The southern press., 1852-05-11

chne uipiOmdlC, ne Lalkeu III CHCltSS TIC sSeuec
to be willing but afraid to take hold. Meantime
while every Democrat that ! talked to, admitted
the wisdom and necessity OF the scheme, no
body had the courage, the energy and the will
to take lead in its accomplishment In short
became very much Disguised with my office Of
peace. maker, and left Washington, fully per
suaded that the Compromise Unionists, the CoBF
and FooTE party in which rank Maj. DoNEL
SON, and smart sprinkling of the Printing Com.
mittee, are the bitter enemies OF the Southern
Rights Democracy--th they are determined to
prescribe the Southern PresS-that this babble
about the finality" is but selfish purpose to
agitate for their own particular benefit IT is to
be made pons asinorum by which the CoBBs
aod FooTEs are to walk safely back from their
Wing alliances into the bosom of Democracy,
and the plank by which Southern Rights Demo-
Gratis are to be made to walk-orerboard
The Printing Committee composed of four
Democrats and two Wings, has prescribed the
organ of the Southern Rights Democracy, and
confessed to sympathy for FILLMORE Whiggery
warmer than it feels for Southern Rights
paper. No,o, is this The feeling ofthe Democratic
party? It behooves Gen. CAsa, to have that
question wisely answered; for if he is nomi'
mated at Baltimore, he will require the aid of
the friends of this condemned and insulted paper
to make head against his Federal opponent
who will sweep the North. If the Southern
Rights party is expected to become sponsor for,
and champion Of the Compromise, and to make
that hated concession, the line of Southern de.
fence, just as the Missouri Compromise was for
80 years, after having first been forced from the
South as most reluctant concession then
predict that Gen. CAss and his friends are des.
tined to meet with great disappointment. The
Southern Rights party may be won to Demo
cratic support, as choice of evils, by fair and
honorable terms but it is not 80 enamored with
National Democracy, as to eat its own words
stultify itself, kiss the hand that treats it with
contumely, all for the sake of seeing Com.
promiser, President of the United States.
Democratic gentlemen may disguise it to them.
selves as they please but this greatfact exists,
that the Southern Rights party is the Demo
cratic party in the South. 1t is for the Demo,
cratic party in National Convention to deter.
mine, whether il can get along in the coming
contest without the help of the Southern De
mocracy; it is for the Southern Democracy to
inform Tie National Convention, in advance, that
that help can only be had on terms of perfect
honor and reciprocity.
The necessity of iudorsing the Compromise,
and iuterpolating it in the Democratic creed, is
an absurdity that needs no exposure If il is q
finally, re affirming il will not make il more so
if it is not fnslity, and agitation is TO be re-
newed on the first fitting opportunity by the
Aboltionists, then il is a cheat fraud and q
falsehood, to say it is "fnalty." All that we
know is, that the Compromise legislation is a
fact-some of us think il a fact rejecting no
honor on the power that created it, aud degrad.
ing TO the South that submitted to it. Others
think it "wise, liberal and just !" but il is fact
about which the Democratic party is hopelessly
divided, and that fact must be recognized by The
Baltimore Convention in laying down its plat
form, and putting up its candidates. fit does
not, it takes not prophets voice" to foretelI th,
consequences.
Pardon me this unexpected long communica
ton, and believe me, in the bonds of Stat,
Rights, Yours faithfully,
JOHN FORSYTH, oC Geo.