half-past two o'clock, when our paper went
to press
ARREsTs.-Eknry d. Gushing and Daniel J.
Orcutt were arrested and taken TO the watch
house about halfpast o'clock last evening, for
refusing to leave Court Square when requested
W Ny Napt. DdITJ. lHey were IepIoNeu, anu
afterwards discharged.
The feats Of FALsTAFF with those "togues
in buckram," were nothing TO these arrests Of
armed men," They must be desperate dogs,
to-be-sure
The Boston Journal gives a quiet sneer in
the following, showing that the danger is not
30 dreadful as persons might imagine:
From THE SUBLIME TO THE RTDIcULoUs.-At
the fugitive slave rescue meeting yesterday az
ternoon, Wendell Phillips, in a speech full Of
sound and fury, counselled the colored men to
arm and resist, and advised the people to assem-
BILE around the Courthouse and free the fugitive.
The Rev. Theodore Parker, who followed Mr..
Phillips, said he hoped the kdnappers in our
midst would not be mobbed, but would be
watched, and if they smoked cigars or used pro-
fame language in the streets, that they might be
arrested by Marshal Tukey's men, and dealt
with aceordino IN our purita nical laua