Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-09-27
an,l.s,aye feeling in New Orleans.

Anti.SldVe IctlliiS III NCH ViICduSs
We have noticed that, for time the ultra
Southern papers have not ranked Louisiana as a
mong. the States likely to join the proposed South
ern Confederacy. or likely to aid in its establish
n,ent We could not account for the omission -
The following which we clip from the New Or
leans Courior may be sufficient explanation.
STARTLING ABOLITION STRENGTH IN THE CT
~ OF New ORLEAHs.-ln conversing with very
intelligent citizen of the Second Municipality YES
terday, and who had resided in this city for many
years. upon the state of public opinion here on the
slavery question, altogether amazed and
confounded TO hear him declare his belief, that if
the question of the abolition of slavery in Louis-
ana were submitted to the people of New Orleans
the question Uould be carried By tapo-tird uOte
Believing ourselves, that SO monstrous proposal
could not command five per cent, vote out OF the
whole population, We mentioned the subject to
several OF friends, and though they all agreed
that the opinion expressed WAS extravagant and
excessive, we were hardly less amazed and con-
founded to hear them admit, as they distinctly DID,
that upon such an issue, Il acaS doa6yW upon chtch
side the m0joritg Of tie cti=ehS u -NeW orleans
,0ould be found! We constrained to admit,
that the gentlemen referred 10 have had greater
OPPORTUNITIES than we have, to come to safe and
sound conclusions upon such matter; but the So
lace we derive from the counter opinions which
have always been ours, altogt Their too
precious and conservative of the peace and OF The
rights of the South TO be parted with and surren-
dered, but upon further and fuller proofs; but at
the time must concede, that the state
ments made TO us by persons of SO much respecta-
bility and worth, betoken a state Of public sent
ment here, of the weighticst ;lport, and OF which
we had not until now, the smallest conception!
We have generally noticed, in passing along the
thorough fares of life that what a number at peo-
pie stand ready to do, they very apt to wish
to do. and easily fall into the MAXIM that ''where
there is Il will there is way" and II the slave
holders of New Orleans and Louisiana, give
their credence to 1.-THE of wha. We have heard
and recounted above, (of which we are still in
credulous, all will admit that it urgently behooveS
them to hold counsel together, and with their fell
low-citizens to dvise ways and means of pro-
tec;ing their property, alike from incendary con-
tact, and telonIous spollatlon
This abolition class of opinions, and to the ex-
tent We nave stated, cannot be Southern born, and
naturalized citizens have earned the hgh praise
of never intermeddlng with our domestic Insutu-
tons; and if it be no Northern born, and of kith
and kim with that felonious sentiment promulga
ted by Gerritt Smith and his associates IN The CITY
of New York. in May last when ne publicly ac
knowledged that he and his abolition State Vigil
lance Committee had plundered the South, with
In the past year, of one hundred and fifty OF her
slaves; and thus became felones by confession, un-
der Southern laws, and fugitiyeS from their min
istrations. Unde derivdtur? Whence comes IL
If this be the sort of Yankee influence to which
Mr. Soule referred in his improneptu responce III
the welcome he received from his friends i'll Canal
street, and we have not doubt it was, then he
merits the thanks, and rot the oppiobrium OF
the people of New Orleans and Louisiana, for
bringing the dangers which environ us to popular
consideration and judgement; and no one who
prizes his keen sagacty and abiding good sense at
their proper worth, could suspect him for mo-
ment of extending his rebukes 20 those worthy CT
tizens from the North, who many years ago, Came
here for settlement we'll thritt-who look at
the soil of Louisiana for their graves well as
homes-and who, at this very moment, up
to the hub with the South-n this the fercesL
and direst contest ever waged against her rig hts,
her honor, and her social and sovereign existencei
But as to those Yankees who are here birds OF
passage-with to-day and gone to- morrow
Southerners here but AbolJionists at home-lec
us watch them-distrust them and DEFY them