Southern standard. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 1851-1856, 1853-01-22


author ofthe article desires notice. else he would no
have sent the paper 70 our address, at being the first
number we ever saw We might well decline motto
ing an article conceived 10 the spirit that character
ICES this, and were tnotthnt in our intercourse with
the world we forced face and expose such opn-
ons we should let the Commonwealth editor salone se-
verey." vaa osf3 rsfa
The editor is right in supposing that the people of
the South are opposed to the abolition of slavery, or
that many Of them believe in the possibility of its
termination under any circumstances. 1t is an insti
tuition that has withstood all the changes and reVolu
tons of human affairs, and when the present tribe of
false prophets and priests shall have sung their last
song under the arch of our National Constitution, sla-
very, as it exists in Mississippi, will stand before
the world in all its natural strength, guarded by cir
Gle of fire against the approach of that band ofreorm
ers, whose tracks with loathsome disease,
penury crime and murderyes, it will exist long af
ter the hyeAa generation of Boston Parkers and their
disciples shall have been summoned before God
whose laws they outrage, and whose merces to man,
they labor assduousl y to press into curses.
The Boston editor assigns reason for his opinion
that slavery will cease to exist inhs country, aside
from that entertained by men who know nothing of
the character of the institution He is not less igno-
of the institution, than he is of the character of So
ciety that sustans it. He says Voltare "assers that
community of atheists could not hold together. If
we rightly remember it that eight-day philosoph-
who asserted that there were too many men of wit
learning and profound understanding in his day-that
the number far exceeded the demand, and that the
world would be better were the number less. Vol
aire may have been correct and this age may be af-
ficted with similar plethora of which he complain
ed. We have men in day, who are so wise that
they hesitate at no effort to prove the past of the
world little less than heathensh the teachings of the
old prophets arrant knavery and the dspensation of
Christ merely license to upon all institutions
that existed in his day and hicA he did not crse If
Voltare right in the one, he may have been right
in both and when we gather up the opinion of
Boston, its pulpit andts press; its REORGANIZATION
its skepticsm and its spirual-rappngism--i moral
reform societies, &c. &c, may not canddly con-
clude that Votaire was right Who are the authors
this unkind unbrothery feeling between the North
and the South Who has provoked it, and who are
they who fan and Can its authors find war
rant for its continuance in the language Of Christ or his
apostles
The Boston editor says that slavery "hqrdens and
deadens all the sentiments which make man mag
unanimous and social This sentence is devoid utter
the doom of national liar, would have penned it. To
e man who passes every day by more social woe and
human misery than can be found amidst slavery even
under its form, the institution may seem to har-
q den and deaden the magnanimous feelings But to
those who live in its midst know the truth of our POI
siton tits only by contrasts that the deep and bitter
woes of this world are made apparent to man. When
the Boston editor reflects upon the misery by which
ho ;c bo,
ing out, it does, aims just sufficient keep up des-
oate partnership between the soul and body, he i'm
AGNES that the slave must be worse oppressed, be-
cause around the bed of misery but little sympathy
gathers. He forgets that, only the sympathy be-
longing to kind shelters beneath the bed of the SER
want, but the interest that we feel in preserving or
property also stands ready to minister to our sick In
: your Boston, among your lowly and poor, sympathy
alone goes. It is such sympathy, as, thank God, we
e are pleased to know, dies beneath warm Southern
sun-it is Northern exotic, and like other rare plants
/ almost worthless.
/ The Boston editor says that people tolerating a
system Of slavery such ours, through many ages,
without quarrelling &c. could afford to sing their own
praises for, says he they will have trumphed over ex-
perence, logic, and the moral government of the uni
verse; As for the experience and Igc of this Boston
man, have but little regard to the moral gov
eminent of the universe, have simply say, that
l. it svery wse and it was ordered ages agone we
have idea that the agony ofthe Boston editor will in
y any wise disturb it.
The attention the reader is particularly invited to
the two paragraphs from the Boston editor in which
# he speaks of the ignorance, dleness, profanity, and
J. dissipation" of Southern socety.e Now, do not
= gard this language at all insulting. When a man
whose character is such that his neghbors refuse
is to take his word in case involving six and fourth
CENTS charges the Southern people with ignorance and
profanity, it may be inferred that deep rooted preu
dice, the remembrance of personal chassement at
the hands of some Southern man, warps the tongue to
the utterance of lie, guides the pen in the propo
CATION of foul SANDER. 1t is presumed that this Bos
ton man, of those who aided the free negro mob
in 1851 and lent the his pen to defend that riot
1t to U.S. that this very Boston paper and its ed
itor, together with Reverend Mr. Parker were very
e deeply concerned in arrestng from the law officers Of
h Boston, fugitive slave. man who engages in this
of work-who aids in setting the laws of his coun
" try at Defiance and assists free negroes in robbng
Southern man of his property, exactly the person
to stand in judgment the morals habits or gener
al character of any community And, when the South
assaed by such men, her citizens need fear neither
the Judgment of the world the decision of honest
citizens Hence it is, that regard this charge
coming as it does, in manner as an insult 1t is q
b simple alsehood which the experience of every day
is establishes