The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-07-15
THE SOUTHERN PREss-THE NOMINATIONS

readers Of that paper, and of some interest to
editor and proprietor the second from Ed
WIN De LEON, the third from MIR. FORSYTH
of Georgia, Southern Rights Democrat, edi-
Mr. Fisher announces his purpose not to
support the Democratic ticket because he APP
proves neither of the platform nor the Presi-
dental nominee. The Compromise was an
outrage on the rights of the South, and its en-
dorsement by the Convention was sanction Of
this outrage. The candidate is man whose
merit is, that he is the friend Of the COmprO-
mise.
Immediately after the Convention, he in
formed the Southern Rights Democrats who
sustained the nomination, of his views, and Of
fered to sell out to them his establishment
Mr.. De Leon, his associate differed from him
in policy. 1t would have been better, in his
opinion, for Southern Rights men to have re-
NAMED out of the Convention but they decided
to 90 in, and though there were some objec-
tionable things in the platform, still they - re-
versed the action of the Wing Convention /;
for the nominees were selected by the South,
and have proved more acceptable to the South
ern than the Northern wing of the party
Besides. the men whose interests the Southern
Press had been established to represent, gave
unmistakeable indications of their determine
ton to support the Democratic ticket Under
such circumstances mastery inactivity
could not be maintained and he held it to be
the true policy to sustain Mr.. Pierce
The difference Of opinion was not made pub
lie until the negotiations for the purchase of
the Press being so procrastinated as to subject
the paper to miscOnstructon, they deemed it u
duty to declare publicly their views.
Whether the negotiations would prove sue
cesstul or not, was uncertain but should they
fail. the future course Of the Press would de-
pend alone upon Mr.. Fisher.
The burden of Mr. Forsyth's communica-
tons is, the relations the Southern Rights
Democrats are to hold to the Democratic party.
1t is claiped for the Southern Press, that it
shall have a fair share OF the Congressional
Printing Mr.. Forsyth quotes from letter
by Mr.. Grund, in the Baltimore Sun, the fol-
lowing:
"The public printing has not yet been def
nitely disposed OF. A new committee has been
appointed by Democratic Senatorial caucus,
but ny vet, they have been unable to come to
any definite conclusion. They all agree that
the present printer has forfeited his contract
that he has executed the greater part of his
work in an execrable manner, &c, but they
cannot agree on the manner of electng Il pub
lie printer.
"Mr Soue proposed in caucus, to give the
Senate printing to the Southern Press to
which General Cass replied, in most earnest
terms that the National Era abolition and
the opposite extreme) has the same right to
the patronage Of the Senate which the South
ern Press has He would never c0psent to
such an extreme sectional arrangement. The
plan to sustain II reasonable Secession sheet
here in Washington is, for the Southern Seces-
sionists to have check on General Pierce,
should he be unwilling to obey the behests of
half dozen crazy Hotspurs and to renew the
Jlisgracefu war upon the Constitution and the
Union from which we have but Just emerged"
Mr.. Forsyth berates General Cass soundy
for his denunciation of the Southern Press :
throws out hints that the Southern Rights
Democrats are not to be conciated by such n
policy attributes that gentemans bitterness
% his failure to receive the nomination at Bal
simore, and predicts that he will soon be found
in the footsteps of John Quincy
Adams and Martin Van Buren,, in warning
upon the South He declares that the nomi-
nation of Mr. Pierce was the work of the
Southern Rights lSecesson) Democrats, and
that he is, in fact, their candidate.
These are curious revelations, and it is moi
likely that the Southern Press will continue in
its present position 1t can expect little sup
port from the class of men whom it has hith-
erto represented, as they appear to be particu-
larly well pleased with the nomination of
Pierce and King quite as much so as their ex-
act antipodes, John Van Buren, and Henry B.
Stanton
The Richmond (Va.) Examiner an ultra pro-
slavery journal of the Southern Rights school,
upon the declaration of Mr.
Fisher, says
This declaration, in our opinion, puts an
end to the usefulness of the Southern Press
Mr. Fisher will find no followers in this move
scent; for it is manfestly against common
sense II is n reversal of the old saw, that half
u loaf is better than no bread and we hope
there is no man in the South, however much
he may have abhorred the Compromise at It's
origin, who will he 40 blind rs not to see the
and miscellaneous tendency of
Mr. Fishers advice. H. the plan which he ad-
yses a new onei We have seen the expert
ment tried under leader at least as able as
the Editor of the Southern Press. What did
Mr.. Calhoun get by putting himself and his
party hors de combat
I'VE prophecy that the Democratic party
will not be much affected by the dignifed atti-
tude of the Southern Press and it's Editor The
world will pass him by and leave him there,
like plaster-of- Paris Napoleon with folded
arms, and remember the one as well as the
other when it has done so'
II is rather hard for the Editor of the South
fH Press to be treated 80 cavalierly after oil
that he has done and suffered for Slavery but
he has pluck, and will not back ont to please
anybody.
Some things in the article of Mr. Fisher are
specially noteworthy Speaking of General
Cass, he says!
We are glad to learn bis real sentiments
through his appropriate organ, Francis J.
Grund. Gen, Cass thinks the Southern Pyessis
no better than the National Era We are sorry
we cannot reciprocate the compliment We
don't think General Cass is ~ good as u sim
cere Abolitionlst or FreeSoiler Either fbe
Southern Press or he National Era IS right
No shufiicr like General Cass can be. II Sla-
very IL wrong and if The Federal Government
has jurisdiction orer II, so far as Federal action
rs eren incidentally concerned then The course of