Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-27
The Result i'm Mississippi.


JEFF'N DAVIS
The Result i'm Mississippi.
1--WE have met the enemy, and ne are theirs
The people of Mississippi, by large majority,
have decided against Disunon when there was
not a leading politician in the State who opposed
it, Anissue, false itself, and repudiated by the
Southern Rights party in the most solemn form,
has been increasingly and unscupulously present
ed until it became the fixed sentiment of the mass
of the people that it was the true one and that the
Democratic State Rights candidates were basey
and hypocrtically seeking to dissolve the Union
under the plea of preserving the Constitution and
maintaining the rights of the South. The Demo
cratic State Rights party are defeated, therefore,
but not vanquished. Truth, coeval with 1.-The e
ternal years of God" will assert her majesty. A
lie may stagger through wretched existance. as
drunken bully may force his way through a
crowd; but it will sink at the proper time beneath
the power of truth and will assuredly return to
plague the inventor. Every other question was
merged in the great false issue Approval or dis
approval of the compromise and of the course
of the Mississippi Senators and Representatives in
regard to it, the importance OF protest against the
injustice which all admitted il inflicted; the po-
icy of seeking remedies in the Union against its
unequal operation; the wisdom of reasserling the
old Jefersonan doctrines of State Rights and State
NcmSulcSy the Necessity Vi resulting my
of manly resistance in order to arrest the progress
of aggression, suppress Northern agitation, and
thus restore the Government to its constitutional
spirit, these all these lofty objects of patriotism
and wisdom have been utterly concealed from the
view ofthe people of Mississippi, they have been
appealed to by every sentiment which they have
regarded as sacred heretofore, for the purpose of
rendering all subservent to the purposes of false
cry and of winning favorable verdict under false
pretences.
But the deed is done, and we observe that the
leading Democratic State Rights presses in the
State have acquiesced in the decision of the peo
pie, however dishonesty obtained, and regard the
acquescence in the compromise" as the fixed
policy of the state. Whatever was the means en-
ployed to attain that decision, whether by false
or true issue, acauiescence they regard as the
timent of the majonrity of the people. We record
the result with mingled fear and sorrow. 1t will
be source of bitter modification to read in North
ern prints abolition taunts about the harmless va
porting of Southern chivalry, such which
have already observed in anticipation, in affili
ated presses of the South. We fear for the dan
ger which it will hasten to summon around the
South and the Union, when abolitonism already
riotng in past victories, shall read another story
of Southern submission, shall hear from gallant
Mississippi the chorus of ''the glorious Union
overwhelming the wiser and purer counsels of the
advocates of the rights of the States, and inviting
the aggressor to future encroachments.
No truth is SO prominent in history as that the
aggressor advances the spirit of resistance de-
Gays; none SO marked nor so melancholy as that
the victim of aggression looses in spirit and in
strength with each act of submission or injustice
Mississippi, though a vast majority of her citi-
zens avowedly dsapprove the compromise send
northward nothing but the cry of ''the glorious
Union" 1t announces that she is a candidate
for still further aggression; and few will be surprs
ed if aboitioniSm accepts the invitation of the feast
to which it is hidden.
It's true the Union leaders of Mississippi have
pledged themselves to resist in the event of the
repeal or non-enforcenent of the fugitive slave law
But the latter is becoming more evident every
day, yet We hear from their ranks no murmur OF
resistance. Johnston. the abolition wing candid
ate for Governor of Pennsylvania, who opened the
canvass by avowing himself in favor of the amend
ment or repeal of the law, and hooted at the idea
that the South would, therefore, dissolve the I'm
ion, will receive this glorious Union triumph as
strong fertilization of his position. And Bglar
who has, for months, been endeavoring to per
suade his fellow citizens into the belief that the
Union was in danger from aggressions on the
South, will have one of his most powerful weapons
IN resisting abolition, wrested from his grasp by
the men whose rights he is soaking to defend, and
who now tell him to cease his presumptuous de-
fence, for they do not believe their rights have been
or will be invaded. Thus the most powerful cham
pions of our rights, both at the North and South,
are stricken down in the midst of the contest and
a field of gnominious defeat left to victorious
and insolent foe.
We have reason to know that there are Unior.
men IN Mississippi who for these reasons, tremble
for the results of their own victory. Victory -
Over whom they have triumphed? Over the in
vaders over their rights? Over these who for
thirty years have been wearing upon Southern in
terests and institutions, and now avowedly seek
ing their overthrow? No! Oh mol is the bitter an
swer which commends the poisoned chalice to Un
.on lips They have AEON triumph over abolition
'sm, which is but manifestation that fell fiend
OF Socialism, which threatens to uproot A
merican society, and ifthe conservative influence
OF the Union were Withdrawn from the North
would destroy all law and order there It's not
over this abolitionism or socialism that the Union
men hove been victorious but they have been VIC
torious over their own fellow -ctznns whose hearts
as pure and patriotic as theirs, whose crime has
been their advocacy of the Rights of the South
and Of remedy for her wrongs. Let not the I'm
ION men forget themselves, then, in their
n the Temporary oyerfhrovv of a.