The southern press., 1851-04-09


The clue to this apparent folly on the part OF
the Administration and the Compromises is
very easy to get hold Of
There are two purposes to be subserved.
They feel that they cannot stand on the old is
sues, the merits of the Compromise and the
course Of the Administration, and that it is neces
sary to open on new scent North and South,
and this Boston case has gladly been seized as
the pretext for the preparation of further frauds
on the confding simplicity of Southern ac-
quescents. There is wheel within wheel
a local cause,-which is worthy of notice. The
trade ,of Boston has suffered in consequence of
the bud odor of Abolition which clings to her
merchants-and the cry of her commercial COM
munity az the absence Of the Southern sheep,
who used to come up annually to be sheared,
has made most melancholy music through their
organs for the last two months. Even the
Atlas, the Wing Free-soil organ, which repu-
dates WEBSTER, and swears by JOHN DAVIS,
has condoled with the afflicted wholesale men,
and Indignantly denounced the Vaccinations of
the Union Committee of New York, as intended
to abstract and intercept the trade of Boston.
And the Post has proven that their pockets
will be benefited by patriotic demonstrations.
Boston has needed this appeal to her pocket.
The crockery and hardware of the Boston i'm
porters lies idly on their shelves, for the bull is
in their China shops. Lynn shakes in her
shoes-and clamorous cry comes from the sea
shore, that starvation will be the reward of their
I" philanthropy" if the supplies from the South
be withheld. The public sentiment on the sub
ject is stronger than ever there-as witness the
detection of RANToUL, the position assumed by
both the senators from Massachusetts last SEES
sion, and the voice of her people through pub
lie gatherings, and her legislature.
But the merchants Of Boston are no doubt
anxious to throw tub to the whale" and pre-
sent peace offering to Southern submissionists
in the person of a solitary negro-more espe-
ciafy when adjured and implored to do so by an
Administration, of whose aveneration" and SYM
pathies they have been so well assured.
imputed to the Bostonians-and as the foreign
element largely preponderates in that city, the
stubborn fanaticism of their Puritan blood is
counteracted and controlled by the cosmopolitan
instincts of traders. We have never doubted that
it was comparatively easy thing to secure
slave in the city of Boston, and that the opposi-
ton there would be less obstinate than in any
portion Of New England, where the old Puritan
leayen still prevailed; hence, we deemed the re-
suit of all the previous trials the more disgrace
full; and we are confident that the result of the
present trial will prove the correctness of our
belief They connived at the outrages' which
they were too cunning openly to countenance.
until their pockets began to suffer; then their
dormant patriotism awoke-and conclusive evil
dence is afforded how easy the same line of
conduct would have been all the time, had in
clination only prompted what interest now CON-
mands. - .
The proclamations, and parade through the
papers, are all intended for effect-and dis
play lamentable want of materials neverthe-
less. 1t is a new vision of the old play "Much
Ado about Nothing"-and the idea, evidently, is
to impress upon the minds of the Southern mer-
chants the prodigious peril and immense sac
rifces made by the Boston importers in guard
ing Mr.. PoTTER's negro, and sending him back
to service and labor-in consideration of which
all past offences are to be forgotten, the trade
from Boston restored, and the shoes
Of Lynn put on proper footing once more.
Judging of the future by the past, the expecta-
ton is not an unreasonable one-and to such
modest proposal, all the Southern submission
journals would heartily respond "amen"-for is
not "the case of Boston the cause of all ?"
Thus it will be seen that, so far as the city of
Boston is concerned, the speculation is good
trick "cute" one. But the stultifica-
ton of the compromises in entering into the
coalition, rises to the sublime of stupidity-for
uncertain as was their footing before on the pre-
carious platform Of the Compromise, this leap
leaves them dangling in the air, with the rope
around their necks. These gentry who have so
oi'sSi'J uchouHSeu VIC VPPoHenLs VI TIE spOllh-
ton bills as disunionists-have actually (un-
mindful of the Farewell Address) staked The per.
petuity Of "this glorious Union" against single
runaUay negro from Savannah!
In calculating the value Of the Union" never
yet, did the most wicked" of all the South
Carolina nullifiers" estimate it at one thousand
dollars-the maximum value Of Simms-and
the disunion organ" as these consistent com.
promisers term this paper, takes this occasion
emphatically to cite the warnings of the Father
of his country" Mr.. MADISON, and other fathers
of the republic against this disorganizing, fac
tious and reasonable" doctrine of the compro.
misers. What striking consistency, what won
derful wisdom do these patchwork politicians
display! With cheerful alacrity they buckled
on their backs all the burdens which the North
ern Free-soilers chose to pile When il was in
their power to obtain the aid Of the more mode
rate and polite Of the Northern men, in securing
n share of the common nronorfu for thar nm