The southern press., 1851-11-05
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We have contended earnestly aud faithfully
for the success of the Southern Rights party
because we believed that the success of that
party would give a commanding position and
moral power to the South, which would secure
us from the impo sitions Of the North in future
The Southern Rights party has been defeated
and ia that defeat the moral force of the South
has been lost. Until no0, thousands, both North
and South have codidently believed, that South
ern men would defend their just rights "at all
hazards and to the last extremity" Who be-
leves it now? The events of the last year have
destroyed all confidence ia Southern threats, and
Southern resolutions. Hereafter, if we wish to
be believed, we must act. The protests, and the
declarations OF Southern men, will pass by like
the idle wind, which no man regards The little
Spartan band at the North, which stood up
nobl for the Constitution and the rights OF the
South, we fear will loose all confidence in our
hrmness, and give up our cause in disgust; and
what is worse, Southern men will loose all con
fidence in each other The Union party has tri-
umphed, the Union is safe, but the spirit and
confidence of the South is lost. The Union
was never in danger from the Southern Rights
party. But it was the policy OF the Office seek
ers to make the people believe that the Union
was in danger, that they might have an excuse
for Union party. They have obtained their
ODJ6Ct, llley nave bOL luLo OLHCe, anu uoW tucy
admit that the Union is safe. Even South Caro-.
lima has submitted, and every one must now
confess that the Union is perfectly safe Now,
when everybody feels satisfied that the Union
is safe, there is no longer any necessity for a
Union party. The object for which it was
formed is accomplished, and its mission is at an
end.
But if the Union is safe Southern institutions
are not and it is time for all the true friends of
the South to unite for their preservation. The
Union men have no longer any excuse for hold
ing back They have professed to be friends
and champions of Southern rights, and said they
we're willing to go as far as they could for their
protection in the Union. A few months will
prove whether these professions are true or
false. If we nee them standing shoulder to
shoulder with the true friends of the South,
firmly resisting every future encroachment upon
our rights, then we may believe their profess
sons are sincere. But if we find them coHd-
ing with Free soilers, and for the sake Of fed
eral Office, "giving aid and comfort" to such
men as Scott, Webster, and Fillmore, we may
know that all their professions are hollow and
deceitful, and made only to deceive tho people
and promote their selfish ends. Let every
friend of the South watch these men, and OBJ.
serve carefully the signs of the times Dema-
gogues have endeavored to withdraw our at
tention from the North, where all the danger
lies, and turn our suspicious upon our friends,
in Alabama, Mississippi, and Carolina What
harm could we apprehend from our neighbors
in these States, who have the same interests to
protect, that we have, and exposed to dan
gers in common with ourselves. All of the
Southern States have common bond of in
terest binding them to each other, and he is
no friend of the South who attempts to array
the prejudces Of one Southern State against
another. Let all such men be watched, they
have some selfish scheme to promote, and
sooner or later we shall see them selling their
birth right for mess of pottage-Georgia
Federal Unton.