Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-05-18
The Demands OF the Boilers.

1t is pleasant and refreshing to turn from the
exciting and acrimonious defamation of politi-
clans to the clear, cool, just, and sensible out
breathings of the PEOPLE of the South. OF the
latter we find fair specimen in the New Orleans
Delta of the 9Th instant. That paper says:
by the want of harmony we were compelled
to submit to an inequitable adjustment and then
to promote some little dirty party or personal
schemes, we made the breach between our peo-
pie wider on the merits of fat accomph Now,
the past has taught us the folly and inutility Of
battling for Southern rights until we of the
South are perfectly united; il has also shown the
great danger and impolicy of continuing a Sec
tional dispute by which we have already lost
so much, and are likely TO lose much more
Hence, we are opposed to all agitation ut present
We are for submitting to the present-and for
the future sufficient is the evil thereof What we
have got we can fight for 1Uhe1 Il is dss0iled.
Let us wait until it is There is nothing 10 be made
bat sport for politicians By putting oy and knocking
dopcn strdW-men, though you may write Disunionist
and Freesoer on their breast Nor can you
now, as in the days of William the Testy, con-
duct political any more than physical warfare,
by bulletins, procldmationS, Picdges, Platforms &c.
These are all bruta tiinamd. The stubborn Free
sellers are not Mongos, to be scared oil by fright
ful figures of Chinese on the walls devouring
them by wholesale You may pass as many reso-
lutions as you choose. You may scare your Pres-
sdeatiaL candidates into all sorts of pledges for
Southern rights. You may push through Con-
gress resolutions every month, declaring that the
fugitiue Stare lar is lac but whilst all these
maneuvres do not advance your interests an
inch, you are only showing your own weakness,
exposing your hand to your enemy, and giving
him strength and encouragement for future ag-
gressions. ...
How true is all this in regard to the eleven
respectable Southern gentlemen who issued the
address published in Tuesdays Delta They
are, no doubt, prompted by the very best mo-
tiyes; but 1ohdt haze they accomplished and achat
hare they exposed? They have accomplished moth
ing, except to Great temporary dissension IN Their
party; but they haze exposed The rant Of harmony
Of Southern gentlemen on question deemed by them
vital. These gentlemen believe that the safety of
the South demands certain pledges from the North
before they can go into convention. There is no
doubt, in their minds, it is matter involving the
Union-one which overrides all others, and sur
passes the obligations of party. And how, in their
wnparty, does this expose show the Southern gen.
tlemen stood on this question? There were pres
ent in the caucus, to vote, twenty-one Represen-
tatives from the South. Of these, eight voted
for exacting this vital pledge, thirteen voted
against it. Among the latter, are Senators I'm
derwood and Mangum, Representatives Grey
anu Wuiu, VI VI mlSsOuEls Iul-
lon, of Tennessee, Stanly and Moorehead, Of North
Carolina. OF those who voted for exacung the
pledges, but eleven were willing to sign the ad.
dress to the Wings of the South warning them OF
this dangerous mannuvre. Where, on this occa
sion, we're the other eminent Wing Senators anu
Representatives of the South Where were Der
rien, Badger, Dawson, Jones, Bell, ana ueyeI
all Senators, and honored chiefs OF tnen p"9
Where were Stephens Toombs, and host host 2; 2,
other younger Wings who lead tner P''' -
the House Of Representatives ..;.;,0, r0o,rort
Now here in matter of such CRITICAL m mon
agreements among our own seGtGn@, rePtes St
u .,rTT orr AGITATION UNTIL FURTHER AG-
apESSI0NS BEGIN TO THREATEN, or at
Sons, until some approach to harmony and union
CON be effected in our ranks :"