The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-05-08

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Northern people. To sustain our statements
we gave some extracts from leading papers IN
different Southern States, and might add us
many more IA would fill our columns for weeks
to come. We have, however, even more reiia'
BILE evidences of this state of feeling in the let
ters which pour in upon us from all parts OF
the South, from public men as we'll as from
private individuals. As specimens of their
general tone and temper, as well as to show the
concurrence of the views of our subscribers
with our own, we append extracts from four
letters received by the last mail, one from Mis-
ssspp, another from Georgia, third from
come from gentlemen Of distinction in their
respective States, and truly represent the senti-
ments Of our friends in EACH 1t will be seen
that one of them ustifies our course on the
printing question, and insists that our friends in
Congress should secure US share. That, how
ever, we give only as matter of opinion. We
do not wish to be understood rs endorsing all
the views and sentiments contained in these
letters, but allow the writer's to express their
own opinions in their own language, as giving
to their representatives in Congress clear idea
of the ideas and feelings Of their constituents.
LETTER FROM GEORGIA.
GEORGIA, May /.
4Nessrs Editors-Encosed you have the sub
scrption price of the Press, for which | am in
arrears some months 1t pains me to see, from
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! to the same account against the patrons of pa
per which is the only true and trustworthy rep
resentatiye of Southern interests, near the Cap.
itol. And when think of the fate of all those
who have within the last fifteen or twenty years
confronted The declared enemies of Southern
institutions, or that have repudiated the pseudo.
republicanism of Gen. Jackson, | cannot but feel
an anxious solicitude for the permanency of
your paper.
How is it, that in situation like ours-wth
principles so just, danger so palpable, and oppo-
sition so reckless and indomitable---no cause
was ever so feebly supported, or so frequently
and meanly betrayed! Is it that the Southern
people will "shut their eyes to painful truth"
that they wiN be dupes and victims? Is it
they who are only tolerant of error and ndif-
ferent to their interests? or are we, against the
received opinion without that passionate and
physical energy which is the invariable concommi
tant of success :! Whatever il is, all thinking
men must deplore the fatuous apathy of the
Southern stakeholder. Here is the Southern
Press as an instance. 1t has been battling il
single-handed for near two years for the inter
ests and safety of the Southern people, and yet
its pretended supporters leave it with burthen
of $4,000 of unpaid subscriptions, to keep up
the unequal conflict To mend the matter, the
-
ions and these very people, while their oppo.
nen:s have made the public printing a question
of spoils, they must stand upon punctio, and
prate of the divorce of the government from. "A
partizan press While political black.le legs are
laying hands on the common stake and have
reduced the disbursements for services to a
(" game of graf" our squeamish Southern Rights
representatives owe it to their principles, for
sooh to keep the editors of the Press from
defiling their hands with the public money. AT
this rate it is easy to be magnanimous. And it
was nice point to make an application of the
argument TO their per diem and mileage. This
reputation of public contracts, and this disin-
terested refusal to touch the public money, is
all we'll enough, when honesty and fair dealing
is the order of the day in legislation, when
robberies are only committed by contractors
But when Legislation becomes scramble for
the treasury between the Galphins, the railroads
and the politicians | hold it to be neither point
of honesty or patriotism to keep (by sticking to
some impracticable scheme which they know
they can't getD all but their relentless foes
from reaping any advantage from the measures
that they know will be forced upon them No
This say is not wisdom or patriotism.
X X X
Now with this MATERIAL and with an organized,
elo nj
us, would it be rash to say that at no distant day
slavery, and with it republicanism, will be over.
thrown, and centralsm, despotism planted on
their ruins. The power of Northern party is not,
| fear the only and most danger to be apprehend
ed. The South contains in its own bosom most
dangerous element of anti slavery feeling. The
last fall elections gave the most unequivocal evi
dence of its existence and of its alarming extent
Everywhere the State Rights party insisted
upon the right of secession as counterfeit
to abolition.
With all this shout of "glorious Union" let
its glorious Congress try to regulate the peoples
grog in the territories And if the Union de.
pended on it, my life upon it. it would not last
ten days. y i y
1t is indeed matter of small concern to the
Southerner whether Scott or Cass be President,
and we would feel as safe under either, or under
Seward or Van Buren, as we should under Cobb.
But have taken up too much Of your time
already in these rambling remarks, in which I
am sure should not have INDUCED, but that I
wished to. testify something more than respect
for the man who. in the high day of subservi-
ency and temporizing, can make an honest out
speak of the faith that is in him--who, in srite
of the low ambition and intolerance Of party
leaders, still "turns to the stroke his adamanine
scales that feared no discipline of human hands -
My preposesaions may influence me to arpreci-
ate the supporters of a cause with which they
are identified. But they have nothing to do
with the admiration for the high and brave heart,
that against the unborn and inbred prejudices OF
the world, procIaims that it worships a name
| Nor have they anything to do with the warm
sympathy feel for those struggling undismayed
against rude stream which threatens to engull
at once the hopes Of the cause and the fortunes
| of the man.
| LETTER FROM VIRGINIA.