The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-02-12

the Unions rec nt course had called down upon
its conductor not alone the stern censure of the
leading Democratic organs OF the South, but
also awakened Indignation at the North, where
some true Republicans are yet to be found. 10
proof of this we append portion Of an editori-
al from the Wilkesbarre (Pa.,) Farmer d. Journ-
al Indignantly repudiating and denouncing fell
lowship with such an organ of Democracy, and
exposing the course Of the Union, and the real
character Of the principles it has preached, and
still doggedly refuses to disavow.
Writing yet under the scourge of the South.
ern Democrats, and wincing under the lash of
the Savannah Georgian, this additions! castiga.
ton from the North will infict double smart.
1t touches the Union "on the raw" and we
commend it to the consideration of all who
prize principles more than party. Though SHE
principles sflhe Proclamation" may be "tle prin
ciples efthe East" it will be seen that they have
not gained universal acceptation at the North,
although the exsecretary of General JACKSON
strives to WELD his thunderbolts.
After some preliminary remarks, the Wilkes
barre Journal goes on to say:
When the Washington Union, under its pres
ent proprietor, uttered its salutatory to the peo-
pie of this Union, there was a thrill of JOY
percolated through our nerves, delightful to the
sense. We hailed it as the "par of a cloud
by day, and of fire by night" to guide the Demo
cratic party through the desert and gloom of
federal administration. A worse than Babylo.
r. l,zI 49,
treachery of some and by the blasting influence
of money, acting upon feeble minds. In Pen9-
sylvania all kind of experiments had been tried
by debauched and corrupt politicians, to be-
wilder and confound her Democracy, once 80
sound and orthodox under her Snyder and her
Findley. Some politicians, whom faction and
confusion had thrown high up in the public
view, had essayed to barter off that hardy
Democracy to the Puritancal knaves of New
England; and hence for years had been shap-
| ing public sentiment to that rascally desecra-
ton The circumstances of the times favored
the success of such Il plot-for, from the time
that Blair & Rivers had, by base counterplot,
been juggled out of the direction of the Globe,
we had no safe beacon light at Washington, to
adjust our reckoning by. Hence we hailed the
promises Of the Union with heart. felt Joy.
But our Joy was of short duration. For we
thought we soon saw, issued from that source,
mixed with the pure light of Jeffersonian De-
mocracy, the murky blue lights Of federalism
When we saw the Union, the professed organ of
American Democracy, prosttuting its columns
to the laudation of Daniel Webster-the great dra.
gon of federalism--the unrelenting enemy of
that Democracy; on whose head stone might be
inscribed--,frn pretioque, re fru leges, we felt
deeply humbled and disappointed. Instead of
indicating the severe, rigid and liberty defend
| ing principles Of the fathers Of the Democratic
party, we find the Union out Heroding Daniel
{, Webster or Alexander Hamilton himself, in their
doctrines Of consolidation and federal despotism.
Let the principles which Hamilton taught and
which Webster and his school have endeavored
to establish, oEcc gain the ascendency, and State
Rights and the liberty of the citizen would be
utterly blotted out. A despotsm would ensue,
more intolerabe and more hopeless than all the
real or tabled wrongs of Poland and Hungary
Again, when we saw the Union strike hands with
the heartless renegades. Cobb and Foote, and
wage in common with federalism, a disingeni-
GUS war against the purea and most patriotic
portion of the Democracy Of The South, we with
drew all faith and confidence in the professions
Of the Union.
What have been the sins of our Democratic
brethren at the South! Is it because they have
uttered their solemn prOtestations against twenty
years of violence done to their constitutional
rights? Is it because they are unwilling, with
out remonstrance to submit to the cruel usurpa-
tons of majority in Congress, upon their do
nestle and constitutional rights 1t truly
would seem that in these days of progress"
that it were utterly useless to invoke the guar.
antees Of the Constitution, against outrage,
when money or political power is the object of
attainment Was it magnanmous, was it gen.
erous in the editors of the Union who are of
the South, and who ought to have quick sym
PATTY for its wrongs, when they have seen it OPP
pressed and goaded into almost nextricable diff
fculties, to be found with ts perfdious enemies
and apostates from its cause, taking advantage
of bubbles, and quoting from the sayings and
doings of its most inveterate foes; to incupate
its motives or implicate its just resentments
with reasonable purposes? If it be the pur-
pose of the Union to provoke war between
the Democracy Of the North and the South, and
come in sharer with federalism, of the spoils
of victory over our Democracy, obtained
through such means, we do not sympathize
| with it.
| Indeed we think the Democratic party have
cause of complaint against the Union for being
made ans verable for motives and principles en-.
tirey foreign from its character and past histo
ry. In Europe there is no more natural source
whence TO Judge of the principles and objects of
party than the central leading paper which af-
fects to speak for that party. Then what esti
mate must statesmen and intelligent men in
other countries have of our conceptions of the
laws of nations, or of the social relations be-
tween nations, or even of the conceptions of our
domestic polity and duties, from the implication,
30 far as the action Of that paper has gone, of
the great Democratic party of this republic. with
the wretched, miserable, vagabond enterprise of
Lopez Indeed the editors of the Union seemed
to be deficient in all the attributes Of prudence,
energy, or statesman-like views, demanded by
their position. The Texas bond speculation
seems to have given an unfortunate bias to Mr.
| Donelson's notions of political economy, and
the main purpose of republican government
which we had fondly hoped was the protection
of her citizen in all his natural and civil rights
and that money and extravagant emolument
ought to have little Influence in the direction OF
government or the motives of its agents.
The success of the Texan bond speculation
ha. perhaps, with such men as Mr.. Foote and