The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-17


merely to enter the lists, in order to perform
an idle pageant, not to do 5attIe-for it shrinks
from every assault--and shirks every chal-
lenge to discussion, terrifying itself behind the
armor Of selEsuaicient dignity. Bombastes
Furioso never threw down his gage Of defiance
to all corners more boldly when hanging up his
neither Judgements, he exclams with tragic fer
vor,
(" Whoever dare these boots dispiacs,
Shall meet Bombasies facs to face.
The closing lines Of tho editorial, however
convey the antidote to the poison in which the
article is imbued. The closing admission is all
sufficient to show how baseless is the fabric
reared with such painful labor.
The Aboltionists, however, are grateful for
Me crumbs of comfort thrown them by the
Wing central organ, and encourage this valuable
ally to the National Era in its "pous labor Of
destroying the moral force of the South Carolina
movement Under the caption of
DIFFERENCES AMONG THE SOUTH CAROLINA
sECEssIoNIsTs.
the New York Evening Post parades the
" elegant extracts" of the Iatelligencer, with
congratulatory comments, from which we take
the following passages indicative of the hopes
of its faction:
The National Intelhgencer has occupied
itself with collecting, from the journals of Soutl
Carolina, the evidences of misgiving and irreso-
luton already shown in regard to the doings Of
their State convention. AS time for further
reflection is allowed, these will probably ripper
into very rational and peaceful conclusions
When the project for Southern convention a
Nashville was proposed, we expressed an enrnes
desire that it should be held, believing that tht
best cure for the wild and inconsiderate desire
Of secession, would be to lay upon those who
favor it, the responsibility of an attempt to carry
it into practical effect. In like manner, we now
hope that there will be no failure to hold thu
South Carolina convention. Let the member.
be called upon to bring forward their plan fo
getting South Carolina out Of the Union, ant
from that time the buster about disunion vii
be hushed.
We should be glad to give the extracts whcl
the Inlelligencer has made from the Soutl
Carolina prints, if they were not so very
volumnious. A sprig or two from the bouque
will, however, not be unacceptable to GU
readers.
When the National Intelligence culls bouquet.
acceptable to the Abolition readers Of the bit
terest Abolition prints in the country, nothing
farther is needed to satisfy all candid minds o.
the real afinites, and of the browning end of the
abors of the National Organ that presumes ia
speak for the Government" and the People
of the United States.
But happily for the liberties of this people,
though the Constitution has been ruthlessly
tramped upon, the palladium of free press
yet remains. No alien and sedition law vet
stiles the voice of patriotic indignation--and
the sovereignty of the States is still intact
Whether both will so continue, depends on
the firmness and the faith of those fearless men
who have pledged their lives and fortunes to
preserve those rights and privileges transmitted
to them, at all hazards and to the last extrem
ty. That pledge We believe they will keep
and the force or the fraud that shall seek to
coerce them from the assertion and mainten
ance of those rights, shall be but as letters o.
flax to bind the fame"