The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-12-19
The New Agitation at the North.

KossUTH. We briefly pointed out the proofs of
this in the eagerness with which the leaders of
that party in the Senate sought to appropriate
the resolution of welcome from that body, as
well as in the course things had taken in respect
to his reception in New York. We acquitted
the Hungarian patriot then of any affinity or
unity Of purpose with that faction and have
since seen no reason to suppose that he is aware
of their purposes, or the uses to which they de-
sire to put his popularity, the reflection of which
they hope to catch. He is absorbed in his own
great enterprise--in his own high purposes.
the jackalls may be seen snullng for their prey
and the garbage whth the lordly hunter rejects,
is the choice morsel which they seek What
the Freesoiers desire, is lpable and obvious.
They claim to constitute the very vanguard OF
this new progress" to universal equality and
dropping their old and odious name of Adolf
tionists, have assumed the more sounding title
of "reformers" Under new prctexts they are
seeking their old ends; and with that adroitness
which ever distinguishes them, have sought TO
turn to account the visit and the plans of Kos
sUTH. Any one vino has noticed the course of
things in New York, must have been impressed
sense which he eviDces remarkably as his
rare genius, has repeatedly and distinctly disa-
vowed any desire or intention Of being mixed
up in their schemes, they yet have 80 pertina-
cio oh dad To
nopolize to great extent the honors Of his re
ception, and to take the lions share of the noto
riety attaching new to those near him,
Look at the Press Banquet in New York
Who headed il! Mr.. BRYANT, the editor of the
Freesoil Posi-, aided by the notorious HORACE
GREELEY as his first vice president--while Mr.
RAYMOND, Of the Times, also died in th'
WOOL" Freesoil, has taken the championship o
the Hungarian hero on his shoulders. The ap
parently unmeaning amendment Of Senate
HALE TO the resolution Of reception, shows WHY
this zeal and fervor has been exhibited--anc
though it may subject us to misrepresentation
we yet shall not shrink from exposing it. We
have already called attention to this subject
nuu earnestly iTNlle Tue serious feHcCtOU Oh al
thinking men to these movements of the sleep.
less foes of the South, who sickle at no means
TO accomplish their object. So plain and palpa-
BILE are the proceedings of this clique in New
York, and so fraught with further dangers to the
South, that even their own independent journals
have the manliness to point them out, and ex-
pose the hollow hypocrisy of the chief actors,
and the latent purposes which Turk behind their
demonstrations.
The New York Herald, which, from its posi-
ton and power, can dare to speak out, does 80
most plainly in long and able editorial, the
closing portion of which we subjoin. After de-
voting some space to speculations on the dis
tracted state of Europe, and the revolutionary
feeling fermenting there, the Herald, coming
nearer home, proceeds to say:
"Quite manifest as the reactionary spirit
against the ch urch Of Rome, is the popular sem
timent of Europe against the American institu
ton of slavery. In England and on the cont.
nent, the equality of all races is admitted. This
was illustrated at the Crystal Palace, in the fir.
tations between the rosy daughters of the island,
and the darkey and woolley headed descendants
OF Congo or the gold coast Of Africa We see
IT illustrated in the French assembly The two
delegates from the island of Martinique, sitting
in that body, are black as the king of Dahomey.
but are in caste, on footing of perfect equality
and fraternity with NJ Berger, Victor Hugo, and
the whole assembly, and the whole nation. The
same principle is universal on the continent
The Hungarians, from their isolated position
are practically ignorant of the nature of our in
ternal controversy on this question. But the
rest OF Europe understands it, and the socialist
Germans are, especially, identified in sentiment
with our Abotionists, next to the English agi.
tators. At this time, socialist agents Of the con
nnentai revolutonsts are busy among us, pro-
mitigating the doctrns of negro emancipation
Dr. kinke is blending his German national loan
collections with abolition meetings in the West.
AT Cleveland, Ohio at late Kinkel meeting. it
was distinctly declared that after the people of
Europe are delivered from despotism, the slaves
OF our Southern States shall be liberated We
might also produce proofs from certain journals
IN this city, and from certain meetings az far
South as Richmond, Virginia, disclosing a revo.
lutonary programme in behalf of the people of
theUnited States, even more radically democratic
than the crudest democracies of ancient Greece
After the liberation Of Europe, it is thus dis.
closed that the work Of r, formation is to be un.
dertskcn here, and that the slaves of the South
are TO be liberated, whatever the hazards of an
discriminating conflict in that section, like that of
bloody st. Domingo.
Unfortunately, Kossuth has fallen into the
hands of the pbilanthropic Abolitionsts Of New
York. To some extent they have betrayed
him and his cause, in thrusing their abolition
and negro populations upon him, rs il resolved
in defiance Of all good feeling and respect for
the man or the South To fnnke him the victim of
their black designs. We find the same oficous
Intermediates foremost in the management Of
the proposed hungarian loan. And thus IL is
that we may account for the delay OF the Senate
in passing the resolution Of welcome, and the
distrust which has been awakened among South
ern men, in and out OF Congress-
In conclusion, while We know that an impend
ing revolution menaccs Europe with general
war, between dcspotism and democracy--whe
the issues involved are beyond all human com.
prehension--it is equally evident that the Pope
and the Church of Rome are in the most immi-
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