Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-06-07

past has been characterized by such fearful threads
upon the slave institutions of the SOUTH what may
We not fear from the future
MISS DIX-AN INTERESTING INcIDENT.-The
Greenville Is. c. Patriot, relates the following
interesting incident Of Miss Dix:
The other day, in conversation with Miss Dix.
the Phianthropist, during her visit to Greenvillc,
lady said to her, care you not afraid to travel
all over the country alone, and have YOU not en-
countercd dangers and been in perous situations?'
Il am naturally timid, said Miss Dix, and diff
dent like all my sex; but in order TO carry out my
purposes, L know that is necessary to make sacr-
fees and to encounter dangers. 1t is true | have
been, in my travels through the different States.
in perous situations | will mention one which
occurred in the State of Michigan. / had hired
carriage and driver to convey me some distance
through an uninhabited portion of the country. In
starting, L discovered that the driver, Young lad
had pair of pistols with him. Enquiring what
| he was doing with arms, he said he carried them
/ to protect as he had heard that robberics had
been committed on our road I said to him give
me the pistols, l will take care of them He did
SO, reluctantly.
In pursuing our journey through dismal look
| ing forest man rushed into the road caught the
horses by the bride, and demanded nv purse
said to him, with much sef-possession as |
could command, ''Are you not ashamed to rob a
woman L have but little money and that
want to defray my expenses in visiting prisons and
poor houses, and occasionally in giving to objects
OF charity. If you have been unfortunate are in
Distress and in want of money, [ will give YOU
some. Whilst thus speaking to him, l discovered
his countenance changing and he became deathk
pale" My God, he exclaimed. THAT yoieel'
and immediately told me that he had been in the
Philadelphia Penitentiary, and had heard me lee
turing some of the prisoners in an adjoining CELL
and that he now recognized my voice He then
desired me TO pass on, and expressed deep sorrow
at the outrage he had committed. But | drew
my purse, and said to him, Il will give YOU some
thing to support you until you can get into honest
employment. He declined, at first, taking any
thing, until insisted his doing so, fear he might
be tempted TO rob some else before he could
get into honest employment
Had not Miss Dix taken possession of the pistols.
IN all probability they would have been used by
the driver and perhaps both of them murdered!
i MAJ ro'ce, was more powerful, in subduing
the heart OF ro66er, than the sight of brace of
pistols.
WARNING TO THE SouTH.-The New York Day
BOOK concludes its notice of Summers election as
follows:
We are not disunionists nor secessionists,
but we distinctly say TO the South, and with sor-
70" ana shame, You cannot rely on the people of
| massachusetts,, or Vermont or New York, or
ohlo' TO do you justice. You must take care of
yourselves your institutions, your property, your
wives, your little ones and fre-sides TIE quicker
yoa UNITE IN this decision, the better Il srH Be for
yoa. az Let justice be done--peace be STILL
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4 TRUE LIBERTY.--"G Give me the liberty to know,
to THINK to believe, and to utter freely, according
TO conscience, above all other liberties This
was the desire of a noble Republican, John Milton
ana ne expressed the aspiration of every man who
aesires 70 DC led through the knowledge of truth
cal with the duty he owes to. God and man.
without this liberty, there can be no discharge Of
social obligations. Withhold it, and mind dies.
Withhold 1t. and individuals and nations dwinde
INTO lnslgnlhcance. Withhold it, and YOU with
nod the sunlight from the dial of civilization.
: withhold 1t, and the view of God is darkened to
mankind