Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1854-05-12
kro CORRESPONDENTS.
Asolltl on Desperation.

the Cuban question, appear to be exciting something
like spirit Of desperation on the part of the aboi>
ton press. We surprised, however, at any
ebulition Of violent temper and crazy iana'icsm in
which such journals may indulge. 1t is their voca
ton to preach sedtion and revolution and Try to stir
up popular excitement whenever any of their cherish
ed hopes and schemes in serious danger Of being
baffled They would, no doubt, paradoxical as it
may seem, live intensely unhappy life if they had
not the privilege of making themselves perpetualy
miserable about the peculiar institution 1t is their
meat and drink, their staff and comforter, the
present soace Of their morbid and melancl oily ma
lures To rail against slavery, TO denouncc its ag-
gressive spirit and expend their dismal rhetoric upon
the imaginary cruelties Of the save-driver what
they have been solong accustomed to, that it would
be grossly selfish and ungenerous to insist upon their
giving il up. 1t would summarily deprive them Of
their only means Of subsistence, physical or mental
and send the whLc malignant and desperate crew
incontinently to tho dogs To rail- and fume, and
fret, and swear, is great relief to their troubled
souls and will have trust, but little effect upon
the better and intelligent portion Of our people
even at the North That Southern institutions and
the Union also, will survive their reasonable olies
W, have good reason to believe. Public sentiment
q: the North, despite both the insane fury of The
press and the vulgar basphemics of the priests, s.
we may hope rapidly re-adjustng itself, and will tie
sound when the time comes, to be duly acqucscent
both in the passage of the Nebraska BILL and in the
acquisition of Cuba save-holding State. If not
the responsibility Of all the consequences that may
unhappiy follow, will rest upon them and not upon
the South.
1t is to be denied, however that there is some
ave and desperate on the part Of some of the
Abolition press The New Yor Times, for instance,
dares that Cuba will never into the Union
as slave State. If does the North is urged to mt
the fragrant and nolerabc insult by Immediately and
deliberately proceeding to dissolve the Union
Whether this Gotham fanatic is only exercising him
self in empty threat and harmless gasconad wheth
or he really means what he says in print, not
prepared to determine. Nor is the solution Of the
question matter of any very great consequence.
Tire i'V'''', rrrahend will not permit itself to lie
driven to violent extremes upon this or any OTHER
subject to appease the arocious and dastardly lana
ticsm Of journal that lives and moves and has its
being in sectional strife and agitation Nor, II it
does, will the South be moved from the srae hit
line of its duty and its interests by consenng to pay
the least regard to the intimidation the acts of its
enemies. 1t will rely for protection upon the guar
antees of the Constitution, and honestly pursue its
welfare in the Union long that is possible But
when it becomes impossible, it will then, painful as
the necessity may be- seek its safety and prosperity
out of the Union At all events it can never be Sc
duced or frightened from any position it may once
firmly assume 1t trusts entirely to It's own resources
energy and courage in any eme gency that NAV over.
take il.
If Northern madIy suppose that Cuba, when
acquired will be admitted into the Union as a free
State, they are grievousy mistaken Such an event
is not upon the calendar of probabilities, and, if it
were, it requires not the gift of prophecy to oretell
that the South would submit to its contamination
To thus submit would be not only to resign It's duty
and its interests but it would amount to even n sur
render Of the right of preservation-to dcbe-
ratey shut its eyes to danger that menaced its very
existence. Who doubt the effect upon the entire
South, of allowing Cuba to be erected into free
State2 To be garrisoned by Abotonists, and con.
verted into den of Abolition thieves and outlaws
is very certain that the South can never consent TO
be surrounded bya Gordon of free states To be pen
up, cramped, dwared without due elbow room and
without the requisite outlets to its surplus slave pop
ulaton. To admit Cuba, therefore, without slavery,
would be but the beginning of the cnd-it would be
the entering wedge to the successful establishment of
the cherished Abolition policy of exnguishing slave
ry 10y blockading it, and combining it within its pres
sent limits.
To expect the South not TO resist such a policy
with oil the means at its command argues a total
misconception of its character, and presumes it be
wholly Indifferent to its own existence.
We intended to have alluded at some length but
our limits forbid to another evidence of Abolition
desperation as exhibited in the last issue of the New
York Tribune, in regard to the Nebraska bill The
almost certain prospect Of the passage Of this meas.
bull In order to defeat it. it calls for resort to the
''ertrene rights Of The minority" Reason and argu
ment being inadequate to compass its ends it recon-
mcnds its friends to employ force. 1t says also that
Sin view OF the proracted struggle to which resort
to extra legislative proceedings will lead" it neces
sary that mass meeting of the observers of plight
ed faith, and the defenders Of freedom" should be
held at Washington, dor the purpose of afTordiug
aid and comfort to the bcleagucred forces Of liberty
and 10 act a. emergencies may require" This is
Greey's plan TO attempt to deter Congress from
passing the Nebraska bill by assembling at Washing.
ton mighty host of Abolionsts! This is certainly a
happy idea. And MS bold aud desperate as it is hap
py But predict that neither Greedy nor his free
soil rangers will show their faces 10 Washington on
such an Grand. There is II wonderful difference he.
tween acting bravvly and talking b. avely at dis
lance. The litter, perhaps, suits Abouorists tho
best. They have never yet risEed anything fJr the
negro, and never will.
The HjmesteaJ Bell
We stated II as belief, on ycstcrdny. That the
President would not veto ,I,o II,,u.,aJ mn ;c