Southern Argus. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1834-1842, 1841-03-03

STATE RIGHTs-Read the following reso-
luton, passed ly the Democratic Legislature
of New Hampshire, aud compare itwith the
conduct ofthe FederaIists of Name and New
York:
"And be ufurther RESOLVED, That the re-
fusal d one State to surrender person char
ged with the commission of crime within
another State, and who shall flee from Justice,
is in open disregard of the plain letter OF the
Constitution, subversive of the peace and har-
mony of the Union, and destructive of the ends
for which the Federal Government was estab-
ished."
BY the way, we recollect that the Journal
has half dozen times reproved us for not con-
demning the conduct of Democratic Maine as
well as Federal New York. Does the election
of George Evans look like the work of a De.
mocratlc Legislature ?-AdrertiSer.
Occasionally we deem it worth our while to
quote such paragraphs from the Advertiser, to
show how utterly regardless of truth a pen
stoned falsifer may become Oy long years Of
habitual and mercenary lying.
The editor of the Advertiser knows that it
is not the present Legislature of Maine that
passed the violent anti-savery resolutions in
the Georgia case he knows that il was posi-
Legislature of the State that did this, and a
LOcofoco Legislature. He knows that it was
Locofoco Legislature of Maine that passed
resolutions justIfying the refusal o. the Cover
nor TO surrender up to Georgia the fugitive
stealers of her slaves, and asserting that, as
negroes were not property, all men had right
to aid them in their escape from whatever
State they pleased. He knows, too,that,when
the Locofoco Legislature of Maine passed
these most abominabe resolutions, neither he
nor any of the other Locofoco editors of the
country had solitary word to say in condem.
nation of the atrocious proceeding, and thai
neither he nor they have had word to say In
\ condemnation oft since. He knows that al
though the dispute between Maine and Geor.
gla was the first great controversy between q
Northern and Southern State in regard to the
tenure OF slave property, that, although thai
dispute created an excitement throughout the
South, and especially throughout Georgia. like
a fame OF fire, and that, although it remains
unadlusted to this day and threatens the mos,
serious consequences, he and his Locofocc
brethren Of the press have passed it by in the
profoundest silence, satisfying themselves with
obstreperous clanors about the alleged aboli.
ton movements Of the Legislatures of other
Northern States He and his political friends
can look on without murmur, and behold a
Locofoco Legislature striking, not only in the.
ory, but in practice, at the very foundation
stone of the institutions ofthe South; and vel
they foam and roar, like mad devils, whenever
a single branch of Wing Legislature permits
bill or resolution, savoring in the slightest
degree of abolitionism, to be proposed by z
committee ran individual!
And now, when at last we have forced this
less than man, BY our daily rebukes, to alIude
to the Maine Atrocity, the unblushing miscre.
ant has the shamelessness to speak OF it as
perpetrated by the present Legislature of that
Stately the same Legislature that has cleo
ted Mr. Evans to the u. States Senate ! Such
a creature deserves be punished according
to the code OF certain wise magistrate, who
ordained that every convicted slanderer should
crouch upon his hands and feet between the
legs of every man he slandered and exclaim
q | am dog" following up the exclamation
with three distinct barks or yelps, in imitation
If the four-legged beast to which he Ekened
nself-L0u. .Joilrnuk.