The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1852-07-03

cratic party will d~indls into corporal's guard.
The Democratic party at the South Is State
Riehts--it was opposed to the principles OF the
COMPROMISE, and although, it took il under the
manic raised by the cry of "disunion"--it is but
the yeriest handful, the most contemplate min
ority of Democrats, who have ever pronounced
it awise, liberal and just" IL ID then, nothing
more or less than the Democratic party OF The
South that Gen CAss proposes to prescribe and
thrust from political communion and fellowship
it is this party, that in the cant OF The daya
unworthy of his dignihed position and antece-
dents, he classes with the opposite extreme OF
Abolitionists--thereby gibbeting the robber ana
the robbed, the aggressor and the assalled oy
the same rope | wish to know, whatever be
Gen. CAss's motives, be his ''in'ents good ana
charitable or the reverse, ask what is the end
of his course, but the destruction OF the Demo
cratic party 10 the South where it must have
power ia order to elect PIERCE and KING |
said history was Suggestive on this topic. II
has been the fashion Of politicians to revenge
themselves on tIt pputii ouPIoSou Siir'
ances The younger ADAMS devoted the latter
part of his life to such work MIR. Van buren,
wo ked bis vengeance most successfully and the
weight of the blow fell { the head Of LEWIS
CAss. will not say that bird figure is to be
added to this historical or ~; but the senator
from Michigan lays hms, pen to grave sus-
picions when he vounta. raises aloft the
brand of discord in the d. aocralc household.
The scribbler of Gen. CAss says that Maj.
DoEELsos was driven FROM the Union newspa-
per because he was "true union man" This
is Hessian fact, and is false Major
DoNELsoS met his fate, because being the organ
of the Democratic party, he took sides with a
small minority of that party in the South, separ-
ated from the majority on the question of com
promise; and became the organ of neW party,
made up Of the Wings almost en- masse and few
Democrats, We owe to that organization and
organising, the loss of three Democratic Senators
from the States of Louisiana, Mississippi, and
Georgia. Ii is another Hessian fact that Mr..
SoULE ia attempting to foist me on the
Washington Union, with view to giving it a
sectional tone Mr.. SoULE and those who act
with him do not wish to " rule much less TO
/" RUM They earnestly desire tho success of
the PIERCE ticket---as they should, for they are
the authors of it--and all they ask is voice in
the paper that is to be made the organ: and they
ask this, ii for no other reason, to test the sim
III, ~ hot and ,x,i,ich a1a
at Baltimore, and is now so ru'hlessly assaed by
Gen CAss in caucus of friends. This reason
able demand they will have, or have an organ
of their own. The charge against Mr.. SoULE
and his friends is only true against those who
countenance the course of Gen. CAss. 1t is I
they who are playing the game of" rule or ruin"
1t remains to be seen whether. the Democratic
party will again submit to have the party torn
by these disentombed Discussions, for the pur-
pose of gratifying the vengeance Of certain
gentlemen.
AS for us--and speak for Southern Rights
Democrats--we shall not be easily driven from
the support of the ticket of our creation and
choice Nothing can drive us off, short of the
discovery that the insane policy Of General CAss
ia to be triumphant in it's councils, and that
FRANKLIN PIERcEis that sort of & Union man"
that bases the hopes of the perpetuity of the
Union upon the ruins Of the rights, independ-
ence, and sovereignty Of the States. We hap
pen to know that General PIERCE does not be-
long to this class Of political constructonsts,
"A al 10 To ind hat
had he been Southern man, he would not, by
the selfsame act, have deserted the cause of his
country and the principles of the Democratic
State Rights creed No; the Democratic party,l
must go on to conquer, malgre the groans of
the :" Old Fogies," who have been crushed in
the progress of its victorious wheels. These
gentlemen have made the issue, and been over
thrown in the rencontre. The destinies of the
country, and of the Democratic party, are in the
hands of the true Democracy of the South-the
State Rights men and the Democracy Of the
whole Union, daguerreotyped under the ener-
getic soubriquet of "Young America" com
munity of principles and sympathies draws
them together, and together they must bear aloft
on their shoulders the hopes of freedom, and of
a Union founded on the constitutional principles
of justice and equality. No other union can
last, and the politician bears false name who
calls himself a g u Mon man. on any other prin-
cipss. He is Federalism Disguise,
JOHN FORSYTH.
They are building railroad N Egypt; and late
accounts from Alexandria tell that nine or ten
thousand workmen are activel' engaged upon it.
Think Of that Crossing the asert after loco
motive Good-by to camels and dromedaries
Farewell to tents beneath the spacious blue irma-
ment over head A t'long- farewell' to Arab