Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-07-05


we have been unable hear them, but we have been
informed by thoroughly competent to Judge, that
he is armed with such an array of historical research
and facts that he sweeps away the impedmens reared
by the sophists and the ignorant Mr. Harris is doing
excellent service the of truth by vndicatng
the records of the country and will say young
men about town, go and hear Mr. Harris, for do
sure you that you can spend two hours nowhere SO
profably to yourselves. If you do agree with his
conclusions, you will agree that you have gathered
some new facts interesting subject.
For the qualification of few who are possess
ed Of more tongue than brains
1t is right, perhaps, that say word two by way
of defining the position of the STANDARD. 1t
.ablished to elevate man to place power 1t is
the organ of the true Southern Rights paryit battles
to preserve the constitution intact and will oppose
consistent front to all schemes that look dissolution
secession for the past and will lend its feeble but
Jealous aid to all organizations that promises
redress for past wrongs within the Union 1t is the
Union and the Constitution that it established to
preserve and defendnot party orparty Its con-
tempt for that foul spawn incubated under the name
of Union quite apparen-in fact charges the lead
ers in this State with endeaVoring to conceal their
treachery to the South this Union cry and the
open apostacy of some, and the base assembling of
others in order to become prominent, matters now
of history, and prove to all intelligent men that the
spos of Office ardenty desired than the rights
the interest, and the safety of the South.
The STANDARD established for the avowed object
of exposing the hypocrisy of this Union par
ty in Mississippi, and of holding up the people the
measures passed under the name of compromise or
Adjustment, measures which in rob the South of
her equality and her citizens ofther rights equals in
territories belonging to the people of all the States
In the same connexion and contingent on this expo
hung another subject the discussion of the one
| necessarily brought the other forward 1t was a
consistent safe and constitutional system of remedies
of redress The Standard identified with these rem
edesit has demonstrated their entire practicability
and constitutionaty 1t is for the people to embrace
or reject them.
The Standard has stood aoof from all the utrasms
of the day. Its connexon with ultras is matter of
easy explanation Some for secession, others
for disunion while others proposed demands that in
the opinion of its editor, tended secession. All of
these schemes and secs avoded-it countenanced
the projects of of them Yet they in its po-
stion hostility to the compromise robbery acts-oppo-
stion to the aggressive tendency of Northern politics.
and settled determination to employ all legal rene
dies to right the South preserve the institution of
slavery from the grasp of Northern fanaticsm and
Southern hypocrisy. 1t was nearer them than that
mixed medley of Northern and Southern aboitonism
banded together under the name of-Union party-the
avowed objects of which are, base submission to pail
pable injustice and outrageous in
open declaration that Congress possesses the pow
er to abolish slavery in the district of Columbia ex-
cude it from the territories, and destroy the slave
trade between State and State in far as it could be
reached by federal legislation in the federal district
Hence it that they patronize and defend its doctrine
so far as it accords with their opinions They act in
unison with it the principle of fellowship that
characterize the Protestant Observation-Disclosures are
few principles held common property by all, and
in regard to these there is fellowship and sympathy
As regards this Northern and Southern union spawn
it is branded with absolute abolition the one side
and on the other is ndelby written-"acquiescen
submission -
1t has been matter of curious comment the cor
ners and elsewhere as to what would be the position
fthe Standard in relation the action of the late con-
venton held at Jackson. Any man with sense enough
keep his face clean could have assigned the Stan
dard its position after reading the action of that
vention. It's not sound policy to denounce brother
for over jealous action in good cause. Churchmen
may not applaud those who turn every means to adj
vance the of religion but they surely never de-
nounce them. No, they reason and endeavor to re-
strain destroy them. So with the Standard
opposed all schemes, propositions and projects that
tended to disunion secession. Itreasoned with its
contemporaries and urged the necessity of moderation
prudence and ,forbearance It's efforts have been
crowned with The People through their dele
gates have spokenthey have decided the language
the 18th Resolution, that under existing crcumstan
ces it is inexpedien exercise the sovereign right of
seceeding from the Union for past wrongs This has
this position mmovaby.
Had that convention left any doubt on this point
or had it demanded amendments to the constitution
Or had it authoritativey demanded division of Cali
fornia by the line 80 and made refusal of these
demands cause for dssong the Union or for the State
of Mississippi sceede, the STANDARD would have lent
neither aid nor countenance to its action
1t will be remembered that the State Rights party
throughout the State have been repeatedly charged as
advocating Immediate secessionhe Union papers and
orators have everywhere declared the question in this
State to be Secession Subnisson -Senator Foote
stated when here, and if Senator's orators and the
newspaper press in the pay of the Submission party
are to be believed then the question is Secession or
Submission. But it is now very generally understood
that the submission leaders have lad-broadly fatty
and as history shows very deliberately for the
questionis not Secession or Submission" Hence
twas necessary for the convention to leave M dh
as to what the issue is between the Submission and
the State Rights party, and it has done ii