Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-15

unon terms Of social or political equality. To the
ono ar the o.Etr must Tie soil be Abandoned
rhe conflict would be 4 bloody one but the result
certain. Tie black race, enjoying comforts
and made happy i'll their condition, (more happy
perhaps than the peasanirS OF any nation, would
either be put to death or removed from that state
which of all others best suits their character and
/ HIS such is the Ultimate end to which success
| ful abolition would inevitably lead. And we may
here ask what is to be gained by it? Fanatlclsm
iwiu have 6 ahshed its dogma, and the world
have r, allied ia political abstraction, nnumeTa-
| bic woes and widespread ruin.
But the question that Immediately addresses 1T
self TO us is, how are these dangers SO Tar as we
arc concerned, to be ayerted The question car
ries with it a deep import and challenges tie WI
sest considerations 1t is neither 10 be answered
/ by the language of despair, met by timed re-
solves. We must feel Ourselves strong enough for
the crisis and courageous CROUCH to look it full in
the face We have tried tie efficacy OF compro-
misses They have brought no remedy. The par
| tv with whom we have compromised and to whose
! exactions we have yielded have not dealt honestly
with US: they have filed to keep their engage
mcnts: they have broken their plish.ed faith for
the sake of power and the lust of domination, and
we have no reason to believe that they will be more
sincere in times to come, than they have been In
times past On the contrary, every concession
are regarded as so much extorted from our fears
and, instead of satisfying them, only encourage
their audacity to set up extravagant claims,
! The truth Is yield as much may, we deceive
ourselves most wofully, if suppose that any
concession we NAV make, short of the abolition of
slavery, will satisfy these Northern people. Al
ready have we nearly compromised ourselves to
death The ordinance of 81, although IN no
technical sense compromise, yet by the terms OF
| L IL If l,.Tl1t Ilnf
Virginia, in a moment of magnificent folly, sur
rendered to the North that immense domain called
the North Western territory, with two conditions
attacbed-the one was that only four States should
be formed out of it, and the other that fugi-
tive Slaves should be delivered up on demand OF
their masters Of course such a present was not
declined upon the conditions annexed. But how
have these conditions been fulfilled? Five States
have been carved out of this territory, instead OF
four and so far as the delivery of fugitiyes is con-
cerned instead of the slaves being surrendered to
their owners, the owners, in pursuit of them, have
been delivered to the tender merces of mobs and
to the generosity of prisons.
But when that great compromise entered
into, known as the Missouri compromise, that was
to be permanent settlement of this vexed and
delicate question. Here the South again gave up
much, if not everything, and the North nothing.
In this case the North demanded the right to ex
clude slavery from any part of the territories and
upon the question charged the South with a dispo
stion to break up the Union, because of its unwil
ngness to recognize the correctness of the princi
pie contended for and its resistance the business
of the demand. In this instance the South, as
usual, gave way, and compromise between the
two sections was established marked by the lati-
tude of $50 30, prohibiting slavery North OF it,
and leaving it by implication not to be interfered
with South Of it. The qud pro gao for this surren-
der the part of the South was the privilege of
being let alone by the North, and pledge of peace
on the question, which was to be considered then
as being finally closed against all Congressional
agitation Well, over this compromise the two
sections shook hands and plighted their honor.
The South has been faithful to the bond
How stands the case with the North? The history
of the country supplies the answer. The North
has refused to stand by the terms of the compact.
She has repudiated its validity, and now demands
that slavery shall be excluded from all territory
South of $50 80 as well as North of that line,
and the demand has been followed by its prompt
execution, and the South is forever shut out from
all participation in the territories But this is not
all. We were promised to be let alone, and to be
allowed to manage our affairs in way.
Has this promise been kept? To the ear it may
have BEEN but certainly not to the heart. Instead
of quiet and repose, we have received insult and
in some instances, violence. Slavery has been the
inexhaustible theme of denunciation and abuse IN
and out of Congress-. The most Insulting speeches
and nroscrptive resolutions have characterized the
peace which has been vouchsafed to us. In every
possible form have institutions been assailed
and our feelings outraged. Not only have our
rights under the Constitution been denied us, but
our property has been stolen from So far from
being treated as equals we are given very signif-
|canty understand that if are not satisfied to
remain subjagdted people, there is such thing
as an Army and Navy for the benefit of rebels
1t would appear, then, that we have no safe
guards in compromises and concessions, but that
they have heretofore only served as means for
our own disparagement and degradation. The
credulty with which we have yielded to their pro-
misses has brought upon contempt, and has
caused us to be laughed to scorn. While compro-
misses furnishes security for the peaceful
maintenance of our rights and property, they show
that We have made a fatal mistake in concluding
that any concessions on the subject of slavery that
do not 90 to an entire abandonment of it as an in
stitution, will never satisfy our enemies. Compro-
misses have resulted in proving that the AntiSlave-
ry party will not be bound by them, and that this
is not only controlling party at the North, but one
eminently progressive and dangerously aggressive.
We must, then, give up the compromising or tenn
porising policy a remedy.
If there be power which can drive back this
arrogant spirit and arrest the wantonness of its at
tacks that power is alone to be found in the Union
of the Southern people The North has the means
at hand to do justice and to save the Union
Submission to encroachments and divisions among
ourselves, however, will never secure US that JUS
tice and that consideration to which we are of
right entitled under the Constitution. The spirit
that prompts resistance and the union that gives
it strength the strong of our success
Our safety depends on harmony of sentiment, and