The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-05-10
SATURDAY. MAY 10. 1851.

WASHINGTON CITY.
SATURDAY. MAY 10. 1851.
fW- We are much indebted to the candor and
zeal of our neighbors, the Union and Republic,
for exposing the abolitionism Of the two great
national parties at the North. We take from
the Republic of yesterday, the following, which
shows that the great boa constructor of abolit on
has almost completely swallowed the national
Democratic party of
MAssAcHUsETrs.-Wep perceive that the Dem
ocrats and Abolitionists in Massachuetts are
playing out the game Of coalition. 1t is now
confidently stated that the union has been re-
solved upon, in the second and fourth congress
sional districts, for tho return Of Messrs Rantou
and Palfrey at the next election. The Mas
sachusetts Democracy has caved in entiroly--has
been absorbed by Free-soil and abolition There
is nothing left of it. The Boston Post remains
as q mere monument of the illustrious twenty
seven rebels, and of hafa score of the outsiders.
II 10 repudiated by the Democratic party proper
the party that has been disciplined in the "old
trials"
Besides the reunion on Rantoul aud Palfrey,
the Berkshire district, in favor of Mr. Bishop,
who was Cass man, then Free-soiler, then
National Democrat, and now suffering under a
relspse into Abolitionism. II ~ now understood
that Mr. Bishop is to write satisfactory aboli.
ton letter, and the coalition are to put him
through in the most approved Democratic abo-
lition STYLE
1t 10 amusing enough, to be sure, to watch the
twisting and wrigging Ofthe national DemOcra.
CIV to slip out of the embrace Of abolition in
Massachusetts. Sumner made Senator by DEM
ocratic votes, according to the decree of the re-
gular Democratic caucus-Rantoul then run as
the regular Democratic caucus candidate, pledged
to the teeth to abolition-Palfrey passing through
the abolition gate straight into the DEMOCRATIC
camp-aud now Bishop, to complete the cate
CORY And yet the Democracy" are not re-
sponsible for all this-but the Wings!
On the other hand. we insert from the New
York Tribune, the Wing paper of largest circu-
lation and greatest influence in the North, an ar
tice which announces the necessity of emanci-
pating the slaves of all the States. The impious
slang about American omnpotent creative
radicalism," the nonsense about fusion of
races" the comparison of slavery to ga polti-
VA COt poo SNuSmS iotCSCt uPOu buO iitluS uOuy
of American Democracy" the assertion that T" it
produces nothing but evil" and that sit cannot
be perpetuated beyond certain PERIOD" that
it must in due time come to an end" if not
"by peaceful emancipation" by bloody revolt
all indicate the extent to which public opinion
in the North is depraved, and the hopelessness
of correcting it. The Tribune alone has some
thirty or forty thousand subscribers, and it
Northern people. Now, the amount of safety
and Of peace which the South enjoys in COM
mon government and that consolidated and
welded by section of such opinions rs the
guine of Unionists-but this is not the enter
tainment to which we were invited by Messrs.
WEBSTER, CAss, and CLAY, when they prom
ised that the compromise would put down agi.
taton:
The DANGER OF THE FUTURE-We believe
in America and her destiny with all the conf.
dence of mind whose every conviction is ut
terly Democratic. In the great drama of human
development, we regard this Western republic,
Will is0 yVuIuiui cuCiSco, no ICJcCtiOu vi cuclt
institutions and conventionalites, its omnipo.
tent creative radicalsm, it's fusion of races, and
its growing power, as already performing part
of unspeakabe Importance, and as advancing
toward a future of still greater magnitude and
influence.
But that future is clouded by single danger,
whose proportions rise ever more vague and
gloomy upon the view. That danger is African
slavery. All the other difficulties that men seem
to see before the republic we think little Of
The danger from too rapid an expansion of
Democratic tendencies we laugh at; the danger
from the spirit of corruption among public men
and Legislative bodies can and will be remedied
but slavery sets remedies at defiance, and mady
seeks to perpetuate itself like presidential
corpse, cingiDg forever upon'the living body OF
American Democracy.
Slavery can now have no other apology than
the fact that it exists. Whatever its origin,
whatever its usefulness in the lower stages of
society, all men, not blinded by insterest passion
and prejudice, must admit that in this country it
now produces nothing but evil. We have con-
versed with many intelligent slave-proprietors
who frankly confessed that this was their opin-
ion, and that they would rejoice at nothing more
than its entire removal. Simple common sense
would expect to find the same desire universal
and predominant among all whom misfortune
had made shareholders.
Bot such is by no means the view of the
slaveholding States generally. They cleave to
slavery as they would to life. Kentucky houts
the venerable and affectionate wisdom Of Henry
Clay, warning her of the danger, and refuses to
entertain any project of emancipation; Virginia,
amid the melancholy decay that slavery has
brought upon her, resists the approach of free
dom as though it were the plague, and struggles
to surround her slave aristocracy with new and
more stable guarantees; the president of the
South Carolina Convention declares that his
State must 60 out Of the Union, or else slavery
cannot Inst twenty years he would have it last
forever. And though We have not yet recovered
from the caIamities Of war made for the ex
tension Of slavery, nor from domestic agitation
growing out of the same cause, the South
swarms with men eager to invade and conquer
Cuba, while others would fain set on foot
crusade to reduce the Haytians once more into
bondage, and thus add to our confederation two
new tropical States, with million and n half of