The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-03

described Inherently the position which III,
Union assumed towards Governor Floyd's mes
sage. We contrasted the two statements, $,
that it might appear not only that these CORES
pondents had spoken falsely of the position 0
the Union, but that each had convicted the othe
of direct falsehood But it seems that the write
for the Ledger and the writer for the Sun di,
not convict each other Of falsehood, since it ha
come to pass that they are one and the sam,
person. encompassed in the same suit Of clothes
who proved by his different statements doubl,
falsehood himself He not only did this but h,
debased himself still further by voluntarily an
proprating to himself general remarks, which n,
man worthy of the name would claim as hi.
property.
We feel it to be our duty to correct the false
statement of this selfconceited correspondent
rs well as to refer TO the origin of his groundless
imputation upon the principles entertained and
advocated by the editor of the Union for wears
as sectional and provincial" The very use OF
the term provincial" satisfied us that the write,
WAS ignorant OF the nature of our political sys
tenn, and of the principles on which it is founded
We knew that no one would have employed
such term but an individual educated abroad
in the midst of the petty systems and down
trodden nations OF Europe, or would have APP
piled it to principles which were first recognized
by the ablest men Of this country, and have ever
constituted the groundwork On which the Dem
ocratic party rests. No Federaist even in this
country would have used such term. He
would have had too much respect for himself,
if not for others, to have done so. The term it.
self smells Of serfdom and abasement. We knew
it did not spring from an American mind We
hit the mark at the first blow.
We have been tender and forbearing to this
man. We knew the difficulties of his position.
He had to cater for the abolition sentiments of
the readers of the Philadelphia Ledger--he had
to give different set of dishes for the readers
Of the Baltimore Sun--and at the same time he
was playing the toady to men of the North, the
South, the East, and the West, in order to gain
employment as a political turnspit. We do not
blame those gentlemen from the "four points of
the compass" men are but children Of larger
growth; they love the rattle; they must have
their lap-dogs. But they have no right to annoy
other peoples ears, or permit their interesting
specimens of sleek, meek-eyed, silver-gr gray ca
ninity to annoy harmless wayfarers. For our
selves, we must object to such ideas of enlarged
liberty; and if the lap dogs are turned loose in
bad weather. we will kick them off, preferring
their angry barks to their muddy paws planted
fawningly on our pantaloons.
This man-like all other men who harbor in
their hearts contempt for hemselves-endeav
to shield himself by pretending that the lasl,
struck others. He strives to make it appear
that our adopted citizens are wounded by the
blows which have been given to him when he
misbehaved. What arrogant cOnceit or cover
ing timidity! Where are his credentials for
thrusting himself forward as the exponent of
foreign immigration? Who constituted him the
leader and defender Of better and honester men
How comes it that his flatulept conceit is to be
taken as an index of Germrn honesty and indus
try? How comes it that his card tricks are taken
as the insignia of the honest labor of Belgium,
the devoted courage of Baden and Bavaria, and
the many high qualities which flourish on the
Rhine! We did not endeavor to cast slur upon
foreigners; least of all did we attempt to cast a
slur upon German republcianism. We meant to
prick a bubbles, and show the emptiness of a
foreign pretender, who came to our country, not
as foreigner seeking an asylum, but as Jew
to trade in his wnres-mock wares, too-mere
words, and the semblance of principles.
BIT enough of this man, and the tribe of
trading politicians to which he has ever belonged
this ape of foreign manners and eulogist of
foreign customs-a moral comminglement of
the physical traits of the Hessan and Cowboy,
with the bad qualities of both, and good quail
ties OF neither--a man who neither respects his
country, his creed, nor his religion, who leaves
Europe to preach Democracy, and who remains
in America to mimic the observation-disclosures stairs"
of eastern monarchies. We always wish to write
English but on the present occasion we are
speaking of an anomalous character, and all the
rules permit us to invent words to describe him
the foreign native-.he tariff free-trader-the
European American, the royal Democrat and
II n a. Ill It'll 1
Southern principles--the Southern man with
Northern prirciples--the man with different
opinions recorded in all the Atlantic cties--the
political Dugald Dalgetty, ready to serve either
the Ledger or the Sun for a consideration, pro-
vded that the courage and consistency Of Dugald
are not exacted from him.
We have done with this character. We make
an humble apology to all the readers of the
Union for giving so many portraits Of disa-
BILE subject We will never offend again.
Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun
WAsnMoroN, Dec. 81, 1850.
The Assaults ofthe Union-Retrn Of Father Richie
-Retori TO Personalities, &c.
The ardenf-spirited "assistant" of the Union,
(partzan print, not ns,cspaper) cannot obtrude
himself on my notice. He is not my equal in any
respect, and must needs address myself to his
master.
Father Ritchie in the Union Of the 2Ist instant,
after having been for two days on the anxious seat,
endorsed Gov. Floyd's message in terms Of the
most submissive provincial adulatIon, differing
from it only in regard to the time when national
convention was to be held. Some OF his friends
exposed to him the folly of his course on the ev-
ening Of that day, and on Sunday morning, the
Union contained another article on the subject,
begging the question, and asking time to consider;
on Tuesday following, however, the Union shifted
its ground altogether, and came out against ma
tional convention, but in favor Of separate State
actions. Mr.. Riches first editorial was hum
bug; MIR. Richie S second editorial was a humbug;
and Mr.. Ritchie's third editorial was humbug;
and it was precisely the articles in the Sun and
Ledger which made that humbug explode by stig-
matizing it as provincial humbug. and Father
Richie as a provincial man. The article which
appeared in the Ledger in reply to Mr.
Ritchie's frat editorial, that in the Sun in reply to
the second editorial Of Mr. Richie; it is Mr..
Richie who has veered round, not the letter-wr-
tera Indeed, the course Of the Union has been
perfect curiosity, and it would contradict it.
self every day, were it not kept in the traces by
Own F. JOHNSON, esquire, late Attorney General
Of Pennsylvania, under the administration of
Governor Porter. It is he who furnished brains
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