Lynchburg Virginian

The Alexandrian Gazette makes the following sensible remarks, on the present attitude of the slavery question, invoking a spirit at the North, which we have always believed it would exhibit, if the South, without yielding one inch of its own ground, would refrain from merely threatening infractions—

The Northern "free soil" men of both parties, admit, we believe, that they have no idea that slavery can possibly exist in the newly acquired territories of New Mexico and California—and that every day, without law or legislation, makes it more certain, by the natural course of things, that the whole territory will be "free"—in their sense of that word. Are they not, therefore, by their present course, doing what they have twitted the South so long for doing—following an abstraction—and unnecessarily irritating and offending their neighbors, friends, and fellow countrymen? The South is willing to submit to the inevitable condition of things—but it does object to unkind legislation, or a course which looks like a tyrannous exercise of power. If the Northern and Western agitators would be content to be fair and just, and let us alone—they would have nothing to complain of—and ultraism at the South would soon die out, too.