The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-01-28
A Reply to tho New York Union Com.
mittoe.


A Reply to tho New York Union Com
mittoe.
We extract from the Mobile Herald d. Iri-
Dune the following conclusive and able response
of Col Percy WALKER, Of that place, to the
self-constituted saviors Of this glorious Union
in the city Of New York. 1t shows up, in their
true eolors, these self-sufficient gentlemen, and
exposes the hypocrisy of professions contra
dicted by the acts Of those who make them,
and who scrupe neither to falsify" history
nor fabricate facts, while Aippantly denouncng
us enemies of the Constitution the men who
are sacrificing the hopes Of personal prefcrnent
to preserve it in its purity The tone and Ian
guage Of their circular, with all its cant of con-
Citation, is in the highest degree insulting to all
those true-hearted sustainers Of Southern rights,
whom it seeks to couple with the Abolitionists
as the real disturbers Of the public peace.
Personally, we are willing to admit for these
gentlemen all that their friends may claim for
them. With that we have nothing to dot
does not concern us. But politically, they have
courted the scourge from those whom they have
so wantonly outraged and provoked and it is
but natural that they and their friends should
vince, and expostulate, when it is SO mercilessly
laid on by hands as strong as those OF Col
WALKER. They will find it impossible, how.
ever, to obtain either sympathy or pity, while
:. even-handed" justice administers to them the
iahiction of the vicarious punishment they have
volunteered to divert from the shoulders of the
original offenders.
MOBILE, Dec. 26, 1850.
GENTLEMEN: BY Yesterdays mail was hon
nored with the above letter Of the I'd inst A.
it, deals with matters of public concern, and a,
am personally unknown to you, must be par
doned for answering it through the medium O.!
the press. have less hcsitancy in doing SO, be
cause it is evidently circular, and has been
doubtless addressed to many others in every
section in the country.
While will not question your solicitude to
preserve the Union. cannot but admire the
skill with which you divide your censure be,
tween the Abolitionists and those of the South
who are forced to look to secession as the onl,
means of escaping from complete and utter ruin
The GOODNESS, too, with which you charge the
Southern people with making the aggressons
which have been committed upon their consti-
tutional rights" an "ercuse for advocating seces-
sion," is certainly worthy ofnote. And not less
80 is your assertion that "eaeh demonstration
made by the Abolitionists against the supremacy
of the law, is the signal for renewed assault
upon the Union party of the saveholding States"
But you cap the climax when you allege that
"the Abotionists, following the example thus
set them, make the Incorporate language Of
their Southern allies the pretext for another
onslaught upon the conservatives Of the North
Really, gentlemen, the sang troid with which
you falsity history is not little remarkable .
One would infer from your letter that the
South is answerab!e for the assaults upon her
rights, and that the Abotionists have committed
no greater sin than that of following our bad
example" You exhibit want of candor and
irankness, we'll calculated to awaken doubts in
our minds, "a to your fitness for the office you
have assumed, viz: to preserve the Union BY
correcting and developing public opinion, and
re establishing that fraterual love which once
prevailed throughout the confedcracy"
TO do this you must learn to be just, and
your whole letter ives unmstakable evidence
that you are not in that mood.
That you are in favor Of the Union, | have no
question, for you are too well aware Of its ad-
vantages to your section to be otherwise, but
in the face Of the wrongs and outrages com.
mitted by Northern Abolitionists and Free-soil-
ers upon the South, it is expecting ther too
much of us to suppose that we should particu-
lary desire to uphold Union that has ceased
to render us any protection.
To gentlemen so well Informed as You are,
" it is unnecessary to specify the aggressions
which have been committed upon the constitu.
tional rights Of the South by Northern fanati-
cism" But would ask what have you done to
prevent these aggressions
You are all influential men in your State, and
yet what have you done to prevent Der from as
Stunning q hostile attitude towards the South
upon the slavery question: Did you make any
effort TO effect the repeal of the resolutions
passed by your legisla ure on the 9Th February,
l647 insisting upon the application Of the VIII
mot Proviso to the territories Did you en-
deavor to prevent the adoption Of Mr.. Ray.
mond's anti slavery resolutions at your last
session! Have either of you given any evil
dencc of determination to uphold the rights of
the South 1t is true that one Of your num-
Der, Mr.. George Wood, presided over the late
"Union meeting so called, held in New York,
but did he not vote for Mr.. Hunt for Governor,
who, during the canvass, expressed his regret at
the passage Of the Fugitive Slave bill, and de-
clarcJ that it must be e,serttlly modified! Is
il not no ofious that hIr Wood is Federalist
of the old school--thc advocate If strong
government and The questicner OF State rights |!
Mr.. Brady, If mistake not. a'so participated
in the Union meeting, but we are ignorant of
his having at any time sig allied himself IN the
advocacy Of the &C Institutional rights Of the
South We are not TO forget Northern man,
who may have the boldness to proclaim his deter
minaiicn TO stand by the South in her efforts 10
maintain those rights, and We can recall no ret
Of Mr. Blady's that should awaken ur gratitude
since ls4s, when he WINS, ] believe, warm
friend and ndmirer of Mr.. Calhoun, and the
most prominent advocate in New York Of his
political principles. His present associations go
far to authorize the presumption that he has re-
pudiaied those principles, and has coalesced
with those who withhold from the South her
just rights.
would nsk If Mr.. Brady has ever insisted
That the Fugitive slave bill is just and equitable
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