The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1851-02-06

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i no one had 4 doubt: hat in the fus6lmen
Fol Ibis mission It was ex pected 70 represen
that feeling DC disaH Zee jon q the inflainlna
ton Of which Meth the other journal
lin this place wonId contribute was eauall;!
certain But while the qalo amino Of il
or gin, and the antici pated source OF IS pat
ronage we're well know 4, peculation va
| still rife as to the mode By zVhiehin the ac
lcomplishrnento Of its designs e would signal
lie It's hostility to the adjustment. Wha1
point in. the siding scale Of resista nee wol1le
be urged. 8 Under which king Benzonlan?
These were questions which excitedathe
curiosity Of a community in which d new
battery was to be opened for warlike spur.
poses.
We propose to give our readers asbrlei
summary of the doctrines contained in the
first number of the. Standard.
First, In its introductory article, headed
uTHE. Position, the celebrated resolutions
Of '9s and go, are quoted as the ''fnnda-
mental principles that viii guide its course: z
The resolutions are then published to pre-
vent any Groom for misunderstanding, and
less for rnisrepresenting the positions. of the
STANDARD 2 Tt will occurto every one at
all familiar with the subject, that these
celebrated oracIes of Madison and Jeffer-
son, with wide diversity Of. construction,
universally admitted creed, and
is therefore, as a profession of political faith,
far more comprehensive, and equally as am.
biguous, as an apprayed s.Baltimore pat
Eer+zr. avery large portion of those north
Of Mason and Dixons line, and every body
south of it with certainly bur few, if any
yield their constructive assent
o the doctrines Of '98. Mr.. Gay whom it
las become fashionable to denounce as an
as well as sfederalist," has
llways subscribed to those resolutions,
While father Richie, fromstLe extreme Of
he opposite political school, who is as cur
entity denounced as a ..traitor" and sub
lissionist, claims to be, par excellence, the
and exponnder of the universal
reed Of the iSta7lda1d. It follows there
IRE, that as distinct confession Of faith,
le resolutions of 90 are far too compre-
ensive-or if the Staaaaxd please-too
uch abused, to mark any well defined
hool of opinion. So far as we are con-
'rned, in common with many other jour
us devoted to the policy of acquiescence,
e not only adopt the resolutions of 80, :
1t argue out their theory II the utmost ex-
enc of Statc Rights. in respect to the
itical prerogatives of a State.
Second, Having adopted as its position
e resolutions of '98, involving the con-
uctive right Of State to secede from the
MON. an assent to which as before remark
, some of the ablest and most prominent 5
vocates of Compromise profess, the snb- 5
It of federal relations is approached - !,
lder the head of sssober reflections the )
e Compromise measures, with their al u
Iged outrageous and aggressive spolia- a
n are denounced with an junction which
,uld do Quitman S heart good. This was : :
pected, hat aeltat then, was the question i
4 resort to the avowed right Of secessio7t2 te
e Standard answers, no-upon the prin- o
lie, that discretion is the better part of
or. It opposes the policy Of secession :
cause it would be ..consnmmate folly i
dly TO rush on our own destruction, and ~
er degradation, by attempting what we e:
I'D not accomplish" For prudential rea- VI
IS therefore, it dissents from the policy of :"
others. who are for acting up 10
the maxim Of Troup, when the argu- is
ntis exhausted, nothing is left but an ap- 81
i to arms ~ Al
The Standard, after dissenting from the En-
icy of Gen. Quitman, makes no account =
him and his followers, in its classiGca- "
| of parties, except 50 far as. to compli- 81
Mt and conciliate them by assigning them :
quiet place of a corps a aese1-ue, while s.
assumes to organize the main army up i,
its more tame and prudential basis. Its tn
ze Of redress for what is represented to pa
4 rioIated constitution and eslzaued It's
aatry, is embodied in the following Fex- s