Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-08
From the Missisfppi Free Trader
Gen. Felix HustOR's Speech at Lexington, Mi

In a speech at Lexington, ON the "a inst. Uen.
Huston read the following synopsis of the dangers
which threatened slavery in the Union
He first argued that slavery was no danger from
causes existing originating in the Southern
States that the negroes were contented and hap
py and that the master racewere not tainted with
abolitionsm Whatever abo itionism was amongst
us was of Northern growth ;Nand vet all admitted
that slavery in danger of Rf!o 80 Eoyed.-
He believed that if the South SUI Ia longer to
Northern aggression, and if the resent Southern
movement for independence defeated, slavery
would cease by determination abolition, in
twelve years from this time; it could not continue
more than two or three years after the census of
$50 and this not from originating in the
slaveholding States, and not in accordance with
the Constitution.
All the dangers with which we are threatented
all the insult and degradation which is heaped
upon us, and all the fears which we have for the
permanency of our property, arise from influence
and causes ex.raneous of our own borders and of
the Constitution.
If this is So how can an intelligent and brave
people submit to such injustice, which will inevita-
bly, destroy their properly, and at the same time
sweep away their civil liberty and independence.
None of the dangers and ruin with which we
are TIN eatened would exist if we were separated
from the Northern States. In that case, slavery
would be under our own control, and would de-
pend for It's permanent continuance, on our own
will, and we would be freed from continual agita-
ton, and fear of aggression and ultimate ruin.
Out of the Union, but one thing could abolish
slavery, and that would be the conquest of the
Southern States. That we must risk. We were
three times more numerous and ten-fold more
wealthy than our fathers at the commencement
of the revolution. We were more numerous and
far more wealthy than Hungary, which successful
ly resisted the arms of Austria and Russia, until
betrayed by her generals we had unbounded re-
sources means of subsistence beyond any other
people, and one hundred and fifty millions of
ports, and we could turn out six hundred thousand
fighting men, the best marksmen in the world
And, besides, we were united by common bond
of interest and by the very wrongs and injuries
inflicted on us.
General Huston then submitted that the only
danger of our property out of the Union, would
be from war, and that had no terrors for brave
and gallant people In the Union it was different,
and slavery would be abolished by means which
we, in the minority, had no power to control
And he called the attention of his hearers to the
following synopsis, all of which, he stated, was
already threatened and acted on by enemies:
THE DANGER WHICH ENVIRON SLAVERY IN THE
UNION.
1st From the abolition feelings in the North
which threatens its destruction, manifested as fol-
lows:
Cd. The exclusion of slavery from all the terri
tories.
Sd. The abolition of slavery in the District of
Columbia, in the docks, navy yards, on the high
SEAS and in all places subject to the Legislation of
Congress-
4th. The opening of diplomatic relations with
Hayti and Liberia.
5th The Ebony line.
9th. The prohibition of the slave trade between
the States.
7th Continual agitation, the formation of abo-
lton societies, the union of the churches against
slavery, and abduction of slaves from the border
slaveholding States.
9th. Notification of the article in the Constitu-
ton providing for the surrender of fugitive slaves.
9th Receiving negroes as citizens of the nom
slaveholding States, and claiming for them the
rights of citizens in the slavehoding States, and
the right to hold office under the General Govern
ment.
10TH The colinization of Abolitonists in the
border saveholding States. "
1lth The seductons of the General Govern
ment, which, by its wealth and patronage, bribe
Southern members of Congress to betray their
constituents. :
18th Adverse legislation, and throwing the
burdens of Government on the productions and
labor of the South.
18th The enormous and vastly increasing ex-
penditures of Government.
18th The expenses of defenses against the In
dians, exploring tie country, surveying the Paci-
fc coast, erecting light and supporting
territorial governments in countries from which the
South is excluded which may, in the aggregate,
be set down at no less than twenty millions of dol
lars per annum.
| 18th The destruction of the equilibrium of the
Government, as between the slaveholding and
non -saveholding States,
10Th The present and increasing preponder-
ance of the non-sIaveholding States, numerically
vast foreign emigration, both by the Atlantic and
Pacific s4alboards, and also removals from the
Southern States ); and States, by the rapid for
nation of State governments out of the territories
land division Of the States, which are too large
and to increase the majority in the Senate. :.
18th. The danger of losing the border slave
/ holding States.
! 18th. The injury inflicted on us by opening the
way to white emigration, and closing it to slave
emigration.
18th. The effect which crowding the negro race
on the cotton growing States will have.
90. The danger of an opinion gaining ground
that slavery will soon end andits ruinous effects
/ 21. The danger of the idea of Northern supe
Iriority and sympathy with the:negro race, and o
Southern inferority and cowardice, spreading a
mongst our negroes, and rendering them dissatis
fed and rebelllous.
i. 2s The danger of distrust of our negroe.
spreading amonst ourselves, and leading to exter
mination.
23 The withdrawal of capital from the South
fern States, desire to sell and emgrate depreciation
of property, general gloom and depression and ul
: innate ruin
RI Cd. The annexation of California
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