The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-10

came ulplOmaIC ITO taihed ~ clICi0S He secucu
to be willing but afraid TO take hold. Meantime,
while every Democrat that talked TO, admitted
the wisdom aud necessity of the scheme, no.
body had the courage, the energy and the will
to take lead in it's accomplishment. In short
became very much Disguised with my Office OF
peace maker, and left Washington, fully per-
suaded that the Compromise Unionists, the CoBB
and FooTE party, in which rank Maj. DoNEL-
son, and smart sprinking of the Printing Com
mttee. are the bitter enemies Of the Southern
Rights Democracy--that 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. 1t 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--ouerboard.
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 Noro, is this The feeling of the Democratic
partu7 1t behooves Gen. CAss, 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. II 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.
promaiser President of the United States
Democratic gentlemen may disguise it to them
selves as they please but this great fact 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 it can get along in the coming
contest without the help of the Southern De
mocracy; it is for the Southern Democracy to
inform the National Convention, in advance, that
that help can only be had on terms of perfect
honor and reciprocity.
The necessity of indorsing the Compromise,
and interpolating it in the Democratic creed, is
an absurdity that needs no exposure. If it is a
Gnality, re affirming it will not make it more so !;
if it is not finality, and agitation is to be re-
newed on the first fitting opportunity by the
Abolitionists, then it is cheat, fraud and a
falsehood, to say it is "finality." All that we
know is, that the Compromise Legislation is
fact-some of us think it fact rejecting no
honor on the power that created it, and degrad-
ing to the South that submitted to it, others
think it "wse, liberal and just )" but it is fact
about which the Democratic party is hopeessy
divided, and that fact must be recognized by the
Baltimore Convention in laying down its plat
form, and putting up its candidates lift does
not it takes not prophets voice" to foretell the
consequences.
Pardon mo this unexpected long communca-
ton and believe me, in the bonds of State
Rights, Yours faithfully,
JOHN FORSYTH, of Geo.