Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-03-12
Free Soil OrganiSt.

4 Washington letter writer states that the circu-
lation of the National Era, has now reached 28,-
600; and profits for the current year, will be
SOS, 900. DR.. Bailey, the Editor who lives
in a house which cost him $12 1000, has bought
lot on "Englsh Hill, " on which he proposes to e.
rect palace, in the spring. He has recently pur-
chased Of Mr.. Corwin pair OF handsome horses,
which he drives before coach costing $780,
clashes about the city in fine style as the
President or any of his Secretaries" q
Owe clip the above from exchange paper If true and
entertain doubt of it, what commentary is upon the
inrncs Of the South newspaper devoted to the incul
cation Of abolition agumentsto the dissemination OF Pnci
pies with the social and domestic institutions Of
the South with support which is enrching its prope
VIII any tell why it is that press OF this char
should succeed Shall we be told that the principles it
advocates unpopular We shall answer these questions
and encavor draw from the attending the abors OF
Dr. Bailey, conclusions it may be well to reflect upon
It's unworthy the effort of any attempt prove that
the social and domestic institution of the South opposed
by the great weight of the intellect of the age The anagon
ism peculiar either climate people. Isweeps with
wdness in the of England than around the
throne of the Russian Auocrat and the malicious
pay nourished all continental Europe, that Is
encouraged and opogated the Northern States OF this I'M
ion 1t is unnecessary for us to show the o in order
oesabih proposition and alude to it, only means
reinforcing the point urging We say then, that the
intellect of the age opposed slavery; that the battle for its
emancipation commenced years ago. and that those who
the recipients Gifts blessings stand with their hands folded
and their eyes closed the asiduous abOrs OF the Sappers
and Miners" who knocking from the superstructure the
stones which sustain it. Were this untrue should not ind
Metropolis of the nation press whose energies are lev
ed the demand for that peculiar information out OF
which the made and to supply the floating ru-
upon which incendiarsm and anatcism baen Unless
this ue-unless the intellect Of the North satisfied by
this sort of food editor could succeed in building fortune
bv must plth
ing the States, or emancipating the Slaves.
We may be told that the principles advocates unpopu
lar This true and the very arguments employed to
sustain this prove that the is true Commercial men
defend the institution of slavery per They only OPP
pose agitation that they desire peetuate the institution
ITSELF but with the hope alone of disquietng the course
trade clogng the channels through which their pro
flow Their defence Of slavery them is an interested defence
and be of value the that interest prompts 1t
But among the massesn the rural districts where this
ercal intercourse and direct interest never expands
be felt the poison works the hatred spreads We
look them not into the cities and commercial the Nor
for the expansion Of anacism but among the hills and daes
and over the of country where the husbandman la
Dor causes thrift and plenty half starved man is always
antagonist to be avoided and that is well fed and coheC
may be more easily convinced, general rule, yet h
be stubborn he is so with will 1t among the middle
the agricultural class, that the abolition organs are SUBSTANCES
and upheld 1t is among that class who, as general rule
are the last to engage in strife revolutions but who, whe
moved to take part overthrow dynases and erect new gov
emments They are the men who sustain government
they who give force seadness sateness and the quicken
ing, vazng elements which holds them together lney
who draw from earth the products that freight our commer
navs and pour into the lap of domestic trade the blood Una
courses its way through thousand channels carrying wi'n
life and happiness These the men who are the ast'O en-
gage revolutions but they generally the hst 70 "nol
new opinions become known; the rst usually VINO are prose
yed and who when convinced expend the most tune ana IN
means in spreading their views and uphodng their ne'
doctrines. These the who give weight ana lmpo
lance whatever they attempt And after them, come tn
train Of schemers who ready to take advantage
either the pudices opinions Of other men, These are the
Who make revolutions necessary.
We entertain no doubt that thousands upon thousands
good become aboionists really without the knowledg
now oexplon why they reason because they wei
60 unless they were permitted shift their conversion of upO
e one who had previously obtained their confidence an
~a' abused it Wehavs many man who could assign