Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-08


and adoption of the Constitution proved that per-
sons held to serOice and labor were slaves. lie
says that Mr.. Madison of Virginia, Mr.. Pickney
of South Carolina, and Mr.. lredeIl of North Car
DINA, were mainly instrumental in imposing upon
the country the fraudulent idea that the persons
held to service or labor intended TO embrace
SlaUeS He domolishes the Supreme Court, Mr..
Madison, Mr.. Pckney, Mr.. Iredell, and the whole
current history of the country by boldly denounc-
ing them all as guilty of .taisehood and traad
Comment upon such a document is supertluous,
sufficient to say, this is one of the bodest and
most daring of the thousand methods in which the
institutions of the South have been attacked by
the North 1t is a new ulcer on the body polite
which the late peace measures have failed to heal.
0ry-We commend the following plain talk to mer-
chants 1t is well enough for them to begin to look
about them, ''for no man can say what an hour may
bring forth Almost with eyes we have seen
people rise up and strike down at one blow system
that had grown hoary and rotten by corrupt practices
and time. The people may be preparing for a change
not only of systems, but of business relations, and
hence it is wise be where right and interest COM
bne Let the rejecting think calmly, and the foolish
sneer there Providence that shapes ends rough
hew them may
DEAR SIR That there is danger of dissolution of
the Union at very distant day, every rejecting
admits. The danger is not much in the settlement
of the questions now before Congress as in the ascen
dency which the abolitionsts have acquiring in
the Northern States, and, consequence, in every
department of the general government. The Union
cannot be preserved by appeals to the of Justice
of the North the obligations of the constitution
The day when this could be done with effect is past.
How, them can it be preserved 1t seems to only
by the crushing of the abolition party And how
hsbe done If at all, it to only by its being
made the interest of the Northern people to do
And how it be made their interest! If the people
of the South, by of legislation aided by the
voluntary association of Individuals were to adopt
system of non-ntercourse, it to that the eff
feet would be, by prostrating the manufacturing and
commercial interests of the North to all those
whose interest would be thus seriously effected to be-
come hostile to the abolitionsts instead of sympathi
ENG with them, as they now do. | have wondered
that the Southern members have not held meetings
and taken this subject into consideration, recommend
ing non-ntercourse convention in each Southern
State, and also general convention of all the South
states, to be sustained and backed by the legsa
lures and people of the several States. Let buy
nothing imported manufactured at the North. In
doing this, keep strictly within the constitution
hope to meeting of the Southern men,
bers, and address to the people of the South,
commenting some such plan, and then want to
meeting i'll, to set the ball in motion. Non-inter-
course think is greatly to be preferred to dsunion
and civil war; and one of the two, think obi
ged to have in few years. To keep off disuniOn and
civil war, let have non-intercourse. have become
alarmed, which is my apology for troubling you with
this letter.
The Richmond Enquirer says-''We will resist
the violations of the aws-we will retaiate in self
defence and TO the bitter end Let us idly resolve
no more. Danger is before us-a reckless cru
SADIE, marshallcd and equipped by whole section
of The confedcracy, is thrown into the field, the pull
pit gives its authority directly and positively to the
aft tbur Ia,.
peal follows each successive change in the great
drama countless thousands of treasure are thrown
upon The altar, and, than all this, falsehood
and SANDER pander TO the wild elements of discord
and strife. Blow after blow is aimed at our exist
ence; devices that would disgrace the thieves of
Spain and the robbers of Italy are enacted and
boosted of. The tribunals of Justice are turned
upside down or are filed by abettors of sentiments
rs nefaGous the blacklist fanaticisms manu-
tacture The laws are trampled under foot, again
and again, with the knowledge of the chief eXecu-
tive officer of the country, and the faithless actors
are not displaced Under these circumstances JUS
tice demands of Virginia that her strength should
be thrown against these malignant derelctions OF
duty. Hercucan Is the task, she must and will
perform it. Who questions her capacity In her
youth she lifted the load of tyranny, fastened tC
her shoulders by England herself. She is now toe
well grown to need any assistance. But who ques-
tons the cooperation of every State South of us
All will follow us. We will point the way we
will lead the charge; will enter the arena, whe-
Their another leaps after us or no-do right and ac
ceptable. God stands first in the category of hu-
man duties. Consequences are consulted by the
tmid and untrue. Reason teaches prudence duty
demands action. We will act, will throw up
wall, high as Heaven and strong the hills
against the nefarlOus OutrageS committed in North
eu State. Let those take shelter behind it who
think lit. The word submit may suit others. TC
us it is not acceptable. The coward may choose to
wear the chains Of higher law matters For us
let the consequences be what they may, we vii
take the incpient steps and go bodily to the breach
These outrages at Boston and elsewhere, mus
be rebuked the fugitive slave law shall be enforc
ed, at the point of the bayonet, at the cannon
mouth Virginia will leave the Union. Not one
lot or title shall be obliterated. 1t shall be re
spected and executed or else every citizen in thu
Southern States shall be called on to defend tn,
sovereign rights of their States. The fnching heaC
of the nation must stand aside. He falters in hi
duty, and, consgn him and his abettors to con
domination.
f " The missionary sent cut by Mississippi to
tighten the people of the North upon the subject
Southern feeling, and particularly of this State, ha
been making, SO the submission papers say, speed
at gathering in New York. We give an extract o
his remarks copied by the alag of the Union a
Jackson, and we may suppose that it gives only tn
truth in defence of General Foote, its peculiar cham
pion -
q "Fellow- citizens the danger is almost over | re
greet to say that there is little ground of appre
hension as the future This compact of adjustment
which you have heard so eloquenty eulogized, wi
: quiet country, and will the permanence
our institutions if faithfully adhered to, North Soutl
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