The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-04-17
Fish and the Flesh Pots.

The Memphis Appeal thus refers to the false
pretences set up by the friends of the Admins
traton
FILLMORE WHIGs.-Fish and Wade, who
have just been elected by the Abolitionists of
Ohio and New York, are spoken of by the nd.
ministration Journals as conservative Whigs!"
The election Of Fish was STAYED off for nearly
two months by the firmness Mr.. Beekman, a
Wing who could not swallow his abolition tend
encies, and the Wing papers Of this city, and
all over the South applaudcd his course and
denounced Fish Now the Washington Repub-
lie, the organ of the President, says of this same
Fish:
she is the personal and political friend of
President Fillmore, and will yield firm and
cordial support to his Administration"
The Albany Register, the organ which so OBJ
stinatey held out in opposition to Mr.. FIsH,
even after his election, has also had its orders,
and thus awkwardly hauls in its flag:
Gov. FISH AND THE ADMINIsTATIoN.-We
are enabled to state upon the most reliable nu-
thorty, that Gov. Fish, since his election to the
Senate, has written letter in which he says in
substance, that he shall exert himself in that
post to give faithful and cordial support to
the Administration, at whose head he is pleased
to recognize a personal friend, as well as a dis
tinguished leader of the political party in his
own State, in whose ranks he has ever labored
zealously. Had this letter appeared before his
election, it would have saved all opposition, and
we are most happy to learn that he has given
utterance TO such sentiments since
Well, has not Senator SEWARD publicly com
pimented the President, and given assurances
of distinguished consideration" likewise? Are
not all the lions and the lambs in the New
York Wing fold now peacefully lying together
If any one doubts it, let him first read the Re
public, and then the SEWARD and FILLMORE
organs of New York. An occasional growI
from some dissatisfied Silver Gray will occa-
sionally disturb the harmony, but only makes a
ripple on the surface. Such, for example, as this
from the New York Mirror, whose editor can
not comprehend the sudden amalgamation of
"woolly" and cotton" heads:
The editor of the Courier d Enquirer pro-
tests vehemently against being called an Adolf
ZIONIST. But is he not the political friend of
Seward, the chief Of Abotionists The editor
of the Evening Post also becomes angry at be-
ing called an Abolitionist; and there Is not n
black-leg in the city who is willing to be called
by his right name.
The Administration having swallowed it's
bitter pill of humiliation with 80 good grace.
the triumphant faction fee bound to give it n
little sugar plum to keep it in countenance--
besides, the merchant princes of New York muir
muir at the stoppage of supplies through the d.
minished number Of Southern merchants, dis
gusted at the Sewardism ofthat city. For these
reasons the right hand supporter Of SEWARD
the Courier d Enquirer, thus gravely goes
through the farce Of reading Senator SEwt RID
lecture and telling him that he is a naughty boy,
for writing that letter to the Boston Aboitionists
land that while respecting his talents" " adj
miring his purity of motive" and liking the
man and the friend"--tbe editor "must con-
denim entirely his utraism on the subject Of sa-
very"
This from the Courier d Enquirer "An
ounce Of civet good apothecaryW