Southern standard., 1851-02-01


les, form alliances or considerations, coin money,
pass any bill imparing the obligation of contracts
engage IN any war, enter into compact with anoth-
er state, or with foreign power, keep any regular
troops, maintain any nasies. Art. 1st. section
1Oth.) This surely is not the language of a crea-
tire, mere agent of the various State govern
ments! Washington tells 'that it is utterly i'm
prac icable in the Federal Government of these
States, to all the rights of independent sooe-
retgnty to each and yet provide for the safety and
interest of ALL Letter to Congress on the con-
stltution.) In his farewell address he speaks of
the ''ansty OF government which constitutes us one
people, and OF our indissotubte community of in
terest as one nation.''
1t is matter of asonishment to us that at this day
IN tie South the exploded doctrines of the old enc
mics OF the constitution when it first proposed
and the doctrine of the Proclamation by which
Gen Jackson was betrayed, temporarily into Fed
eralism, in 1882, (but which he Immediately re-
nounced by counter proclamation authoritatively
put forth in the Globe of that date are now seiz-
cd upon by his old enemies to cover their own aban-
donment of principle and to form nucleus, around
which, their Northern ''aes'' may gather in
'anion" designed to subvert State rights and State
sovereignty. Indeed, the overshadowing annihila-
ting supremacy of the ''National union'' 1.-THE
i boastlng theme of those useful sign boards, to
popular clamor, to be found about every town and
city, street politicians is becoming quite too fash
ionable among those who ought to be more deeply
versed in the constitutional history of their country
Second-We cannot agree with them, because
they are attempting to reconstruct, the ruins of
old parties, ''new national party" by which to
control the power and patronage of the Govern
ment, the Offices, their emoluments and honors, by
''compromising'' away the rights, the interests the
honor and equality of the Southern States.
We admit that are tired of Janus faced con
ventions and platforms and bargains, between old
political opponents designed to deceive the peo-
pie into the support of candidates, whose real SEN
timents cannot coincide with both sides The
union of Northern and Southern men upon a par
ty platform, in the present state of affairs is neces-
sarily hypocritical or traitorous union If dc
signed to concede no principle or right on either
side, but merely to form ''union' to attain power
that they may enjoy the Offices it is both traitorous
and hypocrtical. If real concession of principle,
the constitutional rights of their respective sec
i tions-then it is a traitorous union for the same
corrupt purpose.
The South is now in a hopeless minority, bv the
action of the last session of Congress, her only
safety therefore is in ubrokep unon at home, pre-
serving her separate identty-wicdng therebv tie
balance of power and choosing our rulers from
the ranks of our opponents. In this way we can
always command respect, if not secure the obServ-
ance of our rights. We are therefore opposed te
any 'notonot' organization, in the southern States
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into parties at the North having no sympathy ol
interest in our Institutions.
i Thrd-We cannot agree with them heeausa
fthey approve the late compromise measures in the
passage of which, Congress directly refused to dis
charge her constitutional duty to pro:ect the prop
erty of all the States equally in the territories
which the constitution has entrusted for that pur
pose, to her exclusive, though limited jurisdiction
That the people of Mississippi are entitled to thi.
protection in common with her sister states, is as
serted in the 9th. resolution of the convention o
both parties in this State, in October 1849-in the
resolutions of the succeeding legislatures, as wei
as in the late address of the committee of the Jack
son Union Mass Meeting itself in all which this
duty of the Government, under the constitution i.
i, distinctly admitted and declared And vet, il
their resolutions, the Jackson meeting says, tha
the refusal of Congress to afford this very legsla
tive protection to the South, in the new territories
is not inconsistent with the resolutions of the con
vention of October of 1849.
> While they declare that they will resist the re
5 peal of the fugitive slave law-or the omission o
the general government to enforce it, "a mere omis
J. sion of constitutional duty) which concerns Mis-
! souri,, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland almos
exclusively, they approve the compromise bills al
protect the South declare them to be the law of th
land, and that they imperoti0ely demand the ac
quieScence of every citizen of the United States
long they remain unrepeaed. In other words
they willing to secession and revolution Gin or
der to protect the slaves of the border States whc
; already sympathise more with the North than tn,
South if the government omit its constitutions
duty to reclaim few runaway negroes, for Nilsson
! ri, Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland, while they
openly declare that should ''acquiesce'' in tn,
Eemission of Congress to discharge her constitu
tional duty to protect the same kind of propert,
, for as, at this end of the Union, by furnishing il
the Territories the miserable abolition wretch wh
may harbor conseal or steal our slaves there
They are seized with burning indignation, at tn,
t wrongs threatened upon these border States, b.
f the omission of constitutional duty to them, ant
are ready to dissolve the Union for their protection
while theytadvise submission to greater wrongs t,
us and even laud the omission of a constitutions