Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-27
From. the Montgomery advertiser.

In looking over your journal of this week, you
have inserted an editorial from the "W ashington
Union, = headed ssThe State of Parties in the
South, in which are statements and assertions,
that l feel bound to notice. 1t may not be neces-
sary to inform you that tshuzzad " for Gen. |
Jackson in 1926, being too young to vote, that |
supported with all my might and energy, his cleo
ton in 828, and in 1889, event 1t strong" for
Matty in 1886, as the regular democratic nominee,
and in $40 did the same In 1914, if any man
in this Union fired more guns, and barnt as much
powder for the election of James K. Polk, should
be pleased to form his acquaintance. 1848,
with reluctance, extreme reluctance did support
Cass-(fo was just as sure then as afferwdrds,
that Gen. Taylor was rotten to the core on South
ern alias Constitutional rights) Now, sir, my
showing [ am confident will compare with Major
Donelson, any other democrat-but to the
t Union article.'' Messrrs. Cobb, Foote, Glenn
ems and others, are still denounced as deserters
from the democratic party, (saye the mark D.
Whilst the friends of these distinguished men are
not loath in throwing back on their aecusers 1--WE
have the proof of their treachery) terms equally
severe and fatal to that cooperation and harmony,
which are essential to the success of the demo-
cratic party Again: g 1t is duty to warn
our friends against the dangers of such eXtraEa-
gance and to remind them that the time as at hand
when such feelings are more productive of evil,
than would be the avowed deserton of the parties
to the ranks of our common enemy, there it Is !!
Let me ask acho, or what party at the South, last
year. received the support of the {. Union news
papers ?" Was it the whig or democrat? Every
man well knows that the democrats defeated
throughout the length and bredth of the entire
South, and what influence mainly contributed to
our defeat, and the success of whig, alias Union
party? Answer: The Union newspapers, aid
ed by few traitorous democrats with the whig or
federal party, presenting an almost unbroken front
Now when Tie spo1Ls are a. sa,e, he : @.
prates loudly of 6 compromise, concession, har-
nony, reunion, and above all, grossly insults, .
ladding insult to positive injury. every Southern
democrat by limiting at the probability of our
Joining the common enemy" We commend
he poisoned chace to his own lips, and wish him
distinctly to understand, that if he joined the
, common enemy" for filthy lucre sake (the
Census printing as report says) that the Southern
democracy are Just as far above following his ex-
ample, as for him ever to be the central organ
: If the democracy of this glorious confederacy-
snd we give him now the following hint, achenever
We need his advce, we will ask it, in relation te
: rr duty as politicians SOUTHERN RIGHTS.
! CfNEAs, rHE EPrRoTE.-The allusion of NJ
f Kossuth, in his speech Of Wednesday evening, tc
6 Gineas the Epirote, required some of his hearers
to turn to their classical dictionaries. There they
! learn that Cneas was Thessaian, the friend anC
! the most eloquent man of his day, and reminded
: his hearers of Demosthenes, whom he had hearc
speak in his youth. Pyrrhus was wont to sa.
that stthat the words of Cineas had won him mort
: cities than his own arms After the battle of He
racles he was sent on an embassy to Rome will
= proposals of peace from Pyrrhus and such wa
( ais wonderful memory, that we are told) on tn
day after his arrival he able to address all h
! senators and knights by name. The terms he of
fered, were that all the Greeks in Italy should b
= left free, and that the Italian nations, from Sam
" MUM downwards, should receive back all they hat
l. forfeited to Rome. Hard were these conditions
81 such were the necessities Of Rome and the persua
- siveness of Cineas that the Senate would probab
- have yielded if the scale had not been turned b
y the dying eloquence of old Appius Claudius.-
The ambassador returned and told the king tha
! there was no people like the Romans-thot tier
= city aUas temple, their Senate an assembly Q
Kings.
d The felicity of the orators allusion is not i'm
r paired by the indirect and unintended complimen
# to himself; for we do not believe that Cineas, wit
V all his persuasi7eness, argued his cause more eo
4 quently before the Roman Senate than NJ. Kossut
>, before the American Congress- - Washington Re
o. pablo.
: New MARRIAGE CEREMoNY.-Not long since
= marriage ceremony took place in Skeaneateles, i
New York rather out of the ordinary line, bu
o ct;lI nprfectlv Local The parties were Mr. Sam