Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-03-01

lpeope,-alhed Itself to the navigation, manufactu-
ring and trading interests, and won their attach
ment and support by Legislative aids and bounties
This party found the resources of its strength in
the Northern States. A diversity of interest en-
gendered diversity of opinion, and in party hos
tity sectional rivalry sprung up. These sectional
rvalres are seen with some dstinctness in the ci-
vii revolution of 800. They spoke out upon the
treaty for the acquisition of Louisiana they rose
into violent agitation prior to and during the late
war with Great Britain. They inflicted fatal
wound upon the CONSTITUTION and the equality of
the Southern States, by the adoption of the Mis-
souri, restriction clause. They now menace the
perpetuity of the Union and the integrity of the
Constitution. A careful examination of the sub
ject will show that from the Declaration of Inde-
pendence till 1888 the competitions of statesmen
and parties formed the principal ground of the d-
vision The public mind was under the guidance
of cool and calculating minds, who had an imme
diate interest in preventing extremities
| During shis long period there were Abolition
societies, and but few anti-slavery discussions
The Colonization Society was reared by Southern
men, and served as an escape pipe for such of the
eonsciences of the Southern politicians ten
der and scRUPULoUs. Mr. Clay, early as 1918,
was quite patron of this institution.
ABOLITION SOCIETIES..
The first general Abolition Society formed in the
United States organized in Boston, in 1882
The Society announced ''that every person, of full
age and mind, has ri ght to Immediate free
dom from personal bondage of whatever kind, un-
less imposed by the sentence of the law for the
commission of some crime. We hold that man
cannot consistently with reason, religion, and the
eternal and immutable principles of justice be the
property of man.
Their objects were declared to be, 'by all means
sanctioned by law, humanity and religion to effect
the ABOLITION Of slaoery IN tie United States to
improve the character and condition of free people
of color to inform and correct public opinion in
lation to their situation and rights, OBTAIN
THEM EQUAL, CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS AND PRI-
vILEGEs WITH THE WHITES" They say in their
first address, eve believe slavery is an evil now
and of course the slaves ought to be emanci
pated if the thief is found in possession of stolen
property he is required Immediately to relinquish
It," They say, 1.-THE master must manumit his
slave, or the slave will manumit himself. We have
no doubt that the God of Heaven, who is God of
justice, is at this moment at his Word and Provi
dence setting before the Planter THIS Very oiternd-
tire; and this alternative embraces life and death,
a blessing and a curse To choose the first, and
say to the slave be free, is to shut the oodgates of
human woe and human blood. To choose the lat
ter, and hold the colored man in vassalage, must
ere long break up the fountains of the great deep,
and have direct tendency to unsheath the sword
of vengeance, revolution and DEATH
Sombre, as these vatcination are, the Society
disclaimed the purpose of contributing to their
complishment. They resolved not to interfere, ex-
cept, by the employment of 'naoral means'' They
expressed unlimited confidence in the conclusion
that there could be arrest of the principles they
put forth, of their overpowerng influence. This
Society was local in its influence, and confined in
the sphere of its operation. They make allusion
in their first address to political agents. They
seemed to regard slavery entirely from the posi-
ton of morals and religion, and the removal of it
as a matter of conscience.
The following year the American Anti Slavery
Society was formed in New York, by men practis-
ed in the business of the world, and whose views
were much more employed about worldly inf1uen
ces and instrumentalities. This Society has its
dogmas of religion and politics, The preamble
and two of the articles of the constitution exhibit
so plainly its purposes that we cannot furnish more
precise information of its objects than by copying
them at large:
''The most high God hath made of one blood all
the families of man to dwell on the face of all the
earth, and hath endowed all alike with the same
inaenable rights of which are life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness yet there now in this land
more than two millions of human beings, possess
ed of the same deathess spirits, and heirs to the
same immortal hopes and destnies with ourselves,
who are, nevertheless. deprived of these their sa
cred rights, and kept in the most cruel and abect
bondage bondage under which human beings
are bred and fattened for the market, and then
bought, sold mortgaged, leased, bartered, fetter-
ed, tasked, scourged, beaten killed. hunted even
like the veriest brutes,-nay, made often the un-
willing victims fungodly lust while, at the same
time, their minds are, by law and custom, gene
rally shut out from all access to letters, and in
rous other ways all their upward tendencies are
repressed and crushed, so as to make their moral
and religious condition such that they may Justly
be considered the heather of this country :; and
since we regard such expressions as one OF the
greatest wrongs that man commit against his
fellow and existing it does, and tolerated it
is, under this free and Christian government sap
ping its foundation, bringing its institutions into
contempt among other nations, thus retarding the
march of freedom and religion, and strengthening
the hands of despotism and irreligion Throughout
the world and since we deem it duty to our
selves, to our government to the world, to the OPP
pressed, and to God, to do all we can to end this
oppression and to secure immediate and entire
emancipation of the oppressed; and believe we can
act mot efficiently In the cause in the way of COM
bned and organized action Therefore, we, the
undersigned do form ourselves into Society for
the purpose"
cart 2. The object of this Society is the entire
abolition of Slavery in the United States While
admits that each State in which slavery exist has,
by the Constitution of the United States the erclu
sue right to legislate IN regardt its abolition an that
State it shall aim to convince all our fellow citizens
| by arguments addressed to their understandings
ond conscences that slave holding Is heinous crime
an the sight Of God and that the duty safety and
best interest of all concerned require its immediate
abandonment aoihhoaa erpatriation. The Society