Southern standard., 1851-03-08

negative side and then-as from the mouth of
the illustrious dead-their machine cries out 1.-The
Federal Union-it must and shall be preserved, y
"by the Eternal" But all of sudden, Richie
and the Richmond Enquirer and our Union friends,
learn that Virginia negro has escaped to free
State, and they seize their new instrument screw
their sliding scale to the opposite pole, and then
explode-and thunder secession, revolution the
rights of the South, they must and shall be preserv
ed. Then, at all the intermediate points between
unconditional submission to degrading infamy
and inequality, and violent, imprudent rashness,
they seem equally at home. We talk with some
of them-they advocate the very measures ad
vocate-State resistance to the compromise mea
sures, by wise and prudent legislation, retaiatory
in its operation while it is encouraging to our citi
zens- and yet in the same breath, they are for
''acquiescng in the same measures and against
all resistance. We shall see where they fall.
Why are the SubmSSiOniStS anxious to Organ
ize DiSuRi0n party
Men with limited capacity sometimes are ambitious;
they take up idea that they intended by their
creator for sublime and extraordinary purposes,
and when they fail to reap the harvest their ambitious
aspirations have conured up they denounce their luck
their msfortunes and sometimes the blindness of the
people in not seeing and rewardng in them those Pc
cular elements of genius and greatness with which
they believe themselves endowed The fact that they
at fault, that the people should have failed to
discover in them those elements of greatness or their
peculiar adaptation for the public service never enters
their bright minds. To be told plainly that their SER
vices can be dispensed with is great insult under any
circumstances but to- be told that their services are
altogether useless if detrimental to any cause, in
every sense, insult to be acquiesced n though
they are willing to acquesce in wrong and injustice
politically, ifacquiesence will but place them in pow
er. There is remarkable blindness if not perversy
of intellect manifested upon all subjects but those
that promise prospectivey, preferment. They will
'Wire in and wire OUT
and asservate at each angle snake like course
that they are consistent. And yet they will coincide
partially, with all men in opinion.
Such men, and it is now about the only class that
are insisting upon it. declare that those who are for
nterposing State action to check aggression are dis
unionsts. tits as firmly fixed in their minds as is
their belief in their capacity for any public sta
ton, that there is dsunion issue in Mississippi ANY
attempt to convince them to thecontrary would prove
as futile argument to show them that they were
very ordinary mortals. With just penetration enough
teach them that the public mind is aroused and ma
tive ability sufficient to show them that the Union is
the strong sde because all declare for the consttu
ton and the Union of fathers they beat out Union
or disunion is the issue.
What splendid prospect for the qualification of
ambition is here presented-the secret yearnings of
years-the study ofdays and the dreams of night NAV
now be satisfied, and "Fm union man, and any
who have the audacity to opposed me-myself-who
am just now the embodyment of Unionisrn-s dis
unionist-that's undsguiseabe.'
Just to crafty that ambitious and worthy class of
significant demagogues who hang the sides of par
ty like leeches it is proper to say to them that their
winnings have waxed ridiculous, and their songs have
sank into contempt. No one believes them now, and
if they a class to learn wisdom from experience
they would silence their tongues and quietly draw off
so as to permit the people to forget that they had ever
attempted to mislead them by their ISLANDERS and mis-
representations.
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