Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-08-23
NUMBER 80.


absolutely steal the of great apostle, Jetfer-
IN order to hide and up their odous and IN
famous acts from the Indignation of the people, Let
it be remembered then, that the first act of aboshng
slavery in the District OF Columbia passed by the
Federal party and approved by old John Adams 9th
/ February, 1901, that this act was repealed
sentiay modified by the republican party the Bird of
March, 1902, and that the old law of the Federal par
ty and old John Adams was revived and reenacted in
odious form by the present administration
Advertiser and Gazette
re- Read what that biackhearted abolitionist Of
Kentucky SAYS Of slavery. But he utters the
same language of other southern abolitionists-in
factwe have heard expression given to opinions,
which, if uttered in this community ten years ago,
would have purchased fer the utterer suit Of tar
and feathers, well put on.
But this is afree country, and men may now be
permitted TO preach up doctrines tending to domes-
tic sedition, and Shareholders endorse and counte-
ance them. We shall reap the fruit of these
doctrines too soon it is feared.
WHITEHALL, Madison Co. KY
May &c, 1851.
Gentlemen y our favor oflast month is re-
ceived. 1t would give me great pleasure to be
present with You on the 4th of July next as pro-
posed, did circumstances allow. But l am can
yassing the State with view of organizing an anti
slavery party IN Kentucky. l think I can be moro
usefulIy, though far less agreeable employed
here
Allow me to saw, however, that regard this
contest as embracing the liberty or slavery ofal
white and black. OF course it cannot be an issue
between the North and South but between the
saveholding arisocracy of the South and the large
shipping merchants and cotton dealers of the
North, ON the hand, and. the great non-Slave
holding masses ofthe whole Union on the other.
Our fathers of 70 knew well that liberty and
slavery could not cc-exist-there was declared a
truce, but no permanent peace was made or anti
cipated Jefferson embodied their sentimentsiE
his letter to Ed. Cole, of Illinois, coutended that
they of '76 but began the yindication of our liber
ty BY the revolutionary war that it remained TO
US, the d. escendants of the patriots Of that day to
complete liberties by the overthrow of slave
Slavery, SO far from being extinct as Mr. Mad
ison and others believed, in consequence of which
they would not leave the word ''slave'' on re-
cord in the constitution of of 88 has strengthened
itself and carried aggressive war in the slave
and free States.
In South Carolina the great mass of the labor
ing class are abort to be precipitated into reyo-
luton without being heard by the ballot IN their
own behalf The liberty of Northern snti-slaye
ry men in slaTe States is impossible The United
Safes Constitution is oyerthrowl by the fugitive
iN4@NA-S
States are returned into slavery which inflict-
ed on some remote ancestor-'partus Sequiter zen
hen.''
Fhe slave party with high hand tram pies
down ali the principles and usages of such liberty
even, as arstocracies and limited monarchies have
for many centuries enjoyed said one year ago
to the members of the New York Legislature that
the American people were slaves | was set
down as fanatic How now
No we must arouse ourselves at once or we are
lost. Such men as Webster and Dickinson in the
north traitors to freedom they must be put
down In the South the masters must learh that
slave States are not made up only Of masters and
slaves--but that another class, the great white la
boring masses, must begin to be estimated in po-
ltical calculations.
The government every where must be put upon
the free track ! The cry must be once more, '.lib-
erty or death ~ till, in the land of the free men
shall have equal rights
Your friend, G.. NJ. CLAY.
Messrs. jeff Maburv, and others, committee