The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-26


A .bort time since, we wrote an article under
thi. caption, in which we exposed the real posi-
tion of the fressoil Wings and Democrats who
had ranged under the old banners OF their re-
spective parties for the coming campaign. Con-
frmstion of the strongest kind ia every day af-
forded US of the truth of those statements, in
the editorials of the leading organs of both those
parties.
While the partizan organs in this city are ex.
hausting their wind in lengthy editorials, made
up either of bold assertions, abuse of their oppo.
nents, or stupid personalities, the Southern
Press alone furnishes the Southern people with
reliable Information, drawn from the fountain
heads themselves. We give them Northern
sentiment in the very language in which it is
conveyed through leading Northern journals.
Neither the Union, the Republic, nor the IntelH.
gencer dare do this. Their masters wont per-
NIT it: but their business is AZ much to suppress,
soften, and explain away the shortcomings they
cannot ignore, as to spatter mud over their op.
ponents. Hence our task of late mas been more
of careful collation. and exhibition of true North.
ern sentiment, than disquisition or speculation
upon it.
To the query which heads this article no d.
rect response has been made; but we find in
almost every Northern print, in some shape, an
answer to the question.
We suboin two: the first from leading
Democratic PIERCE and KING paper, (the organ
Of the VAN BURENs;) the second defining the
position Of an equally ardent Wing organ sup.
porting General Scorr, which is referred to as
lukewarm by its Democratic rival in the article
suboined.
DEMOCRATIC.
From the Nsio York Evening Post of July 49,
>. PAUSE IN A BATTLE Is NOT PEACE
One Of the most jealous Of the Massachusetts
journals in the interest of General Scott, the
Boston Atlas, ventures to affirm that all occa
sion for discussing any question growing out of
the existence of slavery in this country is At
an end After referring first to the Missouri
compromise, and then to the admission of Texas
rs one of the States of the American Union, the
Atlas proceeds to say:
"The third and last great epoch arose out of
the acquisition Of territory conquered from
Mexico. That having been settled, whether
right or wrong, we have no desire now to dis
cuss, we can sec no prospect of renewal of the
discussion, and we believe that the pillows of
contention, which arose mountains high while
the storm ragged, are fast subsiding, and indeed
have already subsidized into q peaceful calm
There are now remaining only few agitators in
Massachusetts and Georgia, who are doing what
they can to renew the controversy for their own
supposed political and pecuniary advantage; but
when compared with the great mass of the peo
pie, they are as insignificant in numbers, az their
object is despicable and base"
This passage is quoted, our readers will
please to observe, from a journal which, not
very long since, showed some zeal in maintain.
ing Freesoil opinions. We cannot allow it to
pass without one or two remarks.
There is every prospect, not of renewal, for
that is not the true term, but of continuance
of the discussion, az long as any attempts are
made to enforce the fugitive slave law. The
discussion seems, for the time, to have been
silenced in Congress, but it lie not silenced else.
where. Every pursuit of black fugitive into
the free States rekindles the controversy in al
its original heat, and nothing but the absolute
disuetude Of that law will quiet public opinion
on that point. Of the two millions of per. ons
who have read "Uncle Toms Cabin" we sup
pose there is not one who has not, in some way,
mingled in the discussion within the last few
months
But if that cause were removed, there are vet
others which will keep up the discussion as long
as the institution exists Here, for example, is
the question of recognizing the independence
of Hayti, which brings into the field new set
of controvefsialists. Hsyt is one of the best |
customers of the United States, and there is
strong commercial interest in favor of the re-. i
cognition of her independence The measure
is zealously opposed by the friends of slavery;
it is desired by the friends of commerce. Here
is new and ample matter of discussion,
Again, the question which comes up in the !
case of Manuel Pereira, the British subject i'm
prisoned at Charleston on account of his color,
is yet undecided, and may involve us in serious
collisions with foreign powers. If that we're
disposed of, there still remains the question of
slavery in the District of Columbia, for the ex |
tension of which Congress ia Responsible
question which may be brought up at any time.
For our own part we do not mean to recog
nize any termination to the discussion of the
questions incident to slavery as long as there is
anything loft to discuss. We shall treat the
subject with the same freedom, the same earn.
estness and the same decision, whenever it fair
~ comes before US, that we have always done,
allowing no considerations of party policy
that cowardly system which degrades and emas.
~~'~SSS WV JouihAiioul VI tnlb COu0trV-LO I'M
pose upon US even temporary silence.
wHIG.
The Boston Courier, which represents Mr..
WEBSTER, and has bolted the regular uomina.
ton in the hopes of getting up separate Union
party, thus characterises its neighbor, tho Atlas,
now strenuously supporting ScoTr:
at is only necessary to leave out of the &C.
count the masked abolitionism of that journal,
and it's whole train of underground mannuvres
to metamorphose the Wing party into freesoil
party. Is there man of any discernment who
does not know that for the last two years the
Atlas has been nothing but freesoil paper
That everything it has said and done, and thought
and imagined, and wished and designed, has
been of the most decided abolition, freesoi and
anti constitutional complexion That between
the political doctrines of the Atlas and those OF
the Boston Commonwealth and the New York
Iribune-those trumpets of sedtion and disor
ganization-you could not insert the sharpest
point of pair of metaphysical scissors! Il
there reader Of the Alias who does not know
that the Atlas, amidst all it's indiscriminate and