Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-22

and untrammeIIed The people as well as the pursuits
should, to certain extent be Homogeneous. Clash
ing interests too apt to strife and the nst
tuition expands ard pays better in Tranquil times
can be made by bad government living to
people, but fleit to the general laws of population
and labor il will carry peace and plenty wherever il
!, goes. Acting upon the principle that smght makes
the right the North is gradually walling the Slave
States in, and thus, in few decades, will be able to
harass the upholders of the institution by the evils
growing out of overpopulation to extent that may
render them DESTROYS of aboshng it-or, what is the
more probable because it is al that Is desired J the
Aorth,-wring from the STAKEHOLDER TRIBUTE IN THE
WAY OF TAXATION FOR SUFFERING IT To EXIST The
North do not desire the abolition of slaYery-the pros
Pery OF her people and her depend too much
upon for that she desires to make it more subscr
went to her interests, and will pursue every plan
noy with hope Of gaining concession for human
ys sake, but her gain in dollars and cents It's
by agitation that she has gained what she has, and each
concession the South makes her is but bait shar
pen her cupdity and whet her avarce-it is concess-
ION to the robb~r policy and not moral feeling and
christian Promptngs
The policy the North is to drive the South to the
extreme point inside of dsunion Iii by arraying in
her borders domestic strife that profits her. for it is then
that she sends into the field Southern emancpationist
with compromise that-TAKEs ALL 1t is little sin
guiar that in every contest with the North the South
has been quoted with what is significantly termed
compromise. The history ofthese so called compro-
misses proves that the South while contending for
principle has, in every instance yielded some recognize
ed right for the purposes of obtaining harmony In the
Federal Convention the South sacrificed very impor
tant rghtwhenever she has appealed to Congress in
defence of her rights if successful in the appeal some
new question has been sprung a compromise that
established some new precedent, the recognition of
which by the South operated to her future injury
than the compliance to her demand benefited her Tn
every compromise the South has lost all and gained
nothing but promses-made only to be broken We
challenge refutation of the position here assumed
Centralsm until within the last twenty wears found
but few ayowed advocates in the Southern States Its
nblest advocates in fact all who from their intellectual
powers impressed their genius upon the history of the
lines, were Northern men. The doctrine of secess-
on has, therefore, been generally denounced by North
I'm statesmen, and as generally defended by Southern
Why this is so is hourly becoming more
manifest lie who fails to see in that policy adopted
y Northern politicians the future vassalage of the
'ou' mas studied history without profit The steady t.
ggressons and the denial of the right ofredress is an
ndlce pointing directly to certain consummation
nat failure to detect and expose it, argues degree
apathy in the public mind that might well warrant =
ne expression OF monarchists that the people are in
apable of self-government" While we deDonnce +
ne monarchsts doctrine as untrue we prepared
elleve that people may be blinded and mised by d
lose IN whom they have reposed confidence This is u
thing OF frequent occurrence the shifts and changes
party proves Property is proverbal for its tmidi- tt
. Generally the wealth of section will cling to DO :
tons that must ultimately end in its ruin rather than
EEK redress because, forsooth the agitation incident
oon demand to right wrong, and abate GROWING =,
III may, and perchance will, affect the price of pro
Ice or unhinge for season. the course trade Such
en- forget IN the present the necessity for revolution
ey are building up for the future. They shift from CT
emseves to the shoulders of their offspring the evils
at manhood should teach them to face and remove at of
ICE They cast out upon the current events an evil nj
silly removed if faced at once with the decision he by
ming freemen, and through low mean. contemnti I'll
e, grovelng, mercenary motive, permit it to float on al
d grow, and swell and expand. They teach to their
rs moral cowardice more deadly blightng and pes 49,
erous than any known to the human family. Itisa ~
e that strikes deeper and carries in its train more of
elements of destruction than any other vice To I'll
ch our children to redress no wrong to resent no in
y because may result in lo,cerig the price of ropr ha
Is maxim that we pray God may never obtain the
lcuon OF any IN our day To teach the sons of the
uh to acquesce in aggressons their rights is one ter
the occupations have heart mind or hand for tc
us ask two questions here Are there any who claim
t the South obtained what was her lust due bv the -
E compromise fthere are, our remarks do not
ny 10 them. 1t applies alone to those who believe
contrary, "endure" and submissvely aequesce. ~
n the history of the world can we be cited to an in
nee OF people voluntarily abandoning policy that
well except for one that pad-better! It has 'ioi
II proven by experience that system of labor "h
$ wel-it yields large incomes, and it is true tut
the Southern policy has been one calculated to U.
eft the North more than the South The North i 3
itsed with what she draws annually from Southern not
n She contends the Southern States cannot So tbo
2, and her politicians believe none will attemnt If IA
they teach their people that the South ,ciH nan n
more to be let alone! Thus it is if the North takes
hand off the collar hold the South is electrified b no
of the fact by demagoguebut sutt
never say the North has changed her hand from ton
collar to the breeches-and that the breecbes hold s.
recently given up in the compromise act for hold F
the very throat of the South It's clear that the tab
n VIII never abandon her pursuit of power and it
uay clear that she will press upon the institution "a
avery Just so long as the people ofthe South will
ait She is centraizing the powers of the confed
by bringing into the Union States formed in ab Sefh
e violation oflaw. She has claimed tho r;t. the
ldng by federal law portion of the people Of tb then
N from occupying territory the common nroro. expr