The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-11-14
The End Of Agitation at tho North.

Foremost among the pretexts set up by the
Southern submissionists and Northern Union.
ists," was that which affirmed the subsistence Of
Abolition agitation at the North. For this pre-
text the rendition of half dozen fugitive slaves
out of twenty or thirty thousand and the pas
sage of series Of equivocal resolutions by some
political meeting, were deemed amply sufficient
authority. The actions which "speak louder
than words" on the part of these communities,
these patriotic and Union-loving gentry, from
ex.Speaker Cons down to Senator FooTE, found
it convenient to overlook, or misrepresent
In vain did the blood of the butchered Con-
SUCH, murdered on g free soil for attempting to
assert his rights, cry from the ground against
such stolid PERSISTENCE in confidence which ex-
cited only contempt1 Elm vain did the actions of
the Northern people. "speaking louder than
words" falsify the feeble folly Of such declama-
tions. They were persisted in by this coalition
of Northern and Southern" Unionists," and the
result has been their partial triumph at the South
But wo to the victors, not the vanquished, in
this most iIl-omened contest at the South, whose
energies have been so wasted in this internal
strife Each day serves but to confirm the truth
of the solemn warnings given to the Southern
people by the States Rights champions, that this
agitation at the North, instead of being dimin-
ished, was hourly increasing, and its demands
became more urgent and more insolent, as the
South retreated and covered before it. The
change in the tone of the Northern press, nine
tenths of which is tinctured, if not deeply
stained, by Abolition or Freesoil sentiment,
proves this fact conclusiveIy. They are en-
boldsned aud encouraged by such triumphs as
CoBB & Co., and believe that the South, like
IsAccHAR of old, is to play the part henceforth
only of the strong ass, crouching between
burdens" Those "triumphs" have been hailed
with ecstacy by the Abolition presses at the
North as conclusive evidences that the South
will submit to anything, so long as it masked
behind the forms of Legislation, and a counter
cry Of peril to this glorious Union" can be
raised to terrify the timid, and COW the refrac.
tory.
Our Northern brethren" are also becoming
satisfied of the fact that this glorious Union,"
as managed by them, is not only stronger than
slavery, but stronger than liberty also and re-
cent events have given them some color of rea-
son for entertaining such belief, ignorant as
they are of the mighty under-current of popular
indignation, and the fstifed, yet strong sense Of
wrong insult, and injury rising up in the bosoms
of the masses of the Southern people. Inspired
and animated by their recent victories at the
North, and the apparent lul in tho angry ele.
ments at the South, the Freesoil faction begins
to show its hand more openly than hitherto, and
already to assume the part and bearings of the
conqueror towards his subjugated provinces
which had dared dispute his sovereign will and
authority.
The central organ of the Abolitonists, the
Era of this city, thus contemptuously treats tht
threat of disunon at the South under any
contingency, and proclaims openly the settled
policy of the North-and in this it utters bat
"the truth, the whole TRUTH and nothing but the
truth" as every candid and conscientious North
ern politician, if solemly sworn, would be com
PEELED reluctantly to testify. Thus SCOTS tbs
special organ of Abolition at the br,ltum fulmer
of Southern threats, felictating itself on the
impotence of those to whom ito enmity is az
implacable and as undying as that of that famou,
ancient nstance-HAMncAR.
The truth is, there is just as much reason now
for disunion movement in the South, as there
ever was. The anti-slavery sentiment of the
North has suffered no abatement People there
are just an much opposed to the extension of
slavery as ever; it is no easier TO recover fugi-
tives now than 1t used TO be, and IA for agita-
ton stopping, everybody knows that it is going
on with renewed vigor. There never was any
intention on the part of the body of Northern
citizens, to sssail the rights of the South, or to
usurp power over slavery; there is no such in
tention new; there will never be; but, there has
been for eighteen years past q growing public
sentiment against the evil, and there is no pros
pect that it will cease to grow until ii pervade
the South AZ well ms the North. If this were ever
4 reason for disuhion, it should operate now, as
strongly as it ever did. But, the truth Is, the
people Of the South did not propose such
measure seriously, and the abortive results of
the apparently revolutionary movement in South
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi,
show this conclusvely. Had our anxieties ever
been awakened for the Union, we should join in
the general exultation on the defeat of what is
called the secession party for we ARE an devoted
to the Union as the loudest disclaimers in favor
of it, but, as it is, wecan only congratulate our
countrymen upon having got rid Of very I'M
pleasant nightmare. Threats against the Union
have been heard from time TO time. in both sec
tons Of the country, from the organization of
the government, but the people generally, are
more welded 10 the Union now, than they were
during the first quarter of century after the
formation of the Constitution.
An article containing avowals even more bold
and insoent than this we have quoted, appeared
as leader in the Tribune few days since
which journal commands wider circulation
among the Wings, than any other in the " En-
pirs State" Our space will not allow its inser
ton to-day, but we will lay Il before our reader
tomorrow, as evidence Of the present palm,
prospects and audscious bearing Of the Adolf
ton agtators at the North. II any man o