Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-08

not become thoroughly case-hardened he could
y have kept the track after that encounter But he
has fortified himself with those contrivances which
those who would burglariously enter Uncle Sans
premises, generally employ, that there is but small
chance of keeping him out.
The Senate of Pennsylvania have refused to consid-
bill, repeating the 7th section of the of 847,
which ntereres with the operation of the fugitive slave
law by prohibiting any officer of the State from assist
ing in their recapture the of the jas for their
security.
Mr.. Geyer, compromise" whig has been elected
to succeed Mr. Benton in the Senate after this session
1t is thought that Mr. Benton will become the eeso
candidate for the Presidency.
Henry Dodge ree-soil democrat and friend of Ben
TOMS who opposed the fugitive slave law is reelected
Senator from Wisconsin.
Ne election of Senator has yet been had in Massa-
chusetts Ohio. HONESTUS.
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Mr.. EDITOR In addition to the evidence of the
cumulated power of the General Government, which
contrast of the recent and former collisions between
it and individual States affords arguments strengthen
ing the position stated in my last may be derived from
other sources. people becomes attached to their
government just friend to rend from association
protracted through many years. The lgaments which
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have adopted, or that have down to them from
former generation provided tyranny and CALLING oppres
sion be absent invariably acquire strength If twere
not so, the Carthagenans would not have struggled
through two Punic wars and perished in the third-the
Swiss would not have maintained their independence
through all the mighty commissions that shook pieces
every State in Europe, during the middle ages; nor
would the Crcassans long have resisted the of
IL,
protection against foreign foesagainst civil broils
and intestine connections, the more devotedly they
love 1.-THE more unwillngly they tolerate change,
and patiently submit to wrongs they would not have
endured in the primitive of its duration.
Has the attachment of the people of the United
States for their Institutions gradually been growing
ardent since the days of the revolution! Under
their benign influence the republic has reached COM
manding position among the nations of the earth
acquired fame coextensive with civilizationthe
pect of soveregns whose predecessors scorn
the efforts of Washington and his compeers to erect
temple to freedom Columbia's soil, and predicted
with the confidence of seers, the speedy fall of the
institutions those patriots had founded. Under such
circumstances should expect the present race of
republicans to adhere most pertnaciousy to the blood
consecrated boon, their fathers transmitted to them
should expect them to be proud of their inheritance
that each citizen of the Union should boast 81 am
anaAmeyican citizen enthusiastically ever Ro
man shouted Il am Roman citizen" What but this
love for their government the existence of the
same! The worst despotism earth could not sur
vive day if goody portion under its sway were not
attached -were not its ardent supporters in every
crisis. If then, the souls of the American people
becoming more and more fond of their constitution
and laws, does it not follow of consequence that
their government has grown stronger than in the early
days Of the repubic-that the agents of the people
can do things with impunity, which the immedi-
ate successors of Jefferson would not have endured
that the people of individual States, would pass,
dressed, many wrongs inflicted by the Federal Gov
eminent rather than by resistance endanger the whole
fabric! 1t is mistake that will do anything for
a change-that is true when they are pushed beyond
the last point of endurance--only when nuriated by
the goad of the oppressoras in France in 1892 The
people of La Belle France, had groaned for years
der the yoke of tyranny-had suffered themselves to
be ground down by the exactions of a naughty and
profigate noblty-had permitted the throne to de-
prive them of their dearest privileges, yet they rebe
ed not till evyng of reduced them state of
absolute starvation. Then fell the Bastle before the
missiles of mob drunk with vengeance-then the
streets of Paris were drenched in blood-then was
good hearted descendant of the Bourbon line compell-
ed to bo his neck the executioner The history of
all nations nculcate the same truth-that mankind
dread ichange of government-they shudder at the
idea of;undergoing revolution, and only accept it
an ultimatum Moved by the same influence, the peo-
pie of the South have long complained of these gev
ances arising from the acts of the Federal Govern
ment, yet their devotion the Union-their at
tachment the Constitution and their hope that its
aegs would yet protect them from the encroachments
of majority blended by fanaticism, have kept them
from standing up boldly to vindicate their rights by
4 arms if argument proved Intellectual That majority
instead Of retracng their steps, have advanced still
farther in their of injustice believing that the
devotion of the South to the Union would still render
her submissive. When see ourselves thus by de-
grees being bent down by great central power, Who'll
y in the hands of the enemies of the South is it
high time to take means to check her course of ag
gressons, lest the day may come, when like French
men, will be compelled to 'et slip the dogs of war
against brethren. ADRASTUS.
: Aberdeen, Feb 3, 1851.
I
e 0FThe "enduring compromisers" tell the people
that the North will now leave the South in the que
possession and peaceful enjoyment of all the right
Y men hold singular ideas touching slavery Read wha
an old and clear visioned prophet of the Northern
S senduring party" says: