Southern reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 1851-185?, 1852-08-25
From the Montgomery Advertiser,
Pile On the Agony.

Prom the Montgomery Advertiser.
Pile On the Agony.
The last Herald Of TIE. Union, a paper
established at New York some time since for
the purpose Of sustaining the pretentious Of
Mr. Webster for the Presidency on the Union
issue has long and able article in its last
issue, upon the nomination Of the whig party
the influence by which he viii be surround :
cd il elected and the duty Of the friends Of
the Union everywhere to oppose i. He
winds up his article with the following omni-
Gus. whitening rebuko to the friends Of the
South in regard to the aid and comfort given
the free-soilers in tho Baltimore Convention.
Read it, Southern men, and ask yourselves
what the South il 20 gain by the support Of
Gen. Scott for the presidency?
We wish too that we could exempt the
South from a word Of censure here; for il
50 happens that at the very last She gaze yiust
votes enough % nominate Scott-So far as
the Herald ef tze Union is concerned, We
wish 10 speak very definitely aud unmistaka-
BY on the subject This paper was not set
up to defend the South. Her rights are based
upon what we still hope will prove to be the
immortal tablets Of the Constitution. She
needs no arguments. she needs no favors.
She never asks for them. She only wants
common Justice. And when Northern men
have fought year in and year out for her
legal. her constitution guaranteed rights and
we find that she takes the linch-pin out Of The
team, all we have to say is. 60 ahead-Driye
where you like. but you don't take me in for
passenger If you are base enough to take
Gen Scott take care Of your slavery, take
care Of your houses, your homes. your wives,
your children.--Don't ask me to stand BY you
when fate brings the hour
:" In the heat Of composition we have said
this, but more in sorrow than in anger. Hear
Us then for a moment. friends, brothers, coun-
trymen. You know that Gen. Scott Is only
General Let his laursls remain where
they have been placed.-We win Be the last
10 snatch them from bis brow; but have you
wings descended 90 low that you do not dare
20 risk the issue upon civil meritg Must you
cloud up the ballot-box with the sulphuroua
blasts Of gunpowder? Must youaIl-decency
men. you all-piety people choose a military
peacock to represent you, under the contempt
able plea that you are not strong enough to
put the great man--the greatest man you Or
your party ever had or ever viii have, into
the presidential chair Win you. men Of
tho South, when you know that we Union men
Of the North have been working for you ve-
hemently, generously, without being bought
without being paid, without expecting a re-
ward, Or hoping for one, or wishing for one
will you turn us the cold shoulder, and put In
ihe man that we have been most periodically i
trying to put down ?--Will you take the man
who was put UP BY Horace Greeley, the arch
leitator Of the present century, and adopt IS
your hyoriic the man who has had the
prayers, If We can believe The methodist
of Bill Seward Will you take
he man Of Lloyd Garrison even and Fred
Douglas. tho niger! 10 you want 70 vote
or Seward personaiod by this silk feet two
inches Gcneral2 III you DO take him but
'dtnrmber. gentlemen Of the South, every
foGe cast South Mason 3 and Dixou's line "
Iote against tha OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the
Jnion-in favor Of seward--in favor of
Sreeley--in favor Of the men who have kept
ne torch burning 10 fire your homes with.
k you think not try Che experiment we
ro unie enough here. We have no particu-
IT apprehensiohs when we gO 60 sleep. The
iromen will pnt out ihe oonaagfation. Ihe
,host of the negro does not haunt our pill n
ow. II