Mississippi Democrat. (Carrollton, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-06-10

III tlO lIlluSI vi oil lilGNitdOlGy anu OH our
part, most righteous national war, forced
upon US in the stern shapes of invasion
and slaughter, following in the footsteps OF
long continued perfdy and aggression; :
we ask, we say, any fair man to decide
whether such a course in a great party or
gan is not, in its whole essence, alien to
our institutions and our soil-whelher, be
1t from party madness or natural obiiqni
ty Ut political feeling, the recreant heart
be not manifest there?
We weigh the whole import of our words,
We speak in calm and deep conviction ),
and we are ready to render cogent reason
for every word we say. Look at the as
founding case. By solemn and supreme
legislative enactment, we are at war;
Our army is in danger--no man knows
how near the brink of destruction. In
obedience 10 the spirit of our institutions,
in full reliance on the justice of his cause,
and in noble trust Of the people, the Pre-
sldent throws himself wholly upon the pa
trloilc feeling of the country. He asks au
thorlty to receive and welcome UOIuntcerS
to our Standard UoLuntcerS to rescue our
! little army from peril, and TO save the
homes of our fellow citizens in Texas from
massacre and fire. Coercion is not named
nor thought Of in the Presidents recon-
mendatlon, nor in the law of Congress.
The effort, the peril, all is to be voluntary
the spontaneous outburst of the patriot
soul! Upon the vIgor Of this Impulse
hangs the life or death of our army. More
than this, delay, a dampened national spI-
rlt, loss Of energy, and loss of time are
the loss of everything. And Just at this
moment, in advance Of full deveopementS,
before the documents are read, The " Ma
TIoNAL Intelligencer" (PrOh pudor y rush
es forth through the length aud breadth OF
the iand--tO New Orleans, 10 Mobile, to
all the centres Of the volunteer movement,
to the glades where the prairie rheman
springs to his feet, as he snutis afar IN the
southwest gale the tainted air of invasion,
and outrage, and slaugh'er--to all these
scenes of high-souled emotion PUSHES forth
this national journal--and to what end?
. Surely, surely tits to rouse. to cheer, to en-
ergize, and to arm! 1t must be so. The
honor of our common nature, and of our
common name forbids any man to doubt it!
No! No! 1t is not 50. 1t is Tar other
wise. Ia his home, at his place of rendez-
vous, in his workshop, in his ploughed
field, the Inteligencer finds the volunteer
grit for his journey. 1t says TO him -
= Hold your hand! beware what you do!
Your country is wrong! your government
,, is wrong! See that you do not help to vi
oIae the Constitution! Congress is with
: you; but Congress in its g party purpose
is nerving the Executive arm to stab the
! charter of your liberties! See the hori
ION black with the pent,up thunders OF
a general war, in which the President is
involving the country! Stop and deplorC
. awhile the disagreement of your land
:, Stop till the boundary question is setlet
4 or remember if you move, that day o
II reckoning is at hand ~ Can any term.
- of denunciation be found too strong t.
4 mark this iniquity. We ask, Are we t
v see again, in the spirit of our leading par
# ty journals, those dishOnoring days of re
;, creancy which no American can remem
- Der without blush-the days of 1918
e Has that righteous and abiding popular
- wrath which has dashed through a who'll
). generation the political recreancy of tina
= period, no terrors for the political recre
:, ants of to-day? Would they drain tina
bitter chaice once again? If so, in God
II name let them lift it! 1t IS filed to The brin
II with all the fercest ingredients of unslack
~ ed popular execration.
70 "Denied by all history and all recor
= evidence, that the Del Norte is the bounc
n airy Of Texas!' Is the declaration {
!. TeXan indedendence a record? Is tn
= deed of San Jacinto history Is the OF
! ganic law of Texas of 1886 coevaI an
correIative to her declaration of indeper
: dence, and to all legal purport a part of i
y a record? Are the official dispatches
- Jefferson, and Madison, and Monroe, an
- Adams, "a record? Is the recognition
- Texan independence, made in full vie
, of the declaration and tie organic bount
arv statute of 1886 a record? Is the r,
Il, solution, passed in full Uiew of the d
Norte boundary urged as an objection,
E. record? Is the resolution of admission
US passed on the reception Of the Texa
It. constitution, framed in pursuance of ii
n declaration and the boundary statute.
IN record? Is the law of Congress constit
Or ting a congressional and revenue distr
I'd in southwest Texas, to the Del Norte,
1t record? Are the recorded votes of Te
r. ans there record? Is the commiSsie
er of the Texan Senators now at Washin
ia ton as the representatives Of that dislri,
"a record Are the certificates of emit
Ok Of the United States revenue officers ther
H. a record? Nay more, and most TO ii
IL It point, and just the point IN questjon--a