Richmond daily times. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1853, 1851-06-20
mNOW AND THEN"

INES nave cnalSeu SFedtly, Slice tiie L resi-
dental canvass of lS4S, with certain people, who
now "snuff treason and detect abomination in all
that the President or Mr.. Webster can do or say.
Mr.. Webster in his Buffalo speech, frankly de-
clares the sentiment (Which every Northern man
entertans) that slavery is a thing TO be depre-
Gated, and the President, in his Boston letter,
speaks of it as an evil, but one which the people
of the North have no right to interfere with. The
expression of this general sentiment is loudly OBJ
lected to by the Southern Press and other Disu-
Mon journals, and is held by them to prove the
President and Secretary unworthy of Southern
confidence. The Democratic "Southern Rights
papers in the South, before Mr.. Filmore's letter
reached them, were particularly strenuous in
their COMBINATIONS of Mr.. Websters declaration.
Now it is not three years since these same i'm
maculatc authorities, on all that pertains to the
interests and honour of the South, were banded
together in support of Gen. Cass for the Presi-
dency. And what thought he of the abstract
merits of slavery? Need we recall this memo
rabe passage of his letter on the Right of Search?
eve are no slavshoder. We never have bsen
shall be- We deprecae its existence 10 principle
and pray for its abolition everywhere where this can
Ties.
The Southern Democracy, Calhoun wing and
all. could swallow Gen. Cass in ls4S with his
prayer for abolition unrecalled; and now, the wing
at least rail terribly at Mr.. Fillmore and Mr.. Web
ster for merely saying that slavery is an evil.
The truth is, and every candid Southern man
will freely admit it, if we make positive approval
and admiration of our domestic institution the
imperative condition of our confidence in Northern
statesmen, we must make up our minds either to
be voted down by the Northern majority in every
election, and in Congress, or to abandon the
Union. The latter would unquestionably be the
better alternative But, why should the South ex-
act this VIGOROUSLY impossible condition Is 1t
not enough that there are statesmen of both par
ties in the North sustained by large majority of
the Northern people, who hold slavery to be sub
ject of State concern exclusively and with which
Congress has nothing 10 do? The last hope for
the Union will have fled when the Southern peo-
pie in mass shall withhold their confidence from
every Northern man who does not consider slave
ry a blessing.
1t is particularly edfying just now to read the
that may be seen in the Democratic prpers The
Washington Union laborously maintains that
they are Democratic measures, and that the
Democratic party aone can be expected to stand
by them. The secession organs, on the other
hand, being mostly representatives of the Calhoun
wing of the Democracy, contend that the Com
promise is of Wing manufacture, that President
Fillmore stands sponsor to it, and that all Demo
Gratis must be deemed Wigs who, like Gen.
Foote, stake themselves c.: supporting the Union
with the Compromise. In reply to these asser-
lions, we observe that the Florence (Aa.) Ga
zette has been at the trouble of demonstrating
that majority of the members of Congress who
passed the Compromise bills were Democrats, and
hene e assumes to 'slow most conclusively that
this Compromise Is Democratic measure" If
the Gazette shall succeed by its reasoning, in
preventing the Democrats Of Alabama from es-
pousing the Disunion cause. it will accomplish
very desirable end But, small share of libe-
raty would suggest the injustice of denying Gre
dit to the present administration for the position
in which it stands before the country. Whoever
is to be praised for the adoption of the Compro-
mise, the duty of maintaining it rests with the
President, and his acts have already fully borne
out the memorable words of his message to
Congress-
"The series of measures which have alluded are
regarded bv me as settlement principle and sub
stance-a final setement-of the dangerous and excl
ting subjects which they embraced"
"By that adjustment we have been rescued from the
wide and boundless agitation that surrounded US and
have finn, distinct, and legal ground to rest upon
And the OCCASION trust, will Justify IN EXPORTING
MY CoUNTRYMFN TO RALLY UPON AND MAINTAIN THAT
GROUND as the BEST if not The only ans o restoring
peace and quiet The country and maintaining invlo-
ate the integrity OF the Union"
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