The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-23

luc unhappy OuOu CdA3ty No'AlAS'oo -
New York, has fallen with rocket-like rapidity
from the haight p which it shot up, when FIRST
it burst in all the brilliancy Of its pronuncia.
mentoes" on the public eye. Pulled and petted
left to do it reverence. But "a short time since
we quoted the scornfuI reputation of its au-
thorty and acts by the spokesman Of the :" CLAY
festival" in New York now the Southern mail
brings us the tidings of its reputation by the
chief mouth piece of the {" Constitutional Union
party Of Georgia, the Macon Journal 4. Mes.
senger. The Marietta (Ga) Advocate, referring
to this matter, says:
"The Macon Journal a. Messenger has al
ways been the leading organ Of the new party.
The editor of that paper is entitled to the credit
of having originated the Bib platform. But
he seems to begin to suspect that those who
cry "Union" the loudest, are not the best Union
men. Mr. Toombs long ago said, with but too
much truth, !" This cryof Union is HE masked bat-
terry behind aohich The Constitution and The rights
Of the South are 10 be assailed" 1t is to be
hoped that other presses, and other party men,
who have acted with the Journal g. Messenger,
will show as much sagacity in detecting hum.
buggery, and ms much resolution in exposing
masked batteries 1t is to be hoped that they
too will determine not to be bamboozled by a
grand city meeting, and The passage Of Union
resolutions" The following extract from an
editorial of the last weeks Journal q Messen-
ger, will show that light is beginning to break
been deuded by the cry Of Union. 1t is the
Erot Of nj al nd ~
Movement-Th Union Safety Committee OF
New York"
sWe hailed the Castle Garden movement in
New York, as the beginning of better times
We thought we saw in it, the harbinger OF
peace, and the shadowing forth Of grand reac-
tionary impulse, which was to arrest fanaticism
and purify public sentiment in the free States
on the slavery question. Nor we're we tardy, in
common with the Union constitutional men OF
Georgia, in secondng that movement, and giving
to it the imprimafur of our noble State. But
alas, ye men of New York city, you run well
for time, and now you have turned back. You
have failed to stand up to your own platform
Slavery agitation has ragged in your Legislature
and the agj:ators are enthroned in power in your
State. Sewardism is in the ascendant, and none
but his myrmdons can reach high places. More
than that, Seward and his crew are Toasted al
the Astor House, at the expense Of the city and
one of his leutenants denounced and insulted
the South amidst the revels of that banquet
And yet no voice was heard, at that feast, re.
buking the insolent calumniator,
Now we want the Union Committee of New
York, to understand that we cannot be bam-
boozled by a grand city meeting, and the pas
sage of Union resolutions. We want more
substantial evidence of your fidelity to the Con-
stitution, and our rights. 1t has been charged
that you only sought to cajole and pull the
South, to secure her trade. We tell you, gen.
tlemen, we of the South are not to be gulled by
any such shallow device. If you are with US,
show it by your works. If you sympathise
with the South, put the screws of your immense
power upon our worst enemies, instead of feast
ing them. If you desire to retain the trade of
the South, you must fout all Free-soil poiti-
clans, such as Seward, Raymond, and Greedy
1t will not do to preach Union and the Consti-
tuition, and yet build up their deadliest foes