Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-12
South Cardinals Position.


nrefarrino Southern co-operation-ln favor OF sep
arata action by the State but not immaculate as
onr friend of the Argus has 1t and our nelghDor
below copies. We understand that SAID cohseh-
tion is to meet some fifteen or twenty months from
now and in the mean time another long session
of Congress will have been through; the tugltlVe-
slave law will have been fully tested the South
ern States will have freely discussed the matter
and settled on their ultimatum the Federal Gov
eminent will have had time to make the amends
required of it. and the North will have proved, 1t
is hoped, precisely what it is determined to do De
it for good or evil.
Then. and not till then South Carolina, as we
understand, in view of all that has passed up TO
the present and all that shall transpre up to that
time will make her final decision. We have no
doubt that many, probably all of her citizens not
outstanding the oppression provoked sentiments
of some earnestly pray that she can remain III the
Union with honor and safety to herself She will
doubtless deplore the sad necessity that she may
dem forced upon her, of tearing loose the chord
of afe ntion that has so long held her, and could
,at hold her, all things being right, IN the great
!;+orhood of States. She is not acting precptate-
1 inst the reverse; other States, nearly all The
Go,fJbnrn onas-thouoh they have subjected the
North and the Federal Government to no proba-
tion of mere time-have imposed what we deem a
severer condition on the oppressors ne .:
" Union party say they will resist, M
when Congress abolishes slavery In the OiSeiIcI Vi
Columbia or the slave trade between the 2ta'eS'
or refuses a new State admission into the Uf'oh
on account of slavery. South Cardinals position
is-let them do all these things--let them DO
worse-thev will hold on and abide till the ap-
pointed time, and then if they cannot remain III
honoraJly, decently equally, they are determined
to secede-to use the same discretionary power In
ooino out of the Union with which they entered it.
Well she secedes-she takes her signature from
the compact; and she is ready to settle peace
ably with her old partners She pays up her pro
portion of the public debts up to that time, and
claims her portion OF the pubic property, or us
equivalent. Of course her districts elect no more
delegates to the Federal Government, which to
her now is a distinct and foreign Her legis-
latures elect likewise and for the same reason, no
senators Every Federal Judicial officer of the
State formally resigns, virtually does so, when
| he goes with the State Should they however
hold on and attempt to execute dead letter, ?,
where will be the marshals, and arhere acW be
! tie Jurors Echo mOckingly answers, g WHERE %
In word the State will be seeded.
VIII the President call out the militia Who
are the militia ? Will minority-should there
be one-take such responsibility when such al
act becomes treason ina land of tar and feathers
and rotten eggs; and where every blackjack cal
be made whipping post or jibbet.
No, South Carolina will be virtually, absolutely
seeded and the only question arising with the Fed
eral Government will be purely national one
AS matter then of national policy is our Gov
eminent called upon to put down a neighborin2
government that may threaten her existence
whether from its own internal strength or the ALI
anccs it may form is she called upon then to sup
press the new government, in the same way tina
she received Texas, and thus asslmulated her, t.
prevent the growth of a too near and too danger
Gus a rival
This will be the only question: mere nationa
one; and questionable as the morality of it woul
be, still nations right or wrong have always car
red out such policies.
We do not say that such will be the national pol
= icy, or such ought to be for we do not know. Blu
suppose the Federal Government-which still bind
the thirty States not seceded-choOses to conque
!, South Carolina, a matter of national policy
Then the nations of the world have their police
too to carry out and will they not interfere? Whe
it comes to this issue, will any Southern State loo
on indifferently, and see South Carolina-st he
sister in affection and sympathy-'' bone of he
bone and flesh of her fesh''-crushed beneath tn
] oppressor's feet?
Will any man South--Union man or States Right
man-ever think of treason when he wings hin
self to flee to her rescue?
- This is sad and perhaps not overweight pie
ture. We contemplate it with fear and trembling
:, and our prayer is that the dire calamity it dc
Il picts NAV be averted. Our belief is that it ca
, and should be averted
Il Let the South with a united voice contend fc
justce-nothing but justice, and nothing short
= it. Let her wrestle with the North and the Fed,
> raj Government as did Israel with the Angel an
i let her say, 1--WE will not let you 90, till you bic
- us-ull you redress our wrongs and cease yol
} expressions p Let the State be united and Il
= South be united; let us produce and manufactu
) everything at home; exclude all Northern articl
" and products as far practicable, by public SCI
- tment-or State action, if the latter is const
; tutional. This will :" smite the thigh of our al
. gressors, and force from reluctant lips the words
our blessings. In such an event South Carolil
. aciH not and should not secede.-Mon Democrat
D. ''JoHN A. CALHoUN.-Son of the illustrious Jol
4 c. Calhoun, defeated badly at the late electC
for delegates to the State Convention He was
favor of State secession, measure are certa
D. his father never would have approved
: Thus speaks the Mobile Ad0ertiser, but like mo
10 of the Significant facts asserted by the submit
70 sionists the statement is fact at all. Mr. Ca
70 houn left no son by the name of John A. nor w
n any son of his candidate for our Convention
J. the origin and descent of any delegate elect is
" matter of interest, the AdVertiser can state that
. son of General James Hamilton has been elected
f. the State Convention, true Southern Rich
Is man, the anti-submission basis AS to M
of Calhouns approval of secession we need say not
if ing; Mr.. Calhoun was ardent and devoted a
- mirer of the Union formed, and as it should
N land every Caronian is and he would have ma,
NJ all possible sacrifices to it, would have surrende
- ed Tor 1t, everything except the rights of homo
and equality it was intended to secure He won
- have advocated secession when convinced that Il