The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-02-04


Of national existence--whs the time arrives when
the population will BE- three OF four simss great
An 1t now is-when the prices Of labor the wages
Of manual labor. shall be reduced that it will be
too burdsnsons and expensive ON The part Of
owners of slaves vaiss them for the sake of the
labor they can perform, then Il will become The
interest Of the slave States and shareholders TO
sort to another fund than that which IL afforded
by slaves; and that will be the termination Of
slavery. (AppIause.) am not about to spe-
city the time when this s TO go into operation. but
would repress, IL could, The impotence Of those
who are not willing to await the slow operation Of
means and insirumentalities which God and ma
ture furnish, TO complete the great purposes Of
their wisdom.
II this be not good Abolition doctrine, We
would like to know what really would be 70 re-
garded. An Abolitonist (uness the word has
no meaning,) is one who seeks to abolish
slavery--and Of the two classes, the immediate
and the gradual, the South has much more to
fear from the latter than the former. The rant
and fustian Of such men as GipDIsGs--the bias
phemous rawlings Of GARRISON, and his negro CO.
adjutor DoUGLAss--the wild dreams Of HORACE
GREELEY, of the arrival of social saturnaiia-
all these nre far less to be dreaded and resisted
than the cat-like stealthiness with which SEW
ARD glides, or the subtle policy by which HENRY
CLAY winds his way to the same goal
The solemn.sp eculations Of the Lalel!igencer
which usually pass for profound with idle
people, because they are prolx-and the flip
pant feebleness Of the RepubAc-have both
been long enlisted in the labor of misrepreseut-
ing the position and the purposes of the slam
dercd Southern agitation" have certainly
caused a good deal of agitation" to them
and all in vain.
Their intentions were good, but their guns,
their ammunition, and their aim, equally bad.
Vainly has the great bore been loaded to the
muzzle, over and over again, with random re-
collections Of the past, and inappositc quota
tons from the Federalist, and the fathers of the
repubic-seasoned with defamation of the liv-
ing and the dead Vainly has that Of smaller
calbre and quicker fire, kept up a rattling dis
charge of blank cartridges--out Of range half,
and firing in the air the other half Of the time, for
the recoil has proved more disastrous to the
gunners than to the enemy at whom they aimed
One fact can never be smothered-neither,
with any show of justice or truth, can charge the
Southern "eriremes"--to use their own dialect)
pith cooperating wiA Abolitioaists in carrying
out positiue gmeasures-wh.le the record proves
that their own Union compromisers" secured
the passage of their browning measure Of com.
promise by the votes of these very men.
No coalition ever has existed between the
"extremes" though they may have sometimes
opposed the same measures-theyhave neper sup
ported and carried the same through.
Can The Latelligencer and The Repu6lic-Mr
CLAY and bis compromisers-make the same
assertion!
This pretended mean between the two er-
trenaes, is indebted for its triumphs to the Adolf
tonists. 1t never has been able to secure the
support or countenance of the Southern ex-
tremes"-but its "meetiags' with the others
have been frequent and fraterna on the calls of
the ayes and nays--as witness, the California
swindle, and the abolition of the slave trade in
this District
What cool effrontry then is it for such organs,
and persons thus compromised" to class to-
gether those wide as the poles asunder in prin-
ciple and action, when conscious that the fact
of their own completely with the policy, If not
the persons of the AboItionists is on record ;
familiar not only to those who have witnessed
the fruits of the coalition, but destined also to
remain on The congressional records, as wit
nesses Of Northern faith and Southern fealty, to
all posterty.
OF all the cant of the compromisers, Of all the
slang which their organs substitute for argu.
ment and proofs, the public is most heartily
sick of the cant of"extremists North and South ~
and the slang Of dsunion' These are too
stale-even abuse, to be pungent, must be
fresh