Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-04-10
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canism, that the general government would over
shadow, and ultimately destroy, the sovereignty
of the States. The federal party, on the other
hand captivated with the idea OF great central
power, predicted most danger from what was cal
led the centrifugal force of the confederacy-thals
the tendency to ACKNOWLEDGMENT by the encroach-
ment of State authority. The lapse of half cen
fury has verified the spprehensions of the republl
can or State rights party
Geologans say that the earth in Its creation was
a fluid body and that in its revolution upon Its
| axis there was constant tendency to an agglom-
Grafton ofits particles about its centre, by means
of which, in process of time, it gradually
compacted until it assumed its present form and
tenacity. So IN the operation of our government
1 when established, there fewer cohesive ele-
ments in its nature, but by the gradual accumu-
lion of power, it has, in comparatively bret nat
ural existence, become in all but its name, cen
tralism instead of contederacy. The Constltu-
ton which was designed by its trainers as a meas
ure of the power ceded by the States to the Cen
eral Government, has been converted into mere
outline of restrictions upon the States themselves
Politicians consult its provisions to assertion
not what the general government may do, but
what the States may not do Men gravely argue
that there are no such things State Rights, be;
cause they cannot be found in the Constitution !;
and very sagely contend for the constltutlonallty
at an act of the general government, because the
of Congress in the premises cannot be cited The
Etay was when federalism condescended to attempt
to show the grant of right in that instrument be-
fore it sought to exercise it, now, torsooth, the
onus shifted and if asked for its authority to do
certain thing, it triumphantly defes opposition to
show wherein the Constitution gainsays the right
The acquisition of power in the general gov
, eminent has been gradual-so gradual, indeed, as
to be almost imperceptible The exactlons of fed
, have so
practical importance, that those who have opposed
its movements have been ridiculed hair sptters,
cavilers, and abstractionsts By degrees the
| people have been accustomed to the exercise of
undelegated authority, until they have ceased to
measure the power of Congress by the great char
ter of It's powers substituting 1t for the uncertain
and constantly changing test of precedent. Thus
trfng usurpatlons in the aggregate constitute op-
preston. Each grain of sand of which the Islands
: of the made, is by itself tr1e, aud yet
r these grains of sand make the island. Congress
[ appropriates few thousand dollars to fit out a
ship to send the frozen regions in search of Sir
John Franklin, and no objection is made. In a
short time another appropriation is made for send
f ing after Louis kossuth, and if opposition is
2 pressed humph is the reply if 1t was right to
spend money hunting Sir John, it certainly is not
wrong to send after Governor Louis. And so we
go; transgression of the line of right furnishes
precedent for another and these two for another,
=
that the national Legislature can furnish prece-
dent for doing a thousand things not one of which
e can be sustained by the Constitution. One Of the
n widest progressionts of the day has actually in
troduceda bill into Congress to give every in
S the Union home another has proposed to do
nate the public to the states for the erection
n OF the insane asyums and still another propos-
= es to establish national farm and workshop at
: Washington. The Conscientious representative
!, who has the honesty to oppose these insdious ag
gresslons, is ridicued crazy theorst, and jeer
ed with the taunt of fitting against windmills. And
e yet these things, trifing though they appear, are
but different exhibitions of precisely the prn
ciple SThlch would plumber one half of the country
for the eme2nent of the other, and bankrupt the
f treasury with lavish expenditures for the purposes
of internal improvement. They are all the fruits
of federalism all indications of the Capitalization
of the government
At TINS point, more than from all the secession
lists and nuifers in the country is republicanisin
in danger. The doctrine of State sovereignty in
stead of being an element of dlsunion and discord
is the only hope of the Union upou terms of equal
ity and honor A confederacy only be main
tanned in its purity by jealous watchfuness over
the rights of its members No individual State
no particular section, is interested in this doctrine
If each rec Jgnises and each defends it, the Con-
stitution and the Union may-nay, must stand
If it is discarded, the Union may survive the Con-
stitution through few years, but or later
lit must share its destruction Columbus Ca Sen
ItineL.
Col. Wilcox's speech-''his great maiden effort
lis now before US, and of the most extraor-
binary things Of the kind we have ever seen. As
to the ''knd" however, shall not speak at pre-
sent. Though it comes apparently revised and
re revised under the frank too of Union member
: from this State, the Hon. John D. Freeman, we
do not intend to regard it genuine till the In
dependent the Colonels home organ-thot has
Fillmore at the head Of its cotumns-shall repub-
fish it, as he says he will, and drive from us ev-
cry possible doubt forced to entertain
True, can hardly see how there could be de-
I ception connected with it, franked it is, and
, bearing the imprint of the Globe office, saying
nothing of the Wilcoxism that s'sticks out Foote
SO palpaby and Enthusiastically in the character of
its diction and general style. The extraordinary
assertions, it is, which make us distrust the genu
ineness of the document When, however, our
neighbor places it, cathedra, before our commu-
nifty, it will then be public property, and with the
same freedom then, with which its most extraordi-
nary assertions and allegations were made, we
i shall endeavor to answer them.-Monroe Demo
crat.
LOVING AND LIKING-That women were s.born
to love- is certain that Gen. Jackson was
'.born to command, " or that everybody was '.born
to die" Their very dialect shows the strength of
G this proclivty They use the word to indicate any
: sort of affection, passion, penchant Appetite or
fancy" They Glove" their lovers and their
husbands, fine dresses and fine dinners sweetmeats
: and ''sweet rbbon,' with apparently the same