The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-23
SOUTHERN PRESS
WASHINGTON CITY.
MONDAY, APRIL 81, 1851.
Anotner Apology tor Ro.ton.

MONDAY, APRIL 81, 1851.
Another Apology for Boston.
It4ls sad thing that the organs OF the
Compromise have to substitute slang for argu-
nent from the very necessity Of the case, and
sta!c slang at that. Their doleful and dreary
lrei.eaticn Of the sane oft repeated and oft
ssfaisd appeals n unworthy prejudices, betrays
a., scnai barsea3ass of invention, and lack Of
ah.ilfy % give good and sufficient reasons for
~. aiih tint "a 10 them. The Republic, of this
" frost persevering practitioner of this
\ ....-nie; and drones out the same dull dia-
tribes against aths disunionists," day after day,
with HE Disturbance Of cracked bagpipe, but
with longwindedness equal to that of any
practitioner on that instrument of musical tor
ture.
While the Lnteiligencer plays slow and solemn
airs, as an old-fashioned organ" of the party,
the Republic, in its brisk airs and shri 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.
lists" which the compromises raised during the
past session, in defiance of fact, and even of the
senses of people, who daily read the falsity of
the charge on the records of the Congressional
proceedings. Every one also recolects how scorn-
fully, and how triumphantly, the Southern gen.
tlemen thus slandered, and the Southern presses,
exposed the shutting insincerty of those who
were themselves identified in action with those
very men. at the time they made this false and
flippant charge against those who had resisted
their attempts to absorb for free-so" all the
common property of the co-partners-an 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
new one-viz.: that the Compromise would give
peace to the country, but for "the agitators
North and South"-classing 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 soubriquet. 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-it is the
thread out of which all its lorg yarns are spun.
Just consider what short and easy method it
Is of disposing of a complicated question-plan
as game of draughts. Youput your white men
(disunionists) 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 sinpl FLING poll
tics-a child may understand, as child might
have conceived, 80 easy an explanation of the
causes of the existing discontents--and the
Republic now enjoys to great extent the mo-
nopoly Of this ,oondeyful discorerr.
Seriously speaking, the Hippant effrontery Of
the parallels which the Republic presumes to
draw, day after day, between tie fanatica as
sailants of law, order. and the Consultation NJ
the North-men who deny the sanction of all
iAw'numan ana oiVine-and the resolute defend
ers Of the rights and principles thus assailed-
the very presentation of such paraIels vs raneot.
AN in.ult 70 tho nnd.,s,,rd;nn &c ~, .-sI;S
-,- u '"' N"'ei'eAh
PeoPe'
What Is to be thought Of the fairness, or the
good sense. of an leading organ of tho A5rin;o-
t,.,;on which :, r;o. e ~. -, I,-s',
- " '"e '''."' u''g'Aeeiui
manifestations OF sentiment and purpose in
Massachusetts, presents its readers with par
aiiei IKE thi'' which we clip from the COM
mencemen' oil leader IN Saturday Republic I?
We are at n loss to decide whether the fansii-
clsm OF iacuSn Is more marked IN Its manifesto
reasct mon ,ba sneaoh.s - "a ~. p 80, NC