Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-15
From The Southern Press.
NEw YORK. Dec. 18th. 1

New YORK, Dec, 25th, 1850
If General Hamilton is right when he says in his
pastoral Letter. to the people of South Carolina, tat
the battle for Southern rights is to be fought in the
North, while the South staAds looking with folded
arms it will be most singular contest between
body and nobody-between the substance and shadow;
for as stated in my last letter. know not single
man here, who recognizes the rights he is to Defend
From Pennsylvania to PassahaaGdeddy inclusive there
is, believe but one newspaper that does not either
support the compromise o. oppose it, solely on the
ground of not striking deep enough into the vitas of
the Saasth.If- -denauncsd all il Is hacauSa n
Mexico and Utah are recognized as Territories with
out the Wimot Proyiso; because the territory of
Texas taken by orce nstead of being purchas
ed with money! and especially because it carries with
it that He-hatched Statute tire Fugitive slave law
which has been everywhere auled by the fiat of ia
naticism. Thus that great s'motve powers which
gives impulse and directonto the popular machinery
for good for evil, is every in the North
ed against the South, and the powerful of all he
auxiIiaries of anaticism. The South has friends
to defend her rights vnacate its conduct exception
the sole ground of submission. He would otherw ise
be denounced a disunionist and traitor as have
been, because believe there things in this
world than dissolution of the Union, namely,
solidaton of the States into vast unwieldy em-
pire like that of Russia, which could only be govern
ed by despot welding the bayonet and the cudgel
without control.
These famous Union meetings which are to fight the
battles of the South, Trades Unions, compo-
sed according all appearances, of the friends of
commercial intercourse secretly directed by political
leaders, who having made the most of abolition sup
port in the late elections, trying what capital
they make by pretending oppose it. | did not
see the of single prominent friend of Mr.. Clay
among the officers others, and of the Democratic
party there hardly enough to make speeches. 1t
seems rather to have been meeting of merchants, the
leaders of which trading politicians, and the fol-
lowers traders in cotton rice and tobacco. 1t they
ever fight the battles of the South it will be from be-
hind the cotton bags and tobacco hogsheads.
There is no safety for the South, but to bring the
conviction home to the North by acts, that cannot be
mistaken distinct Indications either of secession
resistance or retaliation. Legislative resolutions
laughed and deserved to be- since the recreancy OF
old Virginia and company, and especially since the
manifesto of the Empire State of the South, which
by far the best apology for Northern aggression, and
the most courteous encouraging remonstrance, lnvl
ting future invasions of Southern rights that have
seen. Neither will dancing minute one step for
ward anu two backward answer the purpose. Last OF
all will the pursued by the great bulwark Of
Southern rights, the Washington Union, in pledging
itself resistance in the event of certain contn
gency solely the presumption that it will never
lhappen. That paper has now become the hnger-pos
by which the Northern politicians graduate their ap
proaches towards the citadel of Southern rights Al
this is more than dle-it has become ridiculous which
is ten times than being wrong. In politics, the
party that has the laugh against it. is already defeated
The North be made to look serious and think
i riously too.
L
don't affect to smell rat when there is not mouse
stirrag and to this great and once happy con
federacy rent asunder would bereave of one of th
dearest contempations of my old age. But canno
shut my eyes, dim they are to the convction tina
the principles declared and acted upon by the Aboh
ltionsts and those avowed by the most dstinguishe
leaders in the Senate intoxicating the old exploded doc
trne of passive obedience and non-resisance, as ap
pcable to the States of the Confederation backed
those assumed by the President in his declaration
war against Texas-I cannot but see, that, If thes
should supersede the letter and spirit Of the consttI
tion then the days of the Union are numbered.
cannot and ought not to last II 1T does not 60 off
commissions it will nger on through an inevitable PR
cess of decay and stand ruined temple. without an
cement to keep it from crumbling to pieces the fir
shock of the elements. The Abolitionists must /
put down. not by being nursed and abetted by all pa
ties either openly secret, but by being dsdant
-by all not by being cast off by one party, to be ado
OIL teddy another.
I'll But how is this TO be Brought about | answer !
3 the South, and not the North. The most dangero
Il enemies Of the South are fostered IN herown BOSOM
e They are the men who, after betraying her in the
sels of the nation, went home and used all their n
81 once to make the people traitors to themselves. Tn
l. are the men who first led the States they represent