Southern standard., 1852-01-31

ton was entitled to respect from the press of
the State than itreceived and those who pay
ing the penalty of their folly snarl at because
have refused to follow after their blind lead again.
We shall stand fast. But read the following, it is
conceived in the right spirit.
| The Democrat Platform.
Once more the banner of Democracy floats
proudly from the outer political wall 1t bears
the marks of the battle and the storm but its lea
ding truths are yet legible upon its folds ''The
greatest good Of the greatest number under the
limitations of written Constitution. - State
Sovereignty State Rights and the rights of the
people. +" The result of the deliberations of the
late Convention held on the 8th is now before the
country for the carpings of the unfair and disin-
genious, and the candid criticism of the generous
and patriotic. The result was not attained with
out those mental collisions which mark the assem-
bly, Of feemen. We would wish never to see, it
otherwise when Democrats meet in council. The
mountain torrent brawls while it sparkles, demo
ting at once its difficulties and its triumphs Such
is liberty The standing pool is calm but the
dwelling place Of reptiles. Such is despotsm.-
May the day never arrive in free America when
the brethren Of the fierce democracy may not
| think what they please and with due Difference
to the rights and feelings Of others) speak what
they think
/ We should like to have peep at the resolutions
which we learn from the Journal Of the Conven-
ton, were offered by Messrs. Parks, Handy,
| Whitfield, Humphrey and Hooker, doubtless
many of them correspond with those adopted by
the Democratic primary meetings in LoWndes, Ok
tibbeha and Madison-adyocating the necessity of
addinga new plank to the platform of the Nation
al Convention of 1913; defining in language more
distinct than heretofore the rights of the States and
of the South. Those who are for this course con-
sttute class too respectable to be rdiculed, and
too talanted to be froWned down, besides being
aided by the ablest press in the State-the South
erB Standard. Who does not sympathize with
men ready to stake their all for principle? Who
ike the sailors board of the French frigate
when sunk by British II, went down with all
sails set and their gallant flag streaming, waving
their caps and shouting long lige tie Republic !
But sublimity is not always safety nor the path to
glory the path of usefulness. The late Conven-
ton at Jackson met amidst acknowledged difficult
ties. 1t embodied the generous emotions of a
great reaction the scattered fragments of rout-
ed army, yeaTning for fraternization and reunion
determined to cast upon each other no reproaches
for the past, but to form into line and to present
/ for the future an unbroken phalanx to the foe
Those who will take the trouble to read the able
and patriotic speech of Col. Davis delivered in
the Convention, and which we publish to-day, will
be able to understand and appreciate the trying
position in which the Convention found itself
placed. At the same time they will have mu4I
greater gratifcation-they who admire him--to
find that speech that he has not lowered his flag
one inch, nor swerved the hair breadth of an iota
from that faith of Democratic State Rights, which
in clarion notes he has heralded to his country
men, and in honor of which he sacrificed princely
fortune and station. To the calm rejecting mind
! the following sentence of the speech speaks vol
umes; it bespeaks we fear southern helplessness,
and the conviction in the minds of Southern States
men that the foundation of our hopes for the fu-
ture is secondary, resting rather upon the co-ope-
ration of others upon their own terms, than the
possibility of compelling them by any moral
or political power that we possess-to acknowledge
eUeR the true theory of the Government.
s'There was not such unanimity among South
ern men would give moral power to sectional
minority; and the history of the Democratic par
ty, from the first struggle between State Rights
and the spirit of Consolidation, pointed to it as
the source from which our best, if not only
hope, must be drawn
/. Notwithstanding all this we could have wished
that the Convention had declared that no State
taking its stand as final resort against oppression
could be coerced by the arms of the federal gov
eminent
e. That the citizens of State Withdrawing
from the Union could not commit treason against
the United States, by obeying the mandate O
their State.
8. That the citizens of each State were entitled
to emgrate to the territories of the United States
with the property recognized in the State from
which they emigrated and that Congress had nc
power to prevent such emigration.
4. That Congress have no power to exclude
slavery from any of its public places in the slave
holding States or to prohibit the Importation o
slaves from one slaveholding State to another.
5. That no State can be refused admission int
+ the Union because its constitution recognize
slavery.
{ Something like this for these views are hasti
ly sketched) we could wish had been presented by
the late Democratic Convention, part of GU
| political faith, and urged upon our delegates, b,
instructions to support it at Baltimore for ncorpo
/ ration there. At the same time we say coult
have wished that ths-and had we been of tn
s Convention would have urged this course as
: matter Of right, and from sense Of duty, yet W
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