Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-08

weighed well the reasons of the writer, who is a
true friend not only to the South but to the whole
Union:
1t can be easily demonstrated that the slave
holders are more vitally-more fearfully-interest-
ed in the question of abolition than any other class
The doctrines of the abotonists and free sellers
have for their present and ultimate object the de-
struction of the institution of slavery,-the total
emancipation of all slaves in the South. All they
do, and propose, and strive for, in Congress and
elsewhere, having any connection with the subject
looks directly to the accomplishment of this great
object 1t is not expected that any one measure
will effect it. but it is to be done by combination
of measures, not running parallel with each other,
but efectually convergng to the same point-to the
same burning focus, like the rays of the sun falling
upon convex glass and producing fire and causing
destruction. The measures afft citing the questions
which have lately received the sanction of Congress
and the President, and which have for their pur
pose the robbing of the South of her just share of
the public domain, and the limiting of slavery to
It's present boundaries, are most emphatically part
of this infamous combination. There is project
more startling than that of combining slavery to its
present limits. Have people of the South justly
considered it Its a self-evident proposition that
the effect would be substantially the same as if
any power were gradually to lessen the area of
slave territory. The slave population increases
proportionally faster than the white there no
restrictions upon their marriage and intercourse,
while many white persons for various reasons choose
not to marry The increase in numbers of the for
mer may be fairly stated from five to eight per cent
annually. There plantations where the increase
is nine to ten per cent. Consequently the result,
in given number of years, is the same to certain
extent if slave territory were converted into free
territory and the slaves inhabting it driven back
to other slave territory.
1t has rarely been the case at any period of the
world that people hemmed in without the
privilege power of migration. The Spartans
had law or regulation in virtue of which, when
their helots or slaves became too numerous, they
massacred them. Whether this was the legitimate
result of any free-sosm of antiquity, history does
not fully disclose But it would be rash to conclude
that the Spartans would thus murder thousands
wantony, and without proceeding upon princi-
Pile ofnecessty. Perhaps they had some Ohio or
/ New England neighbors whose religion consisted
in establishing "a Gordon of free states,'' and who
required, or whose policy required, this inhuman
butchery offering to their infatuation. Whe-
Their the efforts of the people of the North and of
their submission allies in the South, will ever rem
der Spartan regulation of massacre necessary re-
mains to be told.
Abolition of slavery, no matter how it may be
brought about, whether by single decree of the
federal government, by long series of encroach-
same train of evils. In either event there will be
internal war and camage,-there will be robbery,
pillaging, plundering, and brutal crimes of every
!, kind and hue,-there will be violations and mas
sacres of our wives and daughters on the one hand
and continual destruction of slaves blacks the
other,-the sanctuaries of God will be desccrated
and the very foundations and frame work of society
, will be riven asunder with volcanic terror-ou1
houses will become desolate and our fields be laid
waste by force and neglect. Does the poor man
the man who owns no slaves-see feature in this
picture that strikes the tenderest chords his heart?
Does he see wave-no breaker, in that troubled
ocean,-no shp-wreck for him in that mighty tenn
pest? Is there doom written for him in that
dread tide of revolution and carnage which is tC
roll along valleys and across mountain bar
riers,-for which the fanatics of the North daily
pour out their hellish incantations in the guse Of
prayers, and for which they have desecrated the
Constitution and covered it with the shining
exhalations of hypocrisy and perjury, until the We
ry difference between Justice and robbery has grown
dim in their sight? Does he love his wife Il? Does
he love his children? Aye, does he love his ma
: tive land
"Breathes there with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land %
Is it nothing to him that the land of his home is
to be despocd? With him, is an ownership OF
slaves necessary preliminary to patriotism Is
it nothing to him that his wife and children are tc
be cut with knives or beat with clubs and forced to
} an unnatural association with black slaves e? And
, if he happen to have money enough to enable him
A to get away and carry his family with him. is il
nothing to him to be driven like base spaniel into
lifetime of exile, and to be forced to tear him
self away from those scenes and associations which
have grown deeper in his heart as he has grown
: stronger in manhood, and which are intimately
: blended with all that he held sacred and dear
f The hearts of all poor in the South will send
up everlasting response of virtue and patriotism
2 to these questions.
There is large class of persons in the South who
f are not poor men, and who yet do not own slaves
Are their interests not identified with their homes
: Are they not equally with the STAKEHOLDER, fol
themselves and their posterity, interested in
ring peace tranquility, and justice, for all time to
come? Surely they are.
: The contrast between the condition of the poor
man and the Shareholder can be very briefly drawn
/ In the evils which would most certainly follow
abolition, the former would lose everything. -pro-
perty, personal security, political equality to say
/ nothing of the insult and injury to which himself
and family would be liable, and in a large MAORI
ty of instances he would not have money with which
to go to another country and even if he had he
would not have means of obtaining land and the
l necessaries Of life after he went there.
L The slave holder, on the other hand, would lose
nothing but his property in slaves, for doubtless
even in the anarchy that would prevail his lands,
} lying in large bodies, would be of some value to
him. When he the storm coming he could
take his family and leave for another country,
where, with the money he had accumulated he
t could purchase home and live comfortably.
1t easy to conclude, therefore, that all classes
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