The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-08
Catching Gudgeons.

rag to cover its nakedness, we once more give
il permission to 60.
Catching Gudgeons.
AS we predicted, the Southern submissionists
have bitten ut naked hook. The forty-years-
since case at Springfield, is thus solemnly pa
raded in the Augusta Chronicle q. Sentinel, the
sagacious editor of which prefaces it with these
remarks:
! ANOTHER FUGITIVE REcovERED.-What u
terrible blow to the fond hopes of Southern
disunionists and secessionists, will be given by
the following account Of the recovery of a flu
gitive slave in Massachusetts-aye, in Spring
| field, very hotbed Of Aboltionists. How
deeply the " fire eaters" will regret to see Mas
| sachusetts coming to her senses, and all their
golden visions Of dsunion fitting into airy
nothings, preserving only sufficient vitality to
expose them to the indignant scorn of a patri-
otto people.
| Now, had the editor who thus discourses, but
taken the trouble to read the account" or to
digest, instead of boiling it whole, he would
have seen that it commenced as follows:
FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE IN MASSACHUSETTS,
A man from Schenectady, N. Y, came into
Springfield, and claimed black woman who re-
sided there, married and with a family, as a
slave.
A man from Schenectady, New York, rccov-
ering his fugitive slave in the year $780, Well
has it been said that "when the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the ditch"-and this is
a fair specimen Of the guidance of such rejoic-
ing submissionists as the editor of the Chronicle
The Rebound.
We referred yesterday to the rising tide Of
public sentiment in Alabama, and append ad-
ditona evidences. The Linden Free Press
which had taken the ground of acquiescence"
in the compromise measures has lost its faith
ia those "peace measures" and closes an cdito.
rial as follows:
In our opinion, in view of what our enemies
have done and threatened to do, the South has
submitted to enough already--she should submit
TO no ,nore-and should lei II be kn0Wn--that the
conservative portion of the Northern people may
be awakened to the dangers that beset the Union
and provide the remedy. Yet we are denounced
as disunionists by our opponents in Marengo,
and told that they cannot take our paper, be-
cause they :" do not like our principles!" Upon
what platform do they stand? We presume
they are !" for the Union, right or wrong, at III
hazards and under all circumstances" If they
are, we differ with them widely. Whenever the
Northern States evince by their conduct that it
is their settled policy to pervert the Union into
an engine of wrong and oppression, of injury
and degradation to the South, then, come what
may, we shall go, not for the Union, but for
Our own, our native land"
al all hazards andto the last erfremity We have
advocated no other doctrines. Yet these men,
"rood, easy SOULS Sdo not like our principles !"
We fear there is party incur midst, whose set
tied policy is to muzzle every Southern press,
and cry down every son Of the South who de-
plores her wrongs and raises voice in defence
of her rights. In every exposition and denun-
citation of the unjust and unconstitutional mea-
sures of Congress, and of the wicked and nefa-
rious schemes of the Abolitionists against our
peace and safety, they see, or aiectto see, moth
ing but treason and disunion. five talk of the
Constitution, which is the lifebiood the soul and
bond of our Union, and insist upon its preserva-
ton, they answer us with the cry Of "Union."
If we point to the brooches in the Constitu-
ton, and ask that they be closed-if we lay bare
the bleeding wounds of the South and ask that
they be healed-if we express our approximations
of the dark tide of fanaticism that is gathering
its mighty strength in the North, threatening to
engulph US in one common ruin, and urge the
people to cheek it ere il be too late, the same
response of Union, Union, Union, is Numbered
in our ears, and it is mysteriously whispered
that our purposes are hostile to its continuance.
What mean these gentlemen! Are they South
ern men with Northern principles! While we
acquiesce, do they demand silence and .iollifca-
tion too! They must excuse us! Though noe
offer no physical resistance TO the lash of The oppres-
sor, noe ought mol TO be denied The humble privilege
Of grooming orer our wrongs.
The Southern Republic, published in Camden,
(Ala.) also contains this gratifying intelligence:
GLORIOUS OLD MARENco.-Thisg gallant county,
with whose interests we have been more or less
identified for the past twenty years, is assuming
proper attitude in regard to Southern rights
Notwithstanding the unremtting efforts of the
submissionists to obtain from the p ople an ex-
preston Of satisfaction with the late compro-
mise bills, they have signaly failed. The jolli-
ficaton meeting at Linden, on the 18th Nov, ms
we have previously stated, was a total failure
We know something of the history of that meet
ing and know that it was gotten up expressly
to manifest JOY over the passage of the great
Clay Omnibus bill--but, unfortunately for the
movers, they permitted free discussion in the
meeting, and the result was any thipo h"s salis-
factory to them A Southern rights club for
| the county has since been formed, consisting Of
the following officers Gen. N. b. Whitfield,
President, j. w. Henly, esq, Capt ] Pickett,
and Hon. J. A. Young, Vice Presidents, Henry
A. Woolf, Secretary, T. A. Savage, Treasurer
From the constitution adopted by the club,
we extract the following
al The object of this society is declared to
be to defend the rights and institutions of the
South by all lawful means-and for that end,
that we will foster as far as we can, enterprises
for the promotion of the prosperity Of tho South,
and men living among us, and true to the South
ern peope-while we will discourage and op-
pose enterprises hostile to the interests of the
Southern States, and obstruct those who aid or
abet or cherish such enterprises.
'ss. ANY citizen or resident of the State of
Alabama. may be regular member of this So
ciety, and any friend of the South may be elected
an honorary member"
The last meeting Of the club was held at
Dayton, on the itth