The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-30
From the Co atmbus ga Times.
Public r. Uniting Again,

The Union defends itself against the charge
of coal' lion with the Republic, Gin other words,
with rdr. Fillmore,) for the purpose of getting
the printing speculation, by attacking the South
err Press. Stung or every side like rascals,
b eng FLASHED naked through the world" il
spirits the venom of detected hypocracy and
treachery, from its fangless mouth, upon every
beholder of its iniIquity; but more especially
does it rave at the pointing finger of the South
ern Press. 1t seems really, to gasp in grasping
at the chance of rlaking it appear, that the Press
is no better than the Union. Just ms a man
about to be burg for an Infamous crime, would
seek consolation in the reflection that a few at
least had suffe red the same punishment for the
same offence.
But it 80 Happens that the Southern Press, so
far from being liable to any charge for an i'm
proper participation in that sort of spccuations
has not been permitted to do that portion of
the printing which, by law, it was entitled to do
at fair prices. For it will be remembered, that
Mr. Fillmore was directed by law, to give GER
tain printing to that newspaper in Washington
city, having the greatest circulation. The
Southern Press has it, Yet Mr.. Fillmore
Washington like, Mr. Fillmore, in violation of
his oath of Office, but in keeping with that pro-
clivity to do everything wrong, and which has
cost the people of the United States fifty two
millions of dollars for the ordinary expenses OF
the government for the last political year, gave
this printing to othcrs--as well as we recoect
| to his own immediate organ, the Republic, to be
| divided perhaps between it and the Union
| In the torture which it il suffering from the
| lash Of honest men--stimulated by the uncer
tainty which still hangs over the consummatio,
| of this coalition project, the Union proclaim,
4 L. q ttn Nat. D;x-l.t.
Rights, indeed What right of any State doe
in dispute with the general government, ex
2 cept by resort to revolution?
: While in one side of its mouth it holds tn
f bone thrown to it by Mr.. Fillmore and hi
friends, il snarls with the other, at what it call
disunionsts. Well; if there are disunionists
but few in all this broad land, have contribute
, more to make them So than the Union. TIL
injustice which, for the sake of the public print
A ing MISUNDERSTANDING in the sunlight O
the future before the dazzled eyes of the Union
it helped to fasten upon one section of tn
l. country-the stabs which it gave State sovel
eighty with dagger concealed beneath tn
cloak of its pretended friendship, have don
more to make disunionists than all the real dis
like of athe Constitution as it is, and the Unto
u as it was" since the last days of Arnold
: Oh that once more, by the exhaustion of it
resources, its bankruptcy, or by other means
our government may lose the power and capa
city of corrupting, q being corrupted-whe
I "virtue will not stand abashed, and vice be
candidate for praise"-so that temptations an
inducements to change its form by the destruc
ton of State sovereignty-by subjectng tn
creator to the rule of the created, may perisl
IKE plants from seed sown upon stony ground