Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-05-03
Address Of Hon. 4. Hutchinson.


Mr. President and Gentlemen Of tie dissertation:
Two motives induce to address you. The
one is to correct my own knowledge, misrep-
resentation about the origin of popular action in
Mississippi on the sectional controversy but the
other and my chief aim is to present, in outline
and in the most tangible form, the view concerning
our assailed Institution, which, in the numbers of
Hempden in the Mississippian, since April, 1850,
were given in detail-views which have not been
introduced into the public discussions and docu-
mentS-but views that do reach and expose the
baseess foundations of the crusade against US
To this effort am mpelled by the solemn convic-
ton of the necessity of urging them to general
consideration and that by doing so | am render
ing more service to distracted and pered
country than otherwise in any way, ] could possi-
bly, contribute. | contemn cavil-I spurn all con
sequences to myself.
Whence tie Mississippi Increment? Among the
resorts of submssOnism, to arrest every effort of
resistance to aggression, was the assertion, that
popular action here caused by Calhoun, as If
it had been so it would have dscredted the illus
trious patriot and statesman "whOse mind was
ever above the ranges of genius, mahgned
the cause he to the last defended-the rights, in
dependence and existence of the States under the
Constitution ! The facts were: On April Z, 1849
ON reviewing the then late resolutions of Nir-
gnia and the address of the Southern Congress
slonaI delegatOn-nOt counting but eXecrating the
atorners to the North in that delegation-taking
the vote in the Federal House on Colts insult as
sufficient tadmonition-t struck meas it did thou
sands-that nothing but the unity of the South
could repel the crusade. But action must be had.
The People of the South had never moved to re-
slstance, and were then seemingly as quiet the
HndoOs. To action therefore, | gave my feeble
efforts and with good help the centre meeting in
May; 1910, was held. All that followed it are
far In III ,Jo-
stood. | was prompted by the resolutions of my
native State, and am not mean as to claim credit
for performing plain duty.
What CaS the object Of that Increment? Every
honest Southemer of common sense knows that
the object of all the popular meetings and Con
ventions that have been held in the South in 1849
and 1859, to concentrate the Southern people
to prevent the lamentable consequences of far
ther submssions-to repel the impending ravages
and, if possible to rescue the Constitution and
the Union it created from the hands of parricides
1t was a pure, high, holy object.
What causes hare hildred and delayed concert
They are too humlatng to be detailed Honest
history may narrate them Its dark pages and
its darkest section will transmit Southern fatuity
treachery and venaty. Our cnemes-the most
ruthless we have had-durng the last generation
have been educating themselvs to hostility against
Us, by talsilics and libclS, through the nursery,
in both the Federal Houses. We, like our revo-
luton sires, have been quiet. Like asses we have
been submitting to burdens a thousand fold more
than our srcS have we been submissive. | cannot
account for this. Perhaps under delusve appear
ances of present prosperity, it not possible in
short year, to induce us as one man, to apply
great principles to wrongs Though fecced of the
immense profits OF our agriculture, have still
found subsistence left and as usual crouch under
that sheer subsistence that our Northern overseers
allow And is the South thus in vassaage Q
Must the chain be rivited that we may feel it .
Mus blood be shed that We may see ii? One by
one must our dull senses be tortured into resis
tencc
But the fatuty and recreancy of the South may
be better conceived when the foundations of the
crusade exposed and to that | proceed
Constitutions and compromises impotent. By
a sort of geometric progression We are driven into
vassalage. How is this among freemen? Let u.
turn enemies and ask them what rocl
their cohorts planted? Let us, in curiosity a
least, if their assailment rests sound basis
for II 1t do rest on a sure and everlasting prlnci
pie, then We should succumb, As to destiny, anC
seek to escape some of the dessolatons prepared
for us. But if on examination it be plain that tht
crusade arose, progressed and is arrayed on ma
ked faslty, then, if we be men, should rise t.
resistance and defence. 1t must be obvious tha
all questions involved in the controversy turn OF
this. Ii it be utterly false that all the races o
minkind are of one species and so naturally equal
then the ground on which the crusade is arrayet
is quicksand-then there may be no higher Law
to rebuke us for Institution-then with th
strong arms and sure aims of the warriors of min,
millions of Southeners, with four millions of tn
best supported and protected predials to provid
the food and the clothing during the struggle
contest must come-certainly we have nothin
to fear But if the South unite, war is not prob
able-scarcely possible.
1t is proper to state most positively that | al
not sceptc of any school, but firm though un
worthy believer in the Holy Bible as being the re
vealed will of the Most High for the moral govern
ment and redemption of all mankind and thu
nightly understood, it contains nothing In contilt
with the orders and uniform exhibitions of nature
Hence, IN my numbers of Hampden--followin
. the demonstrations of Van Amringe, the late:
and ablest ethnolog gist-I did not hesitate to adop
as the most probable hypothesis of the origin {
the varieties in the human genus the ordination
through Noah and Hagar, to which will present
ly again refer.
There are some twelve important consideration
arising out of the assumption of the unity an
equality of mankind
/. Are we all Of one family ?-The round as
sumption is that all men of one family, and S
can affiliate: are of one flesh, and so amalgs