The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-17


~ Among the many Iudicrous specimens
of inflated national patriotism to which this
country has given birth. we know of none who
takes on so violently as the editor of the Louis
vile journal 1t would seem curious, but is
really quite natural, that the most vindictive
seurrilous and proscriptive of party men are the
most bgotcd, slavish and abusive Union men,
Wings and Democrats who denounce each other
continually as knayes, dnpes, liars, robbers,
slaves and tyranls, who exclude each other irois
even the meancst offices as unfit to be trusted,
and worthy only of being starved, abused and
despised, are the very men to fall into extalic,
deIirious and ungoverhablc fits Of devotion TO
this glorious Union.
1t is true, these men never permit the love
of Union to rise above that of their party
but merely regard it as prize or a victim for
party to contend for Accordingly, the party
in power is always the most devoted to Union.
When out of power, and particularly when in a
lean minority, this love of Union is apt to give
wny to very trifling events. Thus when Gen
eral JACKSON merely directed the public deposits,
after given day, to be made in one set of banks
instead of another, Mr.. CLAY announced that
we were in the midst of rerolution--blo
as yet And MIR. WEBSTER could not defer a
political speech at Baltimore, till Sunday passed
over, but declared there mere no saJbaths in re-
uolutionary times. Yet these are the gentle
men who now attempt to be horror-struck at
the language of revolution, for causes compared
as mole-hl to a mountain.
But it is one of their little limitations and
toadies, we were speaking of. The editor of
the Louisville Journal thinks, because he rose
to the dignity of schoolmaster in Connecticut
and editor in Kentucky, that the weight of the
| Union rests on his shoulders--like Heaven on
those of Atlas Having no natural faculties OF
attainments by which he can form as respectable
conception Of a constitution as a -Camanche
he yet presumes to lecture States and states
men with flippancy and rudeness, that be-
longed formerly to the prerogative only Of a
kings jester.
So long, however, as he confined himself to
the abuse of Others he was endurable but now
he has betaken himself to praise. He praises
the recent course of the Virginia legislature on
the compromise.
Well, we reproached Old Virginia for SUBJ
hitting to that measure, and predicted long
career of modification as the result. But, in
our gloomy anticipations of her fate, we had
not included the degradation of being praised
by such papers as the Journal The editor Of
that paper continues, luckily, to abuse US.
Sometimes he tries to exult in the hope that our
paper will go down, and that he will thereby es
cape the skinning we occasionally amuse our
selves with giving him sometimes he expresses
the hope of our being hanged.
| Now, if he will abstain from praisng Vir-
GINA, for whom we still cherish a deep regard
and hope, and continue to abuse us, we will
agree to reprieve him from the rope, and pre-
serve him for the lash. We have no desire for
him to die but have had fears that he and
some other submissionisls in the South, who
cxult in being made to pay by the compromise,
for being robbed, will some of these days
agree, for love of the Union, to hang them
sclvps-at their own cynense