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

they coalesce with the North, and mount platform
constructed by national when they not permit
ed to stand upon it equals Because fthey are de-
MED protection in the enjoyment of their property upon
the soil of which they the joint and equal owners,
they are surely equal, and il not equals, mhat
atey The 'enduring,' "compromisng,'' 'acquiesc-
ing men in connection with the ''natonal Unonists''
can answer these points at their leisure.
As incident to these points is proper to bring into
view the game of the national Unionsts, and expose
their hands Those who opposed the meeting of the
Legislature did so generally, because they indica-
ton everywhere exhibited of settled determination
brush from existence old party ties. They discovered
that the people coming into the field to take the
direction of this Southern question: and that the old
hacks of party the old grannies in politics. the flea
bitten and souess old hus that had pinned their hopes
to party slogans the anchor that to them
from iorgetuness to be cut adriit from the drec
ton fa1airs. Seeing this-and continued intercourse
of years had taught them that the people aroused
the days of their rule numberedthey set to pre-
pairing a national platform, and auxiliary to this in
advance, they denounced all who opposed them and IA
vored the converting the Legislature, agtators and
dsunonists. They endeavored to poison the mind Of
the people against those who only asserted that they
had equal rights citizens in this confederacy & thai
they but desired to exercise the NATURAL inherent an(
lawful means for their promulgaton. This opposition
sprung from patriotism mSre devoted to the preser
walton of the Union than it sincere in regard thC
devotion they rendered the compromise plan. 1t is
singular fact that most of these Union compromises
denounced the whole plan niqutous and unjust,
what is equally singular, of these very mel
are its most ardent defenders declaring it is jus
and that the South got all she entitled to. They
never explain how it is, or by what process it was tina
measures six months since were iniqutous have beer
so modified by time to be rendered Immediately no
y. The Legislature met and constitutional conven
ton is the result Ofits action The Unonists declar
war against any proposed action by the convention
that shall have for its object the rghtng of the Sou
or demanding protection for the property of her Cit
zens in the territories of the Union.
We shall in future numbers of the STANDARD shoy
beyond the power of rebuttng testimony that the slave
holder is utterly without protection for his slaves tn
moment he enters the domain either of New Mexico
Utahand that the boosted compromise defended by til
Southern Union party strips the STAKEHOLDER eectr
ally ofhis legitimate constitutional rights in those terri
tories would the WiImot-proviso were it in fact
operation We shall not cease our labor when thu
shall have been accomplished We shall proceed
show that the North has gained all for which it
tended, and that in the language Mr.. Webster, tn
Wilmot-proviso twas abandoned as useless, for VIII;
was intended to be effected by it, has been obtaine
through indirect, but as efficient means.' We wi
show from the avowas of living Witnesses the curre1
history of the times and the law that the people of til
North construe the compromise their advantage,
that their construction Oft is the true one Here is tn
issue-Union men are challenged to the discussion
In these points it may be why it that the III
ion men will oppose demanding through a convento
of the people protection of Congress for the proper
of the slave owner in the territories. They quit
confident that the North will refuse it, and they al
entirely confident that national platform with PR
lection to Southern property test can be constru
ted. Hence the opposition to the convention. No1
L VerrOnS.