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


Fellow-citizens, now take my leave of you with
gratitude for the generous support you have extended
to me, and with cheering confidence that your honor
and your interests may be safely confded to the hands
of the faithful and able of Mississippi who, Pre-
sident of the Senate, succeeds to my place.
JOHN A. QUITMAN'
05-As instance of the duplicity of Northern MEM
bers of Congress- and indicating the shifts to which
Southern submissonists driven sustain and up
hold the late encroachments upon the South it is only
necessary to point at the pledge brought to the notice
ofthe country by Gen. Fooe in the Senate, mention
of which made in another column of the Standard of
to-day. 1t is evident that the Northern natonalsts
well Southern national Unionists, dread demand
for justice and equality for the South is laid down
in the pledge tratorous disturbe the late acts of
Congress With the whole Plan-the fugitive slave
bill cxcepteG-the North acquesce in by large ma
ory because, by it. it has gained every thing If the
South should unite and demand of the North protection
for Southern property in the territories under this
pledge, to be construed direct attempt to wssttle
the compromise, open up the question slavery agta-
ton again, and leopard the Union Of these States As
argument against the demand fer protection, this is
ridiculous excuse, contemplate and they who
shield themselves beneath either the one or the other
swing into the contest enemies only free
institutions, but as arrant towards at heart If the
Shareholders have rights in The territories and Congress
possesses the power of protecting them and has failed
to do it is only inherent light in the citizen
to demand it, but they who themselves on the
plea that it viii agitation, manifest spirit un-
worthy Of Americans, and deserve the contempt of the
world fer their Pusillanimity
lis the right freemen TO contend for all that the
constitution guarantees to them of political power and
of civil rights II law has been enacted that depriyes
them ochcse rights any part thereof they may de-
mand through tie organized legitimate channel redress
and should that be denied them, they appeal
that spirit which prompted the revolutionary sres to
sever bonds found oppressive and yrannical, tamey
submit to degradation and slavery This is the issue
and there rs no escaPingit.
Those who take counsel from their fears, those
who dread excitement, those who DESTROYS of
specuiang upon the present calemities Just inc-
ton for past aprUdcucc and fly or those who ON
more unworthy motive prefer enduring the present and
rast wrongs rather than exercise their natural rights
WILL Of course, seek excuses and Palatiors for failing
to meet boldly ard front to 'front.' the evil and the evil
doers They viii say the object oughts not worth the
hazard that the rights claimed not equal to those
imperiled Sucl arguUen ne serf and the thralled
coward invarab use--such arguEl make freemen
saveswas it to such arguments that pulmonary
men appealed
win the North resist united demand for Justice to
: the South Never, never The South hazards moth
ING by asserting her constitutional rights but by aeGu
escng in aggression she mFerls her institutions and
+ her liberty.
VINO ARE FOR THE UNION s-Our Union loving
friends call themselves the only true Union party
and all others who are not exactly of their way Of
thinking are set down disunionists. They &C
, cuse the States Rights Party of combining with
Northern fanatics overthrow the Union, because
we have not the same al and confidence in the
professions of our brethren North and do not en-
brace with so much love and so highly applaud
the darling offspring of free-sollism, the Compro
mise, we are denounced as dsunionists agitators
and traitors Because we claim the right OF speak
ing out our opinions freely and openly, and ex-
pressing our dsapprobation of the aggressive mea-
sures forced upon us by the last Congress, are
called disunonists. For trying to unite the South
and presenting to the North firm and unbroken
front, demanding of her just rights and by
this means, securing ourselves from further out
rage preserve and perpetuate in its original purity
the union of the States; for this we denounc-
ed as traitors.
The principles of the States Rights party are
the principles of liberty and equality union OF
equality is the kind of union will preserve, this
is the kind of Union we will have we will have
none at all. A Union based upon any other prin-
cipleS is not worth farthing, it is not worth pre-
serving. 1t Is not the wish or desire OF the South
en party to destroy this Union and build upon its
ruins Southern confederacv, but long as it is
Union of equal rights viii preserve 1t if posi-
: bic But when it ceases TO be Union of equali-
tv-when it longer serves the purpose for
which it was formed-when it is made engine
: of oppression we will no longer it any allegi-
ance 1t is the object of the States Rights party,
BY the united action of the whole South to restore
the Union to its original purity to have our hber-
ties and our property secure from any further ag-
erosion. When this is done, harmony and peace
and prosperity will regn throughout the length and
breadth of our wide spread land. Who then we
ask, are the true friends of the Union Those
that quietly sit down and say not word in defence
of their constitutional rights Who when Con-
gross passes law unjust and degrading to the
: South, say that it has become a part of the SUI
preme law of the land, and we as good, orderly
and law abiding people must submit to 1t, or those
who are willing to unite in defence of their rights
when these rights have been trampled under foot,
: and disreoarded by Congress, and to which they
solemnly declare they will no longer submit, which
course is likely to check the onward tendency of
/ fanaticism and abolitionism which course will
preserve the honor and interests of the South,
and perpetuate the Union of the States ?-Monroe
! Democrat.
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READING.-Make it rule to read little every day,
even if it be but a single sentence short para yraph
will often afford you profitable source of reflection
for a whole day. For this purpose keep some valua-
BILE book paper always in your reach that you may