The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-22

feet composure--we were going to say--indif
ference.
a-sg" The Charleston Standard quotes lron
Mr. FoRsYTH's first letter, and comments upor
it in a long editorial, portion of which we
subjoiu
"Mr. Forsyth from all that thus passed before
| him. dcnounces with equal severity and truth
the selfish purposes that prevented the consum-
nation of his wishes; and exposes "ths babble
about the finality," as the pons asinorum Shy
which the Cobbs and Foote's are to walk safely
back from theft Wing alliances into the bosom
of Democracy, and the plank by which Southern
Rights Democrats are to be made TO walk over
board !"
THAT this consequence is intended-that it
may succeed-cannot be doubted. That it
should be opposed-that it may be defeated,
nay, that it must be defeated, cannot be doubted.
Although the recent Southern Rights contest in
the slaveholding States has not resulted as we
desired, and AZ it should have done, yet the ele-
ments, that by it were brought into action, still
exist, capable of doing much good. But how
BY the union, the firm and thorough union of
those who felt together in that issue. Circum-
stances may have to a certain extent, placed in
antagonistic positions, those who really felt to-
gether But superior to the contest angry and
excited as it was, there lived unframed and un-
hurt, the spirit Of States Rights, appealed to by
both sides, as the arbiter to decide which was
right.
"The same principle still lives and it needs but
the effort to embody it to band together all who
regard it az the great test which is before the
country. The rights of the South are nothing
without the rights of the STATES, and the rights of
the States are put TO fearful hazard without the
union of those who advocate the rights of the
South. We repeat, then, that the union Of
those who feel together on this question is a
thing not only necessary, vitality 80, but that it is
practicable, and must be made so. Can the
| Democratic party expect success while the
| Southern Democrats, like Achilles in his tent
refuse to touch sword or buckler in the fight
Surely not Is the success of the Democratic
party matter to its selfish partisans of such
small moment that they will venture to be con.
tumacous in refusing to do what they know to
be right, and without which signal defeat awaits
them? Surely not. Can we not then COM
mand the issue Of the battle? It lis not with US
to say whether the Democratic party will tri
umph or not PROFESSIONALLY so. When,
then, such is the great object we may accom-.
plish when such is the result we may achieve
why - IL Lnat we CauHOt uulLc VII IL %
said that the leaders of rival factions in our
sister States, intent upon the selfish qualification
of their private purposes, will keep alive the
only in the miserable and suicidal contest of
their felow-ctizens? 1t may be, and after the
many manifestations we have had, we cannot
deny but that such motives are in all probability
entertained. But we do not admit that they can
be successful. In every Southern State, there
no longer exists the faintest evidence of desire
on the part of any, to engage in rash or unma.
| tured measures. Domestic contention has
ceased, and it has ceased by the voice of the
people. That voice, by the influence of truth
can be made equally potential, in demanding
those guarantees TO which they are so justly en-
titled. Let the Southern Democracy know it,
strength; it knows full well the injustice it has
received Let it but feel that if united it is pc
tentia, and it must be united. We commend
to all, whose thoughts are engaged with the
great political questions of the day, the con
Guiding portion of Mr.. Forsylh's letter.
"If the Southern Rights party ia expected to
| become sponsor for and champion of, the com
| promise and to make that hated concession, the
line of the Southern defence, just az the Mis-
souri, compromise was for thirty years, after
having first been forced from the South as
most reluctant concession; then ! predict that
Gen. Cass and his friends are destined to meet
with great disappointment. The Southern
Rights party may be won to Democratic sup
port, as a choice of evils, by fair and honorable
terms but it is not so enamored with national
Democracy as to eat its own words stultify it.
self, kiss the hand that treats il with contumely,
all for the sake of seeking compromised Pre-.
sident of the United States. Democratic gen
tlemen may disguise it to themselves as they
please, but this great fact exists, that the South
ern Rights party is the Democratic party in the
South. 1t is for the Democratic party in ma
tional convention to determine, whether it can
get along in the coming contest without the
help of the Southern Democracy; it is for the
Southern Democracy to inform the national
convention, in advance that that help can only
be had on terms of perfect honor and reciprocity
The necessity of indorsing the compromise
and interpolatrg in the Democratic creed, is an
absurdity that needs no exposure"
A correspondent of the Baltimore .7rg,s, said to
be OF the New York delegates to the Demo
cratic national convention, strongly urges the re
nomination of Gen. Cass. For effect outside Of