Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-03-29

The following extracts are from letter written
by one of the most intelligent and decided Whigs
in Virginia:
" You can oblige me be settling off my account
with the editors of the National Integencer, and
directing them to discontinue the paper The ac-
count is of longer standing than | wished it to be-
81 have been dissatisfied with the course of that
paper, for twelve months or more. | have deter
mined half dozen times to stop it, but hated to do
so-more ESPECIALLY, it agreeable to some
members of my family account OF the foreign
correspondence
''The late ferocious attack on South Carolina,
together with the hypocritical cant, about ''their
love of this Union,'' has disguised me with them.
Please let them know the reason of my discontin-
uance. do not see how any STAKEHOLDER can toll
crate them. They are abolitonist in Disguise
tell them SO for me, or let them see this.
:" Give my most earnest congratulations to the
editors of the Southern Press, and say to them l
feeunder obligations to them for their able defence
OF Southern Rights, and that such stalwart blows,
struck In such cause, must produce their effect,
and | hope will not go unrequited.
&C | wish you would write to some of your friends
III this county about getting up Southern Rights
Association-I have been wishing to get up one
for six months The health of my family has been
such as to keep me close at home, or should have
stirred the matter at any risk 1t is time and past
for us to act. 1t is strange to me that Virginia
can remain SO quiet Years ago, such a course
on the part of the General Government would
have blown the state of public feeling into blaze
g The present apathy has been created by our
press and party leaders, who are afraid to take
any decided course, lest they might be found in
the minority. Old Mr.. Richie has produced no
little harm in this thing. After they got him to
Washington, they bamboosled him, and now they
have the rope around his neck Public opinion is
beginning to reach, In some degree, upon the press
OF the State, and In short time hope the influ-
ence will be greater. The fact is now obvious to
every unpreludiced mind, that the power and pat |
ronage of the General Government is too strong
for free government, and too strong for the I
voice of the people, unless they can be made SEN
sible of their danger. This will be hard to do,
though l think it may be done-especially if our
rulers go in the same course that they are now
pursuing. Our State officers are almost bought
up-either by 1attery, or the promise of reward.
The old party ties ought to be broken up in the
South. They ought to know no party but for the
safety Of the South"
Gsy" The Richmond (Va) Wing, of the
abest submission papers in the slave States holds
the following language in regard to South Carolina
Let our submission friends read and ponder on it.
Its word spoken in soberness and in truth:
&c South Carolina thinks she has made bad
bargain-that she has fallen among thieves, -
and entertaining those opinions, it is natural that
she should desire to withdraw from an association
which operates, in her view, with peculiar oppres-
sion upon her interests. She was desirous to i'm
press other States with a similar belief but Geor
gia, beholding her unprecedented increase of
prosperity, and her rapid acquisition of political
power, could not believe that the Union had nfc-
ed any injury upon her. Virginia. chershing the
Union as the work of her own hands, and correct
j appreciatny its value, could not consent 20 its
exhausted. The Southern States, which had been
BORN under the Union, felt that it would be parri-
:ide to lend their hands to its destruction and
South Carolina fingers at the threshold, divided
n her hostility towards one-half of the family of
States, and her affection for the remainder. VIII
she determine to withdraw We fear from the
that such is her determination. The
ssue of secession openly made upon the election
IF the members of her State Convention-the [
avowed determination of her senators to withdraw
the state of feeling represented to exist amongst
her cltlzens-all lead to fear that she contem-
0lates such a measure. In that event we suppose
hat she will declare the laws of the Federal Gov
ernment void within her limits. She will refuse
he payment of revenue-she will refuse perhaps,
% the Federal Courts permission to hold their ses-
sions. This will compel the Federal Government
20 enforce the laws SO far as Congress shall place
power at their disposal. The result of such con-
est, it is unnecessary for us to predict. The spec
acle of single State refusing to comply with the
laws of government to which she has subscribed,
Of nation employing its power to enforce obedi-
ence, of gallant and futile resistance, of sympa
thy for the weaker possibly of assistance, volunta
rily or organized from other States, who believing
South Carolina to have been in the wrong cannot
consent that with all her faults, she should be
crushed by stronger power, all these consequen-
ces may be imagined. They may be compressed
within a single term-there will be civil war with
all its horrible incidents and accessories.
We think, therefore, that there should be some
nerpostion on the part of other States to preserve
if possible, not only an exasperated member of
the Union from the consequences of her position,
but to preserve ourselues from implication in the
troubles which are impending. Virginia should, as
she has heretofore done, offer the counsels of
She has surely right to an influence
with South Carolina for during the darkest peri
cd of the Revolution she sent her to assist in
her defence; and during excitement occasioned
by former collision with the Federal Government
she sent one of her most eminent statesmen, to
avert, so far as eloquence, patriotism and wisdom
could do, the consequences which threatened to
overturn South Carolina and the Union. %
GEoRGIA.-The following is extract of a let
ter from gentleman of much experience in the
politics of his State and who is in a position to
Judge accurately of the movements of public opin-
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