The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-21
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.



Another Apology for Boston.
1t is sad thing that the organs of the
Compromise have to substitute slang for argu-
msnt, from the very necessity of the case, and
stale slang at that. Their doleful and dreary
Federation Of the same Oft repeated and off,
refutsd appeals to unworthy prejudlces, betrays
An equal barrenhess of invention, and lack of
ability to give good and sufficient reasons for
the faith that is in them. The Republic, of this
city, is the most perseverng practitioner of this
petty game; and drones out the same dull dia-
tribes against @the disunionists," day after day,
with the discordance Of cracked bagpipe, but
with longwindedness equal to that Of any
practitioner on that instrument of musical tor
ture.
While the Intelhgencer plays slow and solemn
airs, a. an old-fashioned "organ" of the party,
the Republic, in its brisk airs and shrl Shrek
ings, assumes the part of the Administration
bagpipes- inflated by prodigious putting" Of
the Administration, and blowing up" of all
opposition to its policy, which it dubs arebel-
lion !"
Every one recollects the parrotcry Of "coali-
ton between the Disunionists and Abolition
ists," which the compromisers raised during the
past session, in defiance of fact, and even of the
senses of a people, who daily read the falsity OF
the charge on the records of the Congressional
proceedings. Every one also recolects how scorr,-
fully, and how trjumphantly, the Southern gen.
tlemen thus slandered, and the Southern presses,
exposed the shutting insncerity Of those who
were themselves identified in action with those
very men, at the time they made this false and
fippant charge against those who had resisted
their attempts to absorb for free-soi" all the
common property of the co-partners- at
tempt in which they succeeded only through the
votes Of the compromisers
So thoroughly were these facts established
that the slanderers were silenced through shame
and abandoning this pretext, fell back upon a
new one-viz. that the Compromise would give
peace to the country, but for "the agitators
North and South chasing in the same cate
CORY the GARRIsoNs of the North, and the OUR
MANS of the South.
On this single string the Republic has harped
with patient pertinacity which excites mingled
emotions of WEAKNESS and compassion. The
ancients had an idea that the "man of one
book" must master thoroughly his subject A
parliamentary orator once became famous for
single speech" and gained that souJriquet So
is the Republics hope Of fame to be based on
this single idea. SOLITARY and alone" it sets
In motion the ball of its editorials-t is the
thread out of which all its long yarns are spun
Just consider what q short and easy method it
Is Of disposing Of n complicated question-plain
as game of draughts. Youput your white men
(dsunionists) on one side your black (Abol-
tionists) on the other-the country is the board
all other parties merely the spectators.
How excellent mode of simplifying poll
ticf-a child may understand, as child might
have conceived, so easy an explanation of the
causes Of the existing discontents-and the
Republic now enjoys to great extent the mo-
nopoly Of this wonderful discovery!
Seriously speaking, the Appant effrontery of
the parallels which the Republic presumes to
draw, day after day, between the fanatical as
sailants of law, order, and the Constitution at
the North men who deny the sanction of all
law, human and divine--and the resolute defend
ers Of the rights and principles thus assaulted
the very presentation Of such parallels we repent,
is an insult to the understanding of the American
people.
What is to be thought Of the fairness, or the
good sense, of an leading organ of the Admins
tration, which in view of the recent disgraceful
manifestations of sentiment and purpose in
Massachusetts, presents its readers with par
'allel like this, which we clip from the com
mencement of leader in Saturday. Republic ?
We are at a loss to decide whether the fanati-
cism of faction Is more marked in its manifesto
tons at the North or at the South. When we
reflect upon the speeches made and the letters
read at the recent abolition convention in Bos-
ton, the frantic course of the Rantouls, Summers,
and other candidates for public favor the prayers
Of the Colvers, Parkers, and similar gentlem
Of the cloth; the proceedings Of the New York
legislature in regard to the invitation proposed
TO be extended to Mr.. Webster the course Of
the Board of Aldermen of Boston in refusing
the use of Faneuil Hall for public reception
to that gentleman; and the opposition mani.
tested by section Of the Northern people, not
to the Fugitive slave law of 1893 or 1851, but
to the provision of the Constitution which con-
templates the surrender of fugtives from labor
we think that fanaticism has done its perfect
work at the North. But, on the other hand,
when we regard the proceedineA of the cores
ponding classes Of fanatics at the South, we are
inclined to think that they little or no better
than the men who denounce the Constitution as
An atrocious bargain" and 4" compact with
hell" They are evidently all persons of the
same temper and purposes, and both mean mis-
chief and anarchy.
Then follows long and lnbored attempt to
prove that the proceedings Of the State Rights
Associations in South Carolina, are as treason
able and abomnabe" as those of the Boston
Abolitionists.