The weekly independent. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss) 1848-1853, 1849-08-04

name from the list OF candidates Tor Sheriff
"h touches us not, Let The gailed Jade mince
OHr Hnhers arc nnTrung"
Never was there a more futile effort
made, than by the Monroe Democrat in its
leader of Wednesday, to turn away public
attention and rebuke from the course pur-
sued for months back by the late indepen-
dent candidate, and his organ. Sensible
how overwhelming was the force of that
public opinion, which so unanimously set
its seal OF condemnation upon the diving
speech" it finds something necessary to
be done to distract attention. For this pur-
pose it resorts to personal charges and false
inSinuations against the Editor of this pa
per. We confess we had not expected this
course IN that quarter. The adoption of
such policy by the Editor of the Demo-
crat but convinces US, how utterly mdefen-
sibe he knows the positions of Col. Davis
to be, and how entirely destructive he finds
them to his own reputation and interests
as the conductor Of press. Something
had 10 be done TO raise siJe-bar issues.-
The war had TO be carried into the enemv's
country, if only by feigncd descent upon
the coast, in order if possible to draw off at
tention from the calamities of the last bat
tie field in which the parties had been en-
gagged, aud to gain time while the wound
ed were removed and the dead decently in.
tered.
This present attack we shall put to rest
in very shot order,
The Democrat charges us with enter
tanning Free-soi opinions"-with having
failed to place on record our opinions
touching the right of Congress to exclude
slavery from our South Western Territory"
and with " a concealmentp of our views
OH this subject.
Now this charge is wholly untrue. Ell
itorial courtesy prevents our saying the
Democrat knew it to be untrue: but we
can and do assert, that if the Democrat
was in possession of mental faculties at the
time, Il should have known it to be untrue.
Repeatedly over and again in the columns of
the Independent in our intercourse
with our fellow citizens and before the PEG.
pie, have we not merely proclaimed con-
vlction of the mconstitutionality of the
Wilma, nroy;so and conversational Ioo,;l,
-
ton for the exclusion of slavery from U. S.
Territory. but we have also placed our OPP
,,u
Po''''o" W II VII sun p'o"oo' S'o"''''S-le-
garding such measures as a violation of
everv sr;nc;nIo of ir,,;co o,J of o,, ror
4 " P''
ZION OF the oecalogue 10 slow that we
do not err, we cite from the Iudcpendent
of Nov. A.
The Monroe Democrat styles the Wilnot
proviso as an nnlnstiabe and iinqnitons
LIZ ao f,rb,, 'J o." " ,Gt J" w., f :" ]
ating IN proper feelings " as Cas- bcicres, is M
Justice and lis wrong is based on moral principles
of Older and higher aUthoritq and more sacred
than eyitten constitutions. u
And amin !, our ;ssra Of Doo al ,ro
presented the same ldea SILL more ut
length
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base our opposition to it ona moral principle
Of I;a,,o, ",h;,y , tL ,o. oo,ro,,on ",,"
The principle which forbids our taking our
neighbors property or deprivlng him OF his
which he has Welded .xnress or ;mniicd ,s.
sent, also forbid- the dcvoting of property
owh zee IN cGn"ion ny many 10 ''e exclusive
Aoa;, in o,r s,,rtotoriaI addyess in
Mach Iast ,rIo, wa ,,snnod tho chorac
of ,h;s n.no. -, a,nros.oJ ou,s,r,o. -
foIIouo.
"Tbe Irdcrordor, hos M, hocn and will