Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-03-01
ron, o,lr Vashiinoton Correspondence.
WAsHINGToN, D. G., Sd Feb, 1851.

Among other changes, the committee recommend
that unpaid letters be made to bear rate of FIVE
cents the half ounce and that the provision for
the transmission of newspapers by mail, within
circuit of thirty miles, at the option of the govern
ment, be stricken out
An attempt was made last week to increase the
tariff on certain manufactured articles and to take
II off of certain other articles used IN manutac-
lures, bv adding some five sections to the defcien-
cv appropriation BILL for that purpose. The mo-
ZION was made by Mr.. Strong,-a democratic
preventative from Pennsylvania, but was ruled out
of order by the chairman of the committee of the
whole House. An appeal from his decision was
taken, but the committee sustained him by about
fifteen majority. 1t viii come up again IN some
other form.-It proposes to tax all descriptions of
iron 40 per cent, upon valuation to be fixed an
nualy by the Secretary of the Treasury, on the
average value of the article for the ten years pre-
vious to the Importation round about way OF
bringing it up to so per cent Window-glass and
linseed oil were fixed at 80 per cent, on similar
valuation and manufactured hemp, sleeps wool
and raw sugar, increasedsea per cent over present
rates.
A strong disposition to sustain Mr. Strong, is
manifested by some of the Northern democracy
hitherto the advocates of lower tarif.-Madam
rumor hints that Mr.. Cass gives it an encouraging
look and it is feared that he may draw after him
some Southern democrats who particularly at
tached to his fortunes.-Men who
''Yet follow
The wounded chance of Antony, though their reason
Sits in the wind against them"
Mr.. Stanton, ofMemphis, voted with Mr. Strong.
The aboitonists of Great Britain, in concert with
those on this side of the Atlantic, have been for
long time pressing their government to make an is
with this, against the laws of those States I'M
der which its negro subjects confined upon their
arrival in their limits, and until they are ready to
leave it. British white pauper subjects may be re-
PEELED from Northern ports, or taxed on their
try, without complaint but when a Southern State
undertakes to shackle the practice of British and
Northern abolitionsts of sending their emissaries
into limits, in the disguise of coored seamen,
for the purpose of fomenting instruction among
their slaves, seducing and running them off, why
these outward santed' hypocrites cry aloud to
put down, and talk about constitutions and trea
ties.
The federal government appealed to while
Dir. Polk was President and again during General
Taylor's term but the subject waived not
being within the purview of the federal power
Hence, in December last, the British Consul at
charleston, S. c., communicated directly with the
executive of that State in reference to the matter
The result was that Gov. Means, after affirming in
his replies the rightfulness and proprety of those
laws, referred the subject the legislature, where
it sleeps. The correspondence is going the
e. Il u
sOlidation journals denounce the conduct of Great
Britain, in daring to open diplomatic intercourse
with one of our States, Insulting to the ede
raj government, and meritng declaration of non
intercourse with her unless she apologies and with
draws it.
The New York Courier and Enquirer says that
''any course short of Withdrawing the Erequatar
of the British Consul, will in judgment be the
gravest species of outrage upon the Constitution
by the general government, and merit the severest
rebuke from the people, as lending itself to
sion, treason and disunion." The Commercial Adj
vertiser however, is willing to excuse Great Bri-
tain, if it can be shown that she was turned away
from the federal door, and directed to that of South
Carolina. In that it says, in substance, that
Mr.. Webster must call John Bull back, and tell him
he is right and South Carolina is wrong-He must
then protect his negro subjects against the opera
ton of the law, and '"sette the case with our re-
fractory little sister,
Well, now, we are inclined to the opinion that
the issue put by Great Britain will have to be met
by the federal government, but in a different way
from what these federal journals propose. We
do not think that Mr.. Webster can waive it by sug
,oStip,, to tho British Minister while Sittino with
his legs under his mahogany, to forbear to press
his remonstrance. The British abotonists are too
strong to permit that.-He will have to meet it by
SAYING to Mr.. Bulwer, that if any existing treaty
negatives the right of State to protect by law,
peculiar interest which may be endangered by a
free intercourse with foreign black race, or any
other race that treaty must be SO far abrogated.
And the influence of Northern States in the fede-
raj government will have to assent to this if they
desire a continuance of the Union. They must ac-
quiesce in the recognition which the Constitution
directly and implicitly gives to that peculiar inter-
est, and maintain its rights and protect it. wherev
er and so long as our flag floats as symbol of our
constitutional Union. Messrs Gddings & Co.
may affect to repudiate that interest, far the
federal government is concerned, and devise mea-
leave it to be preyed upon by foreign wolves
and domestic foxes-but it can't be done unless the
Union is destroyed