The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-10
From the Ns9 YORK. Herald Of .sprit 7h.
Revival Of the slavery Agitation--Poliey Of
the south.

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II has been repeatedly denied that there was
any design or desire among the anti-slavery fac
tons of the Wing or Democratic party of the
North, 10 re.open the agitation of the slavery
question; but the events springng up daily
prove the hypocrisy of all such protestations
emanating from those quarters, which have
seized the first occasion TO vent their malignity
upon the fugitve.slave law, in terms the most
indicative, abusive, and offensive.
We have already adverted to the attempts
made at a re-opening of this sectional agitation
in the United States, by w. III. Seward, after
several months Of comparative silence upon the
subject Even then he acted under cover of
the right of petition. But the experience of a
successful demagogue has taught him that
smooth faced deception is better adapted to his
position than open and hot headed violence. He
gides, therefore, like the serpent to his object,
and bites, and steals away His agents and or
gans in the North are under less restraint, and
upon the first provocaton they disclose their
true sentiments in their true coors; and now
the South are fairly admonished that instead Of
peace there is to be war, and war to the end.
Nor is this. re-agitation OF slavery confined to
Seward and the Wing party of New York
Both parties in this State, and in New England
and the Northwest, are deeply tinctured with the
spirit of the abolition petitions lately pre- scented
in the Senate-hostility to the fugitive law,
hostility to slavery in the territories, in the Dis
trict of Columbia, in the States-infexibe and
incessant hostility to the whole system of the
social institutions of the South Step by step,
the approaches upon these institutions are to be
followed up, til the last stronghold of slavery
is invested, and reduced TO a surrender or the
Han g n ~
emancipation and disunion, there will be no ulti-
mate choice.
In another part of this paper we have given
"a variety Of extracts in reference to the late
proceedings under the law of 1850, in the ar.
rest trial, and surrender to his master, of the
fugitive slave Horace Preston. Here we find
the New York Tribune, a leading Wing organ
of this city, and the Euening Post, leading
Democratic journal, equally violent in their un
scrnpulous denurciaiions of the law and the
agents the law The New York Sun, a sort
of neutral, in disguise, supposed to be under
the abolition influence of the Rev Henry Ward
Beecher, devout worshpper of Kossuth in all
the late humbugs of gloriication in this city,
also gives the obnoxious law stab through its
agents, and laments the injustice of their pro.
ceedngs, But rising above all in the unmeasured
malignity of its reprobation, is the Albany Euen-
ing Journal, the central mouth piece OF the
arch-agitator, and, in the absence of Thurow
Weed, conducted by son of VIM. Ii. Seward
himself, and doubtless rejecting his opinions TO
the life. The caption of the article from that
paper is in the best STYLE of the Boston Liberia.
tOr-"New York market--Hegroes--p quail
ity, $500 Stockholders are firm" The
temper and drift Of the article are of the first
class of rampant aboltionism--ripe for open
treason and fire and sword. Indeed, the Ian.
guage of the beautiful philanthropist, Greeley
and that amiable Christian poet, Bryant, are
much in the same ven
The Tribune, after having personally de.
nounced the agents Of the law as the "iackals
and bloodhounds of slavery" uses such terms
of Cancellation as these-"unscrupulou con.
stable, Sawyer equally unscrupul )us," "com-
missioner pockets his fee Of ten dollars" sun
happy man is dragged off into slavery" "bulled
by the counsel," "Busteed interrupted the legal
by pugilistic proceedings" "a fugitve-slave bill
with trial, "what trouble and what disgrace
the country would then have been spared !"
The Epening Post vents its wrath in explosives
Of equal liberality and moderation. 1t says that
the law "cannot be so administered as not TO
disgrace our national character and our insttu.
tons" and confines its practical application to
the atrocities Of the African slave trade. The
run-mad incendiary Abolitionists of Massachu-
sets, scarcely express themselves with more
savage emphasis They employ, indeed, the
same ideas and terms Of abuse. In the last
annual report Oft the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery
Society, they speak Of the fugitive law as "bring.
ing slavery home to the bosoms and business
Of almost every part Of the free States The
most hateful scenes Of the peculiar institution
were transferred from the South and enacted in
the streets Of Northern cities and villages
Peaceable citizens, supporting themselves by
honest industry, were seized by force or fraud,
held in chains, and delivered up TO a new tyranny.
by the willing tools Of the abominable law"
However designed, we feel assured that these
horrors have done much more towards weaken
ing than strengthening the ties which bind the
North TO the South"
We have given enough. The parallel il
complete. The same sentiments are reechoed
in New York and in Massachusetts, in Ohio and
Wisconsin. From the Atlantic 10 the Missis-
sippi, the elements Of the hnt-s'avery agitation
are alive and kindling again into action. We
publish. from Fred. Douglass paper, in confirm.
alton OF these faets the official proceedings Of the
organization OF new tislavery society, in this
State, headed by Gerrit Smith. It'll reasonable
W tAptct hhA AfiH movement VIII DC IollOWed up
by similar organizations in other States ~ The
cOmbustibles Of agitation are famed into fame.
Now, where is the prospect Of peace and har.
mony, with these startling facts before us How
can this law remain as a settlement Of the ques.
ton involved, in view Of the unconquerable preu-
dice and hatred existing in the North against il
This Is the question for the calm consideration Of
the Union.loying and law-sbidng men Of both
the great parties OF the country. Hostility n
slavery is, 10 a fearful extent, sentiment Of
religious ianaticism in the North; and while Il
exists, there will be active and intriguing dema.
gogues 10 keep il alive, and turn il 10 their own
base and selfish purposes, utterly reckless Of the
consequences 10 the country. And thus Il i,
that Seward, Greeley and Bryant, Fred Douglass
and Gerrit Smith, are all cooperating 10 the
great end Of fomenting a rupture between the
North and The South, and the extinction OF
slavery, At the hazards Of disunion and civil war
Black spirits and white,
Red spirits and grey,
Mnge, mingle, mingle, minglc,
You that mingle may"
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