Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-01
Soule, Turney, Underwood, Upham, Walker, and

Soule, Turney, Underwood, Upham, Walker, and
Yulee-20.
1t will be seen that on this measure of the Com
promise, several Freesoiers voted in the negative
They were probably unwilling for the federal gov
ernment to engage in the slave trade by wholesale,
for IN purchasing large part of a slaveholdng
State, not only the territory, but the population
slaves masters and all were bought.
Thevote on this measure in the House was thus:
yeas-58 Democrats, 49 Wings nays-46 Dem
oerats, 81 Wings. OF the Southern States, ma
Jonty of the Democrats voted against it--an over
whelming majority two days before it passed. a
large majority one day before, and still major
ty the day ofits passage. So that this Democrat
c measure had most narrow escape from de-
feat from a decided majority of the Demo-
Gratis in the House, and was saved by an almost
equal division of the Wing vote, and one. nearly
equal of the Democrats. But majority of the
Southern Democracy continued recreant to the
last.
If we turn to the next great measure of the
Compromise, the abolition of the slave trade in
this District, we shall find indeed that majority
of the Democracy supported it, but alas the en-
tire body of Southern Democrats opposed it, Civ
ing As votes in opposition to 81 Northern Demo-
Gratis in favor, and the Wing party on this OCCASION
as on most of the other measures of the Compro-
for the Wings gave II votes for the law, and
only IA againstit
Thefugtiye slave law is the only one for which
majority of the Democrats, North and South
voted, viz 90 from the North, and 81 from the
although against that, there were nine
teen Northern Democratic votes given. When the
vote was taken in the Senate this measure,
than third of the Senators were absent, or did
not vote,
Nb,c will bo Of of 41,o vbo1o
of these measures, only two received majority of
the Democratic vote, and of these two, one of
them, the Texas and New Mexican bill received but
bare majority and obtained almost as many
Wing votes. AS for the other which received a
Democratic and Southern vote it is nufed. This
graat Democratic scheme of principles was erig-
nally proposed to the Senate by that great leader
of Democracy, Henry Clay, in pursuance of reso-
lutions and speech previously delivered by him
to that body, and when it went to Georgia, it was
sustained by the eloquent labors of those two emf
Enent Democrats, Stephens and Toombs, IN conjunc-
ton with the present Governor, and by the aid of
all the Whig papers in the State, except two, and
four-ffths of the Whg party against the opposition
OF all the Democratic papers, except one, and
the mass of the Democratic party. A similar
state of things in Mississippi and in Alabama.
In South Carolna-all Democratc--this great
Democratic achievement was unanimously de-
nounced and Democratic Virginia reelected to
CONGRESS-, every candidate who had opposed it.
And after all this, governor of Southern State,
goes to the Sachems, and Sagamores, and Braves
of the Tammany WI gwam and tells them, as if they
had been out on scalpping expedition all this
/ time, and had not seen,@or couldn't read the pa
pers that the Compromise is a great Democrat
ic exploit of constitutional principle And all this
done for the protuberant purpose not only of getting
admission into the Baltimore convention for the
governor and his party without those regular Gre
dentials from the Democracy of his own State
which they can never obtain, but also to make a
platform, to exclude the mass of the party in a
large number of Southern States, including Vir-
ginia. Well, as to the Baltimore convention, we
have so far but little confidence in it. We know
that a number of our Southern friends think that
by going into the convention, they can exert an
effectual and salutary influence on its proceedings
And for this opinion there is some foundation
For, although the South is no stronger in the con
vention, than in Congress, in fact strong as
in the two Houses of Congress, yet the Demo
cratic party of the country is less hostile to ths
South than the Wings, for larger proportion o
the Democratic vote is in the South. Yet as the
great body of the Northern Democrats are for the
Compromise, and the rest are Freesollers, thu
Compromise will be regarded in that body as
concession to the South And as the Northern
portion of the party in Congress was ready to dis
regard the Constitution and rights of the Soutl
for popu arty at home, SO in the convention the1
will disregard the party usages in the admission o
members from the Southern States, and will GER
tainly fraternze with Southern compromisers il
D the platform and the nomination. And thus th
e men who oppose the compromise as citizens of th
South, will be required to support it as Democrats
1t is true that two-thr6s vote is required fo
n nomination. but majority can pass resolutions
And in opinion whoever gets the majority 70
e the nomination will secure two-thirds. The spiri
of party, the chance for spos, the desire tor vic
: tory, will dissolve a minority. The majority ca
c persist on its fayorte and throw the responsibility
, of division on the minority,-and the weak, tn
timid and infrm of the latter will desert and SUI
. render. The defeat Of the majority as in the cas-
y of Mr.. Van Buren in 1874, cannot be easily re
;, peated--and if it could be, that majority woul
r again. as then, select one of their own men-bu
! the majority were in that case much disappont
ed in the result that they will not be SO willing
n take another such risk.
5.
Is Gems Of Thought.
W The mind may be overburdened; like the body
a it is strengthened more by the warmth Of exercl;
7. than of clothes
J. Uneasy and ambitious gentility is always spur
OF Gus gentility. The garment which one has Ion
m worn never sits uncomfortable
y He that blows the Goals in quarrels he has notl
e ing to do with, has no right to complain if spa
ne hy in his face.