The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-26
The Letter or Mr.. Stephens The Republic
and the Position or the south.


STEPHENS, to which We invite the attentive con
alteration Of our readers. One of the most i'm
Portant passages in this letter, Is the acknowl
edgement that the slavery question is not ye
ssttled. As we have uniformly asserted and
predicted, the appetite Of aggression would not
be stated, or even appeased by submission
is the attitude of prostration comfortable OF
safe ones Even Poland still writhes and
struggles in her chains, and Ireland is agitated
after centuries of subsection Mr.. STEPHENS
and Mr.. TooMBs made the most arduous efforts
In the South, to reconcile her to position com.
patible with the policy adopted by the North
and when they return to Congress, and Presi.
DENTAL election is pending, they perceive at once
thatmoreis demanded. And the fact is fully devel.
soped, that the Southern portion Of, both the ma
tonal parties stands, as to their Northern allies
IN the position Of poor boy at fair. TIE
basis Of reunion of the two parties, respectively
now is the same as the panacea for preserving
the Onion was in the last Congress-it is South.
ern concession and retreat. But Mr.. STEPHENS
who conceded then, as we thought, too much
pledged himself to retreat no more-and now
he declares he will not retreat again.
This brings us to state of things, on which
we beg the Southern public men and people to
pause and ponder. Towards the close of the
struggle on the Compromise in Congress, it was
well ascertained that there were enough of
Markham h. Lu.,o Il e. a. On
rather than pass no bill; but what was the in
snperable difficulty s-why, that a number of
Southern men had already yielded to the Com
promise, and it was seen that if it was rejected,
and better terms obtained, and as matter of
course by some Northern votes, the effect would
be fatal to the Southern men who had Welded.
Northern men could not vote for $3.50, without
prostrating the very Southern men with whom
they were on the best terms. And now, since,
as Mr.. STEPHENS admits, the question is not yet
settled, and will have yet to be settled, we be-
seech all Southern men to beware of again CON-
hitting the mistake Of standing in the way OF
the acknowledgement of the rights of their own
section.
Now one of the most forlorn and ludicrous
attempts that We have yet seen, even in party
organ, Is the effort of the Republic to avail
itself Of this letter Of Mr.. STEPHENS. The Re
public supports the Union party of the South
as an instrument, or tool by which the Demo-
Gratis who have joined that party may be handed
over TO the Wings, to be used in the approach
ing Presidential contest. The Republic. no
doubt grows confident from the success with
which Democrats Of the Union movement have
been made subservient to Wing promotion in
the South, having already given three brilliant
prizes In politics, seat in the Senate TO Wings
from Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi-places
two Of which were before occupied by Demo.
Gratis, and the other by Mr. BERRIzs, whose prin.
ciPal fault was that, like the great Lord CHAT
HAN, he could not, and would not join his So..sf.
srn countVmen in congratulation on what he
considered misfortune and disgrace.
But the Republic taxes our credulity-o,
rather our risbility,too much, when It perpetrate,
such things as the following, which appeared il
yesterdays paper:
II Is nov reasonable to believe, from the &C.
ton OF the representatives Of the Wing party in
Congress, that no Presidential candidate car
receive the wing nomination who is not known
TO be entirely sound on the compromise question
No candidate hampered BY Abolition alliances
pledges, or associations-or suspected of beino
under Abolition infiuences-can by anv poss;
bility receive the votes Of n majority Of The
American people. In the present posture of the
Democratic party, with its whole Organization
confessedly controlled by the Blairs, Bentons
Van Burens, Preston Kings, and Cleveland.
their candidate must necessarily be the candi
date Of the Abolition wing Of the party II !,
no longer q matter OF choice. To make IN,
matter worse, their candidate must not only B,
selected by the Abolitionists, but he must b.
endorsed BIZ the Seeessionists. The ultrss anc
fsctionista will thus make the candidate, and IN,
Democratic centre will succumb, as they sue
cumoed IN the Congressional caucus
Whist : reasonable 10 belieps that the wbis
Presided al candidate will be sound on the Com
promise questions, when Il is now almost a act
tied thing that General ScoTr Is TO be the nom
inee-snd that he still refuses TO publish WORD
for the Compromise, although repeatedly nd
- " REPRESENTATIVES, Vi the w hlQ party
In Congress" BY. Messrs. CAsELL, STEPHENS &
Co. that IL Is perhaps even now too late for him
70 get their support, because his reserve thu,
far has become too suspiciousi
Reasonable 10 believe when the nouiua,io,
has 70 be made by Wing National Convention
~hs'e the Northern States will preponderate
when the Wing. Of not single Northern Stat
have accepted the Compromise And then 70,
i'm 90 certain, according TO the Republic, tina
the Democrats nominee will be unsound \.
cause Of the BLArns, BrsrOss, Krse.. Ct,vr
LANDS, and Vas BusEs. in that party. forue,f0
Of the SEwARDs. WADEs, GREELYs, w,,n,
SrsvEss. and GrDDrsos, In the Wing party
and forgetful that they control that party in a
those States where the Wings have power, or
chance Of powerl
As for the pretence therefore Of the Republ