Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-03-29
The progress Of Ab0litiOnism.


Judpe b. F. Wade of Ashtabula county, Ohio, was
elected United States Senator for six years from the
4th Of March. Judge Wade is an open and avowed abb
otonist declared his determined hostility to the
clamaton slave law of 1850, and is one the u s.
Senators from the most populous and wealthy States
in the West He takes his seat along side of that
compound of political knavery and demagogueism,
Chase and becomes the abetor of Seward, Hale & Co.
Ex-Governor Fish is elected to the Senate to fill the
seat made vacant by Dickinson of N. York, whose
term of service expired on the 4th March The only
reliable man in the Senate from the free States or the
man who has retained more of the kind wishes of the
people of the South by his manly department, thus is
put aside by the Empire State and his place filled by
satellite of that arch traitor to the Union, W. H. Sc
ward. New York and Ohio, two of the most powerful
political States in the confede1acy, fully represent
ed by abolitionsts in the Senate One by one fall the
friends of the Union before the resisess march of alb
oli;ionism and the people of the South counsel
led to heed it not Treason stalks the land with bra
zen front and the South is counselled to it. The
honor of the South is imperlled and the people are
counselled never to mind it. Abolitionsm stalks into
the Senate chamber of the United States booted and
spurred prepared to ride down the rights ofthe South
blacken and blast her institution rob her of her labor
destroy the influence of her public men, divide her peo-
pie and waste her strength in internal broi-and still
the people are counselled to acquiesce, submit.
Are these signs worth notice do our people see in
them nothing to excite distrust 1t cannot be that
these portens will fail in arousing the people to live
y of the of awaiting more open and detem-
ned attacks of the enemy, not only ofthe IN
ion but of the South. If the government ever
willing to enforce the fugitive slave law it lacks the
abi do II no The
election of Fish in New York and Wade in Ohio, prove
the fact that abotionism controls the legislation Of
both States. We may be met with the plea that the
election of these men was the result of coalton.-
We know it, but that fact strengthens position, be-
cause shows that both parties, in fact all parties give
way and are ready to join in any coalition that will
advance aboltonism prepare the way to plumber
the South. These facts show to that the masses
are opposed to the reclamation law AS instance,
if the people of Mississippi opposed to law that
happens to get on statute book, they send mem
bers to Jackson pledged to repeal the Objectionable
law If the laws that disgrace the statute books of
York, Pennsylvania, Vermont, Massachusetts, and
Ohio, were Objectionable, the people would have had
them repealed long since. The truth is and the sub
mission know it, that the masses of the Northern
States opposed to the reclamation law The SUBJ
their perfdy under such mrerable pretexs as this -
If the general government shall fail to discharge its
duty &c. The President is sworn to enfore all laws
passed in obedience the constitutions and he may
tempt enforce the reclamation law but with about
the same success as Foote'S gallon law was enforced
in this State few years back. That law did not
ceve the sanction of the people, and openly set
at defiance, and was soon stricken from the statute
book by their command. If the law in the States we
have named did not meet the appreciation of the people
they would have it stricken from their records OPP
posed to the slave reclamation law, the people throw
in the way of its successful enforcement every embar-
rassment that they dare without mourning penalty
If the President issues proclamation the South is in
sructed belve that the Northern States are ready
to carry out the compromise in good faith.
The Northern States may set the Federal govern
at Defiance render the reclamation law vaueless
by State legislation, raise mobs to overpower inefficient
federal officers prosecute the agents and atornes des
patched in pursuit ofrunaway slaves and perpetrate all
manner of insults upon citizens, and we are told
that the people will carry out the compromise in good
faith. The Senate of the United States is filling up
with men hostile to slavery-sworn enemies to the in
stituton-pedged to upon it in and out of their Of
fetal seats pledged to exercise their official influence
against it to spread the excitement and force the
itation in every direction, and iname the people to
demands more daring and ultra than any yet made
0, the North is sound the people are true and they
WILL say the submssionsts carry out the compromise
in good faith.
! tits not improbable that Sumner will be elected u
S. Senator from Massachusetts, and that will be used
prove to submlssonism that the work progresses.