Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-12
OIL L Nj B U S:
wednesd .y Morning, July o, 1851.
Capt. William BarkSdale.

ought to "Begin at the Beginning 1t is an admira-
Bile suggestion and to illustrate the fact that all
convenient occasions follow good suggestions, we
shall get the Beginning of the rise of the
present parties is possible from the written his
tory before us.
The gentleman who heads this article has been fa-
vorably known partisan in this county for several
years past and without intending the least dsrespect
to him personally, may be permitted to say that
he has acquired more reputation ndomitabe and
energetic working man, than as a man OF talent. As
partisan he has made himself felt more by his actv-
ity than any power he possesses of generasng prin
cipes cutting the positions of opponents. 1t is
probably that he is taker, but in of the
is he To say that he is dull speaker
would be doing him manifest injustice, and we hold
ourselves incapable of doing that. AS stump talker
called to assign him position, and were
we, his Union friends would undoubtedly say we de-
sired to introduce comparisons to his dscredit. We
may be permitted to say, however, and do it with
all due Difference to the Captain and his Union friends
that do not think he is canddly pretty speaker
as Henry Clay, Dan. Webster, or any other common
great But the Captain is to blame for that
1t would not comPort with our sense of proPriety to
say that the Captain is "ussy politician, because he
lacks the essential elements of politician of any
cognized character with which we have any acquan-
tance. We contend that man is politician who pos
the mental ability Of the stirring
events of the day for his future that shall
mand respect for its practcabeness and consistency
The man who fills and "yaws, in every apparently
popular breeze, sailor would say, is rmne, and
all trmmers unsafe leaders, because self is the
altar the public good at which they offer ado
ration.
The Captain is an impusive man, and to Judge from
his temperament one would suppose him liable to err
under excited feeling. We admire many traits in the
character of these impulsve men, and have been
ready apoogists for their 1t is not tC
say that the Captain has erred that he has been il
the least excited it will be enough for to show
from the written history of the times that the Captain
has participated in meetings, Judging from their re
solves, that anything but Union in their tenden
cies. 1t is not intended say that the Captain has
changed modified his position in the past ten months
We have men with such dubious intellectual Wis
ion that they could wheel from side side without
mental impression of having changed their ground.
is true these men are rare but their existence is true
nevertheless
The Captain is a minute man, or to speak more tt
the point when he goes it, he goes with rush. Th'
Captain has made his reputation by giving free ven
to this development of his character.
But to the record. In August last we find tht
Captain figuring in public meeting held in this city
and he among others appointed committee
to prepare resolutions. report and resolutions were
prepared-he following extracted from the proceed
ings of that meeting.
''In the present crisis of our national affairs ant
in view of the GggreSstOnS on the rights and inStitu
tons Of the southern Stutes By the Free Soil anc
abolition ogitQtors Of tie northern States, it is th
duty as well as the right of the southern people t.
express in firm and decided terms their opinions a
re5.rl tie action and proposed action of Con
gress upon the subject of slavery and the terrific
res belonging to the United States. We assert a
4 fact, without fear of successful contradiction
that the territories of the U. STATES, however ac
quired, the joint property Of all tie 4St0fes o.
people hereof: that Congress has no constitution
al au- -hori,y prohibit the citizens of any of th
States from moving into said territories with prop
erty of every description as allowed recognised
in the States within which they may live, and hd
they are privileged to claim and reeeiVe fuU just
and equal protection from the general goOernnaen
IN the enjoyment and use Of the All that tn
south has ever asked, now asks is that the gov
ernment may be SO administered and the laws q
Congress SO directed as will secure equal AM
strict justice to every portion of the coniederacy
conformity with the intent and spirit of the fed
eral constitution.
notwithstanding, however, our lndlSputabl
right TO emf crate, with properly, of whate t
kind or description, into said territories of the
States and to claim and recetUe protection in til
same from the general government, yes for the sak
of peace and harmony in the national councils, an
amongst the people, and to quiet the exciting is
sues connecJed with the subject of slavery, we al
milling to a5guiesce in tie Missouri Co"aProness
line run through said territories OF The Unl.e
States, not as a constitutional right or preroSanV
of Congress, but by common consen' OF all pa
ties to The constitution; or, as an equivalent it
this. any other fair and equitable adjustment.
81. That the territories Of the United States al
the property in common of all the States OF th
confederacy; that citizens of the slaveholdln
States have full and equal rights with citizens
the -slaveholding States to emigrate thereto
and to settle therein, with all legal and recognise
species of properly; and that properly in slave.
being expressly recognised by the federal consttu
ton, is, in such territory when demand is made,
tair and proper subject for protection by Congress
and until such time when said territory shall com
to be legally erected into State of the Union.
4th That the federal government has no rgl