Southern standard., 1851-02-01
THE POSITION,


HAVING triumphcd over various difficulties incident
To the establishment of new Press it affords the pub
Shers infinite pleasure to be able to say to their friends
here as elsewhere, that the 'sSoUTHERN STANpARpn is
cast to the breeze surrounded by the most favorable
auspices and under circumstances porent with the very
elements OF success 1t will be the aim of the publish
erS-and their aim is high their patriotism is pure
to elevate the STANDARD above party and the vit-
Peratng bitterness OF grovelng party spirit and the
degrading vocabulary of partisan demagogues. They
nope to be able under the guiding influence of an All
WISE Providence and such aid the best and nobet
spirits OF Mississippi have promised extend to then
10 make the STANDARD the organ of all hearted and
''y'i 'hoayhtsd Southeyn men, 1t SHALL SOUTHERN
without the mahgnancy ofthe sectaryt shall defend
the rights and the honor ofthe Southern States by
oophmore defamation and bald demagogusm but
oy re-assertng and enforcing those maxims of equality
recognized and engraed the founding principles up
on which our system of government is based While
VIII cherish that onion Of States formed by The
script Jathcs Of the RpuJc, it will contend for those
rights reserved by them for the People and the States re-
spectively.
1t is from convincing, overshadowing convictions of
the necessity that exists for the re-assertion of those
doctrines of equality and native right incident to Re-
pubEcs that has brought this Press into being Old
parties in their round of and defeat have lost
sight amid their plotting schemes of aggrandizement
OF those principles upon the clear recognition and en-
orccment ofwhch depends the existence of our ber-
ties and our position in the Conederacy as equals! 1t
Is with many misgivings of ability to speak efficiently
and etfectualy a subjuct requiring investigation,
prudence experience and comprehensive general ca
pacy that have ventured upon an undertaking of so
momentous character as that ofattemptng arouse
and guide the opinions of others While sensible of
the difficulties that are lying in the pathway seeing in
tho progress of events many weapons that the sinister
and evil disposed will attempt to WELD against this
Press and the doctrines its conductors may from time
to time feel called upon nculcae, have it is freely
confessed, given its immediate friends food for refec-
ton. Perfectly that to the arena and but
strike one blow for Freedom from Northern Vassalaee
would invite aggressions and open up the way for
further suJnission-belevingha the tmid vascating
policy of few but the towards remedy to abandon
all to dissertation and destruction and that safety now
and hereafter lay in the road of the open plain and de-
termined assertion of Southern Misunderstanding that
while mischief may be done the way avoid not in
studied and supple manner to conceal with party VIC
ousness the elements that will surely work the evil from
the public eye. Believeng that to meet any emer-
gency worth the thought of recmen is to meet it in
free and candid manner and to the evils that
press the South to the necessity of demanding the
right ofequay is task not to be sneered at nor is it
without labor. 1t is expected that the opinions
inculcated and the positions laid down by this Press
will be eG-misrcpresened-an that there are
those reckless enough to deny that was established
with any object less unhoy than that of advocating dis
union and wide spread anarchy As it has been estab-
ished advocate the preservation of the liberty of the
people qfthe South, its conductors will prize the good
opinion Of these who agree with them in sentiment and
endeavor bear with good temper the bitterness of all
who may oppose them
To prevent misapprehension and put the position of
this Press beyond question: tits thought to be wise
draw from the records of the Past the fundamental prin-
cipIes that will guide its The Resolutions of
9S, and the circumstances that originated them with
the history of the times must be familiar to all men of
general information til thought that the publication
of the Resolutions will exclude the necessity ofan eab-
crate address embracing the princ pies forciby and
pointedy set forth in them and this Press endorses
and adopts the doctrine the Resolutions their entire
length and BREADTH there little for misunder-
standing and less for msTepresentng the positions OF
the STANDARD.
We invite for the Resolutions careful perus L.