Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-08


re- Here are three or four points of importance
presented in a clear and forcibe manner. They
are worthy of mature thought, and so soon as time
will permit, it is intended to enlarge upon of
them and enforce its utiliey upon the planting in
terest of the country. In the meantime ask a
careful perusal of the following:
g However other slave States may fancy they
can exist without slavery, and may therefore tam
per and compromise with enemies of that institu-
ton, the cotton States know that it is vital to them.
/ Without slavery, the growth OF cotton must be
abandoned in the South, and that region reln-
pushed by the white to the black.
But it happens that the white population of
those States have the power and the WILL the
number the wealth and position, to avert such a
catastrophe. They are not going to countenance
any Northern usurpation, or Southern submission,
or alliance with it; that will have the effect,
l. OF cutting off slave emigration to new terri
tories.
g OF inviting white emigration to them from
the slaveholding States.
3. Of fastening slave emigration to the cotton
States from the border slave States
Thus reducing the white population Of the cot
ton States and augmenting the slave population in
them, at length to concentrate in the Cotton
States population in which slaves shall largely
Ipreponderate, with an anti-slayery population "a
round them, and an anti-slavery Government over
and among them.
The detection of the border slave States from
the cause of the South, instead of delaying will
accelerate the movement of the Cotton States.-
The active cooperation of Kentucky, Maryland
and Delaware, with the North, in the system of
Southern dismemberment exclusion and disgrace,
and the apathy of Virginia, will teach the Cotton
States they have no time to lose.
| Now IT 81 hanneDS that these Cation States
have the largest foreign commerce of any people
of the same number in the world, and Il commerce
that employs more tonnage. They command the
South Atlantic coast, the Gulf of Mexico the
West Indies, the mouth and much of the course of
the Mississippi. Yet although they furnish an
enormous foreign export, the corresponding import
goes into the North and the profits of selling and
distributing that import, monopollzed by the
North. The exporting States are compelled to
pay the difference of exchange and the cost of
transportation, besides profit to the Northern i'm
porter, before they receive commodities in ex-
change for their products.
/ Now, next to the preservation OF harmony a
mong the States which was the first great object
of the Union, and which has failed was the regu-
lation of Commerce. But it was never intended
or dreamed that the Union would result in COM
mercial monopoly by single State or three States
or cities. On the contrary it expressly provi-
/
given to the ports of one State another
The trainers OF the Constitution do not appear to
have understood that the inevitable tendency of a
! Union under a common government Is 10 cOncen-
trate Its Commerce in a single city. Yet such is
the ease. Commerce seeks with an irresistible in
snct a common centre, because exchanges are ef-
fccsed with facility IL proportion TO the quantity
and variety of commodities that can be collected In
a single spot. Hence, the moment the Union was
formed the largest had the start, other things be-
ing equal in the rivalry for commercial monopoly.
! The Northern cities were the largest. In addition
TO that and as a cause Of that they were nearer to
Europe, the seat OF civilized commerce. The as
sumption OF the debts of the States, which Haml-
/ ton succeeded iii Whccdling from jefferson and
Madison, threw some fifty millions OF convertible
capital into those cities and they left the cities OF
the South in the dim distance But now if the
Union were dissolved, the eighty millions OF Cot
ton exports from Southern ports would return di-
rect to them in eighty millions of imports. 4
revenue duty OF twenty five per cent, would give
to the six cotton States revenue of twenty nil
lions annually, and if this were disbursed among
them instead Of being expended chiefly in North
trn States it would produce quite decided effect
on the value of property, the tendency of emigra-
ton, the growth of cities and the march of public
improvement and private enterprise
i97" Here is new and bold scheme for con-
tinung agitation. Read it Southern men, and tell
us what hope you have that agitation will cease
now that you have bartered away part Of youl
rights and are asked to be silent when the Other
half is demanded to make the barter ecen
abolition CT Slavery in The States by the
General Government.
q To tie Bar Of tie United States =
'sTo-day we have commenced systematic
movement, having for its object to give a new
Interpretation to the Constitution of the United
States-an Interpretation that shall enable the
General Government to abolish slavery in the
States.
we have no manner of doubt that this inter
probation is the true one, and that the contrary ha
obtained only through ignorance and fraud Anc
propose to bring this question to the test of th
highest legal tribunal in the countryside bar O
the c0untyy-a tribunal that controls, and necessa
ry must control, the constitutional opinions 0
, Courts, Congress and people.
f With this view we commence to-day, to strik
off twenty odd thousand copies of the first chap
tiers of the Appendix of Mr. Spooner's Defence 0
f The Fugitive slave. This chapter contains bre
i summary of the arguments that prove that SLAYER
t neither has, nor ever had, any constitutional o
legal existence in this country, and that the Gen
: eral Government has power to abolish it. We pro
pose to send copy of this chapter to each of tn
: Lawyers Dictionary numbering nineteen thous
and fve-hundred, and also to the editors general
: throughout the country. -
The argument of Mr.. Spooner is summed up t
our hand by the Nashville Union He denies thu
o the clause in the constitution providing for the dc
!, livery of persons held to labor or service hs
any reference to SZages and that the acts of Cor