Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-05-28
The State Convention and its Nominations


The State Convention and its Nominations.
We announced, without comment, in our issue
the names of the nominees for the various State
offices and for the member of Congress for the
State at large.
Our failure to express at that time an opinion in
regard to the merits of the several gentlemen who
constitute the ticket was not that we were UMPIRE
pared to do so, but simply for the reason that we
preferred to wait till we could learn something of
the feeling with which the nominations were receiV-
ed by the democracy of our county.
During the last ten days We have conversed with
more than a hundred democrats on the subject of
the nominations, and have learned through others
the feelings of nearly many in reference
to the same matter, and candor impels us to dis
close the fact once that the ticket whole is
received with mingled feelings of sorrow, vexa-
ton and disappointment. However painful and
Notifying may be the disclosure, yet duty to the
party requires that we should make it. Between
duty and inclination, whenever opposed to each
other, we will not hesitate in making speedy
choice. We say then that the ticket as now con-
stituted willnot command, in its entirety, the sup
port of molety of the democrats of this county.
Ii is accep able to neither of the divisions of the
party. While both divisions know and feel that
the claims Of the Northern counties to the nom-
nee for Congress were wantonly disTegarded, that
division from which Mr.. Barksdae was selected,
say that no concession has been made them. mas
much as Mr.. B. was not their choice but was selec-
ted and forced upon them by the other DIVISION
Besides, say they, Mr.. B. was not an orthodox
member of the Union party, and as such is not,
and could never be, their choice for the station
which has been assigned him.
He was elected bv the Union party a member of
the September Convention, and after the assem-
Plage OF that body, voted against the resolutions of
his party enlbodying the declaration of their po-
litcal faith.
We have no inclination to rake up and descant
upon anything which may serve to recall the late
eud in our party, and for that reason shall say
nothing of his inconsistency.
We protest against the action of the Convention
IN the nomination of Mr. B. and base our protest
on the clear and indiSputabe right of the north
ern counties to the choice of the candidate for
Congress for the State at large. When we speak
of the northern counties, it is sufficient for our
purpose in this case to embrace only such as are
known the Chickasaw counties.
Where then reside the population, which, BY the
last federal apportionment, gave to the State an
additional member of Congress? Answer, in the
ChckaSaw counties. Will any just thinking mind
then question the right of the people OF those
counties to selec from among themselves the in
divduaI whom they shall prefer to represent them
in Congress? No one will answer afEirmatiyely.
Acting then upon this unqucssoned right, the
people OF the Chlckasaw counties proclaimed
through their presses and in their primary assem-
blies constan for months previous to The meeting
| OF the Convention their preferences for General
Reuben Davis. Yet when the delegates from the
various counties in the State met IN Convention,
what do they do ? i. ajjority of them reprcsen-
ting the Southern Eastern and Central portion OF
the State nominate for Congress IA gentleman liY,
ing 0ithout the limits of the Chickasaw Counties,
who if elected, is to represent population living
! wittin those counties. Is not such procedure "A
broad burlesque on the honored principle of rep
resentative democracy What becomes of the
boosted principle of mo taxation without repre-
sentation, !" as proclaimed and esta -lshcd by the
SageS and patriots of our country?
Gen. Davis was the choice of the Chickasaw
counties, as he also was of Other counties in the
Northern portion of the State, as the balloting in
| the Convention will show
If the Chickasaw counties then were entitled to
the nominee for Congress, no one, we think,
will deny, why their favorlte thrust aside by
the Convention and another put forward for the
post who is not known to in fifty of their voters
Doubtless it was thought nomination was all
that was requisite to secure Mr. BarkSdae'S cleo
ton. But we shall be much mistaken if such
Mr.. B. may be worthy man. and abun anty
qualified for the station for which he has been nom
mated; but we cannot consistently with our con
viction of what is due to right and justice yield
him our support. His nomination was violatiye o.
a principle that we hold infinitely dearer than We
do fealty to our party.
! That there are good men on the tcket-men
established character, of exalted worth, oil c.
knowedged patriotism and iminent abllty-none
will gaihsay. But the names of these men are
not wholly sufficient to relieve the nausea exciteC
by the ticket, as whole. There are gentlemen
nominated for some of the offices to promote whose
success it would be delight to us to labor W.
could and would make any reasonable sacrifice fol
them. We admire their talents, we appreciate
their past services; and that we cannot Weld ;
support to all their associates on the ticket W,
deeply regret But that we shall not do so is no
our fault, but the fault OF the domneering anC
reckless majority insthe State Convention w,
shall therefore exercise our right to support jus
so much of the ticket as we deem worthy of GU
support. Pontotoc SOvereign
The proceedings of the Democratic State Con
vention occupies much of our space to-day, bu
as many will take an interest in them it is prope
they should be published. We also publish th,
proceedings of meeting held in Chickasaw by
large portion of tie Democracy of that county il
the town of Houston, upon hearing the result o
the above mentioned Convention; articles from thu
Pontotoc Sovereign and Southern Argus, may al
so be seen in reference to the same subject From
these exhibitions it will be seen that the Demo
'cratic Ticket is far from being favoraby received
hv tn. nunn0cra NJ of tbk. Chinl.s,,, ,n..-..-