The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1852-07-05

corps oil collectors we can nnu 10 make the TOuno
Of our subscription list once in two years. we most
earnestly renew our request for them TO send Tor,
ward the dues Of the paper without being called
on in person. ".r .
Let every individual man, then. exert himself
in the cause of Southern Rights, for it is by indi-
vidual independence and energy that parties be-
gin, and organization follows. As for African
slavery, II can never be overthrown until the moral
distinctions OF the two races obliterated, either
by the progress OF the the decline Of the
other. The institution is strong enough to main
tain itself against all external aggression, II those
who are concerned in it shall determine. But
if il falls both enemies and friends will be buried
in the ruins.
WAsHIsoToN, July 2, 1852.
Editors Southern Press: .....-
A correspondent of the Philadelphia Ledger from
this city, who uses observer" his nom de plume
but who is generally known to be one Francis
Grund. has written letter, under date Of 23d ult,
which requires some notice from me. copy from
that letter the following splenetic extract:
"The public printing has not yet been definitely
disposed Of. new committee has been appoint
ed by Democratic Senatorial caucus, but as yet
they have been unable to come to any definite con
clusion. They all agree that the present printer
has forfeited his contract; that he has executed the
greater part of his work in al execrable manner
&c, but they cannot agree on the manner OF elect
ing public printer
Senate printing to the Southern Press; 10 which
General Cass replied in earnest terms that the
National Era (Abolition and the opposite extremely
has the same right to the patronage OF the Senate
| which the Southern PTess has. He would never
| consent to such an extreme sectional arrange
| ment. The plan to sustain reasonable secession
sheet here in Washington ID, Tor the southern Sc
cessionists to have check on General Pierce.
should he be unwilling to obey the bchests Of half
dozen crazy hotspurs, and to renew the Disgrace
full war upon the Constitution 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 ministering to particular prejudices and pas.
| sions Of men. They die after they have glutted
those for whose edifcation they sprang into exis-
tence. The sensible and patriotic men Of the South
heartily tired of the reasonable TRADES OF the
Southern Press, and wish it, as far as they are con-
cerned, at the bottom If the Ii ia Tor this rea-
| son that am amazed at MIR. Snule's proposition,
who has himself but recently returned to the fold,
and ought to have care even to avoid suspicion.
'Another plan is to foist Mr. Forsyth, the rank
est Secessionist OF the South, as partner and
editor on the Washington Union. This would,
indeed, be an invaluable acquisition, and stamp the
national organ of the Democracy at once as q sec
tional print and the whole Presidential canvass a
sectional canvass. Mr.. Forsyth edited, during
the last canvass in Georgia, the Georgia Times,
one of the yest Secession sheets in the country,
and that. too, after the Compromise measures had
passed Congress. These antecedcnts do not quail
ify MIR. Forsyth for the editorshp Of the Uhion,
and if the Democratic party in Congress were to
| aid such arrangement, it would render itself
guilty of an unlnitigated piece OF folly
"The Union, if it shall have the slightest intiu'
ence, can only be edited by national man. The
hostility to Major Donelson from the fact that
he was true Union man; and that which ID now
manifested in regard to Gen Armstrong proceeds
from the came source. 1t was hoped that the plat
form and the nominations would heal oil differ
ences but it seems the South is determined to have
every thing its own way-to rule or ruin. Quem
uol,snt perdere Dii conftndunt"
Mr. Grund ia the generally accredited mouth
piece of General Cass. Whether this be the case
not, if he has correctly reported General Cass's
in the Senatorial caucus to which he refers,
have right to assume that the writer does not
exceed his authority mouth piece, and only truly
expresses General Cuss'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 a "vile Secession
ist." Where do we stand? The great Democratic
party has just entered upon n canvass OF transcen
dent moment, with candidates the unanimous choice
of gust convention of its free election, and with
a platform adopted in the magnanlmous spirit oil
q compromise of differences, and amid general and
heartfelt fluctuations over the restoration OF har-
mony, good feeling, and reconciliation among all
sections Of the party From my own State therC
was full accord, and clear and friendly undcf
standing between the rival delegations; and the
Irregular Union delegation was admitted to
seats in the convention by request Of the regularly
the votes of the State. Was this reconciliation
true or false? On the part Of the Southern Rights
Democracy pronounce that 1t was genuine ana
honest agreement 10 bury the hatchet OF discord'
and close up the ranks of the whole Democratic
party, however differing on former questions, in
hearty support OF the truly republican ticket OF
Pierce and King. But if General Cass speaks
the sentiments of his friends, il the Athens Ban
nsr, the organ of Governor Cobb, holds the lah-
guage of authority for his friends, then it ia an
idle mockery to say that the Democratic party ID
reunited in the bonds of harmony and renewed
brotherhood. And l demand OF the Democratic
party, raying to the support of it's ticket, an
answer to this question: If this want Of harmony
does exist. ,phose fault IS in Who is it that has
friends of Pierce and King would wish for
ever prisoned in the charne.house where it was
supposed the Baltimore Convention had laid it?
fearessly answer, itis not the Democrats OF my
school; it is not my friends who have been guilty
of this wicked folly. On the contrary, zoe haze
steadily held out The olipe ranch of pace, and haue
been met too often ,citt such proscripipe nsolnce as
Gen. Cass hds put into the mouth Of his hirsling
scribbler.
History is suggestive this subject; and in it's
light beg to ask of the friends of Pierce and
King what does General Cass mean by this violent
philippe against the Southern Rights Democracy?
That 10 should feel from his late defeat is nat
ural-that he should know what hands sped the
shat that at once cut the thread Of ME political fate
and, at the time, by that act, saved the Demo-
cratic party from coming overthrow. ia not singular
how far does this disa ppointment go? Wouidit be
balm TO his wounded ambition to witness the defeat
next autumn, of the ticket by which he has been
superseded? Hi5 present course is suspicious; and
If he ia not aiming at it, he is at least willing to
encounter mighty risk of that great calamity to
the country for the sake of wrcaking his ven geance
on the freemen who chose not TO vote for him. ar
ragn Gen. Cass. then, as disturber of the Demo
cratic peacc--I charge him with having tossed
tirebrand into the bosom Of party, whence dis
cord had but just been banshed by common con-
sent accuse him of an attempt at prescription,
Which If IL succeeds, tpiH be dscisipe Of the defeat
Of Pierce and Kingfor il includes The Democratic
party of the South And let me tell my Demo
cratic friends, when it becomes a crime against
Democracy to be STATE Rights man-when every
Democrat who stands upon the Jeffersonian plat
form State independence and sovereignty, IL to be
hunted down and lied down under tho mad dog
cry Of "Disunionst," "Secessionist" and driven
from the party--that south OF the Potomac, the de-
mocratic party will dwindie into poraPsguard.
The Democratic party at the Southis State Rights
it was opposed to the principles Of the Compromise,
and although II took II under the panic raised by
the cry of 'sdisunion"-it is but the veriest hand
ful, the most contemplate minority of Democrats,
who have ever pronounced it " wise, liberal, and
just" 1t is then, nothing more or less than the
Democratic party of the South that Gen Cass pro-
poses TO prescribe and thrust from political cum
munion and fellowship is this party that, in the
cant Of the day unworthy Of his dignhed position
and antecedcnts, he classes with the opposite ex-
treme of Aboiitonists--thereby gibbeing the rob.
hor Md Inc nd he ed