The southern press., 1851-10-30
From the Coiamba, (Ga.) Tines.
Crumbs Of C0ml0rt.

Some of our secession contemporaries seem to
comiort themselves under their crushing defeat,
with scraps from the papers OF other States.--
The Mercury for instance, stretches out lie long
arms To its brother in affection, the Columbus
Times, and, all in good season, the latter pops
in word of consolation, TO be reprinted here.
We all know that the favorable influence of the
Times was greatly diminished in Georgia, in
consequence of its fellowship with the Mercury
and its politics, and now, when their time OF
weeping has come, we must expect that their
tears will be mingled together Chas. Stand
ard.
So sreaks the Charleston Standard, the co.
operation, disunion organ Of Charleston. If the
Mercury and Times can take comfort in ming.
ling their tears we are better off than the Stand
ard; for it does appear to us, that when the
Standard looks out from its watchtower TO dis
cern speck on the horizon comforting to its
views and plans, its eye must encounter naught
but barron waste. Cooperation to dissolve
the Union! Heaven bless US This is certain
Iy spirit from the deep that ioont come at the
Standards bidding. We too, have been labor
ing for the cooperation Of the South in resist
ance to Northern aggression. We have failed
and given up all hope Of obtaining; and further,
we have given up all thought of trying to get it.
South Carolina has driven the last nail in the
coffin of Southern resistance to the compromise;
and it is quite clear that the cooperation party
of Carolina acted as undertaken on the occasion.
We say, stare decis,s--and shall never wag our
pen again in opposition to the compromise
There is neither fun nor profit in darting straws
against the wind. And we can tell our able
Charleston contemporary, if that is its object, it,
may as well give over the work. The whole
South has decided to submit TO the compromise
| from Maryland to Texas, and alas /! including
South Carolina. We know that the Standard
will not subscribe to this opinion, in respect Ia
South Carolina, and will tell us that the coop
| eratonsts are dsunioBists, but not by the road
| of separate secession. Doubtless this is true n
respect to the Standard and branch of its par.
ty; but, has not the Standard called into being
| Union party within the Palmetto borders, tina,
| will not be moulded into disunon shapes? Viii
the spirit it has evoked under the name of CO
operation, be down at its bidding hereafter?
But, if our fellowship with the Mercury and
its politics" have diminished our favorable in.
fuence in Georgia-query would it have been
sensibly increased by fellowship with the Stand
ard? The unpardonable sin in Georgia was to
be against the Union; and the Standard SUP
ports dissolution principles quite strong as the
Mercury Now, the truth is, we differ with both
the Mercury and Standard in this-that we
went for disunion per Sc We have only ad-
vocated the principle of secession and its prac
tical use, as a measure of protectiop--as a
measure that we have never for an instant
doubted would have brought the government to
pa ise-to do justice, to reform the admins
| tration and to secure the South in the Union
One Southern State, taking the step with un
selfish and heroic lirmness, could have accom-
plished the great work. That State, we had
hoped would be Carolina. She would have
covered herself with glory saved the South and
perpetuated the Union. 'Pkis is precisely the
doctrine of Mr. Paulding, whose letter the
Standard so highly commends. We never have
believed that disunion was necessary to save the
South But we have believed, and do still be-
lieve, that settled conviction in the Northern
mind that the South would secede from the
eoBfederacy, unless full justice was meted to
her, was necessary to save both the South and
the Union. We have honestly abored to force
this conviction on the North by the union of the
South We have failed and we now wash our
hands of it, When the South gets ready to
make fight for her rig hts, if we are aliye, we
shall be with her. In the meantime, being force
to remain in the Union on the hard and unequal
terms of the compromise, we must do the best
we can under the duress, and act with that party
which comes nearest to our standard Of justice TO
the South.