Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-07-31
the agitators made General Scott their preferred

he agitators made General Scott their preferred
when we see him here affirming in so
many words his conviction or principle" that
these abolltonist missiles are to be treated In all
respects just other petitions treated by Con-
gress This is all on that point that the abohtlon-
lists have ever asked. Grant them that point, and
they have all the enginery they want to keep up
in its full force the anti-slavery agitation IN Con-
gress. We have always shown that from the de-
clared principle and policy of Gen. Pierce has been
to receive their petitions without reading them,
referring them, or reporting upon them, and then
Law them silently and forever on the table. By
this means he would take from them the war cry
of the fright of petition" and at the same time
efectualy close the door of Congress upon their
incendary efforts at agitation. Gen. Sect, on
the other hand by treating these petitions like all
others, throws the door of Congress open wide
ly to agitation the subject of the abolition of sa
very as on the subject of the tariff.
In connexion with this matter of petitions, Gen.
Scott, IN the same letter, speaks of the power of
Congress to abolish slavery mot the slave trade
i'll the District of Columbia After affirming, Just
as Mr.. Giddings would affirm, that the subject of
slavery in tie States is beyond the jurisdiction of
Congress, Gen. Scott goes on to say:
81 hold the opposite opinion in respect to the
District of Columbia. Here, with the consent of
the owners, payment of Just compensation,
Congress may legslate at its discretion But my
conviction is equally strong that, unless it be step
by step with the legislatures of Virginia and Ma
ryland, it would be dangerous to both races in
those States to touch the relation between master
and slave in this District
Here the full power of Congress over slavery in
the District is affirmed. All is said to be in the
discretion of Congress and contingency is nam
ed in which Congress should put forth its power
Do the abolition agitators want any better hold
than this on their own candidate, whom they have
forced on the wing party, and who must look to
them as his political creators ?
But the General does not leave the subject here
In the same letter he adds
"But 1 am persuaded that it is high moral OBJ
legation of masters and slaveholding States to en-
ploy all means, not incompatible with the safety of
both colors to meliorate slavery even to extermi-
nation
Here is fully expressed ia high moral obliga-
tom to erterminate Slavery! How far does this
differ even in its terms from the "higher law" of
the men who have now organized the whig party
and put Gen. Scott in nomination to carry out
their purposes
Can there be any division among southern men
on the question of rejecting or voting down can
didate thus committed Will not his election by
southern aid be confession that the South is will
ling to see the anti-slavery agitation renewed? In
view of these declarations OF Gen. Scott, we may
understand what the N. Y Tribune meant when
it told us that IN the whig convention which nomi-
mated him resolution against further anti-savery
agitation would be ''humbug'' and ga cheat -
by which nobody would be bound.
GEN. Scorr AND THE SoUrtERN WH1Gs.-The
following pronunciamento from the August Ga J
Chronicle is the latest testimony we have from the
Wings Of the South as to their notion of uniting
for the election of Gen. Scott:
| "Gen. Scott is everywhere regarded as a mere
tool in the hands of that intrguer Seward, whom
and his Free Soil friends he is believed to be pledg.
ed to confer the control of the government and
the distribution of the spoils if he should be cleo
ted 1t not, therefore, surprising that he has
advocates at the South for without any such inn
preston as that to which we have alluded; his to.
tai unftness for the Office, the absence of claims
except his military services, if indeed they cat BY
any honest man ard patriot be regarded (Which
we very much doubt) constituting any claims tt
such an Office, and the fact that he IS knoion tt
hare expressed an opinion Favorable to tie amer
alton Of Canada, are quite sufficient to make The
Southern people repudiate him entirely, and Mes
acW not support him under any circumstances
, nomination or no nomination; for they have NJ
idea of supporting any man who occupies the pc
, stion of an instrument in the hands of Seward
Co. for the carrying out of their base intrigues.'
DICE OF THE + Rec SOILERS.-Ihe Natlona
: Era, next to the New York Tribune, is the mos
powerful organ of the enemies of the South
Speaking of the platform adopted by the Demo
cratic Convention, it says:
"You know the platform-no sophistry can ex
plain away the fact that it acas as fairly adoptee
as any platform ever Oas By political convention
S You know that Mr.. Pierce insists upon the adop
ton of the offensive features which characteriz
it; that he fully represents it., that has success sOil
be the ratification Of that platform by the detnocruc
=. Of tie United Suites"
t In the face of such declarations as these from
e such quarter. 1--WE are compelled to admit tina
General Pierce is as fortunate in the assaults noI
e made upon him he is in the sound and patriot
: national record which has made him the 'shinin
o mark at which they are directed. The peopl
will hail in these accusations the proof conclusiv
S that General Pierce is emnently-i almost provi
It dentially -the "Aaan for the times t''
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= Proclamation by Henry s. FOOte, Governor Q
o the State of Mississippi:
= Whereas, under the act of Congress, approve
= May %, 1850. entitled AN act, providing 70
the taking of the seventh and subsequent Censuse