Southern standard., 1851-02-01

refuse to recognize constitutional rights, and
to aid in legally asserting them in Congress, a
tgainst like omission of constitutional duty to us.
We cannot, therefore, approve of the abandonment
of the right of protection, and the assumption OF
the old repudiated Cass doctrine of Non interven-
ton by our Union friends. We regret that the
Mass Meeting at Jackson, should have found 1t
necessary at this late day, to solicit the endorse
ment of Gen. Cass, after he had been repudiated
by his own friends in Mississippi. We were not
prepared, after the Developments of the last ses-
sion of Congress, and after the abandonment OF
Gen. Cass, by the only party in this State, who
ever sustained him-to see the correspondence
which was published with the resolutions of the
meeting. We were not prepared, espectofty TO see
the Wing portion of that convention, at this time
''acquiescing'' in the doctrines of man, whose
opinions and principles they had SO lately and SO
bitterly denounced
| We stand on the constitutional duty of Congress
to protect all the property of all the States in the
territories belonging tothe States, United alike, and
in the same manner that Mr.. Clay claims it for
Kentucky, in his Frankfort speech, in relation to
fugitive slaves. "All will admit" says he, s'that
a constitutional duty on the part of Congress,
should be taahfuly and efectualiy and not alu-
sicely and inadequotely performed"
This is all we ask for Mississippi and the South
We are opposed to all partiality-al inequality in
the action of Congress of sister States.
Fourh-We cannot approve their course, be-
cause we cannot join them in rendering our lives,
our fortunes and our sacred honor, to the enemies
of tba
home that protects us-the freside friends, who
may honestly differ with us We feel that are
identified with our brethren of Mississippi and the
South, in feeling as well as in Through Joy
and through torment, through glory and shame"
We shall not, therefore, be found with the arms of
an enemy in our hands, pointed at the breasts of
Missssippians. As would point the in
struments of death with murderous intent, at the
freside endeared by the recolections of childhood
as soon would we make war upon the sacred re-
latons of family, the helpessness of infancy. If
Mississippi must be troddcn down by the over
whelming progress of anti-slavery, and her citi-
zens butchered by the hands of slaves and aboli-
ton assassins, in Gods name let MiSSissppians flee
the disgrace-the corroding infamy of participa-
ting in the murdcrous carnage. We cannot there
fore sustain our Union friends in this resolution.
FJth-We disapprove of the party machinery
set in motion by the Jackson meetng-lts proscrp-
tive spirit, recommending conventions, great and
small to cover the State with renewed spirit OF
prescription and intolerance. We abhor their bit
ter spirit against all who cannot agree with them,
and more especially their looing kindness towards
their Northern allies whom they have again en-
listed in the war they have declared against the
friends of the South. We are therefore left no al
formative but to 'acquicsce' in the necessity which
ldlnounces our separation, and hold them, as We
hold the rest of mankind, enemies in the political
war they have declared against US, in private
friends
What can the South do? We propose, FIRST
that the people of Mississippi shall send delegates
to the State convention called to advise and con-
suit as brethren of one family, on their duty tC
themselves, to the country and to poserty in the
present state of political affairs. The senseless
, demagoyue, who denounces the convention be-
cause the Legislature did not first ask permission
of the people, to let themselves (the people, meet
in convention, is unworthy of their confdenceor
respect All admit that the events transpiring
. and already consummated are of the most fearful
importance The Union Mass Meeting itself was
assembled in view of this state of things and has
laid down for It's amable SELF no less than caus
es in advance for any of which it is ready tc
dissolve the Union. The Georgia convention JUS
: adjourned foreshadows nearly the causes
admits the danger of the times, and addresses the
North beseechngly and afectionately, not to drive
them to the necessity and trouble of dissoving the
Union by secession. Other State conventions and
meetings speak the same voice. And the great
Party at Jackson were assembled by Message
from traoclling ubiquity, (who may be regarded
as their Gouernor) in view of these impending diff
: iculties Have they averted them by their reso
lutions? Has their assemblage at Jackson done
all that necessary, for the preservation of the
: Union and the protection of our rights? Surely
if the portentous character of the times, called
! for convention of part of the people of Mis-
sissippi, thus to meet and express their opinions
with an air of defiance to the representatives of the
whole people assembled in their Legislative charac
ter, we can no reason why the whOle peoplethem
selces, by their delegates may not meet in conven
ton without reference to party and deliberate fol
: for the common good. We are not afraid of the
people in convention. They do no harm
whatever is their will is politically right. We de-
sire to have their potent voice upon the question
of acquiesccnce in the refusal of Congress to pun
ish the lawless wretch who steals harbors, con
ceals the slave of the southern man, who dares tC
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