Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-26
From the american Citizen.
COUNCIL SPRINGS. Marc]

your respectable paper Mississippi CreOle) fol
many years, and having found its columns open
at all times to any communication which [ have
thought proper to lay before the public, and as
the present questions which have agitated the
people Of the United States for the last two years
are of more Importance to their constitutional
rights and liberty, than any that have heretofore
or perhaps ever will again require their serious
consideration, again trespaSs upon your kindness
There cannot be doubt but every lover of his
country, South, and equality between her citizens
have the same object in view, and the only ques-
ton with them IS, TO the most proper and peace
able mode to guarantee their equal rights in the
confcderacv, now and for all time to come All
great nations have their trials, and often for the
want of prudence, the ship of State strikes the
undiscovered rock, and goes down to rise more.
The unchangable laws of God are founded on the
rock of equity but the laws of our nature are re-
to those great fundamental principles of lib
erty. Hear | might stop and look with faith and
certainty for justice from a God fearing and law
loving people, did we not see before our eyes, an
almost impossible gulf of nature, the uncontrolla-
bic nature of man to act for self, and intrude on
the rights, duties and business of Others if those
were not facts, the human family would require no
less but these within themselves to govern them,
this wicked and self ustifying nature discovered
itself in the action of man at very early day of
his existence, and to curb the seeds of vice and
tyranny, laws were introduced and on those great
and fundamental principles, (as firm and as bril-
liant the shining sun, the institution of govern
ment for the benefit of man was established, and
from the remotest age it has been the aim and OBJ
ject of the great and virtuous, to improve those
laws for the benefit and happiness and improve
ment of man, the most noble and exalted of God 5
creation.
When the great Genoes planted his flag on the
isle of this continent, he doubt asked his crea-
tor to consccrate the discovery to his divine glory
and the happiness, and the improvement of man,
as he saw within its borders of beings free
from the yokes of the crowned heads Of Europe,
(the land and home of his BIRTH and God in his
wisdom has answered his prayers, and will the
American people suffer to be torn asunder what
God hath established
To prevent this rich legacy (givcn to us by our
fathers sealed with their lives, and annoned with
their blood) being destroyed, should look to
the power the right and the object of the gran
tiers in conveying this valuable legacy to the gran
tees their heirs and occupants for ever as 1t con-
vevs equal rights and equai justice which are the
great constitutional land marks of the noble grant,
and when we received and receipted for it we de-
carcd before high Heaven, and called the holy an
GELS to witness the pledge that would not add
a dot suffer mot d letter to be added, or a word,
line or a figure to be changed without the consent
of the legal heirs, as set forth in the bonds and
pledges before high heaven by the grantees, that
they would preserve it as Caesars wife did her viz
tue. | ask my countrymen, has this been done
Ii not we have not fulfilled our Oaths and obliga-
tion>. ours being confederate government of a
few expressed powers, with those implied, such
as to declare war, raise armies and build a navy,
collect revenue, establish a general post office,
DC. The implied powers, are to make peace,
equip The army and navy, establish laws of ta-
riffs, erect custom houses appoint officers of Gus
Iish general pos.-ofice, to designate post routes,
appoint post-masters, make contracts for the faith
ful conveyance of malable articles, and to estab-
lish tariff OF postage to pay the expense of the
department. And this tetches me to one Of the
express powers, ''to admit States into the
Union, with a republican form of government, -
if the trainers of the Constitution had have added
fifty words to that of republican form of gov
ernment," they would not have given stronger
guarantee to the equal rights and amenities of the
citizens of the several States in the common prop
ery of all the States. Before the cventful war of
the revolution the colonies were the creatures of
the English government, but by the noble acts of
our ancestors in that war, they became ''free,
sovereign and independent States, here they
found themselves seperate and independent com
munltes, on Y held together by common broth
erhood, having gained their freedom by Joint ac-
tlon under the articles of confederation they saw
that this union IN action had secured their liberty
and independence, at once the great and good men
of that day, looked out for ship of Union that
could stand the storms and survive the pillows oil
time, and in triumph float as the cradle of liberty
proudly and justly bearing the stars and stripes
on every and every cline, and giving protec-
ton to persons and property, to themselves and tC
their legitimate heirs, throughout the length and
breadth of this great contederated Union of free
sovereign and independent States, and on the higI
seasryhcre the stars and stripes are permitted tc
float | now ask you my countrymen, are these
great natural and constitutional rights, secured tt
the citizens of the slaveholding States, In goot
faith If not, the bonds violated, and ou
pledge and oath falsifed, and the agency createt
by the States have not, connot fulfill the trus
conferred on it by the States. This fetches me t.
consider the causes, and the remedies for thes
rights on the part of the States, and the power o
the agency.
1t is a sound and safe doctrine if you get Oh
the wrong track, return back and travel until yol
ind the right one, be certain to avoid nigh cut
through the woods for when once out of sight yol
will seldom get right. Nations like individuals
when falling from their path of duty, they mus
do their first works again, when any mem
bers of the compact become dissatisfied with th
agent agents, appointed to transact the busines
OF the association, it becomes the duty of tn