The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-15

WASHINGTON CITY.
THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1861.


r-y- The editor of the Louisville Journal
could not resist ii seems, the temptation of using
the private letter which its co-submissionist OF
South Carolina had no more honor than to pub
lish, relative to the funds Of this paper We
have observed that but two or three other edi-
tors have been found capable Of doing the same
thing And we have been somewhat surprised
that anybody would violate private correspond
ence from such small temptaton--for we don't
perceive what advantage the enemy has realized
To feign surprise that paper established here
at Washington would require the first year
something more than its regular subscriptions
is too shallow an expedient even for such himsy
specimens MS the editors in question. The truth
is, they have permitted the eagerdess of their
desire for the fall of this paper to betray them
into disreputabe expedient to injure it---and
have made themselves, by their commentaries,
as ridiculous as reprehensible
We have the pleasure of renewing to them
the declaration that this paper, so far from stop
ping, or OF having any notion to stop, is going
on--and going on, so far as subscriptions are
concerned, and as we are informed, incompara
bly, better than any other paper in this city We
have already about as many Southern subscri
bers as the two old national organs put together
And We think this is the most emphatic rec g.
milton of the Importance of having here at the
seat OF government, paper devoted rather to
the rights of the States than to federal power
The contest between the two national parties
has degenerated very much into mere strug-
gle for place, and hence both become by turns
interested in enlargng the area of federal power.
Of course, in struggle for fifty millions of ao-
preparations, and fifty thousand offices, all sorts
of falsehoods, fallacies, and humbugs are perpe-
trated. 1t is our duty and interest to expose
these, and to render this paper magazine of
fact and argument, without which no man can
be equal to the exigencies of the times.
This country must of necessity still be gov
erned by whatever of capacity it can produce
And we have to congratulate it on the formation
of party, at length, whom politicians will be
compelled to consult and respect. The Adolf
tionists have heretofore held the destinies of the
two parties in their hands. 1t may henceforth
happen that abolition support will be as fatal to
party rs it has heretofore been favorable.
But the issues now pending are greater than
ever before. We are to decide, ere long, the
questions of State sovereignty and self-govern-
ment Our institutions-ou character, are to
undergo the severest test ever yet applied to
them On such an occasion, it would be infat-
uation, or worse, not to present here, on the
spot consecrated to all the States, the argu-
ment for their rights in the press as well as in
Congress. The progress of political corrup-
ton and idolatry is like that of religious. The
creature is at length worshipped, instead of the
Creator. The Union has become an object of
alteration for itself, and not for the objects it
was established to secure.
By the Union is now meant the government
of party There two parties, and each
accuses the other of connection with Adolf
tioniss fatal to the Union, and yet each pretends
that Union is paramount to all things. 1t is the
part of patriots of the present day to show that
the only title of the Union to our regard is its
fidelity to our rights and interests. He who
would sacrifice them to it, is hypocrite dupe,
or dotard, and will fail as utterly in saving
the Union as in preserving his liberty.