Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1851-02-08
A glance at the Past.

The South has reached pointin her political pro-
gress from whence review of the Past may be use
fully used guide and warning monitor for the flu
ture. She has been in time past entanged in the in
rigues and party schemes of the day extent su
icient to render her political power and her moral
force entirely subservent to the overshadowing inu-
ence of party demagogues and party cliques In the
fierce scrambes for Office characterizng the struggles
of the past her interest has been compromised and her
rights wilfully sacrificed Topreserve the union and
harmony of party and advance and sustain national
platforms her strength has been quietly but eectualy
sapped and her power used to crush her energies and
render her dependent upon the commerce ofhe North
States subservient to Northern manufacturers and
artisan labor. The record ofyears past abounds with
indubtable evidence substanating this fact But to
be concise, we shall commence remarks with the
close of the late with Mexico 1t is known that the
people of the South about equally divided in their
preferences between the two great national parties,
and division of opinion existed as to the disposition
to be made of the territory acquired from Mexico.
division of sentiment existed in the South but that
pass over to reach the issue made by Northern men
with their Southern brethren 1t authoritatively
announced by the North that not one foot of the
CURED territory should nure to the South and that the
institution of slavery should be forever excluded The
first practical demonstration occurred in the house of
representatives by annexng to the two million appro-
priation bill the Wilmot-proviso. This done by
Northern wings and democrats yet Southern democrats
and wings insisted that their respective parties North
the great national democratic party, and the great
national wing party-would surely deal justly with the
great national wing and the great national democratic
parties South What the result The South
unable obtain from either both these nation
al parties votes enough to erect any plan of govern
ment for the acquired territories that would
chance for the STAKEHOLDER to settle in them and enjoy
in peace and security his property. What justice
manifested by these great national parties and how
much Southern parties gained by their adherence to
them of Southern rights.
The North was appealed to by their Southern breth-
to divide the territory by the old compromise line
of $50 80. This was refused.
A Southern whig elected President, and it was
believed by that the South would obtain her
rights through his influence, his patriotism and
justice. He failedto do anything in short recon-
mended masterly inactivity to the South, perfectly
aware that was the only way tododge the Wilmo-pro-
viso and maintain the nationality of parties. The
democrats had majority in both houses of Congress,
and if there had existed nationality of feeling and sen
time in the democratic party North and South, it
in its power to have given governments the terrific
ries, awarding to the South her rights, could have
extended the Missouri compromise line of 500 80 to
the Pacific, and with this the South would have rested
satisfied. The national democracy did nothing.
Adventures and foreigners under the auspices and
direction of United States army officers got up
vention in California in open and avowed violation of
law precedent, justice right, and framed constitu
ton excluding slavery. Gen Taylor's policy Of "mas
tery inactivity saved the nationality of the wing par
BY, by preventing the application Of the Wilmot-proV-