Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-10-02

cannot be named that he will get the bets to be
taken. altogether as one cut.
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Eg One of the Anti Slavery papers holds the
following language in reply TO the Washington
Union. The editor is bitterly opposed to Pierce
and King:
We are determined fully to expose the outrage
GUS Justification of the relative positions of the
Slave Power and its organized opponents, SO COM
mon in the columns of the Union and its affiliated
prints We seek no alliance with Federalism-we
abhor it but we do seek to break up the league
formed between Federalism and Slavery Fanati-
cism Slavery, we assert, is a system, existing
only under State authority, within State jurisdic
ton, in virtue of State laws. The Federal Con-
stituon carefully excludes the idea of property in
human beings; and contains no grant of power to
the Federal Government to create, recognise,
sustain, or to legislate in behalf of Slavery. The
laws surtaining it in the District of Columbia reg
ulating the coastwise slave trade, and making
provisions for the reclamation of fugitive slaves,
find no warrant in the Constitution, and are the
offspring of the league between Slavery and Fed
Ierasm. For the same reason, if there be Slavery
in New Mexico and Utah, it is in violation of the
Constitution We seek to denationalize Slavery
to decentralize ito divorce the Federal Gov
ernment Totally from its support-to turn itover
within the exclusive Jurisdiction of the Federal
Consultations the Law of personal Freedom. The
accomplishment of this work will be the triumph
of the Democratic idea and of the doctrine of
Estate Rights over Federalism.
1t is useless to keep up the game of misrepre
sentation-to continue to impute to secret pur
Epose to use the Supreme Judiciary or the Federal
Government to abolish Slavery in the States-
People are every day becoming convinced of the
charge. 1t is one thing to relieve the Nation or
Union from the responsibility of maintaining Sla-
very and quite another to impose on it the respon
Esibility of abolishing Slavery in the States. The
duty the latter is not constitutional, not legit-
mate, not a duty. The. States in which Slavery
exists must determine each for itself how to rid it
selfof the evil under its responsibilities to God
and to- that Public Opinion from whose imperious
demands neither the Despotism Of the Throne nor
that of plantation can release itself
Rs- The Washington correspondent Of the
Charleston Is. c. J Mercury. says:s
Websteris willing to be used this way to foil
and Illustrate those who have wounded him, to the
quick. He looks very badly, and seems to be
breaking fast. He probably will not linger long
after his great compeers who have recently passed
away and an almost prophetic sadness seems
upon ShdI6Il1 p6llnS
len gloom. It's a striking commentary on the
end of ambition, and the emptiness of its rewards,
to mark the last hours of these Intellectual gladia
tors Calhoun, with his ebbing breath, sadly
and sterny prophesyng the failure of his great eff
forts to avert coming evils from the land he loved
Clay, in his sick chamber, startled from the con-
temptation Of his approaching change from time to
eternity, by the, shouts ratfyng the nomination of
the victorious chieftan, whose last triumph was
Eoverhim and his Will ; and now Webster, like q
Gagged eagle, fretng away his few remaining hours
in indignant silence, and passing down to the land
kof shadows with a. blacker shadow on his proud
soul, and a sforeof bitter memories irradated
with no hope, For welldoes Webster know that.
unlike his greatcompeers, he has touched only the
Nations pride and its intellect-neyer its heart:
Few indeed are those who will mourn for Daniel
/ Webster the man, ! while many wept fof Calhoun
. and Olay-though all must acknowledge. that a
mighty spirit will be eclipsed, when the passing
bel shall toll the requiem of that unquiet heart