Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-11-01

eloquence that enchanted the audience We have in
this canvass heard nothing so severe upon Foote from
any speaker. Butwe cannot give the points made by
the speaker without doing him manifest injustice and
we only can wish the audience had been the entire
voting population of old Lowndes, instead ofthe fra
ment who were present
QTThe following not written with view 70
its publications. designed for the eve of the ed
itor of the Standard alone but it contains the onin
ions of gentleman of matured mind and clear
head, and we of opinion that its sentiments and
conclusions will meet with almost general approba-
ton form our readers
The writer will pardon for the use we have made
of his communication, and we beg that he win extend
his reflections the subject under consideration IN
til it shall have been narrowed down so that no one
may misunderstood the full force of the positions he
has assumed.
Mr.. CHAPMAN-Sirf Last week wrote hasty and
crude outline Of the reasons which induced me TO re-
sist democratic national organization. now pro-
pose more lengthy if not more lucid EXPOSE of
those reasons.
In the formation of the Federal Constitution there
were men of distinguished ability, who lent all their
powers to the establishment of consolidated gov
eminent, but their counsel was overruIed, and the
greater number of them proved their patriotism to be
equal to their wisdom, by interpreting and supporting
that instrument according It's true intent and mean
ing, after its adoption by the separate action of the
then thirteen sovereign States Consequently the
very first attempt which federalism made under the
lead OF the elder Adams, towards usurpation of pow
ers not granted by the States to the Federal Govern
eminent it laid the foundation of the great democrat
&c republican party under the lead of jefferson and
Madlson-the doctrine of the sovereignty of the
States, and the consequent right of secession consti
tutng the basis of their political creed and from that
day to this has been the watch-word of the party
IN opposition to the lattudinarian and centralzinp
principles OF the federal or wing party. Between
these rival organizations constant political warfare
been waged from the days of Jefferson to Polk when
under the administration of the latter the measures
OF the democratic party became the settled policy of
the government During the progress of these events
third party sprung up in the northern States com
posed chiefly, II not entirely of wing material, whose
end was hostility to slavery in the southern States
80 soon as this party acquired sufficient strength to
give weight and Importance in the state of national
elections it was claimed by the whigs through their
chief Daniel the Godlike, as the offspring and ma
honal ally of the great wing party
The democratic party, in the meantime continued
faithful to the constitutional rights of the southern
stakeholder; and the southern wings with this evil
dence before them, continued to affiliate with the
wings and abotonists of the northern States appol-
oglzng Tor and covering up their political detornity
and heaping abuse and misrepresentation mountain
high, against the northern democrats their only friends
IN that section OF the confederacy OF their rights and
their interest
This hostility of large and respectable party in
the south to the democracy of the north compe1ad
that body OF the northern people to desert the South
upon the slave question, to themselves from ut
ter destruction at home and from this period arose
me rivalry between the wings and democrats north to
secure the cooperation of the aboltionsts and this
Inauguration has finally corrupted the whole. until
you can scarcely find an individual north of Mason
md Dixons ine that is willing to accord to the south
her just rights.
Had the wings of the south let their patriotism rise
superior to partizan spirit by cooperating with tho
democrats north and south, the organization thus form
ID would have been irresistible, and all woull have
well for the constitution the south and the
whole country Their refusal to do this has destr,ved
he only friends which the south possessed in the
lorth and placed the government in the hands of
heir worst enemies the aboltionsts and in order TO
" Sn' III ITO PfducdI legislation
gainst the south, under the name of Compromise and
hereby cover up their own iniquity in assisting to
lace such men at the head of the nation thev have
ome out under the new name of Union, % and under
ne ostensible lead of prossed Democrats in pursuit
I National reputation This party in the pros
cuton OF their unhoy object, have and are promul-
atlng doctrines which would almost sarle such Fed
rahss as Hamilton and Adams from the sleep of the
rave
Against this party and these doctrines the true De-
locraey OF the South rallied under the name of the
democratic States Rights party-making the Ken
lcky and Virginia Resolutions of 90 and q the basis
their Creed and proposed to take the same action
pom the so-caled Compromise bills that the RepubI
aus OF that period did upon the equally odous Alien