Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-05
devoted friends and supporters cannot be that such
an issue will be insisted We will not beheve that
such imprudence will ride paramount.

devoted frlenGS ana supporters.
an issue will be insisted We will not believe that
such imprudence will ride paramount
For those men who court secession, and are prepar-
ed to make that an issue, respect their position
more than we do that those who are for unconditional
tame submission. But opposed to Their policy
We arc for fighting the battle an the tRton We are
for exhausting all remedies before appealing to the in
dubitabe Right of the State. We are for the moder
ate conservative measures that are recognized entire
" lawful as clearly constitutional Whatever others
may do we for holding the constitution wholly, in
every part spirit and letter. sacred and II tanatcsm
will lay its impure and unhoy hands upon it, then in
the name and before high heaven let it be cast to the
wild winds as bond unsuited to restrain the ambition
ofiacobnica plotters and esuistcal demagogues.
We have noticed briefly the objection to an amend
ment of the constitution. In justice to Others we will
now touch another proposition not with the view OF
offending any one, but simply to demonstrate the i'm
practicability of making issues simply to be attacked
1t is unwse to throw open the door and invite all kinds
ofmsconceptions, every species of gross and wu mis-
representations and then trust to the justice of the
cause to combat and carry to success budget of i'm
practicable issues We are unwilling to trust the
cause of the South in this way We hold success par
amount all expedients If the party is to be load
ed with irrelavent questions and the friends of the
South are thrown into wide of disputation, real
" looks though they seeking defeat rather than
success Like Jefferson Davis occasion that has
associated his with deeds of prowess that will live
as long as our history exists for presenting to
the opposition .V'' tront-close, compact, steady
Let the fate of Georgia warn us. The safety of the
South hangs upon the success of the State Rights par
ty in Mississippi If we leopard that success by i'm
prudence hazard it upon the altar of Dscord we in
ve future aggression, and in its coming time will be
given to us to repent in sackcoth and ashes for that
culpable weakness which will mark our policy. five
AIMED AT DISUNION, would labor with the SUB
MISSION PARTY. While they denoncei it, their
tire policy renders it INEVITABLE
We cannot therefore demand as a sine qua non that
California be divided at $50 80, nor can demand
that she be remanded back as territory. We cannot
argue this question with friendswe will not with the
submission party. While we admit the injustice of
her admission while we are free to say that her gov
eminent was erected in violation of right and Justice
and her whole course was sedtous and reasonable,
and her exercise of power wholly unwarraned by eth
the letter the spirit of the constitutionwhile
admit that the Federal Government aided and counsel
led this outrage and acquesced in the policy purused
10 we SLlll OppOSeu 10
ing division or remanding her back territorial po-
sition We determined to yield no portion of the
strength of the arguments which these ourages give
by weakening them with mpractcabe demands. 1t
is necessary to show what we YIELD how conclatory
and moderate are in our demands to strike down
| the opposition in this State.
! We now come to another point in this matter and
invite the calm reflection of the State Rights party
to what follows. They sober thoughts. They are
dictated by thorough sense of duty. 1t is intended
to alarm no one. Speaking plain truths to plain
men is the highest duty of Republican Press 1t is
then matter of duty that has prompted these remarks
and though we know that there those among our
readers who will complain at moderation, there
who will deny that look sure success, and
that our policy is that of calculation, and remedy
plain simple direct efficient and wholly constitution
al. We cannot be so heated excited, by friend
foe, to aside sure success on moderate and
compact platform. We will swim sink with it.
Let US glance at parties in the State let us show
their complexion and attitude In West Mississippi
the State Rights party is compact more closely
lnit together, all mnorities are and of course more
ultra than in North East Mississippi. The parties
of other years are the parties stil-hey have
abandoned old issues, ranging under Southern Rights
on the side, and Submission on the other 1t is
the wing and democratic party under another
may be seen by the chroncers of party strife the pub
lie press There is feature mentonable in this con
necton. The mental ability the real bone and sinew
the of the old whig party throughout the
is ranged under the State Rights banner So viewing
the position of parties, and believing that success de
ponds as much on moderation on harmong we have
cast anchor in the calm waters of conservatism. We
cannot consent quietly to submit, nor can we adop
the ultra position of South Mississippi. We canno
consent to be pushed into meager, pitiul minority
by imprudence will yield to the solicitation
those who are for resistance to take higher position
than that which promises certain success. We mus
move with the people-we will not push them. Every
step SO made is permanent Our position is one
that tends to consolidate the people-it is one that
not liable to become the subject of misrepresentation
and while it appeals to their patriotism, their love
justice, it commends tselfto them for it's practicable
ness, and for its moderation. Submssionsm willis ant
withers before it, and the only thing thahozds that par
y together IN this county, as that they are permitted
point to the mtraism Of South Mississippi and taunt
with the prospect of being swallowed by the Secession
party, they style Southern friends of that sec
ton The South Mississippi and central papers are thu
witnesses which arrayed against What is true
this, is true in tier of ten counties in this section
And what is true in regard to these may be taken as
good index of the rest in North Mississippi three O
four counties excepted.
The State Rights party must carry the September Con
Uention. This is the labor before u.s. We should OF
at the work like men. We should put nothing to tn