The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-06-18
poIifIeaF and Personal.

vented his lmpotent malignlly on tile SouWs'H
Press and its editors in an article filled with
falsehoods, and reeking with calumnies, in utter
violation of all the rules of decency and truth.
If anything could tend TO sink that scurrillous
and stupid sheet, and its empty editor, lower in
the estimation of all upright and honorable men,
than its own fnsome batteries of Northern ag-
gressors and Southern recreants have already
done. the mean and malignant ISLANDERS which II
retails, would suffice to place it ina pillory for
scorn to point its slow unmoving finger at"
Until that Ioathsoms excrescence on the poll
tics Of that State sprung up, we had believed
that the soil of South Carolina, like that of Ire
land, could not propagate such crawling reptiles
but it's existence has been protracted agony,
and the paper as well as its conductor have been
unwilngy admitted into cooperation with any
party there, and both have been most unceremo
was no further need of the little aid they could
furnish. Out Of the district in which it is pub
iished, where an artful appeal to the old Union
feeling has given it some little hold on the pop
trils of the State, as its editor verified during
the session of the last convention, where he
occupied the attitude of his great exempar
Thomas H. Notwithstanding solitary and
alone, disdaned by those he had aided to defeat,
repudiated by those who had impatently tole-
rated his cooperation. five could condescend
to notice or respond to the personalities of the
article referred to, we might draw such pic
ture of our assaiant as to cause even him to
hang his head in shame, accustomed as he is to
manifestations of public contempt, but we can
we'll afford to treat his fiippant falsehoods with
the scorn they merit since even he himself
knows them to be utterly devoid of all founda.
ton The whole course of the Southern Press,
past and present, and the antecedents of its edi
tors--whc have made those sacrifices in purse
and person, talked of by many--stamp their real
character on the base insinuatons or open allie
cations which that foul libel contains 1t is
stepped and saturated in falsehood, and the
very father of all lies might claim this out
pouring as an immediate emanation from HIM
self, so wantonly, meanly malignant is it, so
utterly destitute even of the semblance of truth
Blinded like viper by its venom, the blow is
struck in the dark, and all who read it will mar
vel more at the stupidity than the malignify OF
such an assault, from such a source at such
time
We owe an apology to our readers for at
tracing their attention to so insignificant sub
ject as this forlorn specimen of South Carolina
submissonst-and for so doing, must plead the
spology offered by Pope on similar occasion
''Let Sporus tremble--
What that thing OF silk I
Sporus that mere white curd of Asses milk.
Satire or sense, alas can Sporus feel,
Who breaks butterfly upon the wheel
"Yet, let me flap this bug with gded wings,
This painted child of dirt, that stinks and stngs
Whose buzz the witty and the fair annoys,
Yet wit ne 'er tastes, and beauty ne Ter enjoys,
Whether in ford impotence he speaks,
And, as the prompter moves the puppet seueaks,
Or at the ear of Eve, familiar toad,
Half froth, half venom spits himself abroad"
One word only US to the taunt that the editors
of the Southern Press "own no negroes and
had no property in the Southern States or any
sohere else" Had this been true, none but the
basest nature would have considered poverty as
a reproach, more especially when the pathway
to preferment and to fortune was open TO COM
plisnces less base than those eagerly embraced
by the "patriots" of the submission school.
But this statement is as false as the rest The
senior editor of this paper is man of property,
portion only of which he has devoted to the
common birth right, which his assailant was will
ing TO sell for a mess of pottage. If there be
in this country single man, with the exception
of JOHN C. CALHOUN, who has done more to
strengthen the institution of slavery, and vindi
cate the moral, social and political equality OF
the South in this Union, that man is ELLwooD |
FISHER and his defamer knows it.
His colleague (who writes this article with |
out his privity) deems it but simple justice TO
him to say this much. As TO himself, he regards
both the assault and the assailaut with equal
contempt, for he knows that within his own
State, where the facts of his connection with
this paper, and its consequences, are we'll known,
that such an allusion can inspire only indignation
and disgust, even in the breasts of generous ad-
che editor of the Patriot in the pory of his
own construction
From the Southern Patriot
THE SOUTHERN PREss.-This vile and un.
principled sheet, which has, ever since its first
issue been striving to dissolve the Union, under
the pretence of protecting the rights ofthe South,
and which has denounced in unmeasured terms
both Wings and Democrats, because they would
not unite in its treason, has lately come out and
given in its adhesion to the national Democratic
party, and with unparalleled efrontery, says that
the Baltimore convention should do nothing TO
drive OIL the support of the Northern Abolition
,sts IN the ensuing Presidential election We
have scarcely ever known, in the whole history
of the press. anything more reckless and infa-
nous than this declaration Of the disunion or
gan at Washington. The whole course of the
Southern Press has been to denounce every one
in the South for not taking holder ground against
The Abolitionists who opposed the destruction
Of the republic. Now 1t comes out and courts