The southern press., 1851-08-01
From the .Nsp York Tribune

helpless children.
From the .Nsw York Tribune.
THE SOUTHERN ELEcrIoNs.--Will The Bos-
ton Post please have the political assurance" to
furnish US with ist OF Democratic papers
which support the election of Gen. Foote in
Mississippi, and also the name of one Wing pa
per which opposes his election? Although
Wings were not nominated for governors by the
Wings and Union men of Alabama, Mississippi
and Georgia, it is we'll known that there is a
fair number of Wing candidates for the other
State and local Offices. Three or four of the
Union candidates for Congress in Alabama are
Wings; but as the contest is not confined to
party issues neither of the old parties has no.
minated candidates ofits own in Alabama, Geor-
gia and Mississippi. In Arkansas, North Caro-.
lima and Kentucky, the contest partakes more oi
party character, and the candidates accordingly
are divided m re on old party grounds.
The Boston Post certainly cannot be ignorant
of the fact that Mr. Dargan, who was proposed
for Congress by the Democratic press of the
Sd district of North Carolina, has withdrawn in
favor of G. w. Caldwell, the regular Democratic
candidate, and ultra secessionst, who was de-
feated in l849 for his disunion views. Caldwell
is supported by the Charlotte True Southron and
prints Of that stripe, and Gen. Dockery (Unior
Whig) is his opponent
| AS to Gov Trousdale, of Tennessee, he does
not hesitate to say that he disapproves of thu
compromise, and that he is for repeating tha
part Of it which suppressed the slave trade il
the district In his electioneerng appeal Gov
Trousdale, (uho is supported by every secession
press in Tennessee) bitterly assas President
Fillmore, and also all the friends of the compro-
mise in Tennessee. The Memphis Appeal con-
tains report of recent speech of Gov. Trous-
| dale, from which we make an extract:
"The governor also showed by Mr.. Fill
mores own letter, and by Wing authority, that
Mr.. Fillmore was a Freesoiler, agtator and Ab0-
litionist would have thought that no man in
| Tennessee would have been so recreant to the
interests of the South, as to come out for Mr..
Fillmore for President Yet there are some of
the Wing leaders who have already hoisted the
Fillmore flag, and among the number is Judge
Campbell"
Mr. Fillmore is thus denounced by most of
the Locofoco papers of the Solth. The very
convention which nominated Gov. Trousdale
thus set forth the platform of the Tennessee
Democracy, aud we can assure The Post that
! Gov. Trousdale more than stands up to it:
RESOLVED, If contrary to the above under
standing of said compromise measures that
they should be adhered to by the North and moi
modified in the eust the people of the North
ern States, by voluntary association or other
wise, shall continue to obstruct and prevent
the execution of the Fugitive slave bill
or if Congress shall at any time appeal, OF
so alter or amend it as to make it less etficacioui
than itSssw is, if it shall pass any bill abolish
ing slavery in the District of Columbia, OF
abolishing it directly or indirectly in the States
or if the present basis of slave representation
4 L <t,t .tot., oof
from one slaveholding State to another be pro.
hibted, or il new States shall be rejected be.
cause they may tolerate slavery in their con-
stitutions, in any or all these this conven.
ton feel constrained to declare that they should
hold the same to be such a breach of plighted
faith, and violation of the Constitution so pal.
pable and wiful, well to justify the South
ern States to resort 10 any and every means o
self-weserpation ,ohich their peace, safely ant
honor might demand"
1t has long been habit of The Post to mis-
represent the political movements Of the day
and it cannot be denied that it is an adept in III
trade The position it has recently taken as t.
the /" Unonsm" of the opposition in the South
shows very clearly the game it intends to pur
sue. At the North unionsm is to be confined
exclusively to the democracy" while the South
ern secessionists are to be lauded as the "tru,
lovers of the Union" We shall see how th
J will come out.
In furnishing political intelligence to our read
) ers, we have ever aimed to state truly the posi-
: ton of parties; and whenever prominen
! Wing in any of the Southern States allies him
self with the opposition and the secessionsts
we make the announcement. But in the face o
its friends at the South styling themselves Sc
cessionists, The Boston Posi- calls the members
of the Southern rights party, the only "tru'
lovers of the Union" The governors of Mis-
sissippi, Alabama and Georgia are avowed disu
nionists, and yet they were elevated to powe
by the democratic" party and even the "Demo
cratic governors Of North Carolina and Ten
nessee, (where the old party organizations hav'
been better prescrvcdD both admit the right o
secession.
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