The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1852-09-23

goes VIII nilu dCcesS w IIe near 70 vi Vh0 OVPo'
Wing and Democratic, and multiply voters for
Freedom
PROGRESS
Mr. Pryor lately the editor of the South
Side Democrat. published at Petersburg Vir-
ginia. has become connected with the Wash
ington Union, as assistant editor
The Union, it must be recollected is the
great champion of the Compromise. In the
ory it is prominently national, representing
the Democracy of the North and the South
of the East and the West OF course, it il
devoted to the Union, and regards with adm
ration the paternal Government of the Union
But its new assistant editor must have
changed his views greatly, if he sympathizes
with it in these respects. The South Side
Democrat which he edited with great deal
of vigor and spirit, was fercely opposed to the
Compromise; and after its passage, would not
be satisfied with it. June 7, 1851, long after
the Compromise measures had become law
and while the Union was seeking to make
them the platform of the Democracy, he thus
wrote in an editorial on the Public Lands:
"When we contemplate the disposition OF
the common property of the confederated
States made by Congress the agent of these
States, there is disclosed to our view one of the
most gigantic social outrages and political
wrongs of which record can be found in any
history. And there are circumstances of az
hs.b
deepen its enOrmity Contrast for instance,
the conduct of the South and the conduct of
the North in reference to the disposition of the
public lands Virginia, to facilitate the adop-
ton of the Federal Constitution, and to con-
summate the Union, surrendered an empire,
not to the common use of the COnfederacy but
to the exclusive en- Oyment of the anti-slavery
section of the Union And how was this gen
erous folly 1--WE can but call it, requited by the
North 2 By ingratitude, injustice, oppression,
and wrong
Such is the opinion entertained of the North
by one Of the editors of the Union, which pro-
fesses to be national, free from any sectional
feeling or prejudice.
The same editorial goes on to say
"This henOus wrong, this monster injustice
is perpetrated by Government which pre-
tends to protect our rights Does the history
of any despotism in Europe furnish an instance
of such wholesale robbery! But enormous a.
is this injustice in itself, it swels into still
more gigantic proportions, when we contenl-
plate the end it is designed to accomplish. We
are robbed of our rights and plundered of our
for what That the enemy of our
institutions and our liberty may, with increased
facilities and augmented strength, accomplish
his purpose in the political degradation Of the
South"
Again:
"The South is excluded from the enjoyment
of the public lands, and they are parcclled out
among the partisans of Abolition. Every in
ducement is extended to the pauper population
of Europe to fill up this vacant land, and in
return for the bounty, they enlist with all their
savage vehemence in their crusade against
slavery. Thus the present policy of the Fed
eral Government in relation to the public
lands will inevitably compass the destruction
Of slavery Connect this disastrous consum-
nation with the inequality and injustice of the
policy itself, and say, if ever any Government,
the most corrupt and despotic, trampled upon
its subjects with such circumstances of outrage,
insult, and wrong?'
Such a year ago were the publicly recorded
opinions of this associate editor of the Union,
the Government, the North, Foreign
and the Compromise measures
and now by his editorial connection with the
Union, he is involved actively in the support
of policy which, according to his solemn aver
ments, has excluded the South from the en-
loyment of the public lands,o holds out al in
ducements to the pauper population of Europe
to fill up this vacant land and Twill inevta-
bly, compass the destruction of slavery From
day to day, the complaint of the Union against
Scott is, that he is not sincere friend of the
Compromise policy and its strong argument
for the Democracy is, that it is sincerely we'd
ded to this policy; and yet, but little while
since its assistant editor, in view of its enact
ment, exclaimed" Say, if ever any Govern
ment, the most corrupt and despotic trampled
upon its subjects with such circumstances of
outrage, insult, and wrong?"
Times change-latitudes changc-and men
change
We hail this capacity for progress in our
Southern friends IL is a good omen What
may we not expect in the future 2
"UNcLE TOMS CABIN" IN GERMAN.-We
learn that German translation of Uncle
Toms Cabin is now appearing in the New Eng
land Zeitung, a German Free Soil paper, pub
lished scmi-weekly at Boston. Our informant
says that though full jnstice can never be-
done to the original in n translation, still the
Boston translation is not near so correct as il
might be and it skps occasionally whole SEN
fences, or more
A MALIGNANT FALsEHooD-Mr. Merrill, Of
Washington, Ohio, writes, Sept sth, that Mr.
Johnston, of Cincinnati, has made the declara-
ton that /" John p. Hale could drink more rum,
and is more given to lewdness, than any man
in Washington City, Mr. Merrill cannot be-
lieve the statement, but asks us to contradict
it. We do it with pleasure 1t il base false
hood, and everybody in Washington City, who
knows Mr. Hale, knows it to be 30. His nu-
merous friends know that he is strictly tenn
perate and pure in his habits and this is the
first time we have ever heard such a charge
madc against him, We have been intimate
with Mr. Hale for nearly five years, and know
what We say.
GENERAL ScorT left Washington last Fri.
day, on his way to the West, with view to
the location of one of the three Army Asylums
authorized by law to be established, The dis
charge OF this duty is very opportuns in moro
respects than one.
STILL THEY coME!-The Worcester Spy SAYS,
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