The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-09

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Tia following article fh the New York
7Fibslre, dlaeIosst lameR&able condition Of
fsstsrui:y aslpng brethren ef the great Union
and CompfSnaise party. How much more Of
Southern rights, besides vi the territory, will
have to be given to our Northern brethren to
help Us make law that will catch aud hold tho
fugitivess Mr. Tribune name your terms.
HsnRY LosG's CAsE--VIRoIsIA-pxorEc-
rIon--The Richmond (Va.) Wing, whieh was
formerly edited by gentleman, has column
Of Yibalry and personality directed against the
editor Of this paper for eonsenting, most reluc-
family, to receive subscriptions in aid Of the legal
defence Of Henry Long before the United States
Court In this city-said Long being charged
with having worked half bis life fer the profit
and maintenance Of q Virginia gentleman No.
BY the same token, insists that ne shall work the
other half on the same lsy--slamely, coarse food
and clothes, without wages, rights or education.
Long (if he ever were said gentlsman's slaye)
objects to work cyermore on those TERMS
don't wish to be that Nightmare Long any longer
and wonld rather work for himself, and find
his own hoe-cAke We consider this perfectly
reasonable choice, and would like to see It re-
spected BY the laws and the courts.
Probably the Wing cannot realize how in
tensely mean it seems to US for that Virginia
gentleman to be trying to get more work for
nothing out Of that poor negro, allowing eaid
gentIenar,'s story to b. true. OF course, If the
law and the court sgo in against Long, he will
have to knucklc under but until the court says
the word, we presume Longs story true and
shall do our best to give him chance to make
1t good. Who can justly complain Of this
The laws were not made exclusively for one
set of men, we believe they have provisions in
favor of freedom - we'll as some which uphold
slavery. All we ask Of the Judge Is a faithful,
impartial administration of tho schole law--not
merely part Of it. We believe fair candid
trial, with the law thus administered, will re-
store Long to liberty; but he has no money;
and justice is not always cheap article, unless
you take the ground that it is cheap at any price.
We wish to see this case thoroughly contested,
for the sake Of others as we'll rs Long, and to
this end we know that money is essential.
Others know it too, and have contributed some
How does tho Wing propose to help it Hear
It!
I'VE can tell Mr.. Greeley, the treasurer of
this agitation fund, that it is an utter waste OF
money. The South demands the enforcement
Of this law, because it will enable them to re-
cover their property. Ii tho inefficiency of this
law shall be demonstrated, the South will re-
quire such amendments as will carry out the
constitutional obligations the Government
The South acquiesces in this law If it prove ade-
quate to tho purpose for which it has been
passed Should the Abolition subscription es-
tabish its defect-and what human legislation
ia proof against the ingenuity of lawyers and the
influence Of money !--then will the South be
under obligations to these public. spirited per-
sons, who will have, at their own expense, dem
onstrated the defects Of law which the whole
Union, North aud South, il bound to enforce
and abide by" ist,. szsl
Of course, we understand that the slave
holders will ask for more law if what they now
have does not answer their purpose; but asking
and obtaiLing are not exactly the same thing in
this case. The new Fugitive law was only car
ried rs Compromise Offset TO the Adolf
ton of the District slave trade-and if more is
wanted, an equivalent for it must DO proffered.
What is Virginia prepared to give in exchange
for afining another chain and balls to the ankles
Of her fugitive laborers? How many Buels will
she be apt to find in the next Congress or the
next! ne
But the Wing has rod in pickle for us
Hear and shudder!
ave have but one word more for Mr. Greeley
and his subscribers. The Tribune has been an
earnest advocate of protection TO American la
Dor. 1t has appealed to the support of Amer-
can patriotism. It has been responded to from
the South by a cordial support for Mr.. Clay, Mr..
Webster, Mr.. Frelinghuysen, Mr.. Sergeant, Mr..
Fillmore. The protective tariff has been sus-
tanned by Southern Wings, in the persons and
pretentious of all those gentlemen; year after
year have Southern Wings been led up to main
tain the propriety of protection, and have been
shot down, with the war-cry of epatriotisu1"
upon their,Iips. They have been led where they
were "damnably peppered, and many of them
are for -the towns end for life" and all for pa
triotism-which being interpreted, means the
promotion of a most sordid sectional interest,
which, in return, seduces or steals orr slaves
encourages their escape-counsels armed resis-
lance to their recovery, and subscribers money
TO the free niger OConneli, to render the laws
of Congress of no effect"
We beg leave to assure our polite cotempo-
rary that the Tribune not only has been but is,
"an earnest advocate Of protection to American
abor;" and yet if it can only procure protec-
ton to the labor of New York by conspiring to
rob the laborers of Virginia of their just earn
ings, it will spurn the bargain.
We know there nas time--or we have
grossly misread her hstory--when Virginia
would have disowned the son who ventured in
her name to address such an appeal to the North
as we have just quoted from the Wing. We
know she had race Of statesmen who support
ed protection as no sectional interest bnt de-
handed BY the permanent and impartial we'll
being of the whole nation. We thank her
most heartily for the lessons Of wisdom and
true patriotism on this subject of protection
which we have learned Of her Washington, her
Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Newton and Stuart
yes, thank goodness, the breed of noble
hoods is not yet wholly extinct, for the Home
Department at Washington is now filed by
Virginian whose arguments for protection as
of the first Importance to agriculture as well
Ms manufactures, Virginia as well as Massachu-
sets, are among the most forcible we have ever
read. Never, from the lips of her statesmen
whom the country has learned to respect and
love, did we catch an intimation that protection
was intended or calculated To subserve "the pro-
motion Of most sordid sectional interest"
Such language from the mouths Of her Ritchies,
her BayIys, her Bococks, would not surprise us
their souls are incapable of grasping more of