The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-22
SOUTHERN PRESS
WASHINGTON CITY.

THURSDAY. MAY ~, 1851.


mere confessions Of Frcc-Ssii Faith.
We referred yesterday to some few Of TIN
Developments now daily unfolding themselves
which conclusively show a concert OF action and
of purpose between the Compromises and tht
Free-soilers, or political Abotionists. A hand
full of the fanatical Abolitionists still hold ou
for a separate organization, it il true, but they
are few in number and devoid Of influence, ant
when even their negro allies desert them to en-
list under the black flag of the new |" holy ALI
ance," il is easy 10 see where the danger to III,
South and to slavery really lies. Hitherto there
has been real or pretended antagonism be
tween the Compromises and the Abolitionist'
while really rowing the same way, each pre-
tended to look in different direction--and one
Of the stereotyped SANDERS of the Compromise
organs long has been the charge Of coalition
between the Nullifers and Abolitionists.'
This fiippant falsehood has been SO often re
peated, that Its originators were beginning
themselves to believe that there might possibly
Ike some grains of truth in it, when, suddenly
they are awakened from their pleasant dreams
by an audncious attempt on the part of these
very Abolitionists to steal their Union" +" thun-
der"--imitating the example of WILMoT, who
served Mr.. WEBSTER himself that same scurvy
trick with his proviso on the solemn public as
severation of that distinguished compromised
himself. Nay, waxing insolent on the triumphs
of their 1great principle" in the exclusion Of
slavery from all the new territories, and the sub
mssive or "acquiescenf attitude Of the South
ern States generally-they begin to claim the
honors of the victory, and seek to secure por-
ton Of the spoils thereof, in the partition of
offices soon to take place and this cry of
Union" 10 the watchword and the passport with
them all.
As, unlike our opponents, we proffer proofs
always to sustain our allegations, and do not
draw upon our fancy for our facts Us well as ar
guments, we refer to the recorded opinions and
avowals Of the leading Free-soilers, and their
leading organs, for the last few weeks, many Of
which we have already laid before our readers,
and many more Of which we still hold in reserve
for the same purpose.
No quantity Of quibbling, sophistry, or eva
sion--no amount of garbling misrepresentation
or Justification can stfe or smother these dis
tinct aud deliberate expeditions of policy and
purpose on the part Of the Abolitionists, nor
conceal the identity of feeling and interest ex-
isting between the Compromises and Adolf
tionists, SO fh as the Southern Rights men, and
movements at the South are concerned The
community of purpose and identity of principle
between the two classes, in reference to the
Southern movement, is as complete and cordial
ms that which existed between the powers that
partitioned Polsnd-whosc only bond also was
that of common hatred and a craven fear
II has been already shown, over and over again,
that the cant Of the Compromiscrs has been
caught up and more sonorously re-echoed by
the -soilers-thnt SEWARD sits cheek by
jowl with WEBSTER on the Union" platform,
while JOHN VAN buren, and SUMNER lovingly
pair off with Mr.. FILLMORE and his cabinet
pronouncing, with the JUNCTION of Jealous CON-
promisers, in reason and out of season, @The
Union now and forever, one and inscparable.r
Now, instead of showing proper national
pride in these accessions TO the cause of Union
ism, and chroncling the ."loyalty" Of these
leading Northern politicians, the special organs
of the Compromises of the Constitution, both
in this city and elsewhere, are perfectly silent
on the subject; in fact, they seem rather disposed
TO shirk the subject altogether. In the "Old
vain for specimens of Stewards or SUMMERS
LOYALTY; and in the mazes Of the long "progres.
of the President" in the more modern taber
nacle of the party, We find few traces of these
very polite and diplomatic, bat it puzzles the
uninitiated to see the "cordial understanding
on excursions, which is accompanied by such
belligerent demonstrations-on paper-between
the partizans of the respective politicians.
But our purpose, at present, is not to enter
into these matters at large but merely to recur
to some of the latest confessions Of faith on the
part of the leading organs of Abolition, or Free
soil--the two names for the same thing The
most able, influential, and controlling of these
organs are the Tribune (Whig Free-soil,) and
the Evening Post, democratic Free-soil) New
York; the Commonwealth, (Abolition,) Massa-
chusetts; and the National Era, the central
organ in this city
Within the last few weeks each and all OF
these have come out in elaborate editorials, in
which they avow their policy and purpose of
perpetuating this GLORIOUS Union" by force il
necessary, for the purpose of abolishing slavery
on this continent and they chaunt the song of
"glorious Union" in concert with the National
organs.
We have copied already from the Tribune it,
views of the duty Of the Administration, TO co
cree seeding State, and the consequences o
It's resistance; over which imaginary picture of
new ST. Domingo it's editor gloats with the gle'
of fend We also inserted on Monday ar
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