Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-01-03
For the Southern Standard.
Joseph B. Cobb.
NUMBER THREE.

pies but distraction and agitation In fact,
in his retirement at Longwood, he seems to live .
under lively and continued fear of agitation
We, on the contrary, are its firm friend. 1t caused
the English Cavalier to emigrate to jamestown,
and the Hugunot to South Carolina By it, Thorn
as Jefferson, ION whose memory Joseph B. Cobb
has poured the phials of his wrath, and his CO.
adjutors, carried through the Congress our dec
laration of Independence, and achieved its glori-
rious consummation. 1t is the life blood of our
Institutions and when there is no more of it in our
governmental affairs, tyranny, monopolies and
general misery will occupy the place it vacated
To it, the trial by jury and the writ of Habeas
Corpus, owe their sacred existence. Hampden
was an agitator, and the great Cromwell was a
prince among agitators. By it, he overthrow the
corrupt and tyrannous dynasty of the Stuarts.
By agitation, in reference to the institution of
domestic slavery, all the evil and all the good,
connected with it, is brought to light, thoroughly
examined and understood. Investigation and en-
quiry will not inure this institution, and should
they do So then, we are free to declare it is prop
er,that it should be so injured Nothing that is
founded on the great inherent principles Of nature
of justice and truth, need fear the breath of agi-
taton. Mr.. Jefferson agtated when he acquired
Louisiana and Florida Gen. jackson was an agi-
tator when he placed his iron heel upon the Char
ter of the Bank of the United States The Dem
ocratic party, as whole, have ever been agita-
tors particularly when they annexed the State
of Texas. 1t will be strange, if in the future,
they do not do more of the same kind of thing,
that is so especially disagreeable to Mr.. Cobb
Every thing in governmental affairs that is worth
being attained, is worth agitation. History re-
cords the triumph of no great durable advance in
constitutional liberty, until the resstless waves OF
agitation have washed away the old land marks OF
monopoly, corruption and conseroativeisns.
| Where will the spirit of progress, annexation
and manifestdestin next force itself to be heard?
In Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leona, and Cohahuila, the
people struggling to break the manaces
with which priestcraft, military tyranny and ex-
action have, for generation fettered their energies
and stinted the productions of their country
Their first effort to be free has been partially re-
pressed, but the spirit Of liberty will again break
out, and ultimately it will conquer.
he CldlS VI 4dIlduIpdS 10 lIp TlCUeSU ana D6Sl
of that part of the Mexican Republic, cismontano
1t extends from point one hundred and fifty
miles above Matamoras, to the Southwark along
the Gulf coast to latitude 22o North, and has in
| its extreme Southern part the considerable town
seaport and mart of Tampico. This town, under
| United States laws, people and institutions, would
soon be larger and of more commercial impor-
lance than Vera Cruz which is further to the
South. Tampico, in our hands, would soon be.
come the entrepot for the larger part of the COM
merce of the people of the States of Mexico
Of the towns of Tamaulipas, next to Tampico in
population, wealth and commercial Importance is
Matamoras, which is par excellence the town of the
! Rio Grande river. 1t is now ascertaned that the
effort to build town. the rival to it in SIZE on the
opposite bank of the river, in Texas called Browns
vile, is a comparative failure In fact, were ii
not for the absence at Brownsville, of the military
tyranny and almost insupportable taxation, which
prevail at Matamoras, there would be no town OF
any size at the former place, for years to come.
Matamoras, since the close of the war; in spite OF
Mexican laws and dominion, has continued to pros
per and increase. Was the State, in which it is
situate, under Constitutional government it
would soon be larger and of more commercial i'm
portance than Galveston.
Tamaulpas has also within its limits the town OF
Victoria, situated the Santander river, in fine
corn growing valley, and is pleasant thriving in
land town. The Santander is considerable stream,
running entirely across the State, through fertile
tract of country, and finally pours its clear and
limpd waters into the Mexican Gulf The San
Juan also flows across its Northern part and dis
charges itself into the Rio Grande near Camago.
The Bravo, for distance of one hundred and if
ty mile, forms its Northern boundary, consequent
y the State has, for this distance the western part
of the valley of this celebrated river. There is
this distinctive fact about this valley the part on
the western side is wider, richer and better adap-
ted to produce either corn, cotton, sugar, than
the part on the eastern. The country from Mat
amoras to Saltillo, a distance of two hundred
miles, is richer and better watered than that be-
tween the Rio Grande and the Nueces in Texas.
Every man who went to Mexico in the 1st or
End Mississippi Rife Regiments. is too thorough
ly acquainted with the general characteristics Of
the State of Nuevo Leona to render description
of it desirable to them. Through the whole length
of the State, flow the Sabinos and Salado rivers.
The valley of each is wide and fertile and are