Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-20

each House, instructin9 the joint Committee on
Printing to contract with Messrs. Donelson d. Arm
strong, proprietors of the Union newspaper, to
print the returns of the last census This is job
of great magnitude, the cost of which is estimated
at about six hundred thousand dollars. and the
profits of which will probabably exceed one hun
dred thousand. The motives and objects of giving
it to the Washington Unionsdeserye consideration.
The joint Committee on Printing consists of the
of the following members
Messrs BoRLAND,
HAMLIN, Senate.
SMITH,
Messrs. GoRMAN,
HAVEN, House.
STANTON,
Messrs. Hamlin and Smith, of the Senate are
Free -soils h-one of each of the pares--W hlg
and Democratic Compromisers--and these make
majority of the committee. Is this combination
of Free sellers and Compromises to give the
greatest and latest job of the session the Union
So it would appear. But how is it that Mr.. Smith,
Wing, goes for the Union Why, we are in
formed, advised, that there indications that the
Repu6tac Is second party to this arrangement,
and is to have share of the work or of the prof
It's This, however, is an interference with pre-
tension of the Administrator to the control of this
job through the Census Bureau-and hence there
is some f1uttering, and hence Mr.. Smith, on So
Der second thought, speaks against the resolution
after it is offered Mr.. Borland, however, is I'M
derstood to be one of the acquiescing Democrats
in the Compromise, and in favor of the reunion
of the Democratic party on that basis.
Now the cost of patriotism and of Unionism is
becoming too great in this country 1t will bank
rupt the government, and even the wealth of the
South. That section was required to pay the half
OF ten millions for her own spoatou in Texas
alone, by the last Congress, and the government
was called on by the last proprietor of the Union
to pay him an extra allowance of a hundred and
fifty thousand dollars or SO, for advocating sub
mission and denouncing its opponents and now
the present proprietors of the Union demand about
the same for preaching acquesence and reunion
and for counting and scolding by turns the Free
soil and the Southern Democrats, and the Union
Wings. The present propretors of the Union,
however, are better traders than the last He
worked through long session, and much hot
weather, and then demanded his money. The
present parties have only been few months at
work, and demand money in advance-the full
amount.
The pay of Democratic organ is now sort
of settled amount 1t is about one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. The proprietors of the
Globe received that on the census of 1840-the
last proprietor demands it for the labor of 1850
the present. for the next Presidential election.
Now are a little curious to see how the pro-
posed arrangement can be made. We shall look
with some interest at the number of Wing votes
the Republic will be able to put in per agreement.
And above all, we are curious to see whether
there is one Southern Democrat, one of the men
who opposed the Compromise and advocated the
right of secession, who will vote to reward the
Union newspaper for advocating the doctrine of
hanging hina-in case his State called on him to
defend her rights and he was true to his allegi-
ance.
Southern members have voted for the dsmem
bernltnt of their section and voted enor-
nous out of the pockets of their own constit-
uents to pay of their own States TO sell out
ereignty, population and power to the North. They
have voted to pay the editor of the Union an ex-
ira allowance as the reward, we presume. for de-
nounced them as dishonest or insane BuC
these exploits in voting will be far outdone by the
vote to establish and aggrandize paper thai adj
vocates the constitutionality of hanging them for
obedience to the laws of their own own States.
The naughty and clamorous Abolitionsts and
Northerners have heretofore accused the South of
pride and of bullying. She is the most meek and
forgiving of all Christian people. She loves her
enemies, and does good to those that despitefully
use her and prosecute her. If her cloak is taken
away she gives her coat also.
But there is no scriptural authority for conced-
ing monopoly of our love to our enemies. There
friends. We propose, therefore, that the South
ern Press shall have some of the census printing.
But we not exclusive. We propose that it be
fairly divided among the different papers of this
city of large circulation without reference to party
There is great reason for this arrangement
The census tables can be inserted from. time to
time in these papers, and thus attain circulation
among the people of vast extent, beyond that of
the entire census volumes. And we desire it to
be explicitly understood, that we want the Nation
al Era included in this plan. We want the facts
of the census to go out the readers of that pa
per in its columns, and crush its theories of South
ern poverty, misery and decline. Let all the lead
ing papers of this city be eligible to share of the
contract, on giving just security and let them
have "a fair compensation. And let this thing be
done openly-and don't let reunion Democrats
and Freesoilers, and Wings and above all, South
ern Rights men, be seen seen voting together, to
give fat job to the organs of the Democracy and
of the Administration, on secret bargain.
We know the editor of the Union is a hard case
To say nothing of his compensation as private Sec
rotary of General Jackson, he has received only
nine thousand dollars salary and outfit as Charge
10 Texas. only eighteen thousand dollars salary
and outfit to one court in Germany, and only eigh-
teen thousand more for changing his residence to
| another-only forty-fve thousand dollars in few
years out of the public crib, and when he beholds
| the former proprietors ofthe Globe pocketing a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars for the last
census job, and the late proprietor of the Union
dem anding the same allowance for the Compro-
mise job how can he avoid a feeling of virtuous
Indignation, that he, amenbero of the original po-
litIcal family of Van Buren, Blair, Benton & Co.,
should be put off thus far with pitiful forty five
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