Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-26


to the accomplishment of the wicked and despotic
ends this be tolerated, and will the people
of Mississippi elevate to the highest office in their
gift the instrument, that aided in bringing this
swindling adjustment upon them?
Another Step.
We insert to-day the resolutions adopted by the
Whig State convention of Ohio. They expressly
refused to endorse the compromise. The Wing
party of New York, in the legislature has done
the same thing. In all the States north of New
ork a similar course will, or has been adopted
Evenin Pennsylvania, coterminous with the boun-
dary of the Southern States, the Wings have
nominated a governor opposed to the compromise
And the Ohio, Indiana, and Pennsylvania Wings
have rejected their political leaders, CLAY and
WEBSTER, who supported the compromise, and
have nominated General ScoTr.
The argument advanced in favor of the com
promise, at the time it was pending and since, was
that it would terminate agitation. In fact, this
was the principal inducement to Southern men for
supporting that measure. That consideration has
now utterly failed. 1t the silliest notion that
ever entered the heads of political calculators that
it could, or would have that effect. But it was
gravely and dogmatically insisted on by the con-
trivers and supports of that scheme, and it has
been impudently and necessarily asserted since,
that agitation had ceased, or was about to cease,
at time when it ragged more than ever before, and
when almost every election in the North was an
Abolition triumph.
We have, therefore, to admonish Messrs. CLAY,
WEBSTER, Fillmore Il Co., that events have now
demonstrated the utter failure of this measure
and of their prediction. And every opinion we
expressed of the effect of that measure in the North
has been fulfilled to the letter. Although the
compromise surrendered to the North every single
practical position that was in debate yet because
it provided for one Southern right, which nobody
had the hardhood to question, it has only render
ed the North more aggressive, more confident, and
more extravagant in her pretensions. The men,
therefore, who undertook to construct and sup
port the compromise, have displayed their utter
for the occasion. And the consolation
is that they have failed sgnaly in the personal
or ambitious schemes founded on that measure, as
in the measure itself
We are now to witness a dtSuni0n of the Wing
party, North and South. 1t is impossible for any
amount OF party cunning, or treachery, to avert
that catastrophe. The symptoms of this event
were visible on organizing the last Congress. And
now we may, without much prophetic inspiration,
announce it as fact, soon to be. No pretence of
Union, or OF party, or equlvocaton, or ambiguity,
will avail. 1t is impossible for Southern and Nor
thern Wings hereafter to act together. And thus
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The same thing is true of the Democratic party
In Massachusetts,, Mr.. SUMNER, in New York,
JOHN VAN BUREN, in Ohio, Mr. CHASE, and in
Maine, Mr.. HAMLIN, stand at the head of this par
ty. Between these men and the Southern Democ
racy the chasm is wider and deeper than between
the Southern and Northern Wings 1t is in vain
to deny conceal the fact that the political par
ties of the country each divided, some of
the chief religious sects already were They can
lon in
principles. The compromise has failed to recon
cile them, to restore the promised peace.
We submit therefore, that Messrs CLAY, WEB
sTER, FILLMORE, d Co., have failed in the predic-
tons and expectations which they relied to JUS
tify the compromise. There is no peace, no truce
even, but increased agitation and aggression.
Now, the institution of slavery is not only po-
litical but it is social and domestic 1t involves
not only political power but social comfort and do
mestic safety. 1t is of the very last the very
worst topics, for agitation. But we have long since
known or believed, that agitation for an indefinite
period, fierce and bigotted, was inevitable But
such was our conviction of the stability of slavery
that we believed that it could withstand and defy
agitation, if those who were connected with the
were faithful to themselves. Until re-
Gently they had the power within the Union of tri-
umphant self-defence. But of that they have been
deprived by the late compromise measures-and
thereby the Union has been endangered, since it
has been placed in the attitude itself of an agita-
tor and assailant. By restoring to the Southern
States their rights and their power, the faculty of
self-defence in the Union will be restored, the
Union will no longer be assalant or party to the
dispute but the agitation will become sectional and
can be resisted with success.
And since the dissolution of the two political
parties is inevitable, there remains but one re-
source to save the Union; and that is to unite all
the conservative elements of the country in one
party, and to restore the two sections to that con-
dition of equality to which their rights, the cir
cumsances of the country, and the preservation of
the Union entitled them.
If the present state of parties and condition of
the country dictate the restoration Of the two sec
tions to their equality statw quo ante 5eZlun, impen
ding events and the indications from neighborng
States proclaim the necessity of it. New Mexico
and Utah, are yet to be admitted, and Texas di-
vided. The Sandwich Islands, the neighboring
provinces of Mexico, the recent events at Tehuan-
tepec, the symptoms of Mexican dissolution, and
of Canadian discomfort, all destined to affect
the existing controversy in the Union and to be af
fected by it. For our part we desire no more an
nexation if we can restore our own system to its
equilibrium. But if that is not done, if the rup-
ture is not healed, it will be widened and aggrava-
ted by all these influences
We have arrived at period probably the most
pregnant with our fate of any in the course of our
political existence. All the wisdom and honesty
we possess are required for the times. But the
omens are not yet auspicous. Fanaticism and ar
roganee pervade one section of the Union in the
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