The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1849-08-04

feels sure it is as il has stated We demur
TO this We feel equally sure to,the contrary,
and at any rate the charge of unmitigatcd abo-
litionism cannot be allowed without proof
However sure the democrat may be, it must
produce the evidence before we will believe
liL We will in the mean time produce one
proof which it is at liberty to use.
r In January, Mr.. Ewing was the whig candi-
date for U. S. Senator in Ohio, he did not re-
covo the vote of a single free-soiler or aboi-
4 ZIONIST; he was opposed by Mr.. Chase, a rank
unmitgated, radical aboltiouisi, who received
the vote of every democrat, and every free
soller in the legislature was thereby elected.
| Had Mr.. Ewing been an 'unmiugated aboli-
tionist,' would this have happened!
Now the seventh and last cabinet minister,
Mr.. Collamer. We admit Mr. Collamer's
votes. But is he any worse than John NJ. Niles,
Mr.. Van Burcn's Postmaster General! Mr.
N. is an out and out iree-soiler. Is he any
worse than John A. Dix, whom the MISSISSIPPI
! plan but little over year ago was iolsIlng on
the people fthis State as the best of all demo-
cratic candidates Suppose, FOR arguments sake,
Mr.. Collamer to be all the Democrat says he is
Is his abolitionsm any more foul than that OF
the three democratic-abolition congressman
elected last A pril in Connecticut! This cleo
ton the Democrat paraded extensively as a
Triumph Of he Democracy and expressed its
opinion most decidedly, that he result was gio-
riOus IN every way.' Now upon every pon-
connecting itself with aboltionism, the three
Congressman elected went as far, If not far
ther, ,han ever Collamer has been charged with
going. They pledged themselves in favor of
the exclusion of slavery from New Mexico and
California by acts OF Congress, IN EIUor of Me
abolition Of siaUery and Stare trade in Me Dis
tiet Of Columbia; IN Jaror Of the Buffalo plat
form, and against the admission Of any more
slave states into the Union, These were their
distinct pledges. Gov. Cleveland, one ofthem,
in his letter accepting a nomination, declares
these principles 10 be in epery sense Of Ae vord
democratic and hueH He SAID further:
"7Ne General Government has been TOO long
Ne friend Of he sLaueholde,, and The enemy Of The
SLAVE. 1t is full time that DC reproach thus
brought upon the country should be wiped
away. This cannot be cone creeping by he
abolition Of siarery and The stare trade at Ite scat
Of Gore 1lHent, aud wherever else Congress
has the power to abolish them"
g am happy to know these sentiments perrade
The masses Of Hc democracy Of The north and great
west, and hat Through its ritai principle of pro-
gresdon, and its thorough Identification nih The
spirit Of The age, The democratic pdrig, az those
rast sections Of country, is fast ushacki,ng itseJ
fom all co1neTion ruth iduery, and becoming
truly Free"
Now the election to Congress Of three men
entertaining these sentiments, the Democrat
hailed as "a result glorious ia erery rdy.' Is it
not, then, declared from saying a word against
the elevation OF Mr. Collamer, against whom
the highest charge it brings is that he is very
much Of their opinion! We regret many of
Mr.. Colamer's votes. We are not defending
them, but We do say that if the election of Mr.
Cleveland and his two abolition colleagues,
was a triumph, a result glorious in every way
and OF course in the way Of abolition sentiment,
then that Mr.. Collamer, in entertaining at the
worst similar opinions, is not to be denounced
as an unmilgated abolitionist. Besides, a
member of the cabinet will not have 1.-THE of
the legislative influence of single representa-
tive. GeL. Taylofs course upon the slavery
question will not be swayed by Mr. Colamer's
opinions. lie will be very apt to be guided
by his own sense OF right, duty, and justice.
But the legislation OF the country will be di-
reetly affected by the votes Of the Connecticut
members.
Besides, we have been continually told that
Gen. Taylor was false aud jesuitical', be-
cause he selected his Cabinet and the Office
holders from one party; and yet he is the more
vehcmenily denounced, because he pays some
respect to the great sectional differences of
opinion oxistiDg throughout the nation, aud as
far as he can, divides his cabinet between the
North and the South, leaving one to remain
upon neutral ground, to stand like the Prophet
Of old, between the living and the dead!' II
NAY yet be, that lis advice upon the subject
Of sectional strife aud abolitionsm will assist
Gen. Taylor to carry gu: successfully a simi-
lar mission to that Of toe Jewish Patriarch. and
to have il recorded as the glorious result Of his
administration, and He plague uas stayed'
Respecting Mr.. Fillmore it is needless to
speak Even were he what the Democrat says
he is, the fact that the people Of the United
States have made him Vice President, lie no
proof Of Gen. Taylor's having surrounded him
self with aboliiionists. The charge itself,
however, separate even from his own denials
and the proofs that have beca given, b., peen
pronounced false b ;sry Of the county.
We shah no. aow stop TO di-prove 1t. A large
r.sJor-ty Of the popular aud the electoral vote
Of the South has 80 declared IL, and the Co
lumbss Democrat, in endorsing the exploded
SANDER, but exposes MS O~n reputation to
similar rebuke.
OF the nine persons whom the Democrat
cites as surrounding Gen. Taylor, II only pre-
tends 10 make 90, its charge against one.
Against Others u brings no rroef bot lis own
assertions; while ne have satisfactorily shown
how Tar I'll the evidence and argument il has
sdduesd relative 10 the remsiader. fall shor, Of