Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-12-06


Eg~ The following is from the Natehez Courier
the ablest and most jealous Wig paper in thi.
readers the way Union Whiggery, or Federalism
is tending.
j The Test,
i The Republican affects of late considerable zeal
IN favor of the Compromise bills Now, we de-
sire to know whether, if Gen. Scott is nominated
by a convention of the wings for the Presidency,
the Republican viii support him Z? Out with it,
like men.-St Louis Times.
And so We will We will not support General
Scott, any other man, unless he is in favor OF
the Compromise, and is willing to let that adjust
ment stand as the law of the land, to be carried
out in good faith, SO long the Slave States shall
require its strict observance With us, this is the
touch hsone, because in this, we seriously believe,
is involved the preservation of glorious Union,
and no true patriot ought to hesitate about giving
| his pledge
/ So says the ST. Louis Republican, straight
forward, consistent national whig paper. We say
so too. No Southern whig can ever sanction, or
even tolerate, the nomination of any candidate for
the Presidency, who is not out and out committed
TO the Compromise as it is. We are glad to see
Southern whig papers speaking out boldly their
sentiments upon this ect. We desire our whig
/ friends at the North to understand precisely how
we stand upon this question, SO that there may be
no misapprehenson hereafter.--N o. CONNER
ciaI Baslletin.
And that is precisely the position that Southern
Nhlg papers ought to stand upon. The late con-
test in Mississippi has almost entirely obliterated
former partizan bitterness among the members of
the Union party. Wings and Democrats, stand
ing together in a common struggle against seces-
sionsts, have abandoned much OF their former an
tagonism. If party shackles have not lost their
binding obligation, party differences, as between
Union Wings and Union Democrats, have lost all
their former acerbity They have mutually learn
ed of each other; they know each other better );
and while neither have changed on the important
questions that have divided the past, still the good
feeling that has been engendered during the twelve
months back, and the knowledge that, in the on
ward march of the country, many of the old is
sues have been laid to rest has caused all to wear
party harness but lightly.
On this subject We shall have more to say anon
suffice it for the present to aver that in this State
as in Georgia and Alabama, the Union organiza-
ton will in all probability remain untouched
Here in Mississippi, shall rally around Cover
nor Foote'S administration, letting its acts speak
their own recommendation, prepared to give it in
advance our best wishes and our warmest encour-
agement, and hesitating not to expect from a sue
cesSful and brilliant career.
With regard to national politics. the Union par
ty OF the South has yet great work to do Union
wings have to say to their former whig brethren at
the North, what the Republican and the Bulletin
have so Justly said in the quotations given above
and they have also to show by their actions that
advice fd takef, f dfs KI 1LPeS Ypreial 5haA aRA
whig party if rejected, the glory has departed.
And so with Union democrats The call we pub
lished in our last on their part, manly avow-
q. n.
ism are eschewed here at home, and they intend
that abolitionism and freesoilsm shall be equally
repudiated by Northern democrats. Union dem
ocrats will 90 to Baltimore from Mississippi, and
Compromise democrats must meet them from the
Northern States, or there can be no harmony of
action. Union wings and Union democrats in The
South intend to have Presidential and Vice Presi-
Dental candidates, pledged to abide by and sus
tain the Compromise and if they cannot get them
at the hands of their respective parties, they will
unite and have them Of their own joint selection
Nor will non -committalism, and studied silence,
or CLAP trap private understandings, suffice
1t must be tn open, above board, manly honest
declaration Of sentiment, or the course for true
Northern and Southern Union men, of all shades
of political opinion, is a clear one. Those who
are not for Us openly, must be reckoned against
US. The South asks nothing but firm adherence
to the Compromise, but that she is determined to
have, and mere paruzanship, at least, will sink,
if it confiics with that determination.
If candidates in favor of maintaining the Com
promise, az finality, and of standing by it, are
selected at baltimore and Philadelphia, the Union
party at the South will probably, as far national
action is concerned, have done its work. and be
again divided usual but with this great differ
ence from the past; mere acerbity, bitterness and
denunciation will have all gone. We shall differ
as friends should differ, in questions of principle,
because we have fought side by side as friends, on
questions of still higher moment. II candidates
are nominated at both Philadelphia and Baltimore
unfriendly to the Compromise, a Union ticket will
be nominated, that will sweep three-fourths of the
States If the party proves sound, and the
other urs sound Union men at the South will most
assuredly feel that duty to the country outrides all
party allegiance.
In expressing cur concurrence IN what the Re-
publican and Bulletin have said, we feel bound to
add, that if unfortunate nominations should be
made at Philadelphia, they can derive support
from this paper. The Union men in Mississippi
will be, as they are now, a unit in support eff the
Compromise measures.
*We give the call alluded to here place in our
paper to-day.--ED STANDARD.
At recent Democratic meeting in Tammany
Hall, New York, the following Resolution was
adopted
Resoteed That we hail with delight the recent
,icfor;oe oc65ouod b7, (obL (Iooro;u