The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-03-26

Tss WAsussc rox usIox AND rHE SoUTH-
Ths Washington Cssyr. once n journal most
vsaessAai In the Sosth. has forever forfeited
SosthstW confidence BY its subservent and
trsH snG eourse of the great and absorbing
9asstssa NJ Hosth~ru Rights. II becomes the
svsved teet ssd spologsss Of Clay, Webster,
Fisimssr, fects. Clemens, Cobb, Downs and
cth~S~, sho oil united IN the cry which was got
UP In \ Congressional caucus 10 put all South
err patriots Who iaa,sted upon the preservation
III their constitutional rights uades the ban Of
sS~'ss~son'sas. The Washington Union now
heg,as 10 rub lts eyes, ~ II awakening from a
ts ~sdsr.eg dream. and commences sort OF la II
apology fos the Staa~ kights Democracy, 40 IL
thai aaccsq ncsabv sad satsssified band needed
ANY oscsse - psslsAssoa FOE the course they had
taken, and which they viii never relinqush until
they obtain fall indemnify tor the past aud &C.
cafi.y for the futare.
Whea the veteran kiteLle conducted the Wash
layton Usses. before he usde the fatal mistake
os the Southern question and became the aux.
ili@ry 81 federal ususpst.oa and consol idstion,
that Journal was orscl~ 10 al. the southern
Democracy II was their Iaw aud guide their
ssi. wecE~ and political rubsic But II is 30
M longer u has no influence nj MI with the
Wing party la the State " Mississippi nor with
a single one II the twenty eight OF twenty nine
thousand Democrats who voted for the high.
minded aud i1ortaptibse jeff Davis. A very
few of the so-cslied Union Democracy" which
only meant UNION 10 Clay, Fillmore and Web.
strr, usy yet cling 10 the Washington Union,
~ drowning men would 10 rotten plank But
its day II moral aud political power, southwark,
II forever ever nnd no resurrection morning
shall Await Il under is present editorial control
IL course politically, has been precisely like
that oi the State OF Tennessee, Of which State
the unioa 10 now but the spawn The poi,ici-
ans Of that State will never again I've mean the
great msss II them be trusted on questions in.
volving Southern rights. The history of the
Nashville Southern Rights convention will ever
remain monument Of their fsith,essness and
imbecity at a moment when perfect union and
solemn determination would have forever Sc.
cured Southern equality In the great confedcra-
ton Of States.
Not all the desperate vigor with which the
would-bc Union Democracy aud the Wings
quoted the language OF Andrew Jackson, " HON
they had generally despised while he was living
and perverted it from its application TO the doe
trine Of notification 10 dcnunciation Of earnest
and sincere efforts to obtain Southern equality
in the confederacy, will avail 10 hide the eleven
u 1
the deadlest stab upon the Democratic principle
of State sovereignty that il has received since
the administration OF the older Adams. The
stab was the deadlcr because il came from
hands that had once been fraternal. The yitnl
blow was inflicted by traitors. The strange
words Of praise and adulation Of Wing leaders,
and the consolidation measures Of an over bear.
ing general government, were Obtruded upon
la ~. hv al
selves Democrats, with the prefix of the word
+" union" which SEEMED to be tho shiboloh of
their bondage TO federalism and consolidation.
Cenlraism was boldly avowed; and Clay's
threats to desolate the South with federal bayo-
nets was re. echoed The State Rights men of
the Democracy will never forget that il was
made crime in them, and denounced AZ treason
and secession to stand up boldly and sternly for
the constitutional rights Of the South.
The Southern Democracy know full well
how to deal with the traitors in their own bor-
ders, and look with suspicious eye upon the
endorsements of the Democracy Of tho recreant
Henry S. Foote by the Washington Union
Both the recreant and the endorser would be
this moment repudiated by five out of six Of all
those who call themselves Democrats in Missis-
sippi Next to the Washington Unions en-
dorsement Of Foote'S Democracy the most u-
dicrous thing is the Unions denunciation of the
Memphis Appeal; journal whose noble SEN
timents meet warm response throughout
Western Tennessee and the States of Missis-
sippi and Arkansas or the two, as Sou hern-
ers and friends of the only true constitutional
Union, we would much rather receive the de-
nuncation than tho endorsement
In closing this article, however, we beg leave
to notice the wide discrepancy between the en-
dorser and the endorsee. The Washington
Union denounced Southern Wings; Henry S.
Footo holds the Office of governor Ohe only
one he will ever again receive from Missssip.
pians) by Wing votes. Will the migrate Foote,
in turn, endorse the denunciation Of the Wings.
who elected him governor, made by the Wash.
ington Union? lie dare not do it, after the
solemn declaration which he made at public
meeting, that "he Wing party on The Union
question ,oere more reliable than The Democratic
party!'
See the difference between Foote's endorse
ment of the reliability Of the Wing party and
the denunciation of the same party by the Wash.
ington Union of the Goth of last month Deb.
ruaryD
The Washington Union says that there are
" TWO GREAT POLITICAL TRUTHS both amply yer.
flied by the past experience Of the country. The
first is, that no better Union party is needed, or
can be formed, than the old Democratic party of
Jefferson, Madison, Jackson aud Polk. The
second is, that the rights cf The South are moi safe
in the hands Of The Wing party organized as it
now is, and for years has been, ho,oerer fortunate
or suspicious for The South may seem to be the
circumstances attending its accession to power"
We leave this wide chnsm of sentiment be
tween the endorscr and the endorsed to be mu-
tually leaped among themselves, which they
can doubtless do, from their known skill in
ground and iofly tumbiing We will. however,
endorse and re- echo the words Of the Union with
an amendment -" The RIGHTS OF THE Souri,
ARE NOT SAFE IN THE HANDS OF THE WING PAR
TY." Our amendment is, NOR ARE THE RIGHTS
OF THE SOUTH SAFE IN THE HANDS OF THOSE
WHOM THE WHIGs HAVE ELECTED TO OFFICE, As
THEY DID HENRY S. FooTE!
~ We extract the following statement from
the Boston Journal:
New FREEsoIL TACTICs.--The Freesoil party
held a private and confidential caucus on Mon
day evening, to take into consideration the peril.
GUS state of their affairs, and devise ways and
means to save their sinking fortunes. One Of