The southern press., 1851-04-02
Loves Labor Lost.

The Boston Atlas, the leading Wing organ in
Massachusetts, unmindful of all the pretty
speeches and apologies made by the Admins
tration to that most "oyal" and law-abidng
city, throws out the following hint:
The Portland Advertiser, the leading Wing
paper in Maine, has been deprived of the honor
of publishing the laws of the United States
The Christian Mirror, religious paper, has
been selected in its place. The Advertiser takes
a very proper view of the matter in long and
able article The following papers have suffered
the same fate within few months: New Hamp.
shire Statesmar., Keene IN. I) Sentinel, Yer
| mont Watchman, Albany Evening Journal, Bos-
ton Atlas, and we believe the Philadelphia North
American There has been no whining on the
part of the papers alluded to, for being thus
prescribed by an administration which they did
their part to bring into power; and they will
only say of the act as Meg Merrilies said to
Godfrey Bertram, when he pulled down the gp
sey cottages, and drove the dwellers from the
kahn Of Dernceugh-" See If your ain roof-tree
stand the .frmer for that"
The same paper shows its ingratitude more
glaringly still in a long editorial on the subject
OF the Presidency, commencing as follows:
"The Washington Republic, about week
ago, published an article in regard to the mex
pedency of agtating the question of who shall
be the next candidate of the Wings for the
Presidency, with the tone and Lpirit of which
we fully agree.
We are not disposed, for one, to commit our
selves fully to the support of any person for
that high office at the present time, though we
ave our preferences, and strong ones too, and
shall not hesitate at a proper time to express
thap froalv vVo houo unticaJ ho, hat
the Wings Of Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan;
and to great extent of New York, Ohio, Maine,
New Hampshire, and Vermont have already
broken ground in favor Of General WINFIELD
ScoTT subject to the decision of Wing Ma
tiona Convention; and We have no doubt tina,
if the question was put now to the Wings Of
those States, a very large majority would prefer
him as candidate, to any other man. Instead
OF this preference beiEg the work of political
wire-puers, or cliques of interested persons, it
appears to us to spring directly from the peo.
pie and that the papers that now advocate his
claims are, in n manner, forced into this early
discussion of the question by the strong voice
of public sentiment, and by other causes"
We add two or three more extracts from the
same editorial, equally significant:
ave have now Wing President, and it is
Wing, to give the President his support The
President, in his annual message, took posi-
ton which the Wings, North and South, could
stand upon. The Pres Cent as we understood
the message, did not expect that every Wing
would agree upon the compromise measures,
and especially upon the Fugitive slave law
The message left margin mide enoughto TO couer
differences Of opinion But since the message
has been delivered, constructions of the strictest
Virginia code have been attempted to be ap.
piled to its language, and punishments have
been meted out to dissentents, which have
cooled the ardor of many who were desirous to
support the administration with all their power,
influence, and zeal"
awe have no doubt that these things, small
comparatively in themselves, have done much to
ALLEVIATE Wing support from the administration,
though not from Wing principles and have
turned the attention of large bodies Of Wings
to somewhat premature discussion of the sue
censorship. We commend this view Of the
case, in all candor and fairness to the editor of
the Washington Republic, with whose article
upon the subject Of the Presidency, we repeat,
we are pleased. We ask him, whether proscrib-
ing one class Of Wings, and fraternizing with
another class, is calculated to harmonic the
Wing party! and especially when the proscribed
class, in the free States at least, in rank and file
far outnumber the other one. The friends of
General Scott are everywhere Their name is
legion, and they number the bone and sinew Of
the party and yet they would be very foolish
to commence now an active campaign in his be-
half. They must abide their time-they can
well afford to do it,"