Southern standard., 1851-03-08
The artful DOdgerS--The thimble-IiggerS
Game,

ly distinguished by mercul spirit peculiar it
was wse contains MAXIM that whose trades
habituates them to shedding the blood of brutes
should be excluded from ures in cases of life and death
This maxim is to be revived in similar form but applied
in direction. Men who claim equality in the
confederacy and protection for their dearest rights
to be excluded from asserting the or de-
mandng the other because, orsooth, it sis resistance
These men who are and have been fatening upon the
spos of office; these men who by palpable and
outrageous fraud have robbed the slave States of their
interest in one of the most splendid empires
by vaor turn with upon those who dare assert
their equality and say "You for resstance-you
are for disunon-you for blood and the old maxim
excludes you from the right of judging-sand aside'
This is cool, if not mpudent But the impudence of
this party not here. 1t goes far as to de-
nounce those who their equality in the confeder
acy and demand simple protection of their property,
dsunionists consequently, according to their logic
traitors to the Union.
We are for resisting these ptOGs falsehoods. The
holy bank of Unionism has enjoyed unlimited power
of EMISSION and its issue of false coin has been equal
ed in extent but by two in the history of the
try 1t is to meet the propogators of these false issues
and expose them and their designs that imposes on us
labor duty the advocate will permit us
to let pass unrefuted.
neighboring print says that
"'The Monroe Democrat under its old editor and its
late one, cried out for resistance"
Another writer, apparently speaking by or with au
thority, says:
''There is but issue, and that is 'union or dis
union," attempt to disguise it as they may"
The first writer says that the old editor of the Aber-
deem Democrat, advocated resistance, and the other
writer declares that the party with which that sold ed
tor acts, disunionsts, because there is but
the one issue, 'union or disunion."
Now to the facts Is the party with which this pa
per acts, disunion party! The same doctrine an
nounced by the od editor ofthe Democrat is now in
cucated and enforced by the Standard 1t is the doc
trne of'resistance plain, simple, and wholly const-
utiona. Its mode ofresistance that will prove
efectual in rghting the South as proper and le
gitimate. 1t is resistance by law-consttutiona
aw-not to resist the law of Congress by the law of
the State but by the enforcement of tax upon all the
manufactured articles of traffic sent from the free to
the slave States. In Short is giving the preference
to artisan labor by taxing that manufactured in
free State and encouraging our merchants to sever
their commercial intercourse with the North and open
up for themselves direct trade with Europe If it is
possible to show that the merchants of the South are
1HCQ-
pabe of conducting foreign trade shall not insist
upon this of the remedies but if they are ca
pabe, and we ask the question, are they not we shall
insist upon mode of 'resistance The broad alle-
CATION that the sold editor of the Denocrat was for
resistance, without stating what that resistance
contemplated, covers species of demagoguesm wor-
thy of the party forced TO sustain itself by the propoga
ton of just such SANDERS Our opinions too free
y and too plainly given to become the subject of mis-
representon unless from design. When, as in the a.
bove instance, resort to tricks becoming the
thimbe-rigger than candid and frank opponent, we
shall denounce them in terms such the occasion de-
mands The writer of the above sentence kne,o that
the sold editor of the Denocrat' advocated 're
sstance by force of arms-that while he acquiesced
in other words, while he submitted the outrage
because perpe rated in the form of law, he yet
would exercise his right denounce it UNJUST and
advocate amendment modification His resistance
never extended to the point of secession, even and
why it thrown forward in form calculated to i'm
press upon the public mind the idea that he would
sst by force of arms, nullif the laws ofCongress
is evident. These Union men must make out case
against the advocates of Southern rights and ndepen-
dence and to be plausible they msrepresent, and
| to be witty; lie little for fun.
Wherever we have found man bold and reckless
enough to declare the issue to be union disunion
have been forced to say there goes whose wish
's father the thought 1t is singular, though it is
true, that the who have been hunting place for
years. and hitherto without success ranged under
the Union banner and their continual cry is 'Union
or disunion is the ISSUE" What text for sermon
the wonderful capacity of mans inventive genius is
here presented. Men whose native capacity has
signed them station in the world from beyond which
they have been able travel because they have
failed obtain the confidence of the publc-a sort of
cod calculating thing; very slow to understand, and
not rewarder of native genus-are now such fierce
and unreenting advocates of the peoples rights that
they refuse to make any but 'disunion ISSUE" Well
they have been without supporters and hackers to OBJ
tain for them that public confidence, without which
they remain in obscurty, it is certain that
they must orego the delights of serving the dear peo
ple for but those who made adder blind not
by frost, but by desire to be in public Office find
party in Mississippi making 'union and disunion the
only issue,'' or issue at ALL
| We apprsed that many excellent gentlemen in
State have placed their hopes upon the issue of
an issue their names would be unheard of and even
with it, their importantly might obtain for them
little consideration but respect for their talent and
capacity whatever.
The issue is not "union or dsunon,' in Mississippi,