The southern press., 1852-02-21
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 30, 1852


Union and Harmony. Al
Our paper Of Wednesday. last contained an
editorial Of ours, and also one Of the Wash
ington Union, at full length. In our article we
stated very temporarily and briefly the position
we occupied. And We thought we had obvl'
ated the necessity of further immediate contro-
yersy with the Union. But that paper Of yes
terday prolongs the war-and while pretending
TO answer us with sience--answers us with re
proach and with hard words.
Now, we think, it was profound idea of the
Union to answer Us with silence, for that we
think is the most cogent answer the Union can
make to US. In fact, we think, we have the
right to apply the retort Of JOB to BILDAD, the
Shuhite-that the strength of some men is to sit
still For the editor of the Union is very much
like BILDAD, the Shuttle. That gentleman who
was neighbor and professed friend of JOB,
assembled with several others, to comfort
rs they pretended, the afflicted patriarch, who
had recently been robbed Of SOME of his territory
by an inroad or compromise Of the Sabeans,
who were permitted to make the experiment at
the request of Satan, to test the faith and the
pluck of jon. BILDAD, the Shuhite, undertook
TO comfort jon pretty much as the compro.
misers and the editor of the Union now at
tempt to comfort the South. BILDAD said that
the Sabean compromise by which the asses and
cattle of JOB had been taken of, was pretty
much all right That JOB ought to submit
That in fact, he had been raj her shabby fellow
anyhow, and that the Sabean compromise was a
law of God; that such man as JOB could not ex.
pect to have plenty of asses, and cattle, and ter
ritory-he was too wicked. But JOB, although
a very patient and good man, was not exactly
submissionist, nor was he for acquieseDce, al
though the great msjority of his friends, that is
his party, was against him. He told BlLpAD
plainly, that it was not for him to fill his belly
with the East wind-and that il was no use to
harp upon common places, and that the strength
of BrLDAD, was, in his opinion, to sit still.
Well, the editor of the Union seems to have
sort of suspicion that he had better sit still
but he won't
Now the position or the attitude of the editor
of the Union is exceedingly awkward and un.
happy. He was himselfa member of the Nashville
Convention, the very body whose course the
Southern Press has always defended and still
defends But from that Convention the editor Of
the Union is seceder-he is deserter. When
EDMUND BURKE deserted the Wing party in
England and went over to the Tories, SHERIDAN
said that he hoped as Mr.. BURKE had left the
party as deserter, he would never return as
spy. But the editor Of the. Union, who left the
Nashville Convention as dcserter, now attempts
10 approach its supporters asa dictator. If the
Southern republicans were really jas is pretended,
in a state of starvation and extremity, it would
be refinement Of cruelty altogether without
precedent, even in the annals of savage warfare,
10 send deserter from their own ranks, TO sum.
mon them TO an unconditional surrender
We know il is the tactics Of allbclligerents 10
offer great inducements to treachery and deser.
iios. Hence, Judge SHAKKEY, the first presi.
dent Of the Nashville Convention n. -hssa ~,
pointed by Mr.. FiLLNoRK TO the lucrative COT
suIship at Havana, the last place 10 which bIus
tering and backing out submissionist ought to b,
sent. Hence, on the other hand, the editor o.
the Union has, as his reward for deserving the
South, been presented with the organship by "a
pressing invitation Of the Presidential eandi
dates Of the Democracy, all from the North, anc
all engaged in supporting the Compromise. AND
in addition TO that, he gets from this compro
mise and law-exeeuting administration. the Tx
ecutive printing which Is the price they pay fol
supporting the Compromise, out Of the pocket
Of the proprietor Of the Southern Press, who 1,
entitled to that printing by the decision Of their
own law. officer, the Attorney General
The editor Of the Union was a member o
the Nashville Convention. That was Southerr
and sectional convention. Il was called express
ly on the conviction that neither Of the two ma
t.onal parties could be relied on for justice L
The South, although now we are told otherwise
We have q report Of the proceedings of tina
convention now before %, and find on page 81
= report Of General Pillow, chairman Of ID
committee on credentials, who was himself
Tennessean, the name Of ANDREW J. DorELsoS
of Tennesset is delegate. We find also OF
page 81 that fhe first thirteen resolutions Of tina
body were carriedunanimously by The votes o
all the individual delegates. The eleventh res
olution prescribes the line Of $500. as an EEK
treme concession" Of that body and Of III
South. We find also on page Go, that the IF.
teen subsequent resolutions were also adopte
unanimously that the first of these resolution,
asserted the right Of Texas TO the Rio del Norte
boundary, from lis mouth 10 us source and thai
the second resolution Of this series asserts III a
all the territory Of Texas thus bounded, wa,
then -slaveholding territory" "of rial importance
TO the Southern States" and that no portion 0
il should be transferred to the jurisdiction Of the
federal government without the most erplici
I<xI0~nfso, fl.f L. sox., IN II