The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-04-16
The New Coalition.

FRIDAY. APRIL is, 1862.
The New Coalition.
The whitening exposure we have made, in th'
last few days, of the new and monstrous coali
ton has stung at last even the callous sensibty
of the editor of the Union to agony And ht
has assailed US in style which we delight Il
exhibit az specimen Of the decency and ca
pacity of our foes. lie charges us with an at
tempt to make a coalition, in the following man
ner:
This is proved by its own columns, which
are full of overtures Of the most gross kind
intended to control portion of the public print
ing. We cite a few Of these nnblushing ac-
acknowledgements Of profligacy. In that paper OF
the l4th of February last, is the following:
Let the two parties at the South, who differ so
little that there is only drop Of aggression be-
tween them, and mere difference in the mode of
resistance-et these parties now unite, and de-
mand indemnity for the compromise LEI them
REQUIRE the purchase of Cuba. The entente cordate
between England and France is now broken, and
thew can no longer interfere with negotiation
between us and Spain. The annexation Of Cuba
will restore the political equilibrium between the
North and South. And it will be a popular mea-
sure even in the North and West.
to give fat slices Of the census printing to our Ian
gushine friend Of the Union, and to the Republic
and the Inlelligcneer although they illegally with
hold the executive printing from us.
Again, on the 9Th of April, the same journal
acknowledges the agency of its friends in the
endeavor to bargain for the public printing:
An effort was made by some of our friends to
obtain for us share Of the census printing and
as this was controlled by Democratic majority
l.. IL urged n DINdDe elves
TO vote for the Democratic nominee. We stead
hstly refused to make any pledges or bargains.
We commended ourselves With saying that we
thought the Democratic nominee ould probably
be more acceptable to the South than the Wing,
and that opinion is entirely indicated by the
recent vote on the compromise. Ana we insisted
that since no party was strong enough alone to
control the printing, or any other question, It was
both necessary and proper that the two which had
the greatest ainities, both from previous and pro-
bable party association and principle, should
unite and give the printing to their respective
presses But we knew that, although mere were
IN the Democratic ranks many who might be con-
fded in for good faith and fair dealing, it also con-
tanned clique of nnrrow-minded, bitter, vindic-
tive, and proscriptive persons, who, however
friendly and cordial they might pretend to be be-
fore an election, would proscribe everybody not
Of their own set afterwards, even il they had to
obtain the aid of their political opponents to effect
it.
But, in order that the friends of this coalition
hating advocate of their cause of disunion may
understand how it receives their declaration in
behalf of it's purity and innocence, we make an
extract of it's Yesterdays leader in the following
words:
As for the policy of sacrificing US to the super
transcendental idea Of total political selfdenial,
we shall not acquiesce. IF any of our friends in
Congress are so exalted in their conceptions, they
may try the experiment on themselves OF having
no connexion with government, and resign their
Seats or at least their per d'e,n and mileage we
have such an abiding conviction OF our own po
litical integrity, that would risk the receipt of
the executive printing of which we are deprived in
violation Of law, we would accept half the Con-
gress printing, and half the census printing at
good prices, and still fancy ourselves quite as
pure and patriotic as any of the gentlemen who
are for Democratic reunion.
We should not have noticed such acknowl.
edgments Of profigacy, had not the honorable
member from Mississippi manifested 80 great ar
anxiety in his remarks lest the public interest
should fall sacrifice to the party bias of the
members of the Printing Committee.
Well, now, is it gross and profgate thing
for Southern press to propose union of both
parties at the South to obtain indemnity for the
past and security for the future! Is that gross
and proAigate! and is it not gross and prohigate
for a paper, pretendingIt to be Democratic, to
enter into coalition with the organ of a Wing
President, and one of the most bitter enemies Of
the Democracy? And was it gross and prof.
gate for paper like ours, having probably at
many Democratic subscribers ps the Union, to
k share of the Congress Printing from q
Democratic committee or Democratic Con
gress, and not gross and proAgate for the Union
to conspire with Wing organ to divide il be-
tween them? Why. the case of the candid
Dogbery, who insisted on writing himself down
an ass, is entirely eclipsed by this. organ editor
who, in imputing gross profigacy to us, brands
himself with that charge, with the superadded
one of a stupidity and absurdity that far ex
ceeds that of Dogberry. But this is not all
The Union actually charges us, in the last
quoted paragraph, with prohigacy, for proposing
to take share of printing from Congress, and
stands itself convicted of having accepted al
offer for such printing, obtained by coalition
of Wings and Democrats; and not only that, but
of demanding sum vastly greater than re,
sponsible printer in town offered to take Now,
is not this pretty specimen of a genius of an
editor to talk about profligacy and grossness
But the editor of the Union was determined
it seems, to leave the question of his stupidity
and proAigacy in no doubt, even in the minds Of
the few who are as obtuse as himself So he
says:
4" The South is faithful to the Union. 1t
hardly contains a regiment of men in favor al
the doctrines of the Southern Press, which is no
more the organ of State Rights party than it
is Of the Abolitionists."
Now, when the evidence was taken before the
Departments, some time ago, to determine the
right of the respective papers here to the Execu.
tive printing, the Southern Press had more sub
scrbers in the South than the Union had in all
the United States-North and South. And such
we suppose is still the case
Mr.. FREEMAN Yesterday said, in the debate or