Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-04-03
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wednesday Morning, NEarcs, 81, Hs5s
From the NatcAez Free Trader
The Washington Union and the South.


The Washington Union. once a Journal most
potential in the South, has forever forfeited South
ern confidence by its subservient and trimming
course of the great and absorbing question OF
Southern Rights. 1t became the avowed tool and
apologst of Clay, Webster, Fillmore, Foote, Gle
mems Cobb Downs and Others who all united IN
the cry which got up in a Congressional Cau
Gus to put all Southern patriots who insisted upon
the preservation of their constitutional rights
der the ban of Secessonism. The Washing on
Union now begins to rub its eyes, as if awakening
from bewildering dream, and commences sort
of half apology for the State Rights Democracy
as if that unconquerabe and unierrifed band need
ed any excuse palllation for the course they had
taken, and which they will never relinquiSh until
they obtain full indemnify for the past and secu-
rlty for the future.
When the veteran Richie conduc ed the Wash
ington Union before he made he fatal mistake on
the Southern question and became the auxiliary
of Federal usurpaton AMI cons Solidaton, that Jour
nal oracle TO all the Southern Democracy !;
it their law and guide their rude mccain and
political rubric. But il Is no longer Ii has
no influence at all with The Whig party in the
State of Mississippi, with single one OF he
twenty ght or twenty nine thousand Democrats
who voted for the hi minded and incouup,ible
JEDI Davis. a very Jew OF he >o-called ''upion
democracy" which only mean. anion to clay
ington Union, As drowning men would to Il rotten
plank. But It's day OF moral and political power
southwark, is forever over and no resurrection
morning shall await it under its present editorial
control Its course politically, has been precisely
like that OF the State of Tennessee, of which State
the Union is now but the spawn The politicians
of that State will never again 1--WE mean the great
mass Of thcm) be trusted on questions invoking
Southern rights. The history of the Nashville
Southern Rights Convention will ever remain
monument of their faihessness and imbecility at a
ment when perfect union and a solemn determine
ton would have forever secured Southern equality
in the great confederation of States.
Not all the desperate igor with which the
would union democracy and the Wings quoted
the language of Andrew Jackson (whom they had
generally despised while he was living) and per-
vered from its application 10 the doctrine of null
LITIGATION TO denunciation OF earnest and sincere
efforts to obtain Southern equality in the contcd-
eracy will avail to hide the coven foot of the con-
solidaonists who have inflicted the deadliest stab
upon the Democratic principle of State sovereign,
ty that it has received since the administration OF
the older Adams The stab was the deader be-
cause it came from hands that had once been fra
terna The vital blow inflicted by traitors.
The strange words of praise and adulaton OF
Wing leaders and the consolidation measures OF
an overbearing general government were obtruded
upon Democratic gatherings, by men calling them
selves Democrats with the prefix Of the word '.un-
ion,' which seemed to be the shiboleth of their
bondage to Federalism and consolidation. Cen
tralism was boldly avowed and Clay's threat to
desolate the South with Federal bayOnets was re-
echoed. The State Rights men of the Democracy
will never forget that it made crime IN them,
and denounced as treason and secession TO stand
up boldly and sternly for Constitutional Rights oi
the South.
The Southern democracy know full well how to
deal with the traitors in their own borders and
look with suspicious eye upon the endorsements
of the democracy of the recreant Henry S. Fooe
by the Washington Union. Bo.h the recreant and
the endorser would be this moment r,puliatcd by
five out of six OF all those who call themselves
democrats in Mississippi. Next to the Washing
ton Unions Endorsement OF Foote's democracy
the most ludicrous thing is The Unions denuncia-
ton of the Memphis Appeal: Journal whose
noble sentiments meet a warm response through
out Western Tennessee and ,hc States OF MiS>ls-
sipp and Arkansas. OF the two, as Sou,herners
and friends of the only true constitutional Union,
we would much rather receive the denuncialion
than the endorsement.
In closing this ar cIe however, we beg leave tC
no:Ice the wide discrepancy between the endorse,
andth endorSee The Washington Union denoun.
ces Southern Wings Henry S Foo.e holds the
Office OF Governor he only one he will eyti
again receive from Mississippians) bv whi~ vo es
Will the migrate Fooe, in turn, endorse the de
nunciation of the wings, who elected him Cover
nor made by the Washington Union He dar,
not do it, after the solemn declaration which Ii,
made at public meeting, that ''He whi9 party 0,
the u1aion question were more reliable than the dem
ocrGtic party !? +"
See the difference between Foote's endorsement
of the reliability of the whig party and the denun
ciation of the same party by the Washington Unlo
of the 26th of last month February ,
The Washington Union says that there ar
1.-TWO GREAT POLITICAL TRUTHS bot
"amply verified by the past experience of the coun
TRY. The first Isl that no better Union party
needed, or can be formed. than the old demo
cratic party of Jefferson, Madison, Jackson ant
"Polk. The second Isl that the rights otrthe iSoat
''are not safe in the hands Of the aohig party, or
"ganized as it now is, and for years has been
''hoaceuer fortunate or suspicious for the Souh
may seem to be tile circumstances attending its ac
cession to power"
We leave this wide chasm of sentiment betweel
the endorSer and the endorsed to be mutually leap
ed among themselves, which they can doubles
DO from their known skill IN ground and lty tuna
0ing We will however endorse and re-echo th