The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-29
Northern Aggresslons and DlsunIon.

The following remarks from the Journal of
Commerce prove that the mercantile community
of the North whose vision is rendered acute by
self interest," appreciate the crisis in our national
affairs. They begin to realize the truth of Mr.
CALHoUNs warning, that this Union was not to
be preserved by singing peans to it, but by
doing Justice to all sections, and observing the
letter and the spirit of the compact
The comments of the Journal of Commerce
apply as forcibly to the cold blooded calculations
of the compromisers, paying lip service to Con-
stitution WHICH they construe to suit their North
ern views, as to their rivals in Unionsm the
SEwAhps, the RArroULs, and the SUMMERS.
We have shown that both of these factions
al the North travel to the same bourne by differ
ent paths, each striving to outstrip the other to
obtain the spoils of victory and that the differ
ence between Northern Free soiler and North
ern Compromser, as regards the perpetuity and
extension of Southern slavery is unappreciable.
Converging from different points they meet
and minple in the common assertion of hostility
70 il, and to ts extension and concur in the deter
mination to exclude it bsnceforth and forever
from all the territory acquired by the confederacy.
All who sail under this black flag are foes to
the South, to the Constitution, and the Uuion.
THE Us,oH OF THE SrArEs.-The pretence that
the dissolution Of the Union is impossible, is a
shallow device to avoid the responsibility Of inf
detv to the Constitution. Such an excuse, prof
fered bv such men az Messrs. Seward, Sumner,
Van Buren, and Rantoul. is unworthy ofserious
argument 1t shocks all experience--falsihes all
h;s,orv-and ia a libel on the founders ofthe Con-
.titutiou. We live in an age of revolutions With
in the memory Of the living, mighty empires have
h.en d;,membered and destroyed--ancient king
doms have been blotted from existence-new ones
have arisen, and amer an ephemeral existence,
passed into their oblivion. The political surface
OF Europe has changed many times within sixty
wears And even now, in every murmur of intel
figence from that quarter, We hear the sounds OF
threatened disturbance, and of the earthquake
march Of revolution. Every where, there, "the
fear Of change perpIexes monarchs."
To the complaints, the circumstances, the fra
terna invitations Of the South, to renew the ami
ty of other times--to the stern rebukes and patr-
otto reaolves Of the same people, adjuring their
brethren Of the North to desst from their danger
Gus Vaccinations, the agitators turn deaf ear.
Or il they condescended to reply, it is to insult
them with the declaration that there is danger,
that the Union is indissouble. And this s the
sting, hidden in the sophism that "Tie dissolu
ton Of the Union is an impossbty." IL implies
inmfferable indigni,y and provocation to high
minded people. Why do the agitators profess to
believe disco ution impossble' Because they trust
10 the fears OF the South. They cherish the fond
deusion that cowArdice and fear have taken up
their abode in the land of Washington and Ma
non and Jackson. We can conceive Of no other
ground on which TO predicate the imPcssibility Of
dissolution than tAis--which il beneath contempt.
Many at the South entertain the opinion that
thsir interests would suffer much less detriment
ftsm such an event than those Of the North, II -