The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-03

posure. Evidently believing however, th4 j
is only withheld from renewing its assaults OF
Southern and State Rights by sense OF It's
present imbecility, and persuaded, as was oTHEL
Lo, that
-" If it lives,
1t will betray more meh-
the presses it has provoked continue 10 beiaDor
il, and enlist new allies in the work. we sub
Join specimen from the Memphis Appeal
When the Union is repudated, even in Ten
nessee, it may indeed re -echo Mr.. WEBsTER's
question:
THE WASHINGTON UNION AND OURsELF.-
We are gratiied to find that the recent unjust
and unwarranted assault of the Washington
Union upon us, charging US with the defeat of
Gov. Trousdale, and with denOuncng the ma.
tonal Democracy, meets with no favor in this
section of the Union, so far as we have as yet
been enabled to gather public sentiment. On
the contrary, like all other ISLANDERS, it bids fair
to recol upon the Union itself, whose folly and
indiscretion seem to have rendered it oblivious
to the wisdom and truth Of the old maxim that
"those who live in glass houses should not
throw stones" We published day or two
.ince an extract from the Hopkinsvie (Ky)
Press, in which the Union itself was charged,
in round terms, with the defeat of our noble
standard bearer. In confederation of this, we
introduce the following article from one of the
abest and most reliable Democratic papers in
the Southwest the Nashville American, whose
locality enables it to speak integently on the
subject. We certainly feel much indebted to
the American for the substantial aid" which it
has rendered us in this matter. The good opin-
ion of the sterling Democracy of our own sis
ter States, enables us to brook, with becoming
complacency, the bulls of communication
that emanate from the small organ grinders
about Washington city.
From the Nashville .lnlerican.
The MEMPHIS APPEAL Washington
Union makes an unjust attack upon the Mem.
phis Appeal. ltcharges the Appeal with having
injured Gov. Trousdale in the last election. A
sufficient answer to this charge is found in the
fact that in the section of the State where the
Appeal is most widely circulated, Gov. Trous-
dale gained votes, whilst he lost in other sec.
tions. We believe that the personal presence
of the editor of the Washington Union in this
State, and the course of his paper, did Gov.
Trousdale more harm than anything else.
The attack Of the Washington Union on the
Appeal is copied with avidity in the Banner, and
affords that paper great aid and comfort. This
little fact shows very clearly the effect Of the
Unions course. Wing editors very seldom praise
and approve of the course of Democratic papers,
unless there is something wrong in it. We as
sure the Union that its assault on the Appeal
finds no favor with Tennessee Democrats, and
that, while some of our party may not wholly
approve of all the views of that paper relative
to the compromise, it is unanimously regarded
as one of the soundest, ablest, and most intlu-
entail of the organs of the party. The Wash
ington Union only Injuries itself, and engenders
suspicious of its own soundness among the De-
mocracy of Tennessee, when it attacks the APP
peal, and is praised for its course by the Wing
papers.