The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-18

the Aboitionists, and warns Southern gentle.
men not to displease or offend them, lest we lose
their support For ourselves, we have just as
much scorn and contempt for the support OF the
Southern Press as we have for that of the Abo'
litonsts. In principle they are equally vile.
We always knew, and always said, that the CON
ductors OF the Southern Press were actuated by
no regard for slavery or the institutions OF the
South. Their only object was to use the slavery
question as lever with which to destroy the re-
public. AS to slavery, they cared nothlhs aoous
| it, they owned no negroes, and had no properly
| in the Southern States, or anywhere else ihey
were hireings TO accomplish an unholy purpose.
For wears mast. they have been sowing broad.
cast their treason, expecting that il would take
root and grow in the sunny South. They knew
how excitable the people of the South were on
the subject of slavery, and endeavored to make
them believe that all their slaves would be lost
unless the Union were dissolved But they
have been disappointed. There have been wis
dom and virtue enough in the South to repudi-
ate everywhere, all over the length and breadth
of the slave States their treason and their treach
cry. Seeing, as they now do, that there is an
end of disunion faith, they come out and take
sides with US in the Democratic ranks, and tell
us to associate with Freesoilers and Abolition
lists, andws may be successful in electing Presi-
dent!
The great curse of the country has been an
unprincipled press. BY the press good men are
deceived and their passions maddened by false
hood and sophistry. With the conductors of
such press politics is trade, and the interests
of the country are never thought Of The sue
cess of their schemes is every thing. To secure
this they are willing to plunge their country in
blood, and sacrifice her peace, and happiness,
and existence. And yet such men are able to
pass through life, for years, as the true defend
ers of their country's best interests
We hope the Baltimore convention will ex-
press themselves freely on the subject of slave
ry, and drive from their ranks all the Abolition.
lists, and teach them that they are not fit associ-
ates for Democrats. We hope, too, that the
Wing convention will do the same thing, and
clear their ranks of all such base disturbers of
the public peace. We hope that both of the
great national parties will force the Abolition
lists to keep to themselves and thereby render
them as powerless in the Presidential election
as they are infamous in their politics.
1t is probable that the Southern Press will
now return to its first love, one of its editors
being Quaker, and having been so much OPP
posed TO slavery that he would not wear cotton
goods because they were the product of slave
labor. 1t is not at all improbable, therefore,
that this pro .savery organ may, after all, be a
staunch Abolition sheet. The step already
taken, that we must not offend the Freesolers,
| and refuse to speak out at the Baltimore con
vention, lest we lay down platform on which
| they cannot stand with us, is very strong indi'
cation of Abolition love and Freesoil glory. In
| fact and in truth, the Southern Press has been,
throughout our controversy, an Abolition paper,
to all intents and purposes, by being constantly
filled with extracts from all the most rabid Abo-
lition sheets in the United States The papers
in which these infamous pieces originally APP
peared could not circulate at the South, and
were therefore, harmless, but, by being extract
ed into the Southern Press, they were seen all
over the slave States, and in some instances
read by the slaves and free negroes