Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-19
SnutherU Rights,

Southern Rights.
Il will be seen from the following paragraph, cut
from the Boston Post, that Southern Rights are
beoinninq to be felt, and that Massachusetts man
uEcturers are likely to be left alone in their glory
The business men of Massachusetts, It nou a2-
pears, are opposed to abolition, and the hobby oil
the fanatics, when the Southern people exercise
the poor right of making their purchases elsewhere
The Post thinks the Southern people should con.
tinue their patronage to Boston merchants for the
purpose of sustaining them in the quarrel with
their abolition neighbors This is unquestionably
good doctrine for that northumberland The
quarrel has hitherto been between the Northern
and Southern States. 1t has now become local
And what made it so First-The re-assertion of
the principles and authority of the Constitution OF
the United States, through the medium of the tu-
gitive slave law And second-The assertion OF
the right of the Southern people to withdraw thelr
patronage and dependence from those same mer-
chants and abolitionists, The South can nave no
concern whatever in this quarrel When South
ern statesmen forctold what must come to pass
did these merchants step forward to heal the breach
and reconcile our troubles? BY no means They
were either mum altogether, or contributing large
Dortions of the profits OF the Southern trade to 10
nent the mischief The warnings OF the South
ern statesmen viewed as the false cries OF the
,,nfaitbfal sheperd boy, of wolf when none had
the Southern people, they have much yet to feel
The people of this country will never again be
culled into their former dependence on Northern
impoaters and manufacturers. The Post should
observe that 1t matters not to the Southern States
if the merchants and aboItionlstS make Kilkenny
cat-fght of it and if we continue our patronage
70 the billegerans it will be all the same whether
they continue the fight or make terms. 1t IS very
clear that the abolitionists wish TO rob US of
Il ,+-. I1,,a, 1fsptII rprC If tIa
profits of their labor We think, from the gener
al spirit of our people, that the well disposed mer
chants and manufacturers of the North, who look
to the South as the field for operations, would do
better TO come and plant themselves among US
We should not fear the fidelity of right minded
Northern men, who would come out from among
,he abolitionsts and begin their respective branch
$ of business with US They could not fail of sue
cess Nothing would more ettectually quiet both
North and South, than the production of just
equality of dependence and independence on and
over each other This would level down all cause
of sectional jealousy. But imagine that no
considerations can ever again induce the Southern
States 10 throw away the rich bounties with which
they are blessed, to foster those who are so hos
tile to their institutions and rights We are not
vet released, it Is true, but the work goes braEey
on.-Enquirer.
The following is the article from the Boston
Post
Two Thousand Packages of York Company's
Goods are to be sold at auction in New York on
Friday, by Haggerty Draper d Jones. There
was large sale Of cotton goods there on Tuesday.
Thus Boston and New England capital is adding
TO the business Of New \ FORK, while the New York
press and merchants doing al they to deter
Southern traders from coming to Boston, by harp
ING upon and exaggeratng the abolition sentiment
here Our manufactures not only return good for
evil, but they overcome tier great sympothy for
our own laborers and traders who would be bene-
fitted by the sale of these goods here
The useless agitation OF the slavery question by
"a fraction of people here, is doing the business
portion of the Commonwealth great injury; but
the free-soers, abolitionsts, DC, care nothing
about consequences if they can only keep on their
hobby. Our merchants, nearly all of whom
in favor of sustaining the compromise measures of
the last Congress, are made the victims of conduct
they condemn heartily as any class of men in
the Union therefore, those citizens of other States
who agree with them in sustaining the Union and
notwithstanding sectional animOsites instead of
Withdrawing from them, and disseminating their
business relations in Boston, should stand by them
the closer and thus mutually strengthen each 9TH
er in the patriotic effort to extingush that dcma-
goguism and reckless fanaticism which hesitate at
naught to accomplish their purposes.