The southern press., 1851-08-02
growing year by yc~r in csims. poverty and die


case.
Under such circumstances, Nilat are The spe
culations Of scribblsrs in lfsw York and Iondo'
worth! We care worry little about them. Blu
it is important for every man In the South L
know that Southern slavery will stand as lont
as modern civilization will stand, unless those
who are connected with it, and will be the frs
to fall by its overthrow, are weak enough to de-
sert themselves and their section, and to make
thSir families the first victims to the fanatic and
mobocratic spirit of the age, which menaces the
foundations of society and government all over
the civilized world.
| tY- We are happy to perceive that since the
establishment of the Southern Press, the city
of Washington has acquired rate of improve
ment far greater than in previous years. Many
new houses have been built, old ones repaired,
and the population has increased We have
shown that even if the Union is dissolved, the
country, the people, and the towns will survive.
And as the Southern confederacy must extend
ut least as far northward as to include this city,
(and, as Commodore STOCKTON says, New Jer-
sey) its prosperity may be expected to increase
by that event. Nothing contributes more to
give life, comfort, and pleasure to a place
than good paper. The old organs had become
so dull that their
g Drowsy tinklings lulied their distant folds, =
and their Immediate neighbors into state Of
lethargy and dullness, so profound us to repel
from residence here, all in whose veins tie
pulses of life beat high and strong.
eW- The Hon. r. TooMBs has been re-nomi-
mated for Congress by convention of bis dis
Irict, and has accepted. In his letter of accept
snce he uses the following language, in reference
% Northern anti slavery sentiment. And in this
part of his letter he is right
g Its acknowledged exponent is the Freesoil
party, but it is also viruent and dangerous, both
N the Wing and Democratic parties at the NORTH.
The Wing party has succumbed to it, and il
the organization of that party in every
non-slaveholding State in the Union. 1t is
thoroughly denationalzed and sectionalized by
i, and will never make another national contest
The Wing party of the South will never meet
the Stewards and Withrop's, and Vnton's, and
)ohnson's, and BaIdwin's Of the North, in another
rational convention. We are indebted to the
lefeat of the policy of these men for the exs-
ence of the government this day. We shall !
rust them no more.
The Democratic party at the North, though
is not yet utterly des' royed by this
ame cause. The Freeso element sways the
,arty trumphantly in Massachusetts, and to
very great extent throughout New England
I has annihated it in New York and controls
t in Ohio. But the majority of that partv in
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois and
owa, are as yet unsubdued, and are still capable
# mighty effort for the Constitution and the
Union.
Our true policy is to compel both parties to
purge themselves of this dangerous eement-if
either will, to sustain itf neither will, then if
we expect to preserve the country, we must
overthrow both, and rally the sound men of botl.
parties to common standard This is the only
policy which can preserve both our rights and
the Union. Let us steadily pursueit.