Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-27

tet5geacer, one of the central organs of the Fill
more administration, to which Gen. Foote has
been in the constant habit of paying the most
sickening homage, since he has been taken to the
embrace of the old consolidation whig leaders
Ii you have any taste for rank disunionis1n
count of the repeal of the law of 1850, read the
following:
FROM THE NATIONAL 1NrELLIGENcER DEC, 10, 1850,
NEW ORLEANS SPEECH
Mr.. Foote then touched rapidly on the New
Mexico and Utah bills, and wound up with few
emphatic remarks on the fugitive stare Tar. In
common with Mr.. Downs. zen. Foote believes
the law will be enforced They say it will be re-
Iealed, | say NEVER, NEVER. say again, II
| Congress were to repeal Il, If the Government re-
taSed to enforce H. if an act were passed prevent
ing the slave trade between the States, if slavery
we're abolished in the District of Columbia, why,
then, | conceive the South would have the right
1te despair. Then would rise as man. not
as petty body of factionsts, not as military
chieftain who sghs for new laurels beyond what
| he has gained in Mexico. THEN WE WOULD
! IPEACEABLY SECEDE, AND THEN ONLY
" If Congress were to repeal the law--if the Gov
enment refused to enforce it, Ets- THEN WE
| WOULD PEACEABLY SECEDE."
Now, people of Mississippi you have decided
that you will not ''peaceaby secede," nor take
any other extreme measures, on account of the
passage Of ''the Wimot Proviso in another form, -
the dismemberment of Texas, or the law denying
to you the privilege of carrying your slaves to the
District OF Columbia for sale elsewhere-and we
put the question to you fairly, will you peaceaby
secede on the conditions dictated for you by Gen
/ Foote Answer the question when you go to the
polls in November Mssissippion
A4~We most heartily endorse the following ar
ticle. Iti copied from the Montgomery, Ala }
Atlas. Let our State Rights friends read it:
Watchman, What Of the Night!
If there is any faith in man--if there is any
truth in The councils, or any warrant for the course
of action which have been urged by the Southern
Rights party, for the last few years, then never
were the South and her institutions in such imm-
nent danger as at the present moment. The di
visions in the slave holding States and the Sub
missye" spirit which they have recently manifes
ted, have emboldened their Argus eyed enemies of
the abolition States, and melted them-as was to
be expected-to renewed eXertons in pursuit of
the great end of all their labors-the abolition of
every slave on the American continent" Hence,
the late coalition of the Fillmore wing of the whig
party of New York with the Sewardites, and the
conspiracy, recently exposed, to elevate Gen. Sam.
Houston to the Presidency free-soil or aboli-
/ ton platform. In reference to the course which
J
hooves every friend of the south to PROFOUND in the
most sober seriousness the inquiry at the head of
this article.
is there any thing--then, let us ask--in the
present aspect of public affairs to encourage the
soathern patriot TO FIGHT ON IN the defence Of his
rights with any rational hope of eventful sccess?
Or in other words, is the great contest between
the hireling and the sIaveholding States at length
terminated, and forever
We answer this latter interrogatory with an en-
phatie NO, and announce that the contest is very
far from being ended, if the Sothern people are
what they profess to be, or what they ought to be
t We, indeed, see, expected te see, the most
unmistakable evidences that the Summer soldier
and the sunshine patriot"--the political huxtel
and the faithess demagogue, are already making
preparations to surrender and lay down then
arms in the Southern Rights cause. They fgh
for pay, not for principle or honor; and we are
therefore not disappointed in seeing them trimming
their sails to fall back into the old lines of ''whg
gerry and democracy" The names of some o
these, and their plan of operations may be discov
cred by reference to the article from the New orl
: Herald, in another column, headed 90 The Con
! spiracy,
ern men, we mean, who have heretofore professet
: themselves friends to the constitutions
rights of the south, deserve to be marked, ant
held up to the execration of every honest man il
the community.
The southern people must now take their affair
E into their own hands and if they have really re
soved to resist federal aggression and to maintain
their rights under the Constitution of the Untet
$ States, at all hazards, it becomes them to loo
? well about them, and to make up their minds a
once as to the course of action they determin
e ed to pursue. If the Southern Rights flag is to b
d pertdiously lowered and trampled in the dust b
, It's own former supporters, and the old colors {
whiggery and democracy to be run up in its place
in heavens name, let it be known. For ourselves
we will NEV Err consent to surrender one iota
q ground we have heretofore occupied on this sui
u iect, come what may,--because we KNOW that W
have never asked for any thing that is not ours
e for anything that the Constitution of the counr
| does not give us and for the people to Willingl
weld up their rghts-what is it but coacordice an
1 treachery the most infamous and damnng-trea:
d on to honor-to their country--to themselves an
) their children But whether we are bound
5 any honorable considerations to fight for those VII
:, will not fight for themselves, is question thi
D nothing in past course prevents US from takn
: into earnest consideration.
y From q letter published in the Advertiser & G
, zette, of the I'd. instant written by the prime
D; pie editor now in South Carolina, and anoth
: from one of his associate editors, which has r
n Gently appeared in some of the northern paper
l we take it for granted that our neighbor has tina
L ly resolved to go back to the old party issues, al
2 to fight hereafter upon the Jeffersonan- -democra
4 ie platform of 1900.
Is it possible that the Southern Rights party