Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-05-15


any qualification goes far ever have our posi-
ton precisely and we are free to say is all that the
most ultra have ever contended for. We give the
article entire, avoid the charge garbng, and the
reader will note the sentence TO which we refer
From tie Washington Union.
The Southern Rights Convention.
The Montgomery Advertiser d Gazette CON
tans an account of tie edings of the above
Convention, which assembled at Montgomery on
the 4th inst We extract some of the resolutions
for the information of readers. 1t will be seen
| that they keep up an organization distinct from
that of the democratic and whg parties, and pro-
pose southern convention, with the view of de-
iermning what course shall be taken in reference
to the next presidential election and other matters
of Importance.
In respect to the causes which are assigned for
this sectional organization. it may be confidently
anticipated that they will gradually be merged in
to the practical tests which will be involved
in the ensuing presidential election. The geger-
al propositions that the STATES formed the fed
eTal government a. equal S0VegeigEtieS. and
that the compact which they C4eated mut be
IA! hfaily executed Wi!hggt violating any Of
The distinctive ard reserved rights and inter-
es!S Of tie parties. and that the remedy of
secession. for in!0lera lie oppression belong
10 ali the parties as Natural and inalien-
able right, il denied by no COED ard true
democrat. With this fact before the people OF
Alabama, We doubt not that they will come TO the
conclusion, which is so universal elsewhere that
it is best to rely as in times Of old, on the action
of the national democracy for the correct admins
tration of the federal government, and for the
maintenance of those checks and balances which
are essential to the preservation of State rights
In 1900, in 1909, in 1912 and in the eventful
struggles of Gen. jackson administration, il was
the democratic party which checked the spirit of
innovation your system, arrested the progress
of consolidation, and saved the Union. without
trenching upon the jurisdiction of the States
/ Why should this party be less powerful than
then? Why should the people of the South be
less ready to cooperate with their brethren north
of Mason and Dixons line, particularly when all
/ the signs of the times indicate a great unanimity
of sentiment in favor of those old doctrines which
have so often proved their efficacy in securing JUS
tice to all parts of our confederaey.
The remedy ofsecession, says the Union, "or in
tolerable oppression belongs all the parties nat
ura and inaenable right, is denied by no good and
true democrat We have always said tits true as
contend But, it may be argued, what constitutes
and who is to Judge OF the existence of the 'intoera-
bic oppression That question the Union answers
in the sentences by asserting that the Estates
formed the Federal government (mind) as equal
ereignties and hence, each State has retained the
equal right Judge for itself of the 'nolerabe OPP
preston without let or interference by the Others
else she is not equal, for admit that another has the
right to interfere. destroys once the admitted equal
5y Of the parties to tie compact and ends in making the
federal, Consolidated Government leaving the claim
ed right ofseceson right all, except be exer-
csedwith and by the consent of the other States. This
proposition too evident to require Illus ration-we
leave it to the reader.
But says the Union "no good and true democrat de-
MES the remedy of secession for ntolerabe oppress-
ion" What sentence of condemnation this is-it
knocks Col Jno. I. Conne, our old contemporary, H
H. Worthington, ofthe Democrat, into the ranks of
Federalism But we think We hear our old friends
say we hold to the Right Of Revolution, Wonderful
right, that A right without remedy unless there is
behind it brute force, physical strength enough to
sustain it. This is right at all it is an adroit shift
to escape the development and full exercise of the true
Democratic Republican Principle, and when we hear
an intelligent man run to the Right of Revolution and
claim to be Democrac,we are remndedtha asses de-
light and luxurate in patch of thstles than in
beautiful clover field 8