Washington telegraph., 1851-07-16
COL JoHNseNS EXPLANATION.


When Mx. Johnson accepted the pomi-
patton Of the Democratic Convention,
he found. the effects of his foEpeE address
10 the People Of Arkansas" 50 burden
some that some ex Rllfa.lpaation became neces-
sary. He saw taat with such pack to
carry il would be an uphill business With
him.: so heso3s setting OUT on, the cam
paign, he sends communication to the
I "Banner" by way Of getting rid of the
troublesome portion of his address" "
and binding the people as to his true
position in regard. to the question of
Union. This explanatory letter is GER
tainly a remarkable document tor 1T
.eblows hot and cold with the came
breath" With all the indignation Of a
person. wropgfpllX charged, he says that
| because he has "stood sternly by and
proved faithful to the rights of the South" )"
the epithets of DisAaaOmast! SeceSSa0nast.'
are hurled after him. He does not seem
Ito know that his violence ip a1vocatln g
! Southern rights is the very thing which
him the South is every thing, and, con.
seqpep2t,ly, the Union nothing. Why then
should he be SO Indignant at being called
what his acts prove him to be? Why
do the terms disuniomst and secessionist
CRATE SO, harshly upon his feelings. when
his whole course ip. Congress las been to
fan into flame the existing excitemeppt-
to- array one portion of the Q4iiop against
the osher--apa 70 promote, to The utmost
Of Ais ability, the cause Of disunion? We
know they are disagreeable terms to a
candidate who expects to be elected to
Congress, and who feels assured that,
although he may aot deserve them, the
people with Sustain no one WHO does. It
sarely would be much more satisfactory
to Mr.. johnson, at tbs. 9t4rdacular .laA2lc-
tat7e, to be called. friend to the Union.
t would get him many votes, and these
he may need before the polls are closed
on the first Monday in August.
Mr.. Johnson savs-"I have been, /
maintain, the trusss and best friend of this
Uniop, and am yet; for have sought to
preserve it as we received it from our
fathers" Even if he thinks so, and i'm.
agines he has been using the proper means
70 preserve this Union as we received it
ssom opg fathers, CAP be get others to be.
lieve it? Can the people pc made to be-
Heve that this Union is 10 be preserved
by the course he has pursued, and that
loye Cor the Union has influenced his
fathers, whose glorious work he says he
is so anxious to preserve, arise from the
grave. he would cry to Mr. Johnson
"Hold! if you desire to preserve this Union
you have mistaken the means. If you do
ucs desire it. as your acts show. why seek
TO be elected by people who are not yet
ripe for disunion!'
Mr.. Johnsop goes for one kind Of union
-.he union of the South. He does not
like separate State action; we suppose
because one State alone could not sue.
cessfully resist the Government. The
principle is the same, but the power IS
wanting. But when the South becomes
united which, as Mr.. Johnson says, o22ly
requires time, then will come the tug of
war. TAsn will the South set up for
herself, array herself against the North,
and declare this Union dissolved! We
hope that the time required for the pur-
poses specified will be long, and that but
few such spirits as Mr.. johnson will be
suffered by their violence in Congress to
shorten it. We want no union of the
South independent Of our National Union.
We have State pride, and a Southern
pride, but what are these without our
pride os a nation? The 2'goudest feather
in the cap of any State. or of any section
of our country. is the fact that it forms a
portion of confederacy signalized By its
triumphs in the cause of freedom, and
UPON whose pernaanency is built mans
noblest hopes Of social and political dis
tinction.
MORE EANNExATIoN.-We have already
noticed the plot concocted in California