The southern press., 1851-07-03
SOUTHERN PRESS.
WASHINGTON CITY.
THURSDAY. JULY 3. 1851.
Consistency.

the following editorial passage.
aDuring the last Congress, whenever Root, or
Giddings, or Horace Mann, or any of their insane
followers, made an iucendary speech, ,denouncing
slavery, cousigning Shareholders TO infamy, and
stimulating the slave TO take up arms against his
master, Southern men were found to scatter il
broadcast throughout the Southern country
The danger which the Southern people with alb
solute unanmity apprehended from the dissent
nation to such principles seems to have been lost
sight of in the midst of new political exigencies
A press was established at the seat Of govern
nent as the peculiar defender Of Southern rights
and the special organ of Southern sentiments.
1t has fulfilled its mission thus far in most
singular manner. Its defence ofSouthern rights
has been confined principally to attacks upon
the two old parties; while, as an organ of popu-
lar sentiment it has manifested rare degree of
impartality The violent resolves Of disunion
meetings and of Southern rights associations
have been duly chronicled in its columns, but
the blasphemous and reasonable sentiments of
Northern fnnaticism have found in the same sheet
medium to reach the Southern mind Public
sentiment in the South will not tolerate aboi-
ton harangues. Ii will not tolerate abolition
presses. II will not tolerate the dissemination
through the mails Of the National Era or of Gar
rison's Lberator Abolitionism had spent much
unavailing labor Of seeking to gain access to the
Southern mind Large sums had been expended
fruitessly in the undertaking. But now the
hands of Southern men have opened the road
The peculiar champion of Southern rights--the
peculiar exponent of Southern sentiment--re-
moves all difficulties. Its columns serve as con-
duits to convey the thoughts and acts Of North
ern fanatics TO Southern eyes and Southern
hearthstOnes. We know the excuse that is given
for this species of organship but that excuse is
insufficient. When man is charged with crime,
it is no justification to plead that he intended to
commit a different crime. When the incendiary
sentiments of Northern fanatics are scattered
through the South, it is vain to say that the in
tention was to arouse the passions of the South
ern people, and render them hostile to the Union
That plea will not answer until disunon is con-
fessed as an existing determination. 1t will not
answer the purpose of those who wish to adhere
to the Union, nor will it be logically tenabe
while the National Era and Garrisons Liberator
are forbidden things. Ifit be proper and patriotic
to circulate their sentiments in the South, we see
no necessity of an intermediate medium. 1t
tends only to lull suspicion--that is all the poi
son works with the same violence and increased
scope, and abolitionism is equally encouraged to
persevere in its vile purposes"
The present editor of the Union makes some
amusing blunders in consequence of the inter-
regnum in his political information that occur
red for some time before he assumed his present
position. He endorsed the other day as very
sound conservative National Democratic poll
tician, member of the last Congress who de-
livered speech in that body announcing his in
tenton to vote for the Wilmot Proviso-a cir
cumstance, Of course, of which the editor Of thu
Union had no knowledge. So, now, he de
nounces us for republishng, occasionally, tn
speeches and writings of Northern Abolition
lists, but is bssfully ignorant of the fact that hi
own paper, the Union, under the managemer
of that model of Southern statesman, the prt
vious editor, published all the speeches deli'
cred in the last Congress by HALE, HAMLn
CHASE, SEWARD, d. Co. And what was the e,
cuse of the Union for scattering through th
South these "incendiary sentiments ofNorther
fanatics ?" Was il the pay of seven dollars an
q half per column received from Congress
And is il a sufficient excuse for crime" tina
man gets tolerable good pay for it! lfit b.
proper and patriotic for organs to circulate
these documents for pay, what is the use of th'
Nctional Era, and Garrison's Li6erator7 |
the Union was engaged all this while in report
ing and disseminating the greatest mass of Alb
olition poison that ever has been manufactured
for pay, what shall we say of the present edit
ors emphatic endorsement, when he took th
paper, of the previous editor that perpetrated al
this wickednessl
But the present editor is a warm Union mar
What does he now confess that such is tb
danger of this Union to the South that even tn
debates Of Congress cannot be circulated ther
without operating as blasphemy, treason an,
poison
Why the Washi 1gton Union was so completely
filled with Abolition, Wilmot Proviso, and Com
promise speeches of the last Congress that it ha
no room to record the proceedings of the hund
reds of meetings in Georgia, Alabama, Missi,
sippi, South Carolina, Florida, Texas, Tennessee
Arkansas, North Carolina, and Virginia in fave
of Southern rights last year. 1t became Their
lOft "a utNtH1itl hhc oVubhctu ptOpiti IA but
desired to be heard at all at the seat Of goverl
ment to have an organ Of their own. They e.
tablished one and they were heard.
After the Compromise passed, the party organ
here undertook TO vociferate that Free-soilsr
was dead-was killed by the Compromise. w
knew better We knew il had acquired immens
additional power. And we furnished evdenc
of the fact in the proceedings, speeches and ser
mons at the North, and for that we have incurre
the resentment Of the organs whose folly an
duplicity we thus exposed.
Through this paper the South has acquire
knowledge of the real sentiments of the Mort
And this has defeated the schemes OF the tw
parties that intended to bring her up again
the seat Of government, again to be barter'
away for federal honors and federal spoils
.W~ The address of the Democratic party