The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-10
SOUTHERN PRESS
WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY, MAY 10. 1851.

for exposing the abolitionism Of the two great
national parties at the North. We take from
the Republic of yesterday, the following, which
shows that the great boa constructor of abolit on
has almost completely swallowed the national
Democratic party of
MAssAcHUsETTs.-W perceive that the Dem
ocrats and AboliGionists in Massachusetts are
playing out the game of coalition 1t is now
confidently stated that the union has been re-
solved upon in the second and fourth congress
sonal districts, for the return of Messrs. Rantoul
and Palfrey at the next election. The Mas
sachusetts Democracy has caved in entirely--has
been absorbed by Free.soil and abolition. There
is nothing left of it. The Boston Post remains
rs mere monument of the ilustrious twenty
seven rebels and ofhalf score oft the outsiders.
1t is repudated by the Democratic party proper
the party that has been disciplined in the sold
trials"
Besides the reunion on Rantoul and Palfrey,
it is said that similar coalition is on foot in
the Berkshire district, in favor of Mr.. Bishop
who was a Cass man, then Free-soer, then
National Democrat, and now suffering under a
relapse into Abolitionism. 1t is now understood
that Mr.. Bishop is to write satisfactory aboli-
ton letter, and the coalition are to put him
through in the most approved Democratic abo-
lition style.
1t is amusing enough, to be sure, to watch the
twisting and wriggling of the national Democra.
cy to slip cut of the embrace Of abolition in
Massachusetts. Sumner made Senator by Dem
ocratc votes, according to the decree of the re-
gular Democratic caucus-Rantoul then run as
the regular Democratic caucus candidate, pledged
to the teeth to abolition-Pafrey passing through
the abolition gate straight into the DEMOCRATIC
camP-aud now Bishop, to complete the cate
CORY! And yet the Democracy" are not re-
sponsible for all this--but the Wings.
On the other hand, we inser. from the New
York Tribune, the Wing paper of largest circu-
lation and greatest influence in the North, an ar
tcle which announces the necessity of emanci-
pating the slaves of all the States. The impious
slang about American " omnipotent creative
radicaism," the nonsense about fusion of
races" the comparison of slavery to ga poiti-
cal corpse clinging forever upon the living body
of American Democracy" the assertion that :. it
produces nothing but evil" and that :" it cannot
be perpetuated beyond certain period" that
1t - must in due time come to an end,' if not
"by peaceful emancipation" by bloody revolt
all indicate the extent to which public opinion
In the North is depraved, and the hopelessness
of correcting it. The Tribune alone has some
thirty or forty thousand subscribers, and it
speaks the opinions of some two-thirds of the
Northern people. Now, the amount of safety
and of peace which the South enjoys in COM
mon government, and that consolidated and
~ af IL
Tribune may be calculated by the most san
guine of Unonsts-but this is not the enter
tainment to which we were invited by Messrs
WEBSTER, CAss, and CLAY, when they prom
ised that the compromise would put down agi-
taton:
The DANGER OF THE FUTURE.-We believe
in America and her destiny with all the conf
dence of n mind whose every conviction is ut
terly Democratic In the great drama Of human
development, we regard this Western republic,
with its youthful energies, its rejection of effete
institutions and conventionaities, its omnipo-
tent creative radcalism its fusion of races, and
its growing power, as already performing part
of unspeakable importance, and as advancing
toward future of still greater magnitude and
influence.
But that future is clouded by single danger,
whose proportions rise ever more vague and
gloomy upon the view. That danger is African
slavery. All the other difficulties that men seem
10 see before the republic we think little Of
The danger from too rapid an expansion OF
Democratic tendencies we laugh at the danger
from the spirit of corruption among public men
and Legislative bodies can and will be remeded
but slavery sets remedies at defiance, and madly
seeks to perpetuate itself like pestilential
corpse, clinging forever upon the living body OF
American Democracy.
Slavery can now have no other apology than
the fact that il exists Whatever its origin
whatever its usefulness in the lower stages OF
society, all men, not blinded by nsterest, passion
and prejudice, must admit that in this country il
now produces nothing but evil. We have con.
versed with many intelligent slave proprietors
who frankly confessed that this was their opin.
ion, and that they would rejoice at nothing more
than its entire removal. Simple common sense
would expect to find the same desire universal
and predominent among all whom misfortune
had made shareholders.
But such is by no means the view of the
slaveholding States generally. They cleave tc
slavery as they would TO life. Kentucky houts
the venerable and affectionate wisdom Of Henry
Clay, warning her of the danger, and refuses tc
entertain any plDject Of emancipation; Virginia
amid the melancholy decay that slavery has
brought upon her, resists the approach Of free.
dom as though il were the plague and struggles
TO surround her slave aristocracy with new and
more stable guarantees the president of the
South Carolina Convention declares that his
State must go out Of the Union, or else slavery
cannot last twenty years he would have it las
forever. And though we have not yet recovered
from the calamities Of war made for the ex
tension of slavery, nor from domestic agitation
growing out Of the same cause, the Soutl
swarms with men eager TO invade ana conque
Cuba, while others would fain set on foot
crusade TO reduce the Haytians once more int
bondage, and thus add to our confederation tw
new tropical States, with million and hall 0
slaves.
Can any folly surpass this insane desire t
enlarge and perpetuate an institution which, b
universal confession and the ties mony of al
reasonable men, is so utterly pernicious!
But there must be men in the Southern State
who are willing 10 look at facts as they are, an
are not afraid to reflect upon them. To ther