Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-08

their es, only in virtue OF suossioh W INV
that the violation of physical law Is followed by Its
inevitable penaltythat man cannot put his handin-
to the fire without being burned, take poison with
out endangering destroying life but IN the world
of mind and morals we are infdels; conduct says
that there is no God, no Truth, Right, no Wrong,
no Principle, no Law. The point is, hoio shall we
manage, and not ehat is Truth We look at this pref
udce and that interest this difficulty and that danger,
this precedent, and that consequence. How shall
avoid giving offence How prevent that loss That
obstacle must be consulted-that danger is imminent
the ancents what say they !-or, the consequences
may be dreadful. All the while, forget to ask
whether there is right or wrong in the matter Or if
we do ask this question, it is only to determine
how far we may compromise with the one in disre-
gard of the other.
It is curious to notice what the two old parties are
about watch their devout and unctious efforts to
reorganze and harmonic their scattered and dsont
ed forces They are parallelng without much refer
ence to Principle and with regard alone to the naly
of the compromise. This ipality question dstracts
both sections The North opposed to slavery, desire
its limitation by Congressional legislation, and seek
through the agency the balot-box its ultimate ex-
tinction pursuing line of policy best calculated
to reach this without resortng the that
probable disruption of the Union. Who talks of the
finality of Austrian aggression of Hungary Of the
fnaGty OF the French usurpation OF the finalty of
English oppression fIreand Of the fnality of the
tyranny of Cuba? The blood of host of slain in the
cause of human freedom in Hungary cries to heaven
for the free sweep of the retrbutive sword The rights
of man demand the extrpation of the military oligar-
chy in France. The martyrs of the isle of Erin call
in tones of misery for naty to English oppression
The slaughtered names ofty ofthe soil of Amer
lea demand the extinction of the heartless tyranny in
Cuba. Is Wrong immortal and Oppression final
decree of Deity ! Is this the language Of Republican
America Rather is it not the hoarse and leprous
demand of the demagogue who, ride his little hour
of glory would barter his birhrigh and destroy the
social system and the institutions of the South The
''fnality of the compromise" What stupid folly
The South, shorn of her equality in the Union-ex-
patriated from any benefits in the settlement and
joyng in peace the fruits of her institutions in the ter
rtory with her blood and her treasure-meek and
unresisting she is called upon to bury her Wrongs,
hide her Inferorty and bazon her Disgrace and her
divisions to the world by subscribing to system of
measures by which she robbed, ''Finality .
If Presidential aspants and their toades succeed
in this unlettered folly and patch up compromise on
the finaty principle, shall have snug little cam
paign, full of novelties it will be false, hollow &
canting Principle, Truth Justice and the security of
the South will find no echo in the coming election
they elements nearly obsolete in politics.
| We now come to an important phase in this very
simple question of inay 1t is well to look at it in
philosophical point of view, and find the question
aptly put and SO admirable illustrated that we give
place to the following
! g Now, we wish to ask our Southern whig
friends, in spirit of candor, and in spirit OF
/ philosophy also, if there is any good reason to
suppose the wing party can be fused and made
one, upon this subject, such basis as this p
We admit the simplicity of the plan and it is
very easy for Mr. Kit" Williams and Mr. Hum
phrey Marshall, and Mr. E. Darlington Cabell,
ct id genus onane to insist that the wing party
cannot continue to endure upon any other basis
Nothing in the world is more easy But, looking
at the nature of the demand and of the plan,
under the light of the experience of the last ff-
teen years on this question of slavery and regar-
ding the ordinary laws of human action, we ask,
/ if it be probable that such settlement or adjust
ment, is likely to be ratified and sustained by the
Northern division of the wing party? The action
of given community sustaining given relations,
and furnishing given experience of many years
duration, is problem to be solved irrespective OF
all political and party considerations, and in this
case 1t does not seem to present any great Difficult
ties of solution. 1t can be solved as easy, in our
estimation, any can be done in the rule
of three. 1t seems to just plain as the
stars in the sky, or the on a mans face
If not greatly at faat the solution is equal
/ ly plain and palpable to every man of sense, no
matter where he halls from--whethel it be North
or South. It seems to us that the convictions Of
every sensible mans understanding, matter
what his works or his hopes, must be that the ex-
pectation is utterly faacious. This conclusion is
to be drawn from the very nature of the human
mind, our knowledge of the laws of its operation,
and our experience this subject in particular
Herein is to be found the basis of Mr.. Calhoun's
judgements on this question. The idea that q
i g Compromise, a vote of Congress on this
question, altered the real relation, or Judgment
or would influence the action of the Northern
mind in regard to it, transparent folly thai
his eagle glance always pierced in instant. Oh
green and verdant gentlemen of the House o.
Representatives !-ye who yainly fancy that car
rying the compromise measures through your il
; lustrious body is great political stroke, even
triumph over ever active principle in the hear
of man-it is time you were resolving that The
sun shall stand still on another Gideon 1t tim,
you erecting stage under the ends of the
rainbow in order to spike it to the sky. 1t i
time you had resolved that the ocean shall ceas,
to surge, the streams to fow or the season II
return. Vote winter to be eternal, that darkness
shall reign forever but dono such folly as vote tina
the human heart shall not throb in sympathy witt
the oppressed, and give voice to its sympathies-
: Vote not that the mental voliton of free peopl
shall be fettered and chained down vote not tina