Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-06-21

principle Of the exclusion Of S{aVery. am pledg-
ed to 1T again and again; and | will perform those
pledges; but | will not do thing unnecessary,
that wounds the feelings of others. ''-Speeoh IN
Senate, March 7, 1850
" Gentlemen, | contend, and have always con-
tended that after the adoption of the Constitution
any measures of the government, calculated to
bring slave territory into the United States, was
beyond the power of the Constitution, and against
its provision. And never would
consent that there should be one foot slave terrific
ry beyond what the old thirteen States had at the
time of the formation of the Union. Never, new
er, never. ."-iSpeech at Buffalo, May 22, 1851.
This is the least aggressive policy proposed by
those States which now WELD the federal power
under the forms of the Constitution, in reference
to slavery. What can shield the south from the
appalling consequences that would necessarily re-
suit from it, if pushed on in practice? As her
population increases and its swelling tide sweeps
over her present boundaries her surplus whites
bat retains her blacks, what shall save her from
fate similar to that which befel ST. Domingo p
Will the compromising Unionists point to power
within the Constitution that could avert it's evils
and its dangers? Do they look to the exercise of
the authority to suppress nsurrection ?" and ex-
pect standing army of Northern bayonets will
protect Southern property and peace?
The very idea is idle as it is absurd. No
from its original intent, and a Union thus CONVEX
ted into an instrument of oppression and ruin to
one section of the confederacy, there would exist
no safety and no hope for the slaveholding States
The very instinct of self preservation would COM
pei separation from those alien in policy, in prin-
cple and in interest, and who sought to treat them
as wolves do lambs covering and devouring them
Daniel Webster, the head and front of the Ad-
mlnlstratlon, and of the compromisers, may Goa
lece in principle with his apparent antipode Chas
Sumner, in this construction of the constitution,
and both may join in swelling the chorus of 'this
cry OF Union" Yet unles Southern spirit has
grown colder than that which animates the breast
of the Russian serfs, and Southern intelligence
sunk to the level of that of their slaves-aye and
below 1.-THE day of the consummation of their
joint policy would dawn on Estates, discordant,
discovered, belligerent'' ''-''and drenched, it may
be, with fraterna blood"
The fanatical frenzy of the one, is not half so
dangerous to the perpetuity of peace, and of this
Union, as the cold blooded calculating policy of the
other. Both stand on the same broad platform
now ; both by the same means seek to compass the
same end: and the nationality of northern COM
promlsers narrows itself down to the same limits
as those which embrace the free soilers, whose
designs they hypocrtically pretended to abhor and
to resist. The ''Veiled Prophet of the compro-
mise has dropped the concealing veil at last and
IN this last great speech" seems disposed to
pay the devotion of his deluded votaries at the
south in the spirit his prototype; and poin-
ting back to the records of his opinions and his
policy, to exclaim,
Here we wise saints behold your lord your star
Ye would-be dupes and vctims-and ye are.