The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-08-09

WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY, AUGUST 9,tis5i.


York Journal Of Commerce, thorough goin
advocate of the compromise" and Union
policy, thus candidIy confesses the true chal
acter of the New York truce" He also state
the surrender of the President and some (if nc
the whole) of his Cabinet to Senator SEwARl
The folds of the free-soi anaconda are no
frightened around its passive victim, who hi
made but sham-fght, a mere show Of opp,
sition throughout. We will see, after havin
well fabricated the prey, how long it will TAX
the monster to crush and devour it:
WASHINGTON, August 9th.
The Albany platform was, as learn, well r,
ceived by the President and Mr. Stuart, an
some others, perhaps of the Cabinet. Mos
strange infatuation Governor Young writes
fear the woolly heads have got their woo
over u.s." Others, quite as shrewd, think s
too. 1t is part of the Pennsy vania and Obi
Wing scheme. The free-soi Wings are to tax
the lead and control the nominations for tn
Presidency, and in the State and National Viii,
conventions General Scott will be nominated
by the Syracuse convention on the 18th of Sep
TENDER. Mark that!
e3Y AS an evidence of the feeling enter
tanned in some parts of the Southern countr,
towards the Cuban movement, we append the
following article from the Savannah Nsios.
The Neps is a neutral paper and usually very
moderate in its tone, and guarded in its Ian,
guage. 1t is also n paper of considerable in
fiuence and circulation in that city Its language
on this topic our readers will observe is very
strong:
From the Savannah Morning .Ns,cs.
The REVOLUTION IN CUBA-Since the re-
ceipt of the intelligence of the revolt in Cuba,
it has been painful to observe the efforts of the
antiSouthern press, at home ami abroad, to dis
cred the reports which have reached us of the
successes of the patriots, and to suppress the
growing sympathy of our people in their behalf,
by misrepresenting the movement and the cru es
which have impelled an oppressed and down.
trodden people to brave the formidable power
of the Spanish throne. These presses could
not believe the rumors of the rising at Principe
so fully c0rroborated by accounts from various
sources, though they were prompt in giving
credit and currency to the false statements of
the government, circulated by its spies and
agents, several OF whom were sent over here in
the Isabel, especially for the purpose of giving
q false coloring to the state of affairs on the
island.
Since the proofs Of the actual rebellion and
the success which has thus far attended it, have
become 80 overwhelming as to leave them no
longer any pretext for contradicting the reports,
the enemies of Cuba have changed their tactics
The cause of the patriots is pronounced hope
less--our own government is invoked (not in
vain) to nterpose its power to intercept all aid
TO the patriots from their friends in this country
while the terror of Spanish vengeance is preached
up to deter our people from taking part in the
struggle so manfully begun for Cuban enamel
patton.
1t requires no great amount of sagacity to un-
derstand the cause of this manifestation of hos
tiity to the Cuban revolutionists. If there were
no prospect of annexation, or it were possible to
apply the Wilmot Proviso an equally effective
ler loci or compromise prohibition of the insti-
tuition of slavery in that rich and fertile island
instead Of so much Incredibly, and such deli.
cate regard for treaty obligations, we would
have had vast amount of patriotic enthusiasm
and disinterested devotion to the cause Of hu-
man liberty. Ere now, as in the case of Hun
gary, an agent would have been despatched to
the mountains of Cuba in search of pro-
vsional government and we would have elo-
quent arguments in favor of formal acknwol.
edgment of the independence of the Queen OF
the Antilles
But the thing is understood, and we are graft
fed to see that the Southern people are fully
sensible of the motives and policy of the enemies
of Cuba in the free States. They see in it but
another phase of Northern hostility to the insti-
tutions of the South-they see in it practical
development Of their fixed determination to put
in force the Freeso edict-aNo MORE SLAVE
STATES SHALL BE ADMITTED INTO THIS UMoK!"-
and they are resolved not to submit to the i'm.
r,otat,opf rhav "A o ,,t
institution of slavery,planted on our soil byother
hands, shall not be made the pretext for depriving
us of our equal rights in the Union, nor the
means of preventing us from progressive adj
vancement in territory, power and wealth, with
the other sections of the Union.
Whatever may be our temporary party divi-
sions, the great mass of the Southern people are
determined in this matter Determinations
against our institutions iOH no longer be tole
rated, and all efforts on the part of our govern
ment to suppress the present movement to Cuba,
will only tend to increase this determination as
il serves to convince us of the ultimate aims of
the enemies of our institutions. The opposition
from the free States will only arouse the sym.
pathies of the men Of the South, who will be de-
TERED neither by the vigilance of the government
at Washington, nor the threats of Spanish ven-
geance, from giving efficient "aid and comfort"
to the brave men of Cuba, who are now heroi-
cally struggling to free themselves from the viest
despotism that ever disgraced the name of gov
eminent.
The news of their revolution has been hailed
with enthusiasm by the chivalry of the South
and Southwest, of whom thousands are now
fiocking to their ranks. Let the government, if
it will, in obedience to freesoil dictaton, inter
pose our ships Of war to prevent their going.
The right spirit has been already aroused, and
the combined naval forces of the United States
and of her Most Catholic Majesty Of Spain, can
not prevent them. They have the right of free,
men to go and give their aid to those who are
but initiating the example of our revolutionary
fathers and we conceive that il is neither the
duty nor the right of our government to inter
pose, so long as they do not violate the express
terms of our treaty stipulations with Spain by
organizing military expeditions within the juris-
diction of the States. This they do not design
to do. They will go as our people went to
Texas, as free citizens of the Republic, claiming
the right to go where they please with their
arms Will our authorities at Washington We =
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