Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-10-25

alalh thefe. ann TO RESTRAIN ana eradicate slave
ry. Ny life is committed to this work. | seek to
pursue the best policy and use the best means for
its accomplishment. 1 may misjudge but l shall
steadily follow this aim l cannot relax in this
war with slavery. l shall not rest until the evil
IS removed. When my efforts, in my present po-
son, prove utterly useless will retire to private
life, and to the more pleasant and profitable pur-
suit of my profession.
Land Reform has been spoken of here to-day.
1t IS glorious idea. May it spread and triumph.
Every man. too, has right, not only of life and
liberty, but also right to be entirely free to pursue
happiness, to cultivate the intellect and to elevate
his whole nature to become more ike the angels.
Democracy is government that protects and
entOrCes the great ideas ofrght and Justice tell
every cosstent lover Of freedom and Justice to call
himself Democrat. As Cassius Al. Clay said
LET those that are not Democrats seek distinc-
tive name of their own" Apologists for slauery
and injustice cannot assume the name without hy-
pocrisy. 1t the name describes you, take it; and,
remember, if our hearts true, if we are earnest
and sincere, scorning alliance with those who re-
ject and scorn our yrnciples, we shall be strong
and the people will flock to our standard.
believe that, some day not far of, slavery will
be extinct. When it becomes obvious that eman-
cpatiOn must take place, you will two opposite
parties, each pressing their own method of eman-
cpatior.
One of the parties will be directed by the in
terests of monopoly and the money power. OF
it will be anti-democraticI 1t will support
the Shareholders in asking Congress to appropriate
money to pay for emancipation. Daniel Webster
has already advocated that the proceeds of West
em Teritores-the $40, 900, 600 that Ohio has
paid to the General Government, should be given
to Nirginiasaveholders to pay them for emancpa-
ton. Congress can just as well create debt Of
$500, 600, 600, and emancipate all the slaves
Were this done, you would have slavery Of capit-
asts holding slave bonds, and the war would be
between capitalists and non-capitalists.
The method of the other party will be to affirm
State Rights, and restrain Congress from the eX-
ercse ofsuch unconstitutional power. 1t viii say
that Congress has right to interfere with eman-
cipation in the States-Do right, for any purpose
whatever, to go beyond the jurisdiction to which
the Constitution confines it. 1t will have nothing
to do with the compact that in this case may grow
up between the old slave power and the money
power.
Conversing with South Carolinian, he said
that if the General Government would only favor
freedom so much that Shareholders could discuss
the question, and speak freely, sure of protection
against outrages, slavery could not long exist in
that State. Restrict slavery to the slave States
prevent its ingress to the Territories repeal the
Fugitive slave Law! put the General Government
on the side offreedom and emancipation viii spring
up in the Southern States Immediately.
1t was said by very wise man of the last cen
tury, that slavery could not live in this country
one huodred years longer. Seventy have already
passeQ away, and let US now resolve, God giving
strength, in twenty-five years there shall not be
a slave in the Union.
In conclusion, whoever chooses to distrust or
caIumniate me, can do so-hs injustice may re-
coil upon himself, l say, God bless every man,
whoever he may be, that is devoted to the great
cause Of human liberty.
A Dangerous Element in Southern Society.
The fact can be no longer disguised, that there
is considerable danger to the institution of slave
ry, from what may be called a party in our midst.
There is a class in the South rotten upon this vi
tai question. For the last fifteen years it has been
gaining, because the Southern Shareholders have
not placed the stamp Of reprobation upon it. Cor
rupt and infamous politicians have courted this
class for ambitious purposes, until now 1t begins
to show itself in all its strength Ten years since
Cassus NJ. Clay began to tamper with this class,
and the consequences has been, that formidable
party has grown up in Kentucky, against the in
stituton of Slavery. 1t will soon be the case in all
the slave States. The National Era congratulates
It's readers on the fact that will soon have an
enemy at home to contend with. How significant!
We must meet this party at the North, and IN the
S0utk from this time, with the most obstinate re-
sistance. We cannot, in safety, trust Southern
men, who willing to concede, in the slightest
degree, to its demands. Every concession makes
it stronger and more IMPORTANT We must strangle
it in its infancy, the day will soon be on us when
it will prove too strong for us.-Soather'er Rome,
Ga.
This dangerous element is the class of nonslave-
holders in the South, many of whom laboring
men or small farmers, and unfriendly to Slavery
This is the class to which Cassius NJ. Clay is ap-
pealing. In conversation a few days since with q
native of North Carolina, an old citizen there, he
said that, in his county, five to of the people
were opposed to Slavery, but the minority ruled
because it had the capital, and controlled the press
The policy of the tSoutherner has already begun
to be carried into effect. Read the account from
the american Telegraph of the lynching of cit
zen of Virginia, simply on account of hostility tC
Slavery, and also another paragraph, in to-day
Era, concerning mob violence in Guilford county
and the selfexpatration of some of its citizens
the question arises-will the white laborlng mel
and poorer classes of the South submit to be made
slaves Of or o.be driven out as exiles, by the des
potism of Capital The menacing article
the SoutherRer shows that they will have to decide
this question soon. Capital is powerful-bm so q
IS tie Ballot Bog. Let them remember the fou
thousand Kentucky voters who lately rallied unde
the standard of Cassus NJ. Clay; and indeed, thi
example, if we may Judge from the following iten
/ in the Southern Press, is already working:
FREE-SoILsM IN KENT.-A letter to the edito
of the CeeiLe Democrat, dated Chestertown, Nd.
Sept. 22d, says:
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