Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-12-04

crat;cnarty we answer, No The issue of 1851, Ii
has been adiustedboth parties aequiescedin that ad
,,sent and we challenge opposition to point to the
instance Of lack of adherence to the adjustment on
the part Of the States Rightsmer Itcannot be found
in our opinion. It viii not be found. The States
Rights party will adhere nfexiby to the decision of
the November Convention of 1861 and they will
attempt to appeal to popular agitation in order to set
the action of that Convention aside. It would be
gross breach of party justice for the minority at
tempt to open the Issue OF Resistance to those Meas
ures again. The same may be said of the majority,
and we of the opinion, that organized attempt
will be made. Shouldit, we have an abiding conf
dence in the integrity of the people, and believe that
they would rise in their majesty and crush those who
have the hardihood to make the attempt.
The Democratic party cGme together last January
in State Convention The old platform of party was
adopted, and the party went into the Presidential con-
test as aunite, and the result is knownwe ere yicto-
rous. 1t will ever be thus, when we are united.
Which is the path of duty then Should we pur-
sure that path which leads to union concord and sue
cess shall we pursue that which will lead to
discord, division and defeat We have no sympathy
with those who aspire to rule at the sacrifice Of
our principles. Success is aim, we are proud to
proclaim it, but it must not be purchased by the sale of
our independence nor by the barter of our principles
The man who makes up his with the open and
aVowed purpose of dividing the party he claims to be-
long to- and appeals the opposition for support an
nouncing that his is dearer to him. than the
of his party deserves the fate of the political
demagogue and the private political trckster. Those
desperate characters in politics. who have exhausted
every art and at last willing to seek shelter under
tco bolfo bo1f
of another party prove by this very project that they
are unworthy of confidence, for the reason that the
party to which they claim to belong casts them off as
unworthy. 1t is true, that treason sometimes COM
mends the traitor to the opposition but no opposition
ever cherished for the traitor esteem respect and
also true, that the opposition in the end have found
to its cost that coalitions while they may succeed,
not alone troublesome, but that it most efectuay
disorganzes party, begets apathy among its tuest
men IN this, that it puts in the lead who in
way identified with them in principle, and who seek
their aid not to advance their principles, but only fol
purposes of personal ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Such is the re-
suit ofcoalitions. Our State presents strange
type just The ePhemeral issue which broke VI
# parties among US, has ceased and now we see thu
dsafected those who know they are down from tn,
accumulated tergiversatons politically hanging
them and who know that their sole hope is in Goa
ton, are already appealing to former success as an in
IF centve for continuance of the connexion are in
Vokng spirit of dscord and endeavorng to warm
old personal hostilities. Not satisfied with the wa
the wing party is disposed to actat least that porto
L who pride themselves upon the purity of the
ie principles than love of power where those principle
the saerice-these desperate characters are no,
- engaged in Shaping the wing party in the face pull
IL ing its and tweakng its nose. Let the INTEL
10 gent wing, the true wing and the gentleman, read til
letter of Gov Foote, addressed to T. Palmer the ed
nd tor the Jackson Flag, for explanation of the
it bove figures.
n What has the wing party, as party, to gain by
es coalition! fit yields the first place in the State
I'M recreant democrat, and obtains for sefbut mini
teral Office or two, it has made no progress TOWARD
lu- the advancement of its principles. All coalition
as founded upon personal aggrandzement are from
ne very nature of things eyanescent and no party
the record of man was first kept has come out of the
without being shorn of its moral influence and its sc
respect. Coalitions brought together upon question
of emergency for the purpose of checking the arr
gance of pary for the purpose of arresng the pr
y gress ofincendary and heretca doctrines or, for Il
i purpose of erecting new and valuable systems,
hin readng down oppression and tyranny are common
it able But coalition that pretends to look not
ary yond the elevation OF man. the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
ap an Individual can only commend tselfo passions tn
are mean in their nature, and craven in their origin
1t has been asserted that the States Right party
la tended to place the seal of osracisn upon the brow
fer those Democrats who aided what was called the u
ion party lastyear. That individuals in the Stat
let Rights party may have sad or even so felt und
inc the smarting of defeat probably true But no pit
the ty responsible for the individual opinions or expires
the ions of its members Party be Judged by its ac
ok 1t must be weighed by the evidence it furnishes
of world, through its authorized channels of commune
Bit ton. Party can be judgedin no other way. Let
Re see then, what truth there in the charged intend
pm ostracsm of Union democrats by the States RigE
pie. democracy.
to The elections of September and November Is!
led were over and almost before the official vote of
mt State known, two calls were made for the Uni
yed democrats and the States Rights democrats to me
lay, in convention. The Union democrats were to me
on the 9Th and the States Rights democrats on the
OfJanuary 1852 at the capitol. Both .rties did me
far as indicated. What was the result The Stat
ow Rights democrats passed resolutions, selected de
ord gates to the Baltimore convention drawn ndiscrr
au- nately from the Union wing from the States Rgl
the wing, and finally selected two Union democrats
uns Electors at large for the State This all happened
open day, before it was known what the Union wi
it of the democratic party would do This really loo
ven but little like ostracism. But the Speaker of
co. House of Representatives is Union democrat and