The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-07-19

ascendant, we predict that the contingency will
never arise which will be deemed sufficient to
warrant dissolution of the Union. The En-.
quirer says: G.
off the glorious edifce of our liberty and our
Union fall from its firm foundation and lofty
height, the ruin will not be the work of wisdom
and of strength, for strength and wisdom would
spurn such an Office, but the mischievous prank
of wicked weakness or thoughtless folly"
WHAT THE SOUTH THINKS OF THE NORTH.
The Richmond Enquirer is opposed to the
organization of Southern party-thinks it
will break the last hold of the South upon the
North, by destroying the sham Democratic
party. The editors pay the following question
able compliment to their Northern allies
"The Democratic party at the North is drill
ed from boyhood in the principles of Southern
Republicanism, and of opposition to Abolition.
Sectional feeling occasionally misleads its mem
bers, but they often evince, as in the case of
many of the Softs, disposition to return to
the faith of their fathers and of their youth
whilst, on the other hand, even the conserva-
tive portion of the Wing party at the North,
the Silver Gray and Webster men, have been
they will not act with US to achieve a common
object.
"a large portion of the Northern Democra-
cy has ever been true to the rights of the South,
to the Constitution and the Union, under all
circumstances. Shall we insultingly cast off
such tried and faithful allies, and rely upon a
Southern palsy, which would be voted down
at the first division on a sectional question in
Congress? A Southern party is all-powerful
for mischief-impotent for good. Like a wick
ed child, with match it may explode a maya
zine, or with a torch consume palace; but it
cannot restore that magazine, or rebuild that
palace"
The following remark displays a strange ig-
norance of the course of trade in this country.
We had been led to suppose that New England
was mainly indebted for supplies of bread
stufs to the Western free States and even If
the Union were dissolved, we imagine that the
South would have no objection to the New
England market for her products But if she
should turn away from it in disdain, nobody
would suffer so much as herself The conclu-
ding remark, relative to the spirit Of the Puri-
tans, displays more liberal and intelligent
view of things, and has doubtless been sug.
gested by the recent legislation of Massachu-
sets on the subject of personal liberty. What
changed When New England bowed sub
missvely to the behests of the Slave Oligar-
chy, she was told that her people were "supple
Greeks, fit only for pimps and professors OF
rhetoric" But now, when she has trampled
the Fugitive Slave Law under her feet, and
hurled defiance into the teeth of her traducers,
they shower down compliments upon her in
no measured terms:
"The census, too, shows that New England
makes not enough grain to feed her pigs and
chickens, much less her men and that, sepa-
rated from us, she must starve in month. She
Is too cunning and sagacious to try the expert.
ment OF separation, unless driven to it by the
goading insults of Southern party. She is,
however, brave, fanatical and enthusiastic /;
| and. although up to certain point we may
safely draw upon her love of greed and selfish
ness, we must recollect that our Puritan brother
now, as i'll the days of Cromwell, sometimes
| takes the Studs runs mad, and becomes as
intractable as an uncaged beast of prey. We
must not then push the argument of dollars
and cents too far, nor rely on it altogether. In
an extreme case Yankee ingenuity would sub.
stitute some invention for bread, or learn to
live without it. Let US not force such extremes
upon him."
1t would be unjust to withhold from the gen.
tlemen whose names are mentioned below, the
merited compliments paid them:
Professor Stuart, Professor Lord of Dart.
mouth, and the Rev. Nehemiah Adams of Bos.
ton, have stepped forth as champions of the
Bible and the South, The infdel clamor of
Al A lo1.1 ,
arouse the energies of many such soldiers OF
the faith. The cause of the South. they begin
to find, is identified, in history and IN fact, with
the cause of law, order, morality, and religion u
The following compliment TO the President
and his Northern supporters, who assisted him
in the preparation Of the Nebraska fraud is
richly deserved. We trust it may do them
good:
ave firmly believe that the Democratic
party, as now composed and organized, is ade
quate and ready to secure to the North and
the South the East and the West, the peace
full enjoyment of their several rights and i'm.
| munities. The rank and file Of the party was
| never 6rmer, truer, sounder, and its Executive
| head has approved its decision, its moderation
| and its irmness, not only in the matter OF
| Burns at Boston, of Kansas and Nebraska, but
| in the more recent 'peine forte Ell dare to
which it has subjected the recreant Reeder."
1t was generally supposed that Governor
Reeder had been removed or suspended, if a,
all, in consequence of his unauthorized specu
lations in the public lands; but we now have
it, upon the semi-official authority'of the Rich
mOnd Enquirer, that he has been LITERAL,
crushed out" on account of his Free Sol
sympathies. Every reader may not be aware
that the old English common law penalty O.
"peine forte ct dure" consists in placing 9
heavy weight upon the breast of the culprit
which will only produce death ai.er lingering
agony of several days.
In the first paragraph quoted above, the En-
quirer bestows unmerited censure upon the Sill
yer Gray and Webster Wings. They NAV mo-
be altogether so ready to join raid for Sla
very Propagandism, on account of their ultra
conservatism-such things are uncongenial t.
their sluggish natures-but no men could h.
found more ready and reliable to stand ruarc
over the plumber which their more enterpris;na
associates may bring to the camp. Whether
1T be to enforce the Fugitive Slave Law. or tt
acquiesce in the repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, or to resist Anti-Slavery agitation, nc
men are more reliable than the Silver Grays
Away, then, with illfounded jealousies. based
on old party animosities G..
DEATH OF UNITED STATES CoNsuL.-Tbt
authorities of the Smithsonian Institution bav.
received information of the death of DIR. ]. e.
Fluegal, United States Consul at Leipsic, Sax
ony, in the 9th year of his age, of apoplexy
He was also the agent for the Smithsonian In