The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-10-06
From Die South roa
i NORTHERN WIG AND SOUTHERN


eHs tGsp. Taylor) viii DO much, e elected,
TO put down the ctods nov making in varl-
Gus quarters to run all the politics fine coun-
Hy into a mi,ehieuow spirit Of sseiionahspl' II
he shall prove to be the President / doubt not
he will be, the people will learn, that Of all
the qualifications for that high Office, that OF
cit zenship, residence OF domicile is the low
est. / am more disposed to look 10 the man
himself. TO the qualities Of his head and heart,
father than TO the accidents Of birth and resi-
dence. Who would not rejoice TO have q sue
%cession Of Presidents for the next five centu-
ries, who shall administer the government af-
ter thu fashion, and IN the spirit ofWashiDgton,
though every one Of them should come from The
Cdpes Of Florida"
5a Truman sMTH.-June 20, l848. 2
GSENTIMENTs WORTHY OF REcoRD-We take
the following from the Washington Union, Of
the 4th inst. The determination manifested,
and sentiments proclaimed, are precisely our
own. Such sentiments as these controlled us IN
s4ggestiag Gen. Dir as a suitable candidate Of.
The republican party for The Presidency:
"For ourselves, our part is chosen. In no
manner, directly or indirectly, shall we inter
fere in, or seek to influence, the nomination
Of the convention. By that nomination, tchen
IL shall be made, zoe shall firmly abide /; and no
effort Of ours shGA be wanting 10 do our phoLe
duty. IF there be one o. too difference topics, Of
recent origin, and not belonging 10 the domestic
creed, on which all Of us may not hGrneonise, lei
their discussion in The convention be GCoided as
much as pOssible.'
son the purely abstract question Of slavery
in California, New Mexico, or Oregon, we do
not intend, SO far as we are concerned, to
permit or ,countenance a division in the dem
ocratie party, n ava
"No man is so great a fool as to suppose
that the owners Of slaves would think Of car
rying them into a country already Inhabited
by a mixed race who do not consider the
white man superior to the negro. Then the
agitation Of this question is foolish, and cal
culated only to destroy the democratic party.
"Much has been achieved since the eleva-
ton Of General Jackson to the Presidency
and shall we now jeopardize all on a question
entirely foreign to our policy? These abstract
discussions on the subject OF slavery are ridic-
ulous in the extreme they are conducted by
bad men. t t aa.
"New Mexico, California, and Oregon are
now settled by freemen; California and Ore
gon, each at this time contains several thou
sand free white persons; they labor for a live
lihood. At the close Of the present war with
Mexico, a large number of volunteer soldiers,
traders, teamsters, and other attaches of,the
army, will be left within the territory which
we may acquire; these too will be poor men
who must labor for a living. Is there a ration
al man, who considering these. facts indepen-
dent Of natural barriers which he might emu
merate-is there, we ask, a rational man who
could ask or expect these free white pioneers
Of newly acquired territory, to degrade their
labor to the level Of that Of the scoty African?
sOh!' say our would-be southern h%otspurs,
who ate e%ternally agitating this subject, : Just
admit our abstract rights, and we will be sat-
. isfedp And in this they exhibit neither
wisdom nor patriotism. They prove them
3 selves to be agitators and factiOnists. And
q shall we now be told thatlhe democratic party
will put all its great and successful measures
h in jeopardy, merely to crafty a few faction
lists? We answer, NO, No! never shall this be
4 said. sua ss
: "NeiMer Gen. Cass or MI. BNtkanGn oppOssd
= he WTlmot RoUisO because Of its WncOnstita'
6Onalty, but expressly on the ground thai
h such a proviso is useless, as it will never in
/ terdict slavery where slavery can be; yet theil
letters meet a hearty response in the bosOms ol
southern democrats. Why, then, on an irrele-
s want issue-an abstractiOn-a ~frebrang Of fac
!. tionists-shalI southern democrats countenance
0 a controversy calculated to divide our northern
' allies, (abOlitionists0 who have so nobly aided
8 us in the establishment Of SO many great
n measursg. Wtat a saicsdal policy, and hOW Oa-
! pGtrtotic!"
i. [JNi@issiPpian, May 10, l848.
We leave it for the reader tOsay which o.
these extracts exhibit most fully the scnti
ments Of a National Statesman Did Mr.
Smith vote for the WilmOt P%roviso? SO die
forty seven other democrats, and Mr., Poll
approved. their votese and the whole Cas- press
i South, tacitly acquiesced. because, as we sup
pose. the Proyiso was a pure .abstraction
and { the agitation Of this question was foolisl
and calculated only 70 destroy The denpcrati
paryn % I58 B.
WHICH is RIGHT4
d Gen. Quitman voted for Gen. Jackson lynl
I before M. Luke Lea was out Of is teens.
. TMssisappian Sept 81, l849.
y They profess to support Gen. jackson. How
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