The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-03

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A correspondent Of the Philadelphia Ledger
from this city, who uses "Observer" as his nom
de plume, but who is generally known 10 be
one FRANCIS GRUsD, has written letter under
date OF 23d nit, which requires some notice
from me. copy from that letter the following
splenetic extract:
"The public printing has not yet been defin-
itely Disposed of A new committee has been
appointed by Democratic Senatorial caucus,
but, as yet, they have been unable to come to
any definite conclusion. They all agree that the
present printer has forfeited bis contrsci--that
he has executed the greater part of his work in
an execrabie manner, &c, but they cannot agree
on the manner Of elecng a public printer.
''Mr. SouIe proposed, 10 caucus, to give the
Senate printing 10 the Southern Press !; TO
which Gen. Cass replied 10 most earnest terms
that the Nat. Era (Abolition and the opposite
extreme( has the same right TO the patronage of
the Senate which the Southern Press has. He
would never consent to such an extreme
tiona arrangement. The plan 10 sustain irea
soDable Secession sheet here in Washington is,
for the Southern Secessionists to have a check
on Gen Pierce. should he be unwilling to obey
the behests of half a dozen crazy hotspurs, and
to renew the dagraceful war upon the Consti
tuition and the Union from which we have but
just emerged
The Southern Press if left to itself, will
soon die natural death--as all papers will
which are only mnstering to particular preju-
dces and passions of men. They die, after they
have glutted those for whose ediiication they
sprang into existence. The sensible and patri-
otic men of the South are he rty tired Of the
reasonable trades Of the Southern Press, and
wish it, as far as they are concerned, at the bot
tom of the sea. II is for this reason that AN
amazed at Mr.. Soule's proposition, who has him
self but recently returned to The fold, and ought
70 have Il care even to avoid suspicion.
Another plan is to foi,t Mr.. Forsyth, the
raukest Secessonst of the South, as Il partner
and editor on the Washington Union This
would, indeed, be an Invaluable acquisition. and
stamp the rational organ OF the Democracy at
once as sectional print, and the whole Pres-
Dental canvass sectlous! canvass. hlr. For
syth edited, during the last canvass in Georgia,
the Georgia Times, one of the wheat Secession
sheets in the country, and that, too, after the
compromise measures had passed Congress.
These aniecedents do not qualify Mr.. Forsyth
for the editorshp of the Union, and it the Dem
ocratic party in Congress were to aid such an
arrangement it would render itself guilty Of an
unmitgated piece of folly,
"The Union if it shall have the slightest infu
ence, can only be edited by national man. The
hostility to Major Donelson arose from the fact
hat he was true Union man and that which
is now manifested in regard to Gen. Arm strong,
proceeds from the same source. II WAS hoped
that the platform and the nominations would
heal all differences, but it seems the South ia
determined to have every thing its own way
to rule or ruin. Quem uolunt perdere Dii con-
fitnd,la." 8 raHrm7a
Mr. GRUnD is the generally accredited mouth
piece of Gen. CAss. Whether this be the case
or not, if he has correctly reported Gen. CAsss
course in the Senatorial caucus to which he re-
fers, | have q right to assume that the writer
does not exceed his authority as mouth piece,
and only truly expresses Gen. CAss's feelings
and views. In this view of the case | turn from
the man to speak to the master ; and leave with
contempt the vile Hessian, who presumes to
call me ''vile Secessionist." Where do we
stand9 The great Democratic party has just en-
tered upon a canvass Of transcendent moment,
with candidates the unanimous choice of an au
gust convention Of its free election, and with
platform adopted in the magnanimous spirit of
compromise of differences, and amid general
and heartfelt fluctuations over the restoration
of harmony, good feeling, and reconciliation
among all sections of the party. From my own
State there was full accord, and clear and
friendly understanding between the rival dele
cations: and the irregular or Union delegation
was admitted to seats in the Convention by re-
quest ofthe regularly ppointedDemocratic dele
gates, and the two cast the votes of the State.
Was this reconciliation true or false On the
part of the Southern Rights Democracy pro-
nounce that it was a genuine and honest agree
ment to bury the hachet of dscord, and close
up the ranks Of the whole Democratic party,
however d fiering on former questions, in hear
ty support of the truly Republican ticket Of
PIERCE and KING. Buff General CAss speaks
the sentiments of his friends, if the Athens Ban
ner, the organ of Governor COBB, holds the Ian
guage Of authority for his friends, then is it an
idle mockery to say that the Democratic party is
reunited in the bonds of harmony and renewed
brotherhood And demand of the Democratic
party, now rallying to the support of its ticket
an answer to this question-if this want of
harmony does exist, aelose fault is ii Who is
it that hes reinvoked the ghost of disunion
which all true friends of PIERCE and KING would
wish were forever ,prisonedin the charnel house
where it was supposed the Baltimore Conven-
ton had laid it | fearessy answer, it is not
The Democrats Of my school, It is not my friends
who have been guilty of this wicked folly. On
the contrary, we have steadily held out the olive
branch of peace, and have beon met too often
with sucb proscriptiye insoence as General CAss
has put into the mouth of his hreling seribbler.
History is suggestive on this subject and in
its light, beg to ask of the friends of PIERCE
aud KING, what does Gen. CAss mean by this
violent philippe against the Southern Rights
Democracy That he should feel sore from his
late defeat is natural--that he should know