Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-04-12
A DISCIPLE OF 1889.
Williamson county, Tenn, April, 1851.


Gentlemen Having received two numbers of the
Southern Standard directed to me at Columbus,
Texas, the perusal of which find advocating the in
terests of the South, and which look upon one of
the bodest and open avowed Southern papers recev-
ed in this section of the Union. There has been
much reading the STANDARD in little village since
brought it here and the sentiments expressed in it ap
pear to be the voice of Goliad in general.
The news of the day in this region is but light
The health of the country is good, and the planting
community very busy cutvating their crops. The
Indians committing great many depradatons
near this place. They lately stole small boy from
the town of Retugio about thirty miles from this
place. yesterday the body of 'Greaser' which
had been killed by them within twelve miles of our
little village. They have stolen large numbers of
horses and have killed several persons in San PatrciO
Refugo and Nueces counties, and it seems that they
will soon the country should the government
very do something to prevent their torages
the frontier settlements. Yours &c, D. w. s.
(ee7-The following is taken from the Holly Springs
Jactsonian, stern and unfinching Southern Rights
paper up to the mark of SECESSION rather than
submit to Northern outrages:
Will the South take Warning!
The Ohio State Journal, the leading Wing paper in
that State, of the llth ut, contains article the
rights of maOrities, the fugitive slave law and the i'm
portance of modifying changing it, which clearly
indicates a settled determination of the Wings, Adolf
toniss and Freesoers, of the free States rample
the South and her rights in the dust To prove that
we cannot be mistaken, we will give some extracts
from the article. In speaking of the Legislative de-
partmcnt, of the Government and the People, the wr
ter says
The Legislative department has the power to make
and unmake laws and it is the duty of all good citizens
to submit to the legally expressed will of majority
the nation long that will remains in the form
a constitutional law. 1t is, however, just clearly
the right of the people to change or abolish this law
as Is their duty to obey it while it is the statute
book. The power that creates law, may change OF
repeal it. No one has the right to charge breach
devotion to the constitution and the Union upon 9th
, ers who may desire that change
This means of course that Congress and majority
of the people, have the legal constitutional and
right to alter repeal the fugitive slave law, any
time that they may see proper to do so. It's by usns
such language that the people of Ohio and other fret
States acquiesce in the existence of the law for thu
time being Their leading editors and politicians tel
them that they have the right to repeal it, but it
prudent to wait little while before they exercise tn
power. Here another extract which inCucates pas
sive obedience on the part of the South whenever
lis done:
at is almost sef-evident proposition that if ma
Ority of Congress fit to altar abolish any lay
on statute books, are, good citizens, boun
to submit
Again, IN speaking more particularly OF this law
and the objections to it, the writer says:
Suppose it is ascertained that the liberty of tn
free blacks is not sufficiently protected thereby-tha
it contains provisions that need modification
and that majority of the people of the North seein
its practical effects, ask to have the law far chang
ed obviae these objections, while it still give
o the South the constitutional benefits of that clause
the constitution, to carry out which, the law passed
IL Suppose legislatures should come to this concll
J. sion, and express themselves by resolution. SUI
pose majority of the members of Congress shoul
see the subject in this light and determine to make til
e modification by changing the obnoxious parts of tn
;, law BY what system of reasoning have the Sout
the slave States right to complain -
The true meaning of this is, that if law acknow
edged to be in accordance with the constitution
enacted for the purpose of helping the cate
runaway slaves, is repealed, that the people of Il
! South have right to say word-they must be sile
ie or charged with treason But the following extra
near the conclusion of the article shows that this m
jorty intend to compel the South to submit, by fore
Us we suppose. Here it is:
&c We say to the South if the majority of the pc
H. pie of the North, and majority of the Represent
tives of the people in Congress see fit to modify tt
Ill Fugitive Slave Law, you must submit to it,
Id We ask any candid and unprecedented man to say
20 he can believe the Wings and Submissonists of Il
South when they say all is WELL and cry peace, peac
I'll when there is peace for the South Can the pc
pie believe them when they say there is danger
ID the repeal of the fugitive slave law We say tn
cannot. The great States of Ohio, New York al
81 Massachusetts, arrayed against the South and
ted in the movement to modify repeal this law :.
, VIII the South be warned in time!