The Yazoo City Whig and political register. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 183?-1840, 1840-03-06
FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1910.
Abolition, AbolitiOnism and POlitics.

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In to days paper, immediately following
these remarks, we publish the best article up
ION this subject that we ever read. We doubt
whether the Southern doctrine of Abolition
ism-lhe true National doctrine upon this
exciting subject was ever so ably and fairly
discussed in so short space before. Here
is the whole subject Of Southern Rights
Here is set forth the Morals the Political
TighIs and the constitution, both upon the
ends sought for and tie dtscWssiOn Of the sub
iect by the abolitionists. Here is { 9 empha-
tic assertion made and sustained, that is is
unconstitutional and morally and politically
wrong, whether to grant any of the various
demands of the fanatics or to agitate the sub
Iect in non-slaveholding states. This much
and no more should be claimed for the south.
And who is this that SO ably and boldly de-
tends the South! Who thus spreads out
the constitution, the National compact and
4he Moral law upon this subject! 1t is
WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON.
Hear it all honest men. Hear it all who
desire information. Hear it, ye dastardly
enemies ofthe truth, you who have sworn
that Harrison was friend of Abolition. Ye
politically perjured caravan of editors, look
at the article below, and be ashamed! Re-
pent of your ISLANDERS, and no more hiss out
abolition against the boldest defender of
the South that ever took up the subject. Ye
who have garbled halfa sentence of this We
ry article, to prove the very reason of what
it asserts, and thereby that Harrison faVours
abolitionism, look at the article and read the
evidence of your own shame and your own
f4lsehoods. Here % the language with which
YOU have boasted-ssout of his own mouth
we will condemn him." Will you? Find if
you can, sentimentin the following e, act
from General Harrison's speech that does not
find response in the breast of every plan
ter of the South.
Wings ofthe South! look at the sentiment
of your champion, upon the subject of aboii-
ton, and say if you do not Reuter- every
sentiment! Say if the constitution and the
rights of the South and the rights of the Uni
on an not fully maintained!
Extract from remarks Of General WILLIAM
HENRY HARRISON at the Public Dinner
giuen to him by tie citizens Of Vincennes,
Indiana, on the 25th May, 1885.
WI have now, feIlow-citizens, few words more
to say to you on another sub ect; and which is,
in my opinion, of more importance than any other
that is now in the course of discussion IN any
part of the Union. / allude to the societies which
have been formed, and the movements of certain
individuals in some of the States IN relation to a.
portion of the population in others. The conduct
of these persons is the more dangerous, because
the object is masked under the garb OF dislnter-
esteduess and benevolence, and their course vln-
dictated by arguments and propositions winch IN
the abstract no one can deny. But however las
cinating NAV be the dress with which their
schemes are presented to their fellow citizens;
with whatever purity of intention they may have
been formed and sustained, they will be found to
carry in their train mischief to the whole Union,
and horrors to large portion OF 1t, which 1t is
probable some of the projectors and many oil their
supporters have never thought of; the latter, the
first in the series of evils, which are to spring
from this source, are such as you have read OF to
have been perpetrated on the fair plains OF Italy
and Gaul by the Scythian hordes OF Attlla and
Alaric, and such as most OF you apprehended on
that memorable night, when the tomahawks and
war clubs of the followers of Tecumseh were rat
thing in your suburbs. regard not the dIsaVoW-
ais Of any such intention upon the part OF the au-
thoTs of these schemes, since, upon the eXamina-
ton of the publications which have been maze,
they will be found to contain every tact and eve
~ argument which would have been used IT such
had been their objects. am certain that there is
not in this assembly one of these deluded men,
and that there are few within the bounds OF the
State. Ifthere are,any, would earnestly entreat
them to forbear, to pause in their career, and de-
lberately consider the consequences OF their con-
duct to the whole Union, to the States more I'M
mediately interested, and to those for whose be-
nefit they profess to aet That the latter Will be
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the victims of the weak. inludlclOus, Presumptu-
ous and unconstitutional efforts to secure them,
thorough examination of the subject must con-
vince them. The struggle (and struggle there
must beg may commence with horrors such as l
have described, but it will end with more hrmly I
rlveting the chains, in the utter extlrPauon OF
those whose cause they advocate. Am wrong, &
in applying the terms weak, pre-
and unconstitutional to the measures {
Of the emancipators! A slight examination Will,
| think, show that | am not. In vlnd1catlon OF Y
The objects of convention which was lately held
in one of the towns Of Ohio, which saw IN D
newspaper, it was said that nothing more was IT,
tended than to produce state of public feeling h
which would lead to an amendment OF the Com n
IhtutIon, authorizing the abolition of slavery IN d
The United States. Now, can an amendment OF
The Constitution be effected without the consentI
ot the Southern States! What then Is the propo-i
Iition to be submitted to them? 1t is this. The 81
present provisions of the Constitution secure to
you the right Ia right which you held before IT n
was made, and which you have never given up O
70 manage your domestic concerns IN your own Il
way; but as we are convinced that you do not 5
manage them properly, we want you to put in the 6
hands OF the General Government, in the coun- d
els OF which we have the majority, the control o
over these matters, the effect of which will be vr q
ual to transfer the power from yours into other
lands Again. in some of the States, and in sec 81
IONS OF others, the black population far exceeds
nat Of the white. Some of the .efnancipators
propose an immediate abolition. WHAT'S the pro- >
position then as it regards those States and parts ;.
. states, but the alternative of ANAL gamation :,
With the blacks,or an exchange Of situations with
hemF ls there any man Of commgH sense who +
ICES not believe that the emancipated blacks, n
'eng meJorltys will not insist upon full parti-
'lpanon Of the political rights with the whites, !
nd when possessed of fheSa fhnf tho mill vnt