Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-03-22
The Conservative meeting of last Monday.


will be found in another column To the resolutions
State is most earnestly invited. They present in
simple the rights of the South, and they point
to safe legitimate, constitutional mode of redress for
past injury and they offer and certain remedy
gainst further encroachment. AS they are strictly
conservative in their aim, and as they open a way to
redress under the sanction of law they present the
sound pratical feeling of the community position that
is sanctioned by prudence, recommended by patriotism
and offer to those who prize this Union of States the
surest, we may truly say the only guaranty for its
preservation and perpetuity. AS Union men then,
present them to the country-as men feeling that we
have rights which have been denied to us as men who
ready not tamely and ANONYMOUSLY to submit to
aggressions, and not willing hazard the issue
form of government the best that the wisdom of man
ever erected, until every legal and constitutional eXpe
dent shall have been exhausted obtain that Justice
which all admit has been withheld from the citizens of
the South by dominant and fanatica majority North
We not then for dsunon, yet for secession
While ready admit that we are for resistance
it is for resistance that seeks not the exercise of the
sword-that carries the brand and the faggot but
for that resistance which carries in its train the ele
ments of Southern independence; that will noursh
sunny hll-sdes thousands of Industrious art-
sans whose toll will be compensated by ready markets
and fair prices. This is the resistance we counsel
1t is a resistance that is practicable. 1t is resis-
lance that looks to the future. 1t is resistance that
will build up around the institution of slavery its
Safeguards. 1t is resistance that will not only COM
mand the respect of our foes, but will carry terror into
sections of this Union that have grown fat upon the la
49, A.
fact that there exists in the Northern and Eastern
tons of this Union elements of character thousand
times fearful than any within the confined limits
of the South. There has ever, and there ever will
continue to be deep and gathering feeling that So
cety where labor is at the mercy of grasping and
quisitive task master. There grows up among soc-
ETY. organized as it is in England and France, and in
the Eastern and Northern States, feeling of deep
seated hostility between the employed and the employ
This hostility manifests itself in what is called
STRIKES" That is, the workmen demand higher wa
ges and the employer refuses to change prices. In
large towns at the North thousands of workmen men
and women have combined and made "strike' gener-
al Thus under exasperated feelings, they form mobs
Society in fear law set at Defiance and property
well life, is mperilled In England about ten years
since, there was what was called "strike" 1t run
Millions of property destroyed and many lives sac
rifced. The military coerced it. France is an open
book and every page of its bloody history tells the tale
all time will tell it. The manufacturing districts of
the North and East blessed with no exemption from
visitation of similar To a slight extent they
have suffered from this quarter Build up at the South
establishments looking to a rivalry, and the test be-
tween free and taxed labor will have begun and the
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superiority will dwinde and she will be at the mercy
of oppressed and pauper population In this brief
glance the real weakness of the North is seen and in
it may also be well the superiority the nat
ural inherent elements of the strength of the South
1t to develope this natural superiority and draw out
the natiUe strength of the institution of slavery, well
as put seal of condemnation upon that fanatica
spirit that respects rights little written charters
that has led us to pursue and attempt to control
popular hostility that, if directed with prudence and
enlarged views, would result in showing to the North
how utterly how hopeessy she is dependent upon the
South not alone for her prosperity, but for her peace
and future safety. Let continue intercourse for
few years longer with the North let our ambitious
asprants while they acknowledge the aggressions of
the North continue to pander to them by turning from
all propositions that looks towards redress with the
hope of building up opposition to Southern projects in
order to reach power by sacrificing the integrity now
and the safety hereafter of the institution of slavery
and they will have worked revolution that will sell
their to fame enduring as history, and as
despicable as he who betrayed the Savior
Union is the cry of all the demagogues that has been
and will continue to be until the issue will be forced
Dsunon or colonial vassaage Those who seek pow
er and place without the ability to adorn the one or
capacity sufficient to render the other beneficial to his
fellowman, "sedge' under the popular cry of Union
While we respect that who believes that the ag-
gressions on the South have reach point demanding
open and forcble resistance have ofrespect
for those who acknowledge the aggressions and yet
fuse to exercise the legal remedies that lie scattered
our path fo fear itmay exasperate the North either
into the denial of recognized right invite fur
ther aggression. Men who put in such pleas expose
either their weakness publish their ambitious
desires for place and power before the world.
We challenge controversy. Our columns are open,
and we invite gentlemen to enter the list. We seek
controversy because wish the people aroused to
Election. We shall not "sedge' opinions, and it is
fixed determination to "unsedge" those who skulk