Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-08-21
The Herald of the JEion.


We received number of a large and beautifully
printed sheet bearing the above title 1t is published
in New York city. We cut the following from the
leading editorial in it, and we call the attention the
reader to it, Development Of the opinions Of an
intelligent man touching the subject of the COmFo-
mise acts, and the prospect of maintaining them asa
final adjustment. Let the compromise wings South
readlt. Let them see what a Northern compromls
man thinks of the party selecting and supporting Ger.
Scott let them what he thinks of those II South
ern wings who betrayed the Northern comproms
men into the hands of Bill Seward and Horace Gree
ley 1t is bitter, burning rebuke, but just. Readh
The Herald ofthe Union was estabishedes-
Peclally, solely entirely and heartily, to maintain
the great political compact of 1850. Clay, one Oh
the veteran patriots who brought to that consun-
nation the aid of his genius and power, sleeps the
sleep that knows no waking Cass, the ideal Of
democratic genius, and of the Republic of liberty,
has been thought unworthy of her civic crown
we might say some bitterer words than these On
That subject. And Webster, whose Hereuean
genius was brought to bear upon that magnificent
contamination, has been laid on the SHELF bHI
mere Is great consolation in the reflection that
"hlle both the Democrats and the Wings have de-
serted their leaders, tie Whigs atone hare dessrfd
oy reference to another column, is no unworthy
representative of the great doctrine we have inhen
tea from our fathers-the Union, for the sake d
the Union, and what 1t cost-the nationality OF ou
thirty-one republics stretching so far that noting
out the glorious sunrise can light one border, an
nothlhg out the sunset CLEANS can terminate the
frontier on the other
We are sorry to write these words. but we can
not withhold them; and moreover we are vii
ing 10 appeal to the better judgment, to the So
per- second thought of all the great and true ma,
.ional Wings of this country, and we should no.
De afraid to await the decision they would award
mere Is the national Wing in this country, ron
Maine to California, that has hazarded the oPnl,,
Ion that Scott was the choice of his party. Dill
Seward has done it so has Horace Greeley,
These are the Ephesian wretches that have al
ready lit the torch and flung it under the columns
oil our political temple. These are the dem'
gogues who have agtated merely for the sake !.
agitation. that have reduced craftsmanship to !Ir
degradation that have played that game Wl,ien'
put Tor good Wings, and such Democrats as .rsi
Houston Douglass, and others, would have enaeS
the history of our Union, and in the fine languaSS
Oh ebster, even the young American eagle WIZ "a
nave fallen from mid heaven, when soaring 70 W
sum- struck by the fatal dart of disunion. Ihe:s
are the men who pretend to find in the dome.@s
institutions of the South abundant cause for ag,'s
tlon, when God in Heaven, knows that every DIV
leveled against the STAKEHOLDER, By those iana'.-'
has fallen upon the head of the slave. These ~ ho
the men who would begin by burning down v
temple of liberty over the ashes of Washington
They are the descendants of that race OF poiiusS
vpers who, seventy years ago. showed thelr hess
at the North and in the South. and tried 70 ''Ss