Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-03-22

necessity OF government III Oalliofnld, Ihd1 III
its establishment the compromise of the Constitu-
ton had been respected. He answered the oblec-
ton that tie South had not been properly repre-
scented there, by showing that two-thirds of the
Convention which framed her Constitution were
Southrons, and that a majority of the prominent
officers were from the South. He alluded to the
bill abolishing the slave trade in the District OF
Columbia. He said that this had long been con-
sidered necessary by the friends of the lnstltu
ton of slavery that the slave trade as carried on
In the District was a nuisance, and had contrlDu-
ted more perhaps than other to engender bit
ter feeling on the part of the North to slavery. lie
next hastily glanced at the law for the recapture of
fugitive slaves and drew from it the inference that,
although Northern men did war with the institu-
ton of slavery, they were unwilling that the hold
er of the property should be deprived of those
rights which were secured to them by the Constr
tuition, and although it contended that this
law had practical operation, yet every days
mail brought intelligence of property reclaimed
under its provisions Chickasaw Banner.
Comment.
AS will be SEEN we take the above from late num-
Der of the Chickasaw Banner, submission paper
Gently established at Houston. 1t purports to be
condensed statement of the points made in speech de-
livered by Col. ]. A Wilcox in that town lately We
have singled it out for comment from nd unknd feel
ing for the colonel as he will readily admit but the
fact is, it contains abundance of s'unseged matter
that the colonel will thank for correcting. We do
not like to friends name connected with such
awful of fact and history is contained in the
boye extract and therefore, in order to correct public
opinion in regard to the historical well the
sttutona information of our friend Wilcox, we must
insist that if the compromises of the constitution
respected in the admission of California the insru-
ment itself not. But that don't matter. The an
the objection that the South not properly
represented in the convention that framed the constu
ton for California, is at ALL because it is
where shown to be true Instead of wothrds of that
convention being composed of 'Southrons, the truth
is there but IL born Southern in the conven-
ton, and the convention numbered just AS. There is
wide discrepancy in the statement of the colonel and
the fact If he had stated that fourth of the
venon was composed of unaturalized citizens, Of
unented to vote in any State in this confederacy it is
likely he would have mentioned matter that requires
less effort to substantate than the one made But
let that pass.
In the mention made by the colonel of the abolition
of the slave trade there is lack of fulness of
ment that it is necessary to supply Itmay have been
necessary to abolish the nuisance, in order pre-
vent bter feeling but is it necessary that the South
should exut the exercise of power by Congress
that works the emancipation of the slave in certain
cases In other words that act has established the
fact that Congress may in certain emancipate
slaves in the District of Columbia Pas history has
recorded that the abolition of the slave trade in the
district of Columbia considered necessary pam
der to the fanatical feeling of men who have determn
ed to abolish the institution there, and every where
ese where they Let the Colonel go back few
years in the history of this question and instruct him.
| self.
That glance at the fugitive slave law of little
value fear 1t passed by Southern men, and
it is well known that it passed by courtesy, for
there but % 80 Northern votes for it.
is practically dead law almost wholly useless, for
stead of "every days mail' bringing intelligence of
property reclaimed the fact is the law has been in
Grafton six months, and out of a runaway po-
pulation of I6 Is thousand there really has been
but four five poor Africans, Harry of the West
would say, reclaimed This is the news the mails bring
1t is little singular too when the facts stat
ed that the colonel should have endeavored to create
impression that the people of the North 'were
willing that the holder ofthe slave property should be
deprived of those rights which secured to them
by the Constitution, when he should know, for he is
lawyer that three of the largest commercial States
the Union have laws in force, preventing Mr.. Fill
said of one of them, by State authority the
forcement of those rights secured by the Constitution
Col Wilcox should state in his speeches, that Penn
sylvania, New York. Massachusetts, Ohio and Vermont
all have laws multiplying, far States can by law,
the fugitive slave law of Congress within their borders.
Knowing this it is difficult gather the lead
ing the colonel to the conclusion that the people of
the North unwilling to deprive the holders of slave
States is exercised in the most solemn and obligatory
FORM to prevent the exercise of those rights within
their borders
We have felt called OH to make these corrections for
two substantial reasons. The first is, they are papa-
BILE errors which strike the mind of all we'll informed
make its way and be read it would be likely leave
impression very derogatory to the character of our
friend the colonel inasmuch it shows him up de-
cient in political information and historical facts, and
have heretofore endorsed him possessing both
in opinion we forced to the belief that the ed
given him credit for.
OeFWe have heard it said that the submission party
day night last The ticket stands thus, as learn
CAPT. w. BARKSDALE,
COL T. C. BILLUPS,
JOS B. COBB.
This an excellent ticket and it cannot be doubted
about easily defeated any that could have been
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