The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1852-01-18

efousy, seemingly ambitious oil attracting our attention
Yesterday it vapored hugely. displaying its puny and
nerveless the potent engine which has terrified
Because, having important things TO think OF,
often fail TO notice that il is impoenty swapping and
snarling at heels, il struts like victorious cham
pion brandishing its sword of lah and making itself dic
ulous.
Occasionally we have reiuted the positions OF the
Southern Press but, in doing have been prompted
sometimes by the knowledge that child if not curbed.
may produce mischief and sometimes have done 50
purely because had nothing else to do, and amused
leisure by prickng the swelling frog. lest he should
burst II has occurred to that it necessary
to yindicate ourself from any charge coming from the
Southern Press which impeached our fidelity to State.
rights principles. We shall never regard otherwise
than as compliment to patriotism imputaon
from disunion sheet-more especially when its advice
has been scorned and secuted by those for whom
il preends to speak When wish to know our duties
to country we will not 20 for enlightenment to
paper whose principal editor joined the wings in denoun
cling the Mexican when armies were in the field
When we wish to know duty 10 southern rights,
we shall not consult the columns OF journal one Of
whose editors thoroughly tainted with abolition
ism that for many years he would any fabric
Indiana Legislature, voted against law orbiddng black
men from marrying white women. When we wish to
know our duties TO our party we shall never consult a
print whose senior editor is old correspondent OF the
Louisville Journal and whose junior editor spent the most
of his manhood in support of the federal party in South
Carolina and who the editor OF wing paper in Coum-
ba when he became connected with the Southern Press
in this city We believe that two parties necessary
preserve the constitution and that the maintenance OF
democratic principles is demanded by the highest inter-
est of the country and therefore be excused if
manifest but little respect for the teachings Of jour
nal whose leading purpose has been the oberaton OF
party lines so that new parties might be formed.
When the Southern Press was first established General
Taylors policy had placed the southern wings between
the upper and the neither milestone. A wide gulf was
yawning between the wings OF the saveholdng and Of the
non-saveholdng States, 1t but natural that south
ern wings should, under those circumstances, wish to
themselves from the ruin which General Taylors
California recommendation threatened They found allies
among those who wished to break up the democratic
ganzaon in order to bring about dissolution of the
Union The allies succeeded in enrappng upright, hon
orable, and patriotic who really and truly de-
voted TO southern interests and who wished at the
seat OF government journal whose whole time could be
devoted TO the vindcaon of southern institutions from
unjust charges and to their defence from wrongful
saults Thus was the Southern Press established.
Soon the death of General Taylor and the passage OF
the compromise resolutions made the Southern Press no
longer necessary to the southern wings and it has since
devoted its entire energies to the disunionss. deserving
those patriotic men we have mentioned, who wished 10
journal at the seat OF government whose whole
time could be devoted TO the vndicaion OF the cons,itu
tona rights OF the South The self.consiiluted cham.
pon OF southern rights has denounced the principles OF
Of the best Of the rights party. II has
heaped opprobrious ephets on those who have acqui-
esced in the Compromise. embracing. from Virginia to
Texas men whose devotion strict construction of the
constitution il would dare to question in specific
terms
When democrat and wing unite to conduct poli,i-
cal paper il they do not unite to produce mischief they
consort together for no good purpose. The Southern
Press furnishes exception TO the general rule From
the beginning it has endeavored to foment dscord and
to destroy the old parties, that new ones might
be formed which would tear the Union 10 pieces
The two parties, democratic and wing, have exeried
a powerful influence in preserving the integrity OF
the confederacy They bound the North and the South
together. Religious associations had similar effect ;
and the Southern Press set to work deliberately TO
destroy these wholesome influences by sowing the seeds
of moral and political hatred between the North and the
South. It's columns have been the vehicles through
which ncendary sentiments speeches, and resolutions
were scattered through the southern States in order 10
name southern resentment and excite the southern PEG.
pie against the Union OF the States Some OF it's friends in
its fret days. thought that it would return the blows and
counteract the efforts OF the National Era buthey reck
oned without their host The National Era was necessary
to the Southern Press and has believe, been treated
with courtesy by the peculiar self constituted cham
pon of southern rights than any other press in the city
Of washington
The National Era with its black flag Of abolition for
one section OF the country, and the Southern Press with
its red flag OF dsunion for the oherthe one protesting
wish TO extend the rights OF man, and the other
the rights Of the States-have found common enc
my in the Washington Union. But both of these organs
feeling their weakened by the patriotic determine
ton Of the people to preserve our institutions
ceved them from fathers have attracted to their sup
port new recruit in the name OF the american Teie
groph. inscrbing on it's banner notification the
remedy for all the evils in our system. Whether
this trinity of factions will have power to break
up the democratic party than they had when acting
separately. remains TO be seem but inclined to
think that the day has passed when the abolitionis
the dlsunionis or the nu6er, do more than amuse
the public by their crazy fancics and childish specua-
tons II they had bank under their control like the
nuf dotun bv (seneral I.rksor ,ro ,.,~h.