Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-22
Monrlr Dec. 26. 1850.

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have less hestancy in doing So because II - o'i
I'll, c1,,cnIor and has been doubtless address
ed to many others in every section OF the country
While will not question your sohcltude 10 pre-
serve the Union cannot but admire the SIKH Win
which Won divide your censure between the Adolf
t;onisfs and those of the South who are forced 10
look to secession as the only means OF escaping
from complete and utter ruin. The GOODNESS, 100
with which YOU charge the Southern people WIN
making the argressions which have been commit
ted upon their constitutional rights, an 'efcuSe
for adj yocatine secession" is certainly worthy OF
note And not less so is your assertion that leach
demonstration made by the Abolitionists against
the supremacy of the law, is the signal for renewed
assaults upon the Union party OF the slaVehoiding
States"
I But YOU cap the climax when you aedge that
Abolitionsts following the example thus set trem'
make the Incorporate language OF their oo"t"er"
allies the pretext for another onslaught upon 'he
conservatives of the North"
Really gentlemen, the sang trOd with which
YOU falsify history is not little remarkable
One would infer from your letter that the South
is answerable for the assaults upon her rights and
that the abolitionsts have committed no greater
sin than that of following oar bad example GU
exhibit want of candor and frankness, well calcu-
lated to awaken doubts In our mind, as to your MT
ness for the office you have assumed, VIZ to pre-
serve the Union by correcting and developing pub
lie opinion and establishing that fraternal love
which once prevailed throughout the confederacy."
To do this you must learn to be Just, and your
whole letter oives unmistskable evidence that you
are not in that mood
That YOU are in favor of the Union, have no
question, for you are too well aware of It's advanta
pes to your section to be otherwise but in the face
of the wrongs and outrages committed by Northern
Abolitionsts and Free soilers upon the South, it
is expecting rather too much of us to suppose that
we should particularly desire to uphold Union
that has ceased to render us any protection.
Il To gentlemen so well informed as you are, cit
is unnecessary to specify the aggressions which
have been committed upon the constitutional rights
of the South by Northern fanaticism." But would
ask what have goa done to prevent these aggres-
sions
You are all influential men in your State, and
vet what have you done to prevent her from assn
ming hostile attitude towards the South upon the
slavery question Did you make any effort to eff
feet the repeal of the resolutions passed by your
legislature the 9th February, 1847, insisting
upon the application of the Wilmot Proviso to the
territories Did you endeavor to prevent the
adoption of Mr. Raymond's anti-slavery resolutions
at your last session =? Have either of you given
any evidence of determination to uphold the rights
of the South 1t is true that one of your number,
Mr.. George Wood, presided over the late ''Union
meeting,' so called, held in New York, but did he
not vote for Mr.. Hunt for Governor, who, during
the canvass expressed his regret at the passage of
the Fugitive slave bill, and declared that it must
be essentially modified? Is it not notorious that
Mr.. Wood is Federalist of the old school-the ad-
vocate of strong government, and the questoner
of State rights
Mr.. Brady, if l mistake not, also participated in
the Union meeting, but ignorant of his ha-
wing at any time signalized himself in the advoca-
cy of the constitutional rights of the South. We
are not apt to forget Northern man. who NAV have
the bodness to proclaim his determination to stand
by the South in her efforts to maintain those rights
and we recall no actof Mr.. Bradys that should
awaken gratitude since 1843, when he was, I
believe, warm friend and admirer of Mr. Calhoun,
and the most prominent advocate in New Y ork OF
his political principles His present associations go
far to authorize the presumption that he has repu-
dated those principles, and has coalesced with
those who withhold from the South her just rights
D | would ask if Mr.. Brady has ever insisted that
the Fugitive Slave bill is just and equitable? Or
does he think, with Gov Hunt, that it ought to be
so emasculated to make it less obnoxious to the
e Abolitionists
And what are the opinions of Mr.. Ketchum who
now very kindly advises Southern men to cultivate
fraternal regard for the North This gentleman
e made himself quite famous in the late Utica Con
vention. His speech before that body was certain
y not very pregnant with evidences of good will
anu respect lOWdrQS the South. Hear him upon
that occasion
t 81 will make no boast, but | should like to see
the man who has done more from his earliest man
i hood to the present moment, in advocating the
principles of abolition than the humble individual
who now addresses you; and my principles are
unchanged" Mark his extreme modestv, and al
the same time the frmness of his attachment to his
principles tie then goes to point out the adj
vantages of the Union to the Northern States and
! addressing himself to the Southern people, yery
complacently says to them Y our forms of govern
ment IN your States differ from ours ace have ad-
vanced farther than you, think ee see clear
r er than you; but, well remarked by friend
who preceded me, the darkness was once upon as
How cody does he assume superiority over us. and
with what an air does he inform us of it. Rut 60
great is his detestation of slavery that he is NOT
content with recounting his services as above in
the cause OF abolition but must again revert to if
and speaks as follows: ''There are men here in
: this assembly, [ doubt not, who remember the
Ell time when slavery existed here / remember tbat
4 was In at It's DEATH and that I was associated
q with band of men to bring about the destruction
of that evil W ''ohi
i True, he says that he would not interfere with
n slavery In the States in which it exists bv law hut
IN the next breath he speaks as follows ..Tbere
& are now only SIX hundred slaves in the District f
4 Columbia, and this number is dailv d;m;n;sbine.
E With these, we have right to interfere ), NJ
s hetchum knows full well that the South has 81
i ways denied the right of Congress to Interfere VIII
& slavery IN the District, and has repeatedly dalod
IN the most solemn form that it will regard its abo
nlon there, as Just cause of withdrawal from, Al
Omon And yet this gentleman now asSnn,o ~ :