Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-12


Es~ See what Northern papers say about the
probability of Disunon. And when one of the
submission missionaries cry out Disunion, read
the foowing-it is from a compromise paper, pub
at the North, and is excellent commentary on
the cant and hypocrisy of Southern submission
ism:
''What of these dangers? What are the people
of the slave States saying and doing, or what have
they been hitherto saying and doing, that should
alarm even tmdity and cowardce itself? What
is there in their language their attitude that
old ladies in breecheS to shiver and shake
and clucking about like setting hens as though
everybody ought to partake of the intensity of
their interest in the incubation of their own idle
apprehensions Is it anything new for the South
to declare that the North shall preach or prac-
tice emancipation of their SlaveS-not even one at
a time? And did not their great champion long
ago declare, and have not various State Legsla-
lures long since declared, in substance that agita-
ton of the slavery question at all good cause
for secession and dsunion Has not the whole
burden of the song of the South always been
that the north should have nothing to do with sla-
very, except to return runaways? And have they
not always insisted upon the charge of ibis latter
duty? In a word, does not the south stand now
Just where 1t always stool on this whole question
Wherein is the difference between the state of
things last year and that of former years. except
ing that the South swore little louder than
common when California was admitted, and sub
sequently when northern men declared the fuoi-
tive slave law should not be executed? And ex-
cepthg, too, (and most important exception it
isl that certain political interests and certain trading
interests in the north warmed into life new brood
of dough faces, Mr. Webster once called such peo-
pie dough heads and dough SOULS who very
suddenly discovered to be in danger and have ey-
er since been preaching and praying to northern
men to execute and support that law. and so save
it, Taking fair historic survey of the whole field
of slavery affairs, it is nothing less than sham
and humbug to declare that the American
Union and Government has been in any grea-
ter peril during the last year than it has been
any time these ten years, and that is Just no peril
at all.
"And what is the execution of this Fugitive
Slave law upon which We are gravely told the is
sues of life and death to this Union and Govern
ment hang? Does not everybody know that it
amounts to nothing, practically? Does il not cost
good deal more than it comes to for an owner OF
an absconding chattel to repossess himself there
of? Does not the fugitives fly in droves to Can
ada at its approach? Indeed not, Mr.. Speaker,
Cobb himself declared here in New York, in effect
that it is only the name of the thing that they
were after, and not the runaways themselves
that they expected to get? And did they not
get that in the passage of the law? Don't the
South understand that they can't get their escap-
ed slaves, no matter how many laws are crowded
upon the Statute book, crammed down the I'M
willing Threats of the North? Are not the flying
blacks slid along to Cauada, secreted and other
wise kept out of the reach of their masters? Was
the Union dissolved because Shadrach was rescued
or wonld it have been if Sims had escaped?-
The rescue was made the occasion of an extra eb-
ution OF Southern scoriae beched through I'm
ion threats in various ATTITUDES but this IS all
1t is no compliment that the peculiar friends of the
South and the Union pay their southern brethren.
when they say the shadoaD of things satisfies them
that they are content with the rejection by Con-
gress of the 'Wilmor though they know that sla-
very cannot go into New Mexico and Utah. and
that they are satisfied with the show of the execu-
ton OF the fugitive slave law though it does not
secure the return of single slave, only at cost
of more time, trouble and expense than he is
worth. And it is still more significant intimaton
that they consider the southern people destitute OF
all common sense, when they declare. their belief