The southern press. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-26

North against the South hss given much
strength and power 10 the antLsiaycry sentiment
And now again. the South bars the way 10 the
new and perilOus policy Of intervention in Euro
pean affairs.
Now we must be permitted to say, in dis
charge Of our duty TO the whole South, and
notwithstanding the bitter personal feelings
which have recently been excited between
Southern men, that this new question taken IL
connection with the recorded declarations Of
the Southern Rights and Union parties, brings
them more closely together than the Northern
and Southern divisions of the national parties
now stand. Aud that although we have spoken
without reserve, in condemnation OF the course o.
the Union party at the South, we would
not permit these personal animostes, nor any
party interests to govern US, so rs to pro
long the divisions Of the South, IL union OF bel
sons is necessary not only for her sake, but fol
the sake of the Constitution, and for the sake Of
the established traditional policy Of WASHING
TON.
We do not mean 10 insist on distractions
We admit the right Of one country or govern
ment to interfere with the affairs OF any other
for se'fpreservation or self protection. But we
maintain that no such case as yet exists, and tina,
no,o it is our policy and duty to observe rigid
neutrality as to foreign nations.
Nor do we now propose TO renounce one jo'
or title Of what we have said about the Com
promise. We reiterate here, and now, that il
was no Compromise, that 1t has not stood, thai
it cannot stand
Looking, then, at the political combinations thai
are proposed, at the questions pending, and al
the events impending, we must say that the con.
tingency Of a union or compromise between the
two existing parties at the South is an event
which might as well be taken into the consde.
ration of statesmen and patriots of the South
as well as the politicians, quite as we'll as some
ofthe other combinations proposed.
The Intervention policy is no transient or 'tri,
vial thing. The idea Of regulating the affairs Of
Europe, and of liberating her masses, is per.
fectly conformable to the vulgar and popular
conceptions of powerful people, and morbid
philanthropy. The love of conquest and Of
yictory-when has it been resisted, either by the
multitude or the monarch
And then are there no domestic questions be.
sides the Compromise on which the South and
the North will differ! WHAT'S to be done with
the public lands? The policy of the North is
now rapidly tending to their entire confiscatior
and surrender to the pauperism of this country
and Europe Even Mr. WEBSTER has avowed
this policy. Is the South ready to acquiesce
Will she, after surendering the right of occu.
pancy to large portion as .fnahty, surrender
the right of ownership?
But it may be said that the idea Of the union Of
the South preposterous, because even lift were
to occur, she would be in minority-and would
be powerless Far from it, whenever the South
unites, she win always obtain the cooperation
of some one portion or another of the North on
one question or another, and will thus avert OF
mitigate mischief, if she cannot control the
course of the federal government. Illinois and
Indiana, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and
California will on some one question or another
and in fact, on several, act with the South.
These things we insist again deserve con
sideration. And we beg of the whole South to
tranquilize, at least, the personal excitement
which has resulted from the late contest, and
leave reason and principle uudisturbed to &c,
for the welfare, not only Of the South, but Of
the whole country.