The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-10-23

From tho tone Of some of our exchanges
which lave heretofore stood shoulder to shout
der with no in the cause of the South, We per-
ceive desire to abandon present issues, and re-
turn again, :. like the dog 10 his vomit," 10 the
old issues of Whggery and Democracy. Why
this II, unable 20 conjecture, unless 1t be
that they are mere time servers, grasping at
every political hobby to ride into power, or are
summer soldiers, who have neither the eonsti-
tuition or nerve 10 endure the rigors of winter
campaign,
Were there even bare possibility that by
such course the South would recover her lost
rights, and wipe from her eseutcheon the stain
which now sulie> 1t, We might feel inclined to
remain silent and lot the movement progress
But, convinced as we are, that return to old
issues could bring TO us nothing but dishonor
and shame, and that in the future contests Of
parties, the South would again be sacrificed to
conciliate and secure the free soil power of the
North, we can give it no countenaDce, either
by word or action.
The Democracy of the North as much the
advocates of the compromise, as are the submis
sonists of the Sou'h, and, AS n mass, are inim
ical to the extension of slavery. Ii we. who
claim to be State Rights and Southern Rights
men, cannot even bear with patience the idea Of
utilization with the latter, who, while they acqui
the extension of slavery, with what degree Of
consistence can we reconcile it to our minds to
cOalesce with the former who not only sup
porters Of the compromise, but whose declared
purpose is to confine US to our present limit,
and thus, eventually force upon us abolition, or
what is worse, a war of determination! Would
not such coalition, formed at our instigation,
convey to the world the idea that all our pre-
tended love OF our institutions and hatred Of
abolition is without foundation, and that we are
Indifferent to the preservation of the one, or the
suppression of the other! 1t could speak no
other language. 1t would give the lie to all we
have uttered about Southern wrongs, and place
Us beyond the pale of every honest mans SYM
pathy and consideration
Another difficulty in the way of such move
ment, is the position it would place us in with
respect to the Union Democrats at home. Our
denuncations Of these men have been unmeas-
ured. From the stump and the press We have
held them up to the finger of scorn, until the
names of their leaders have become by words OF
reproacI. For their Cobbs Foote's, and Gem
enses, no epithets have been too harsh, no Ian
guage too degrading. And can we now turn
| to them, with the last curse still quverng upon
our lips, and with Bonded knee and suppliant
tongue, crave their forgiveness, and ask the re-
newa of their former fellowship! Can we say
to them that not they, but we have labored to
deceive the South, and place her people in a
false pOstion-that consolidation and State
rights, submission and resistance are but differ
ent names for the same thing, and Of far less
value than the unity of the great Democratic
family If we can, political principles are in.
deed things of wax, and political honesty and
consistency the worst of humbugs
For our part when we hoisted the banner Of
| Southern rights at our masthead, We did so
with determination to stand by 1t through veal
or wo; and come what may, We shall not strike
until the South is independent, or her people
sunk 80 low in the sea of submission as to be
forever beyond the hope of resurrection.