Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-06

tory of our governmental expose their co.-
tons, beat down their ordinations, and MS,
naked weapon of Truth, to deliver the ,o Ie
from the curse of consolidation and fedara,p
which then, as now, threatened the destruction !,
their rights
Most consistently, therefore, with the ob;....
view, does this political wrecker, attack tie a.
Gates of principle-the States Rights Demo-
of the South. In the very first sentence of q
article referred to, he declares that-"It is Oh:
Gus, that the divisions which appear in the 80,
of the Democratic party, at this time, have h.
produced by causes that have but little pr.o,;.l
connexion with the administrative policy Of y
Federal Government. +" What are the cars,.'.
these divisions (1) The slavery questiob--t.
right to the delivery of our fugitive slaves md.
the Constitution of the United States. The ri,
to the protection of slave property in all Territo,
acquired by the common effort and treasurs
The right to the protection of our slave prone,,,
on the high seas, lawfully passing from STATE !,
State or when driven on q foreign shore By stra,.
of weather. In short, protection by Congress;o,
al legislation wherever the Constitution hascba,,
ed Congress with the duty of protecting the live,
liberty and property of American citizens On A.
mercan soil.
~ Another cause of division arises from o..
isting differences of opinion in relation to The
rights of the States, and the powers Of the US
Government Has each State the right to Jud,.
for itself of nfracions of the Constitution as Wall
1 r
Supreme Court the final arbiter upon questions Of
Constitutional power arising between a State and
the National Government
Has the Government of the U. S power BY ths
Constitution, by force of arms, to coerce soyer.
eign State to the obedience Of all acts passed By
Congress ?
What is the character of the Government IN.
der which we live Is it a consolidated Govern.
ment-" one nation, . deriving its existence from
the people Of the United States, as an aggregate
mass, as taught BY the cid monalchists, and BY
Mr. Webster and the modern federalists-orisa
an association of confederated States deriving its
existence from the people of each State for itself?
These are some OF the causes which have produc
z
ouslv democratic as are these doctrines of EQUALITY
of protection to all kinds of property--of States
/ Rights and State Sovereignty, of eternal ermi.r
/ to federalism and consolidation and monorchy-as
obviously vital as they are to the preservation Of
our Constitutional Union-we are grayely inform
ed by this job-seeking hyPocrite, this defamer Of
/ Democratic principles, that they have Jut Hft
practical conaerion with the administrative policy
of the Federal Government. -
/ Although the nation, in the good old days q
| Revolutionary honesty and patriotism, arose al
most as one man to establish them, and the voice
of Jefferson, and of Nicholas, and of Madison,
and of Taylor, and of Barber and of Giles and
the States of Virginia and Kentucky. at later
period, were heard to re-asscrt them, until State
after State gave back as an echo, the principles
/ they proclaimed, until scarce State was left to
dispute their sway; yet, to-day, they ." have but
little practical connexion with the Administrative
policy of the Federal Government, and the
| Democracy of principle-that Democratic party
which had its origin, its everlasting foundation in
these principles taught, Practsed and delivered
US in triumphant victory by jefferson himself
are called upon b this Legitimate spawn of fed.
eralism, Websterism, Foolish and free -soilism,
g to bury their differences, to heal its wounds and
! forget its resentment. y
''To bury its differences . by burying the prin-
cpes in which ii had its noble origin, its strength
its power, its illustrous triumph, its purifying,
elevating patriotic influence upon the destiny Of
this great nation
!
To heal its wounds . by looping off all that
is sound and viyifying in It's Constitution and de-
livering the tainted remnant into the hands of its
old federal enemies.
And forget its resentments - towards fedora
ism, consolidation and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS the
Alien and Sedition laws-towards the sworn enc
mes OF jefferson and Liberty"
And this is the voluntary advice of a pretended
Jeiiersonian Democrat, who hates 'whiggery u
and praises Webster and Clay-who loves De-
mocracy and yet combines with Foote and his
abandoned whig allies in Mississippi, to destroy
the nations interest, in the reputation patriotism
and services of her tried public servants, Davi;
ana Qultman-who rejoices in the name of Dem
ocrat, while he exults in the downfall of Melon
aid and the Democratic party in Georgia, and
sings hozannas to the Union, at the triumph Of
Ioombs and Stevens. Who claims his birth on
Southern soil, and yet seeks to beray her into the
hands of Northern frees oilism, that he may be
rewarded by the public printing Who first join