The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-03-19

tration organ, the following significant intima-
ton touching the orthodoxy of HAMILTON Fish,
at one time IN the full odor of nationality"
The adjustment between the Sewardites and
the Silver Grays--viz.: that the adoption of
resolutions approving the compromise, should
be the condition precedent to the election Of
Mr.. Fisk having failed through the obstinscy
Of the former, who desire to humiliate their OPP
ponents TO the utmost, the war will now proba-
bly, be conducted with vigor, and no quarter be
granted. What will be said, after this revela-
ton, by those prints which SO loudly proclaimed
the conservatism and nationality Of one who,
they believed, would be the coalition Wing can
didate under the proposed compromised"
LOOK OUT FOR SHOALS THE notorious Abo-
litonst, Gerrit Smith, is very active in efforts to
procure the election of Hamilton Fish to the U.
s. Senate. To this complexion has the matter
come at last.
The proceedings in the Legislature this day.
(Monday,) will develope the plot aud its result
Messrs Stone and Stanton, noted Locofoco Abo-
itionists, are relied upon to pursue such a
course by their votes or their absence, rs will
give the form of an election, however spurious,
to Wing friend of a Wing national admins
tration! If such should be the case, who will
doubt hereafter the wisdom and patriotism Of
Senator Beekman's course?
Other troubles too, it seems, are springing up,
thick as mushrooms, in the Empire State, and
the STATE Register, in view of these, thus cries
out aloud in the
"Hslp US, Cassius or zoe sink"
tone to its allies, to "oppose combination 10 CON-
Jination." Hear the voice of its wailing.
We regret to see, that an attempt has been
made to resuscitate the anti-rent bill in the Sen
ate We had hoped that this effort to procure
legislation upon false pretences had ceased. 1t
was going quite far enough for the State to in
stitute suits against the proprietors of manors,
to disturb their titles uuquestionabIy good, and
endeavor to eject them from lands which they
and their ancestors have peacefully possessed
for more then century. As might have been
| expected, these suits, SO far as the result is
known, have proved failure Judge Cady has
recently decided another of them against the
State. 1t would be ridiculous, were it not abso-
| lutely disgraceful, for the State of New York,
to prostitute the legislative, executive and judi
cial branches of its government, to such vile
purposes AZ KS ra
| But there is another view of this subject
There is a spirit of treason, rebellion and disor-
ganization abroad ia the land; and anti-rentsm
| is one of the worst and most dangerous forms
oft. Not satisfied with damoralzing the State
government corrupting legislators, polluting the
fountains of justice, and bending the executive
arm to its WILL it stabs at the Constitution Of the
United States, strives to nulify contracts, break
down the land marks of property, and loosen
the foundations of the social fabric
In republican government, government of
the people, everything depends upon maintain
ing unbroken the reign of law and order, pre-
serving nvolate the halls Of justice, and uphold
ing the executive power. The evil genius of
disorganizing anti-rentism aims directly at the
overthrow Of our institutions of government,
and the introduction Of general anarchy.
| / The halls of legislation, the courts of justice
and the executive chair, must be purged of it.
How shall this be donel By opposing com5ina-
tion TO combination The enemies of consttu-
tiona law, and of the sacredness of contracts,
combine to destroy both. The friends of law
and order, and of legal rights, must combine to
uphold them. They are paramount to existing
party ties and obligations, and the latter must
not be suffered to stand in the way, when all we
hold most dear is at stake. Let no man come
back to the Legislature, or be trusted with po-
tical power again, who has shown himself an
enemy to society and to our institutions, by CO.
alescing with anti-renters, and lending himself
to their wicked projects. The time has come
for the friends of good government to make a
stand, and oppose determined resistance to the
wave of Red-republicanism, which is threaten
ing to sweep over the land, and bury constitu-
tional liberty into the depths of chaos.