Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-08-23
Where are the neinacrats.

w NJ. II. MIMI.
Col \. B. CLITHERALL.
Where are the Democrats.
Capt. Barksdale has endeavored to prove in his
speeches that the Democratic party had every
where but in Mississippi endorsed and acquiesced
in the late compromise. Now, every man who is
at allinformed in regard to the facts, knows that
Capt Barksdale can sustain his position only by
referring to deserting democrats-to men, who,
like himself, have left the democratic party and
gone over to the old Federal Wing party They
have adopted the old Federal doctrine in regard
to the States and the powers of Congress. But to
prove that theCapt. is in error, we quote an edit
oral from the Louisville Journal, stating the whole
facts Here it is;
Throughout the slaveholding States, as gem
eral rule, the Wings are the friends and the Lo-
cofooos the enemies to the compromise, upon the
observance of which we all know that the saliva
ton of the country depends. At the time of the
adoption of that compromise, the friendllness of
the Wings and the enmty of the Locofocos of Con-
gress were strikingly and unequiyocally manifest
ed. In the grand stuggle upon that measure IN
the House Of Representatives, when all intelligent
men throughout the country felt and proclaimed,
that upon its adoption or rejection, was suspend
ed the fate of the Union, all of the Wings from the
slaveholding States, with the exception of M, Cling
man, of North Carolina, voted in favor of, while
the whole Locofoco delegation of Mississippi, vot-
ed against it, the whole Locofoco delegation of
Arkansas voted against it, the whole Locofoco del
egation of Louisiana voted against 1t, the whole
Locofoco delegation of Alabama voted against it,
the whole Locofoco delegation of North Carolina
voted against it, the whole Locofoco delegation of
South Carolina voted against it, the whole Locofo
co delegation of Georgia, with the exception OF a
solitary member, voted against it, and one-half Of
the entire Locofoco delegation of Virginia voted
againstlt.
Here was an overwhelming majority Of the Lo-
cofoco members from the slaveholding section of
country our o1o section of the country, struggling
to defeat the compromise, when the only alterna-
tive was compromise, or dissolution. And, worse
of all when this compromise upheld by all the
Wing members from the South and West, was car
ried through Congress in spite of the violent OPP
position of Locofocoism, the Lacofoco delegations
from most ofthe slaveholding States transferred
their warfare upon it, from the halls of the capital
to their own constituencies at home. From that
time to the present the ercest and most relentless
Locofoco warfare has been carried on and is now
carried on against the compromise in Mississippi,
in Arkansas in Alabama, in Louisiana, in Georgia,
in North Carolina, in Florida, and even in Ten
nessee. In most OF those States, the Locofocos
are nearly unanimous III t0elr Remuneration Oh InG
compromise. In Mississippi seyen-eighths of the
whole Locofoco population denounce it and are
the supporters ola gubernatorial candidate who is
in favor of the speediest possible dissolution of
the Union on account oft. In Georgia, nearly
all the Locofocos denounce it, and the banner IN
der which they fights the banner of secession. In
Arkansas, the whole Locofoco population de-
nounce it, and they are supporting for reelection
to Congress man who opposed it fercely in that
body, and who relies exclusively upon the feeling
of hostility to it for success in his canvass. In Ten
nessee, every Locofoco is supporting a candidate
for governor, who, in his speeches. seems scarcely
able to find language violent enough and vitupera-
tive enough to express his hatred and detestation
of it, And fellow citizens, although the Locofoco
leaders of Kentucky, with some exceptions, have
not yet dared to make open warfare upon the
great measure of peace between the North and
South although they have not had the courage to
do more than to characterize itas unjust to the
South and intimate that it has almost prepared the
minds of their party for disruption of the Union,
they do not attempt to conceal their wishes for the
success of their Southern friends who wave over
their heads the banner of open and eternal hosti-
ty to it. The whole Locofocoism of Kentucky
wish to see Johnson elected to Congress in Arkan-
sas, Quitman elected governor of Mississippi,
Trousdale elected governor of Tennessee, dJc.
Under all these circumstances, no one can doubt
what would be the influence of the carrying of the
Locofocos in the present crisis. Letthe Locofocos,
who, in their State convention at Frankfort, ex-
pressed their deep dissatisfaction with the compro-
MISE succeed at this time in establishing their po-
litcal power in Kentucky, and long, loud fiend-
like shout of triumphant exultation, such as has
never yet been heard, will go up from the
Threats of all the locofocos from one extremity of
the republic to the other We sincerely believe,
that, if old Kentucky, situated as she is and re-
garded as she is shall falter or seem to faer now,
the result will be deep and terrible blow to the
cause of the Union, blow from which that cause
may never recover.
Fellow-Whigs, we can convey to you no ade-
quate idea of our estimate of the Importance of
the struggle which is now going on in your State,
and which for veal or woe, is soon to be decided
We can only ask you to give yourown deepest and
most solemn reflections to the subject and so to
bear yourselves in the great crisis that neither your
self reproaches nor the reproaches of your country
may hereafter be upon you.
The Madison Papers, Vol. End.
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