The southern press., 1851-07-28

Locofoce members ffom the slsvsholdng aectioF
ok the &onDtsy, our oUn section OF the conatry
Smuggling to defeat the compromise, when th<
only alfnfnativ. WAS compr0mise, Or disaoayI4ion
And, wu9st Of sll when this comprom(1e up
bald hyxli thp Whig members from thes1 youtl
Eand Wed, WA carried through Congress Ii spite
OF the violent opposition Of Loc0focoism, the
l.occfoco delegations from most Of the slave
holding States transferred their warfare upon it.
from the halls Of the capital to their own con.
stituencies at home. From that time to the
present the fercest and most relentless Loco
loco warfare has been carried on and IL now
carried on against the compromise in Missis-
sippi, in Arkansas, ia Alabama, in Louisiana, in
Georgia, in North Carolina, in Florida ard even
in Tennessee. In most of those States, the
Locofocos are nearly unanimous In their denun-
citation Of the compromise. In Mississippi, seven
egths Of the whole Locofoco population de-
nounce, 1t and are the supporters of guberna-
torial candidate who is in favor of the speediest
possible dissolution of the Union on account of
1t. In Georgia. nearly all the Lec0focos de-
nounce it, and the banner under which they fight
Is the banner Of secession. In Arkansas, the
whole Locofoc0 population denounce it, and
they are supporting for reelection to Congress
a man who opposed it fiercely in that body, and
who relies exclusively upon the feeling of hos
tlty to 1t for success in his canvass In Ten
nessee, every Locofoco is supporting candi-
date for governor who, in his speeches, seems
scarcely able to find language violent enough
and vituperative enough to express his hatred
and detestation of it. And, fellow-citizens,
although the Locofoco leaders of Kentucky,
with some exceptions, have not yet dared to
make open warfare upon the great measure of
peace between the North and South, although
they have not had the courage to do more than
characterize 1t as unjust to the South and init
mate that it has almost prepared the minds of
their party for disruption of the Union, they
do not attempt to conceal their wishes for the
success of their Southern friends who wave over
their heads the banner Of open and eternal hos
tility to it. The whole Locofocoism of Ken
tucky wish TO see Johnson elected to Congress
in Arkansas, Qutman elected governor of Mis-
sissippi, Trousdale elected governor of Ten
nessee, &c.
Under all these circumstances, no one can
doubt what would be the influence of the carry
ing of Kentucky by the Locofocos in the present
crisis Let the Locofocos, who, in their State
convention at Frankfort, expressed their deep
dissatisfaction with the compromise and who are
now giving all their sympathy to the disuninists
of the South, succeed at this time in establish
ing their political power in kentucky, and a
long, loud, and fend-like shout of triumphant
exutation, such as has never yet been heard,
will GO up from The throats Of all the traitors to
the Union, from one extremity of the republic
to the other. We sincerely believe, that, if
old Kentucky, situated as she is and regarded as
she is, shall falter- seem to falter now, the
result will be deep and terrible blow t., the
cause of the Union, n blow from which that
cause may never recover.
Fellow Wings, we can convey to you no ade-
quate idea of our estimate of the Importance of
the struggle which is nov going on in our
State, and which, for veal or woe, is 80 soon to
be decided. We can only ask you to give
your own deepest and most solemn reflections
10 the subject and so to bear yourselves in the
great crisis that neither your self reproaches
nor the reproaches of your country may here
after be upon you.