Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-05-07

the face like spectres. Boston, Christiana, and
Syracuse riots and hellish orgies, roared like
thunder peal in their ears. The voice of the Gu
ban martyrs-the dying tones of the murdered
Crittendon--cried to them from the ground, like
Abels blood demanding vengence. And when
he awoke from his dream-not by the loyal accIa-
nations of thousands heradng his praise and
trumpeting his triumph--but by mourntul voice
"a funeral anthem--the hollow cadence of few
faithful voices performing the funeral solemnles
over his entombed greatness. Well might he ex-
claim, "Glory is but shadow, like a shadow 1t
cometh, like shadow it goeth Fallen Fal-
len is my greatness. Is the reward of my tolls
and labors, and patient endurance of the floods Of
invectye poured upon my head, and shafts OF NAL
ice. envy, and disappointed ambition, stepped in
gall and bitterness, hurled at my heart? His
sun is set, and perhaps forever; and perhaps too,
again it may arise in the political armament, and
eclipse in splendor its former braney.
But let turn from the contemplation of those
scenes with which he is more intimately connect
ed, to others, equally interesting and of more i'm
portance, because attended with consequences per-
manently, it is feared, injurious to country
the result of demagogsh enthusiasm that has
risen up in our midst, and countenanced by the
simple and credulous those whose breasts
filled with an undue quantity of the milk of hui
man kindness and fellow feeling. Who, subscri-
bing to the doctrine, that there is power behind
the throne greater than the throne ITSELF profess
to be governed by higher law; a law that has
never been embodied in visible or tangible form;
but, existing only in the imagination of its org na-
tors, serves as Scapegoat for their vllanes, and
take-in with the uneducated these, say, profess
sing to be governed by a higher law, have respect
! for no law, either human or divine. Emancpa
ton and amalgamaton of the races is its ultimate
intention, Slow, steady, but progressive, advan-
ccS its principle of action. Judging from past ac
tons and present indications, it will yet be produc
tive of consequences seriously affecting our nation
al welfare. Its workings gave birth to the nuif
cation act. Not long after, its vaccinations again
Embossed the winds that threatened to sweep like
tornado over our land, leaving ruin and dcstruc-
ton in its wake. Ignorance of moral, social, and
political obligations, paiates the enormity of the
crime, with the majority of those who compose
its legions and swarm its regiments. Urged on
by a blind enthusiasm and false philanthropy,
they consider it christian duty to leave meas
ure untried for the completion and contamination
of their designs. Not with its instigators.-
They clearly see the consequences resulting from
their actions. Like him of old, who fired the
temple of liberty that the flames might light him
to glory. they would hurl our institutions, under
false pretenseS, into confusion, and faten and riot
upon the spos resulting therefrom These are
modern retormers. Overlapping the bounds OF
right and justice, hey tear down without building
f up-scatter helter-skelter regardless of conse-
quences. Nor do they work in direct manner,
but obiquely. Their ultimate intention being E.
Emancipation, step by step they advance to its con-
summation Like the anaconda coil after coil it
winds round the victim of its hate and repacity,
until securely bound-fastened beyond the posi-
bility of escape-t then begins to tighten and
crush him. And how do they act Let see.
!. A short and brilliant campaign, terminating a
Just glorlously to our arms, increased al
ready wide extent of territory, which serving a
bone of contention, by exciting the rapacty OF
these reformers--theSe political harpies--agan
enkndled into fierce fame the ill-smothered hate
and jealousy that existed between the two sections
Y of our Union. By compromise that had passed
a both houses it was expressly stipulated that the
Southerner should and did have the right of car
rying into territory that might be acquired in flu
S ture, property of any kind below certain deter
mined line. This measure was the result of neces-
e sity, and such, was acquesced in BY ALL 1t
t served as limit to the cncroachmentS of one, and
t boundary of the privileges of the other. 1t was
the object of the reformer to deny and take away
!. this right. A successful accomplishment of this
would bring him one step nearer to the goal of his
hopes and aspirations, general emancipation and
add another Ink to the chain rvetcd upon his vic
: tins ANGLE. A few hot-headed and hollow heart
S ed demagogues and upstart politicians, mstakng
zeal tor sense, denied the right and the con-
slderate and conservative, fearing loss of popu-
# lar favor consequent to their action, Joined
pell nell in the pack; Seward and Hale leading
the animating pulses, the very heart-strings o.
4 of the reformation. With the undated energy
and quenchess hate of blood hounds, they pur-
d sued their victim. A yell of indignation and re
monstrance echoed throughout the South. South
It Carolina raised the cry; Georgia echoed it back
Mississippi reechoed it; every State joined in the
). chorus-caught the strain, and soon the whole
), South reverberated again and again, with its pro
: longed war. Calhoun, Davis, Soule in fact, al
of southern chiyalry, true to themselves anC
d their rights, unsheathed the sword of selfdefenct
: marshalled in stern array their egionaries--un
d furled the banner of State Rights, and prepared
e for fierce and bloody contest. Conventions wer,
l. held in every State to discuss the expediency, no
n the right, of secession, and convention of al
! the States called, to adopt salutary measures t
|. prevent future encroachments. The deep, low
If mutterings of coming storm were distinctly aud
ible foretelling awful crisis. But these fearful
O indications were UNDECIDED, and the voice of out
d ragged justice. The Scutherner was robbed of hi
Y legal rights and the reormer exulted and reoicet
c IN the triumph of humanity as it is called. o
j. mores 0 tempora! And was this open violation
of justice and pledged faith quietly endu! ed, an,
h passively submitted to Did all the threats an,
= menaces that were SO profusey lavished, die AVA
) into naught? Where was the spirit of seventy
;, SIX that fired the souls of our revolutionary sire
}, with the love of liberty, and made them swear b.
Al their sacred honors, their lives and their for
times - tn live free and indenendept or do ~ Al