Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1852-03-06

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sealed shibboleth of all the factions, and that the ehd
was not now-but that cajoery, deception ana iraud
were their weapons, and that future utilization with
them except upon the principle OF armed heulraisy'
would he dangerous because home treason, headed by
Foote had bartered the substance not ohy o. te
chile Of eouilibrium in the government for which we
had for wears contended, but the right OF equa
in the soil of the territory for which southern
was poured out like water, and Southern treasure was
literally expended. We said this. Did the Oi"i ION
saw less If it did, it derelet in It's duty 10 lhe
people And now if it says that any change oey Gnu
that which sordid ambition and base corruption uo-
tates has passed over the Northern mind, permanently
useful or advantageous the South or her lnsutuhohS
if saws it from records it has not been our fortune to
SOC tpossesses such information let it be Produc-
ed. But in the meantime, presumng that II. is more
ready to aid than restrain reunion with those II may
have heretofore denounced ask it in what IT'S con
sistency consists, and tits, or is not aiding TO DE
ceve' either the people, or-tsef. 1t cannot raise
dust over its head, either by stamping or believing
Democracy Democracy ! Democracy !! with the
least hope of deceving US.
9th trThe voice of our State has spoken against
the exercise ofthe extreme right of secession, as rem
edy for grievances acknowledged to have been nct-
ed" says the Clarion This sentence covers grevous
wrong perperated by its author upon the Democratic
or State Rights party. IF the State has decided not
TO exercise the extreme remedy of secession for past
aggressions it follows that that remedy proclaimed
as the remedy for those wrongs by the party which pro-
posed redress for their infection Now we undertake
to say that this is not in accordance with the history
of that party and we have very dstinctrecoection
of he
ton of 1851, that secession was not the remedy and it
was so announced only by Foote, and his followers,
and it is well known that Davis, Quitman, and all Of
public speakers, together with the press Pronounc-
ed the allegation manufactured fasehood Thatths
version should be revamped in such form is strange
still it is
The Clarion informs us that it has no desire to ar
que abstract principles ike theoretical Columbus
contemporary The world has lost much valuable
information no doubt by the Claron's want Of desire
to argue anything: but what the world has thus lost
the party has gained, because they who argue with
brick in their hat are too liable to conound argument
with falacy and nonsense with the ''practcal." And
this reminds u.s. that the Clarion says it "cones
once to the PRACTICAL and it goes into the "susten-
sion fthat noble party which has aioayS, anatjoa
al organization done Justice the South, and adhered
to the Constitutional compact This as practcal-it
is fellow shipping with those we have denounced aste
robbers in order it is presumed to be plundered again
at some future day. and this is dnbbed 'Practica Sc
it is, but it looks very Ike begging people to eat of ou
meat to drink of our beer and grow fat at our expense
with the further mutual practica understanding thai
our neghbors shall appropriate all the territory ac
CURED by joint effort Of blood and money to their OWL
separate use and if squabbe should grow up about
the ownership, to permit ourselves taNedto pay
for territory have acquired, and then retain NJ
practical title to the benefits of enjoying it. As its
practical world, it is hoped that when we emerge
from the mist that such practical philosophers he o
the Clarion throw around u.s. that shall begin to ap
preeiate the principles which guide and control ON
Northern neighbors Why, it is VIGOROUSLY 'practi
caI' philosophy which governs them they go the
settled maxim, that not one shilling the product o
Southern labor, shall escape untaxed long it
be reached and expended with the prospect of secu
ing the power of taking another shilling for their OWL
pockets And all this has been done under the eye
''that noble party which has always, a natona
organization, done justice to the South Now get
out. Does this snoble cease to be national party
whenever the interests of the South involved
it national party in perpetia the latter, il
is singular it should have fallen into pieces the hou
the Fugitive Slave bill passed through Congress- and
it is still more strange that it revived and acted
unit when the bill for the admission of California was
enacted "Justice to the South" sings the Clarion
and yet on record that the admission of California
was pronounced the enactment by Congress of the
Wilmot proviso in another form. That "noble party
could, had it SO willed, national organization
defeated that stupendous fraud but it had other, ana
as the event proved less honest and less patriotic pur
poses to subserve.
The Clarion says 'sWhy, does not the STANDARD
know that even Martin Van Buren,, while the Pres
dent of the democracy rowned upon that aboitionsn
with which he has since disgracefully affiliated q
Certainly, the Standard knows it. 1t knows ALSO thai
he frowned and smiled, and smiled and frowned, anC
at last embrdcedH 1t. SO again. but its tale now pass
ing into history, that the Southern democracy has
frowned upon ''Free-soiism and yet, in its heats
will it embrace Let us see how the record stands
Benjamin F. Hallett, is the chairman of the Democrat
ic National Committee appointed by the National De
mocratic Convention of I848, and but very recently
presided over the deliberations of that Committee
which assembled at Washington city, the proceedings
of which published on the oath Of January last
Mr. B. F. Halett on the 18th September l849 drew
up with his hand andreported to the State Dem
ocratic Convention assembled at Springfield, Mass
the following two resolutions, to wit
g Rescued, That we are opposed to slavery in
any form and color and in favor of freedom and
free soil wherever man lives throughout Gods
heritage.
&c ResoEved, That we are opposed to the extern
sion of Slavery to free Territories, and in favor Of
the exercise Of all constitutional and necessary