The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-06-11

tent as ever were presented 10 the ninuo VI
men, The reasons for submission to all Just
laws are amply sufficient to control State actlon
| in all cases. " hen these reasons have lost
their weight, no force within the compass OF hu-
man power can hold this Union together.
But let all read these resolutions, and con-
trast them with the unconditional submission
doctrines Of the Wing parry
:. Protection" for $. our COuntrymen" 1T
/ Home and Abroad.
One of the Administration organs, yesterday,
was suddenly seized with severe spasm OF
nationality" and spraws out on its broad
sheet in sundry choleric convusions, similar to
those produced by severe throes in the abdominal
regions.
| We were, for short time, uncertain whether
we were reading the London Punch, or the
Washington Republic, while gIancng over the
opening paragraphs of an article entitled
Our CoUsrRYMEN AT THE WoRLD's FAIR,
in all the pomp of large capitals; but towards
the close, we were convinced that even in the
broadcast burlesque, Punch would never be gull
ty of the absurdity of noticing HORACE GREE
LEY's characteristic attempt to convert the con-
temptuous silence Of the London Times into
capital at home, by constituting it into national
aGront! AS though the companion and rival of
runaway negroes in denouncing his own coun-
trymen before British audience, deserved to be
treated in any other way--or could hope for the
countenance of the country, or the citizens he
80 shamefully joined in defaming abroad, as he
had before done ut home.
The whole editorial is at once so fppant and
so feeble, go amusing in its Inconsistency and
inconclusiveness, that we must lay it in erlenso
before our readers--and not having space for it
to-day, must reserve that pleasure until to-
morrow.
More curious seems this diatribe, also, as
Gently has poured
In one weak, washy, everlasting food,
the most full and minute details Of the eatings
and drinkings, sentiments and speeches Of the
representative "at this court" of that very
(" Britannia" which seemed the "metal most
attractive" to our Republic.
AS \" our countrymen" are pretty well able to
take care of themselves everywhere, and value
the society OF lords and ladies just as much or
as little as the feeling may be reciprocal, we do
not feel disposed to take up the cudges for
those of their number now viewing the Bull in
glass-house. More especially shall We refrain
from doing SO on such very slender stock of
proofs as those paraded by the Republic-which,
when contrasted with its assertions, are in the
same ratio, as the bread in Fallstafs bill was to
the sherris sack.
We are almost inclined to suspect however,
that our neighbor has attempted to abe polite
with friend" and coax little political pill
down the gsping mouths of" our countrymen ,
for the editorial closes with the following IT.
relevant remark, tackled on to the text like the
moral to fable:
| (The italics are our OWN
| "These arrogant airs Of John Bull toiN be an
additional motive to all our countrymen ,cho make
him pisit this summer TO UNITE WITH THE
Wines In RENDERING US INDEPENDENT OF THE
WORKSHOPS OF MANCHESTER AND BIRMINGHAM.
We shall expect soon to hear of another meeting
in Tammany Hall, recommending the Democratic
party upon their radical principles, the supreme
will of the people" viz: projection 10 American
manufactures"