Southern patriot. (Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-08-08

entity with the Constitution ard the
quail rights Of the several states oil
he Union and their citizens.
But we are told by Col. Benton that
he question has become a mere alb
.traction ofno importance: that few
nave gone into oiether territory, OK
.ept citizens Of the North end foreign
us and that they are all opposed 10
rs. What insult What! faint us
by telling us, VIC cannot go INTO
hem because foreigners and 9th
crs who have been let inlrcely- |
and we kept out by threat of con
Gscating our property by himself
and his associates, who have become
sufficiently numerous to keep us out
the intirycntion Of Congress
10 aid theml lie knew that property
is timid, and could be kept out.byl
threats, and that TO keep us out for q
short time was one Of the ways toI
exclude us ultimately What q COM
mcnt on the equity and justice oil
the Government, that we, who have
so freely spent our blood and treasure
to conquer the country, should be
excluded from all its benefits. while
it is left open for the use and enjoy
.ment ofall that rabblo Of foreigners,
which he cnumerptes with SO much
Zest, as the efficient means Of our
exclusion. Is there another instance
ofsuch an outrage TO be found in the
history ofany other Government that
ever existed!
His avowal Of the doctrines Of the
Abolitionists, will have an effect he
little expected when he made it
1t furnishes ample means TO show
| that he used deception in assigning
his reasons for declining 10 obey
the instructions of his Legislature,
| Ii will be remembered he offered as
his reasons, that their resolutions in
lstructing him were borrowed lIon
mime, and that mine was introduced
for disunion purposes, and that thcr
was no difference between them
Except that mine aimed directly al
disunion, and theirs ultimately a
the same thing. lie aded in effect
that his devotion 10 the Uuion woulC
mot permit HIM to vote for resolutions
so deeply tainted with dismion.-
That was at the commencement o
Ibis speech. Wcnow have in It's con
elusion, conclusive evidence lom him
self, that all this was a mere fitch,
stratagim to conceal his real mOtly
for declining 10 obey them. His re
Ial motive, as it now appears, wa
that he could not vote for them undo
any circumstances, for how could a
abolitionist, as he avowed himsel
to be, possibly obey resolutions
which are utterly at varienco wit
= their doctrines? To obey would hay
involved him in palpablo conuadiC
! ton, so much so, that it could nc
D fail to PROSTATE and ovcrwhelm hin
+ with shame, 1.-The is not TO sham
9 IinyulnerabIy.-This he saw, and TIN
i The had no alternative left but to +
T sign or dlsobev. lie determined
j. favor of the latter; but this Of itse
{ did not relieve him Of his dilemm
S lie knew well that it would dele
C his objects to come out boldly. al
I say that he had abiured his form
creed and adopted lhat Of the abol
/. tionists. And hence, he was force
+ to adopt some other expedient; al
s for that purpose, adopted the mist
Il able pretext of slanderously char
l. ing me and my resolutions, and i
+ own Legislature and their resolution
d with disunion, and Of assimil
IS that as his reason for not oboyil
" them, when he knew that his pc
h ton made it impossible for him
IS obey them. But these are not t
.e only resolutions adopted by the lie
ut islature ofhis State to instruct hin
,c The previous Legislature adopted t'
h. others, ofwhich he says, that tn
t. truly express the sense Of the Sta
j. and that he obeyed them, not only
$, their letter. but sperit They are
,h the following words;
or "ResOlued," That the peace, p
x manency and welfare of our Naiiol
On Union depend upon strict adhcrcI
nv to the letter and spirit Of the Sth S
e. ton Of the United States, entitled
all act to authorize the people ofthe n
on souri, territory TO form a Constitut
ip- and state government for the adm
IN sion ofsuch State into the Union
nd an equal footing with the origi
or Estates. and TO prohibit slavery