Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-20
The SJu.h Deluaed.

Mississippi has been frightened off the States
Rights track by the bug-bear of disunion. The
plausible and glib rhetoric of Foote the senseess
outcry of pariIsans-but above ALL the high prices
received for last years crop, have overcome, for
time, at least, those manly views and principles for
which such true sons of the south, as Quitman,
Davis Guion and Stewart, have contended with
noble devotion, worthy of the cause. Though
others may cherish the hope of the eventfultri-
umph OF Quitman, we confess are not so
gune 1t takes more than three or six months to
cure people of deusion, deeply seated, as that
which has passed large portion Of the people Of
the south. The sober second thought will not
come around for some time yet. The south is
candidate for still further aggressions. It's invita-
ton will be promptly accepted We shall have
more compromises more submission further sup
preston of all resistance under the cry of dsunion
There Is good time now for Presidential candid
ates, deeply tinctured with fresoilism. Great will
be the Joy of Van Buren and Rantaul, of Greely
and Adams. They will now rule the roots in the
democratic and whig conventions. Sam Houston
will no longer need the services Of his friend Don
aldson, and Seward will again overslaugh Fillmore.
|'Why," they will argue down their tender footed
confreres, should we be at all troubled about the
south They have swallowed the compromise,
which, though not whole hog measure, is good
beginning, now, that we understand the ca
pacty OF their oesophagus, We should not recede
an inch, but prepare for them another and larger
dose"
Such will be the political effect of the late cleo
tons in the south. Disguise the matter you
may, there is escaping the conclusion, that the
eagerness with which so many of the southern
people have embraced the Compromise, must pro-
duce, in the minds of the northern people, the
conviction that we are easily satisfed-that there
is scarcely anything we will not accept, under the
outcry that our refusal may endanger the Union
Some time ago there was some talk of conditions
and provisions Toombs and Stephens, of Geor-
| ola, fred up as they usually doevery six months
and declared that any further concessions were
incompatible with southern honor and safety. Bu
this has now passed away. 1t is now neck or no
thing. 1t is only necessary to say that man is {
disunonist, to crush him Principles which in
cline to States Rights, and upon which the south
ern States have stood for years, now tend to dis
union and must be repudiated. The democratic
party, whose success, heretofore, is mainly due Il
Its devotion to State sovereignty, has fallen int
the trap SO cunningly set for 1t by the whigs-
States Rights are prostrated under bad and spu
rious name. 1t remains to be whether it i
wiser to conciliate, resist aggression. We wer
opposed to the compromise, because we wer
friends of the Union. No example can be foun
in history, of strong party ever stopping at mod
crate concessions from weaker Ten years ag
the bare suggestion that the south would be de
prived of all advantages from the acquisition {
California, would be virtually excluded from be
f limits, would have been received, by every man i
the south, with contemptuous denial. 1t is no
stern reality, and our people are delighted wit
it. Cotton has fattened us up to that degree ths
the northern collar esteemed an ornament to ou
sickness We have no longer the pride of th
2 Henrys, the Masons, the Randolphs, the Pinl
news, the Calhouns, which preferred the high tone
independence and manly spirit of the south, to a
the spinning -jinneys and iron-foundrles Of th
e North.
J A few years, nay months will prove which hay
: been the better friends of the Union,-those WI
: constantly have that word upon their lips,-wf
t imagine that it can be strengthenedby concession
by departures from the constitution and its fund
e mental basis of equality, or those who hold tn
r the Union rests upon the Constitution, and its
curity depends upon the preservation OF both Il