The southern press., 1852-01-22

expected. When he returns he will vindlcate
himself from these stale slanders-as be has re-
peatedly before. AS far as regards the junior
editor, response is hardly necessary-for every
one who knows aught of his political history.
knows that he left an influential and profitable
position in his native State, at the call of the
Southern members of Congress, to advocate
what he knew to be an unpopular and almost
desperate cause. And that he obeyed that al
not from the mercenary motives, but from the
promptings Of not ignoble ambition, and the
intense conviction of the truth and justice of the
cause he was invited to adyocate--a cause as
high and holy as that of Hungary, or any other
struggling people. Through good report and
evil report, the Southern Press has fought that
battle and sink or swim, survive or perish,
while one cartridge remains in its arsenal, viii
FIRE still ON the foes of the South, open or con-
cealed. Without farther fee or reward, then
the spontaneous tribute of the Southern people,
this Press has fought the fight for the imper-
illed interests honor, and existence of the South
in this eonfederacy, which such court journals
as the Iaielligencer and Republic, and greedy
political wreckers like the Union, would con-
vert into consolidated despotism
And it is in our power to state one fact in
itself most significant of the sentiment enter
tanned by the Administration, and its advisers
here, with regard to the position Of the two
papers respectively when the opportunity
was offered to the Powers that Be" to starve
out the Union, by an act Of simple justice, in
behalf Of The Southern Press, they refused 10 do IL.
The Administration understood its own inter-
ests-and in the very face Of the express pro-
visions. of the. act Of Congress, the heads of
the different Departments have refused to give
their printing to the Southern Press, instead of
the Union, on the basis of the largest subscrip-
ton, substantiated on oath before their Depart.
ments-and still Withhold it, though without
the shadow of apology for so doing.
a fsIlo,o feeling makes us irondrous kind
and spoilsmen of both parties, though nomi.
nally hostile have that feeling for each other
We have not pressed this matter hitherto
because of the absence of the senior editor, who
has the proofs in his possession, but we state the
fact merely to show the Southern Representa-.
tiyes and the Southern people of the joint inter-
est the old organs have in keeping both parties
alire."
Thus il will be seen that the Union, the pre-
tended organ of Democracy, has been kept alive
during the past summer, through the bounty of
the opposition, bestowed in the very teeth of law
and justice, for the purpose of starving out
as they supposed they could do--the only real
antagonist, the Southern Press
The protracted absence of one, and the pro-
tracted illness of the other editor OF the South-
ern Press, have alone prevented thus far, a full
exposure of this political, and, as they probably
deemed it, apious fraud" on the part of the Al
lied Powers.
Whatever may be thought of the morale of
this course, it yet was a stroke of policy on the
part Of the Administration to keep alive" the
Umion-for never could they hope to obtain SO
imbecie and impotent an opposition organ
again-the only one that could have kept both
parties alive"
But we find that the subject is seducing us
into unwonted prolixity-and therefore dismiss
the Union for the present. with the promise OF
analyzigg and exposing, at our leisure, the mon.
strous rsstrdities and misstatements which make
up its pretended history of the establishment Of
the Southern Press, and the antecedents of its
editors.