The southern press., 1852-01-10
SOUTHERN PRESS
WASHINGTON. CITY.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1852


SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1852
H-Wo publish Mr. BEsroS's letter of in
structions to his friends, in another column. A
press of other matters cOmpels us to defer com
ment on it to-day-but we can afford to let him
speak for himself The same letter that carries
! the poison also conveys the antidote. He shows
his hand plainly.
The JashsSn Denseratis Association and In.
terve ntlsa Everywhere. :
We published yesterday morning sketch o
the proceedings of this Association, furnished by
our reporter The full report appeared in the
Union of yesterday. whose chief editor was a
participant in the ceremonial ;, aud made JACK
SON States Rights speech on the occasion. The
proceedings OF this meeting are Of character
TO excite reflection, and call for comment, which
we shall make as briefly as possible. The de
monstration, though nominally in honor of the
victor OF New Orleans, was converted by its
managers into KossUTm celebration, and the
attempt made to commit the Democratic party
to his policy of Intervention )or nOn'inierren
tion"-and more; for in their Jealous advocacy
OF propagandism, the managers Of this festival
have gone a bow.shot beyond even kossUTH
himself; for. while he OILY insists upon the
adoption of his views, as carrying out the policy
of n0n-interventiOn, the committee, in the tenth
regular toast, repudiate and condemn non-inter-
rention as 'orong principle in our political
system. Here is the sentiment:
10th. Non INTERNATIONAL WRONG pRINCI
PIE IN OUR POLITICAL SYSTEM, WHEN DEsPoTs
ARE wAGING UNHoLY WAR AGAINST LIBERTY.
If this be not propagandism of the broadesi
kind, the first ralying cry TO crusade Of
universal Intervention in all places where
such struggles are, or are supposed to be in
progress, then words have lost their meaning
We have anticipated this movement on the part
of this Association ever since the delivery OF
its address to KossUrH prepared by the same
hand that moulded and framed the programme
of these proceedings When that address was
published, We then exposed the remarkable co
incidence between it and the ne,p plank which
Col. BENToK's st. Lonis organ proposed laying
down on it's Democratic Freesoil platform
" The Kossurn INTERVENTION UNIVERSAL LIB
ERTY PLANK"-an abolition of " the wrong prin-
ciple in our political system" and the substitu.
ton of universal interference on the part OF
the government, abroad and at home. This is
the new plank" that the Jackson Association
propose laying down on the Baltimore platform
this organization, since the decadence OF
Tdmmony Hail. appearing ambitious of the dis
tinction of giving law to tho party, and gaining
the sway once exercised by that club over the
unterrified Democracy of the North"
But the finger Of FRANCIS p. BLAIR, the in.
tiuence of his peculiar friends, and the "progres-
sive democracy" which they preach, will not
serve to consolidate its rower, or give it the
position it seeks. There is a conservative ele-
ment, as we'll as u destructive one, in the Demo
cratic party; and though the progressives"
may be the more noisy and most denlonstrative,
those who, like Gen. CAss, jump down so sud
denly and so heavily on their platform, will
find themselves precipitated from that giddy
height into soil and society of curious kind, as
sOon as the first noise and confusion" of this
kossUTH excitement has passed away, and the
sober second thought" returned. We give in
full, in another column, this second address OF
Mr.. BLAIR, and KossuTH's reply The sane
features that characterised the FIRST address are
displayed in this second otfspring of the busy
brain and ready pen of this able thinker and
writer-again coming prominently forward to
take his part in the war for the succession, after
an abdication of organshp of several years du-
ration. The fast and unAinching friend of Dir.
BENTON and the VAN BURENs, every one who
knows aught Of his past history, knows on
which side he does battle and what dynasty he
seeks to restore. He is no mercenary Harry
of the Wynd' in this battle of the Clans, to
Z" fight for his own hand" but strikes with his
stalwart arm for the restoration of his friends
and his party to power. And in this new doe
trine of propagandism, proclaimed through this
Association as the policy Of the Democracy, he
finds the Archimedean lever with which to move
the political world.
We desire here distinctly to be understood as
not duplicating in these views, or in the ct psc.
quences of these proceedings, many Of the dis
tinguished gentlemen who were present and took
part. They could not justly be held responsible
for the turn things took, or for the toasts pre-
pared by the contrvers and controllers of the
festival. Each and every one ef The leading
Democrats present is responsible only for The
opinions and sentiments ,ch;ch he himself gaze
utterance to, and no further What the position
of each may be, with reference to this grave !
question, we intend that each shall explain in
his own way, through his own words, and that
each shall define his own position. as several
already have done explicitly and fully
So soon as authorized copies of the remarks
OF leading politicians at the two banquets here
shall be furnished, we shall lay them before our
readers, that they may form their own ndepen-