The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-01-06
CONSERVATISM, EoN-INTERyENTloN, HoN-AG
anFssyoN THE VITAL. POLICY OF THE SOUTH.

erosion, THE VITAL POLICY OF 1HE SOUTH
Ig we are to credit the telegraph, which, however,
has become very mendacious oracle, the fllbuster
cause has had another ridiculous and ignominious
ooatrfsmps The course of manifest destiny,
like that Of true love- seems not to run smooth. So
far from hosting the hhbuster flag over Central
America its champions have been glad to take shell
ter as objects Of charity and commiseration, under
the invidous flag Of Great Britain. The prank they
played upon their own country, of carrying oil one
of its officers has been returned with interest upon
themselves and they have come back In a body
under the hard duress Of failure and adversely as If
to make atonement on the spot for the contempt
and outrage they put upon the authority OF their
country. in the person Of its officer, in setting
ONT. The usual result of " General Walkers
exploits has ensued, in this, in all former
eases-~iailure ridiculous and utter. The absurdity
Of the denouemsat seems to have been apprecia-
ted and acknowledged by the heroes of this latter
exploit themselves, They made holiday joke OF
the affair; marched through the streets of Mobile,
Ia burlesquc triumph under the Ncaraguan flag !;
and nothing seemed wanting 20 the completeness OF
the Joke but all Fools day date, instead
of the one that it sgnalized. However, the infatua
tion Of illibuster folly may be snch as to have
in store for the conntrya still funnier denouemem for
future first of April.
There was circumstance concurrent with this
droll DEGRADATION at Mobile, which it has served to
illustrate most conspcuously and strkngly Precisely
at the same moment at which tho telegraph was an
noanoing to the country the real fate of the Susans
expedition at Mobile, it was heralding dispatches
from New Orleans, giving fictitious relation of the
movements and feats of the expedition. We sup
pose theac New Orleans dispatches had their origin
in the same prolific imagination which had just be-
fore disseminated the country reports Of very
Large American cmgrations to Cuba for the purpose OF
q 6iiihnster onslaught upon the established author
tiles ia that island. 1t is well that the dispatches
from New Orleans heraiding the success Of the
Susaa,s expedition were sent forth at the time
they wexc. The country has now learned what
faith to place in announcements Of that charac-
ter from New Orleans The long series of blood and
thunder dispatches which emanated from Kansas
eve,y day while the blackrepubican campaign was
going on at the North year two ago, by which so
many people were SO grievously deceived in regard
to occurrences in that Territory, prototypes OF
the dcspatches Of like character which have
been sent forth with prot1sion of late from New
Orleans, all having the same earmesks and behaying
the same paternity They have no foundation in
tual occurrences, but intended for the mere pur
pose Of agitation. They the coinage of i'm
agination the base coinage Of vicious and malicious
imaginations.
But they are only part Of many cotemporaneous
crcums tances which reveal to the country import
ant fact They warn it of widespread and des
petate conspiracy in the southern States against the
authority Of the laws, constitution, and government,
the continuance of the Union and the integrity
of all existing Institutions, not only in tile south
ern States, but in every quarter that can be
reached from tho southern States, We see evidences
of this movement in the efforts to revive the African
slave-trade against the wish ana conviction Of nine
tenths of the southern people. The sAntjments OF
thatpeople, more strongly and generally than prob
ably OF any other people in ths world is conserva-
tive, is for the iaises fare is in favor of pre-
serving the existing status Nay their interests are
all bound up in maintaining conservative policy in
resisting innovation, in repudiatng all newanged
schemes and projects, and above all, in frowninq
down the whole idea of Intervention by one people into
uc AaA Vi auoLner the Wnoe thought OF aggression
by people against the established institutions Of
another. The spirit to which we aude is a spirit |
at war with all these abiding sentiments and vital |
interests of the southern people. The rash men en-
gagged in this movement propose at once whole !
sale infraction Of the laws of their own country !
revolution of their own institutions, and aggression
upon those of all outside nations which, thew can
reach.
They would demoralize the institution of slavery |
by undoing the work of centuries, and reverting |
again from the civilized and Christanized system OF
labor existing at the South to the labor Of saw
ages wrapped in mental darkness, and as mbecile |
and incapable in body as in mind They would reyo |
lutionize the whole labor organization of the South
they would utterly dsorganize the existing systep,
of prices and the whole established economical avs
tern--they would, in word, revolutionze southern
institutions, revolusionze southern society itself
They would organize general system of assault
upon the laws of the country although the interests
of the southern States 6nd nhe supremacy and sane
tity Of the laws, their strongest and most important
bnlwarks They would treat as naught the neu
trality laws of the country the counterparts of
which IN other countries they might some day have
to invoke against popular crusades from those cbun
tries against their own institutions They make
bold to violate laws Of Congress against the African