Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-31

each State deciding all test questions as wen as that
Of nominations.
The Chic Democracy.
Some two or three months since we stated editorial
~ that the Democracy of Ohio had carried that State
and elected all of their candidates under the new Con-
stitution, by majority ranging between twenty and
twenty-five thousand. We stated that Chase, the U.
States Senator an open and ayowcd aboIitionst, had
published to the world that he should affiliate and frat
ernze with, the Democracy of MS State because said
he, hope to obtain through the Democracy Of Ohio
important advantages to the cause of Frecdom-or, in
plan language. the abolition cause. The weight and
authority OF Chase name, sWelled the triumph of the
vctors-twenty-fve thousand is a heavy majority, and
the Democracy of Ohio, approaching the aid of the
friends Of ChQse, have, in the recent State Conyan
ton to select delegates to the Baltimore Convention
manifested inclination TO repay Mr. Chase and his
friends. The Democracy understand by what means
the twenty-five thousand majority was obtained, and
they determined to hazard 10 loss by falling short
in very distinct ayowal Of hostility to slavery Here
is one of the Ohio Resolutions. Comment by as, is
unnecessary. Those who have forced re-organza-
ton, and determined to GO into National Convention,
would do essential service by explaining this reso-
luton away. Can't the Monroe Democrat the Vicks-
burg Sentinel, the Natchez Free Trader or the Hissjs-
sIPjan do something for Ohio by the way Of expla-
ming this resolution
Resozged, That the democracy of Ohio do now,
as they always have done, look upon slavery as an
evil and unfayorable to the full development of
the spirit and practical beneftssof free itut6ns
and that, entertaining these sentiments, they viii
at all times feel it to be their duty to use all pow
er given by the terms of the national compact, to
prevent the increase, to mitigate and finally eradi-
cate the evil but be it further resolved, that the
democracy of Ohio do, at the same time, fully
recognize the doctrines held by the early fathers
Of the Republic, and still maintained by the demo-
cratic party in all the States; that to each State
belongs the right to modify its own municipal laws
and regulate Its own internal affairs; to hold and
maintain equal and independent sovereignty
with each and every State and that, upon these
rights, the National Legislature can neither legis-
late nor encroach.
The Democracy of Ohio is progressive Democra-
cy-but it is in unison with all Northern and Eastern
Democracies-ts progress will end in involving the
Union in foreign, if not in a civil war. This is not
al The doctrine of Intervention in foreign affairs ap-
pears to have found footing the platform of the Ohio
Democracy. This is the effect of Kossuthism, and it
is very evident that effort will be made to incorpo-
rate the ree farm, or 'sYote yourself home' policy
in the National Democratic platform. Slave nstitu-
'oii' o''7' ID" D9i0i' ''ilS SORT u feS7ofc' Is H.
e'1aOie'
If asked what think Of Northern whiggery and
its policy, answer that Northern whigcerv in all
its phases is rank aJoltion-it is open and avowed is
wholly sectional in its tendency. and strikes at the
institutions of the South in every conceivable form
Seward of New York, is Northern whiggerv embodied
tl,. vow, ir,,,or-o,,a+io,,
W. I5 o,'','t t' NJ eGllsi'', 'sU
0i'1 al, - "ie N0''i1Ih democracy aS d
choice OF e'S-ohioisn forces US to this hard bar
gam TINS desperate alternative. Were we presented
the alternative OF either defending Northern whggery
or selecting open Disunionsm as our future PLATFORM
and editorial theatre of action we should take the lat
ter, as infinitely preferable Because it in our opin
ion froar frozen hazards and r,ore-bororolIo-;t IN
dependent. "
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