Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-22
GnnlraIisn,

tG8lrasm.
One of the most remarkable features of the ace
developed in the tendency to centraze the powers
the Conedcracy. This tendency has been rendere
more manifest and successful by the recent action
Congress than at any former period in the history
our government. There has been until recently som
little regard shown TO the minority interest and thos
checks and balances OF which so much has been sal
and written have, it must be confessed, interposet
their equrizng influences and saved the minority from
very Palpable aggrcssons. While the minority inter
est in the Union-the savehodng interest alone is re
ferred to-conributed by its labor and beraty to in
crease the commercial power and influence the non
slavehoding section-while by high tariffs and boun
ties it taxed itself for the purpose frendering the na
ton independent, and while it asked nothing "bu
to be let alone, the majority interest," the free States
did little than annoy the South by presenting pc
ttons and agitating it called, for political
purposes The balance of power party the true con-
SENATORS ofpotical justice and defenders of political
equality were choked down. both North and South by
the common destructives of republican governments
factions and dcmagogues. The voice of prudence was
seldom heard above the noise and confusion incident
to political strife, and even when the tones of the ex-
perenced and cautious statesman rose above the COM
mon din and arrested attention. it but for mo-
ment needed, because, in the prevailing mania that
truth is mighty and must prevail the needless plod-
der after place and power equally with the "amighty
dollar hunter, found salvo not only for the present
but the future, and hence things run their course An
age Is sometimes sufficient to evolve certain political
maxims and is, not unfrequenty, the work ofrolling
centuries to undo the wrong and injustice fixed by an
age upon careless or houghtless people. Those max
inns the resultans of sefinterest are generally so d.
recty within the reach and control of their progentors
that failures Ike CANCELS yissts' few and far be-
tween, and hence success is considered certain when
industry and enconomcal interest combine Such was
the maxim of our people-"et US be independept of
the world - To Will to achieve it. When peo-
pie surrounded by natural resources almost unlimited
III extent and diversity OF character bend their enerae
to the advancement of particular or even general oh
jecs, is evident that success cannot be measured bv
the usual apscs of time, where, under less favorable
auspices years may have passed before the same results
could have been attained Thus surrounded the North
under governmental protection prospered and flourish
ed. Her manufacturing and artisan enterprises beran
to dot every hill side and make subservent every brook
that meandered its way through glenand valley With
domestic wealth and commercial independence there
naturally grew up behind the counter and about the
forge notions inimca to the hands that had sustained
and nourished the North. dissatisfied with a system
that gave to them than equal advantages as ira
iers manufacturers and artisans they sought through
agitation to reach the chief lever of government and
WELD it for sectional purposes Forgetting the obiga
ions due the people ofthe South, not only politically
put socially, they turned those means the South had
rendered prosperous and influential in their hands A.
ast her in order to degrade and make her dependent
1t has been claimed in past time that the South's
security lay in the conservative branch of government
the Senate of the U. State. That was the balance
Wheel and the Senate has been regarded by many as
he only barrier between the institution of slavery and
reckless Northern majority. 1t is true that it has u
een and II treason had not worked its course would
ave continued to be, dyke against fanatcism But VI
nat has been removed by the hands of Southern
orn men-Southern defend and applaud the act q
some there who claim for themselves honor for u
aVng removed the only check against the progress of
lnatclsm but sense of Justice Was it sense NJ
Justice that induced the North to agtate the slave u
question-or was it 'sense of ustice that dictated u
lie action of the past ten yearsor was it ssense of III
stce" that denied the many obligations the North '"
as under to the South and by the way of repayment
icude the South from participating in the benefits an
Iual partition of the southwestern territory would
I'VE brought her This is the "sense of iustice.' u
it'll which the South is RECALLED and it is to this sense 81
justice" the South is pointed her only means of e
fety now What mockery is this in her hour of 80
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The North has knocked away the only barrier to the
ogress of fanaticism. The popular majority in the
pular department of government has been against Pc
slave States for years. Until the nterpostion of gu
action rendered fraud legal the South WI
npy checked the conservative branch of government po
the Senate-the South welding many votes as lac
North The admission of California has DESTROYED go
equilibrium, and the sense of JUSTICE doctrine is
scted into prncipeto shield oryism from its merit to
reward. Upon this subject the following remarks rig
contemporary utter own views. gov
The South has lost her equality power with the North of
10Th branches OF the Federal Le lave department Fb
nj has been caused and signazs 1pe
NJ ho lily 10 her and llsH than ever he adm
existed And Il \ hostility /; increasing and the peous
is Increasing Al the tie the policy Of the Cover 'll
1t has undergone change Its edeativs cha pha
er Is almost obiiteraed Al the very time greatly ax -
d territory and multiplied diYeniy Of interest and o. i nay
Is require more exact observance OF constitutional mia she
, and even liberal toorai9n OF the Interests
views Oh Its members, becomes ligoted mere de- eh
and mor IN exeTe the power Of The l Stat
seclon It's expenditure increases more rapidly than t
y population properly, and appropriations are running oF
eyer an inable E ID Of power and opfoscia. u
zen 81 her oat lsaves or bt two as Il just
ersalgpial5ns" ideu