Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-20
4'a ana STATE Rights Convention.

resolution after debate was stricken out and tie
following substituted. As we stated last week
We Ike the one stlicken out the best. AS we have
#consepted 10 acquesce. let rs do so Ike men, re-
serving neehing mentally bHs wa.ch the future y
/ Resoirsa That we adhere % the conviction that
he Compromise acts are unjust, unconstitutional
an dangerous to the South, and though we are
constrained, IN difference to the unanimous decs-
ION OF the southern States, not 10 urge secession
/ oa accoun. OF these measures we avow our readi-
ness at ali times and upon all occasions, to resist
lhem by any means that may promise to be effec-
tual
The abolition agitation, long continued in the
Northern States, and in Congress, and the recent
alarming increase of It's elements of power, result
ing from its virtual monopoly of a vast common
domain, n1pelllng US to organize in defence of the
great State Right to manage our house affairs free
from external force or interference, the Southern
Rights party Of Alabama announces as its creed
and course of action, these propositions and reso
lutions, to-wit
1. Resolped, That the inequality of different
races is an obvious fact.
2. Resoiged. That when two races Of marked
diversity, and great inequality are found in con-
nection, nature indicates and the good of both re-
quircs the ascendency OF the more Intellectual
. 3. ResolUed, That such ascendancy can be
maintained IN the South only by maintaining the
relation OF master and slaves.
4. ReSolred, That this relation promotes equal
ity among the free by dispensing with grades and
castes among them, and thereby preserve repub-
lican institutions it prevents the degradation of
the whites consequent upon equality, with an ne-
lior race, and affords the African his only Efficient
school Of progress and is a trust given Of prov
ideEce may not renounce.
5. ReSolDed, That every community, with adj
equaCe resources, and individualized by peculiar
has bX-r ipla
rent sovereign rightto dispose of its own domestic
affairs, free from any foreign or antsgonistc con-
troll.
g. Res02yed, That the separate individuality
and distinctive features of such community can be
presered only by its maintaining control of It's own
destinles and management OF It's own peculiar af-
fairs.
I Reso1ped, Thai incongruities offend nature
that antagonisms cannot prosper together, sew
eral systems of civilization co-exst under the same
government, unless the peculiar rights and distin
gushing qualities of each have secured them such
equal privilege and protection in the common ju-
risdction that the stronger system cannot override
the weaker.
g. ResoEpea, That when in confederacy Of
antagonistle systems community, thus individ-
ualzed, succunlbing to the preludices of another
and stronger system OF civilization, sacrifices these
principles 10 present case, temporizing expedi-
EMS, ana permanently acquiesce in the idea that
.hr ii crest. Institutions that distingush it, may
be pU ander The ban OF the confederacy, its indl-
, yaau+ty ana right of self government viii soon
decay, and It's people become tributary, atje-t ana
degraded
O. bsseirea, That. is pIainthe system ofeivil-
izstjon Obtaining in the North and in the South,
have throu,I agitation, become antagonistic and
at var wl.f each other; and, in every collision
heretofore ba.Reen ahetwo, the South has lost sub
sJan5ia yauzase -around, while it has gained only
.eaPola4yre spIe.
II. Eesolged, That all agitation is aggressive
and, with more or less steady pace must progress
from one conquest to another till finally eonsum
maled unless the agitation be utterly extingaish
ed, or the attacked. OF Withdrawn from from its
q control.
/ II. Resotued, That present indications are in
: accordance with these laws, and show that the
I truce is but temporary and that the of systems
q among US is not ended.
: 12 Resozued, therefore, That We, as Southern
. Rights men, believing system of civilizations
i is worth preserving, and believing it endangered
pledge ourselves never to sleep upon our posts, un
8 lil every token CT hostility disappears, or new
safa guards are provided for its protection.
I3 EeSoiged That the General Government is
confealfraey formed by separate, coequal, sover
= eign States, for certain common objocs specified
in the compact, and its original character can bt
i maintained only by its being administered a:
to vindcate and defend alike the distinctive inter
ests of all the parties.
. ID. ReSoiped, further, That we cherish The re
. served State Rights of selfgeverementin in matters
of internal policy, and the ight of secession fo
y its nfracton the great ark OF Southern safety
, to fee to- when the deluge OF fanateism and cen
) traliza;ion threatens to oyerwhelm US and reduce
all colors and races among to the level of
! common egradatlon.
: 15 I1esctged, That believing both the old Ma
? tiona parties are sensitive to the majority scnti
2 ment, and therefore in effect antagonstic to ou
:, sectional inaeresls We we preserve our separa
= organization and co0tesce with neither, but shat
; Leave ourselves free TO oppose both, or cooper0t
from time 20 time, with either, according as thei
doctrines may more or less coincide with our own
i 16. Resozped, That the people of tins, and o
i all the Southern States, having decided gainst
policy of secession account OF the passage OF th
z Compromise measures, the Southern Rights part
i of Alabama declines TO urge that issue-its aim
- to watch the future.
II. Resotued, That VT repudafe the idea ofin
> Etery1ning in European affairs, repugnant {
8 conservative policy, npractble, dangerous TO III
J. conlederaey aud fatal tothereserved rights of til
: States, ana liberties OF the people.
3 I8. Reso1aed The for a more perfect organi
Isl zation, and 10 consider our course in the comm
J. Presidential election is Is hereby recommended the
= s5o4.y snsoa ol tie soaahtrnaIsghts partysof til
SEsis .shis piece. a5sueh tine, as I'll
Central Talaiaissss, HEREINAFTER nasn.d, shat des
= fisIiate.
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