The southern press., 1852-04-03

ne Democfdtc presses Vi ING oousu WE
tinue to pour hot shot into the battered hulk OF
the Union, though its penitential silence OF late
might shield it from further castigation or ex
posure. Evidently believing. however, that i
is only withheld from renewing its assaults on
Southern and State Rights by a sense of its
present imbecility, and persuaded, as was OrHEL-
Lo, that
"Ifit lives,
Ii will betray more men"
the presses il has provoked continue TO belabor
il, and enlist new allies in the work. We sub
join specimen from the Memphis Appeal
When the Union is repudated, even in Ten
nessee, it may indeed re-echo Mr.. WEBsTER's
question:
THE WAsHINGToN UNION AND OURsELF.--
We are grati6ed to find that the recent unjust
and unwarranted assault of the Washington
Union upon US, charging us with the defeat of
Gov Trousdale, and with denouncing the ma
tional Democracy, meets with no favor in this
section Of the Union, so far as we have as yet
been enabled to gather public sentiment. On
the contrary, like all other ISLANDERS, il bids fair
to recoil upon the Union itself, whose folly and
indiscreton seem to have rendered il obiivious
to the wisdom and truth of the old maxim that
athose who live in glass houses should not
throw stones" We published day or two
since an extract from the Hopkinsville (Ky.)
Press, in which the Union itself was charged,
in round terms, with the defeat of our noble
standard bearer. In coHoboration of this, we
introduce the following article from one of the
ablest and most reliable Democratic papers in
the Southwest, the Nashville American, whose
locality enables it to speak intelgently on the
subject. We certainly feel much indebted to
the American for the substantial aid" which it
has rendered US in this matter. The good opin-
ion of the sterling Democracy Of our own sis
ter States, enables us to brook, with becoming
complacency, the bulls of accommodation
that emanate from the small organ grinders
about Washington city.
From the Nashville .4nerican.
The MEMPHIS APPEAL.-The Washington
Union makes an unjust attack upon the Mem
phis Appeal. ltcharges the Appeal with having
injured Gov. Trousdale in the last election A
sufficient answer to this charge is found in the
fact that, in the section of the State where the
Appeal is most widely circulated, Gov. Trous-
dale gained votes, whilst he lost in other sec
tions. We believe that the personal presence
of the editor of the Washington Union in this
State, and the course of bis paper, did Gov.
Trousdale more harm than anything else.
The attack of the Washington Union on the
Appeal is copied with avidiiy in the Banner, and
affords that paper great aid and comfort. This
little fact shows very clearly the effect Of the
Unions course. Wing editors very seldom praise
and approve of the course Of Democratic papers,
unless there is something wrong in it. We as
sure the Union that its assault on the Appeal
finds no favor with Tennessee Democrats, and
that, while some Of our.party may not wholly
approve of all the views of that paper relative
to the compromise, il is unanimously regarded
as one of the soundest, ablest, and most influ-
entail Of the organs of the party. The Wash
ington Union only Injuries itself, and engenders
suspicious Of its own soundness among the De.
mocracy Of Tennessee, when il attacks the Ap-
peal, and is praised for its course by the Wing
papers.