The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1850-12-11
MOB LAW.


General Downs, in a recent speech, de-
lvered at New Orleahs, complained of en-
allusion in the Delta, expressing want d
confidence in our Northern brelhern, il ca.
forcing the Fugitive SLAVE law, and *.
pressed his surprise that such things were
borne with" A portion oil The rebuke
which the Della administs T. to hin, iof bis
gratuitOus effort to direct popular violence
against that able journal, is 20 applicable to
those in Mississippi, who complain, that
we try to keep the public enlightened in re-
gard to the hostile movements a! the North,
that we cannot refrain from giving an en-
tract from the Delta.
"rhe Fugitive Slave law is now a dead
.ctter in Massachusetts; but the statement
of this fact by a journal in New Orleans,
ought not 10 be borne with, in the opinion
Of Senator Downs! We concern ourselves
with the present-with the facts as they oc-
cur. The future must speak for itself. Gen
tral Downs sagacity can, no doubt, Pene-
lrate it;-we do not even attempt it. Il
.may justify his now confident expectations;
we hope it will; but until it does, with the
lights now before US, we regard it a.
neither just, proper nor exPedient 10 fee!
much less to express, our confidence, tha
The North viii observe its Obligations undel
the Constitution and the Compromise. WE
do not reason by contraries, and when sue!
potents riso before Us, as have lately dark
cned the Northern horizon, va p olound'l
regret that nature has not supplied us witt
that OVERLOOKING fountain OF hope, confd
ance and credulty that wells up in the bo
som of our Senator, in which he would
drown all doubters. But shall we be ami
hilatcd because we read the newspaper.
Here Gen. Downs PAYS our people a poo
/ compliment, if he magines that they cann0
bear the truth to DO told at all times, especi
ally when lis publication is necessary 4
guide them in the path Of dGtY aud patriot
ism. His IDEAS of the duiies Of journalism
differ as widely from ours as his conviction
ofthe efficacy Of the Compromise. W ha
would he have US to do?
Would he have US 10 be silent when e re
the journals at the North friendly TO til
7 Union and the just rights Of the South, war
Us that the anti slavery feeling is carryin
everything before it in that section? Doe
he ever read the New York Express, re
: pres enting the commercial class Of th;
: great citY,-whose editor is member
2 Congress, friendly 10 tho South and the Con
!, promise, and who represents the large
constituency in The Union? If be does, h
will find the opinion Of that able editor al
D politician. expressed in the most cmphat
Il manner, that The peIyading sentiment at Il
0 North is anli~siayery, and anti-lugitire Sla'
law. This opinion is concuyred in, by ev
ry other journal of that city, and we on
i refer to the Express, because of the we
|! known frendlincss of its ed.or towards Il
e South. In Massachusetts, the leading VIII
. and administration paper, the Atlas, bold
declares that the recent defeat Of the VIII
party in that State, is ascribabe to the u
L fortunate course Of Daniel Webster, in di
10 connecting the wing party from the popu!
IS cause OF anti-slavery. Similar declaration
:, are made in all the Northern journals; al
" yet, IN the view Of Senator Downs, a lou
d nal in New Orleans which presents the
e significant and important facts, ought not
" be borne with
u We differ, with all due Difference, fro
Gen. Downs, as to the duty incumbent
- us, in the present emergency. We do r
ne think with him that those professions of I
lis bounded confidence in the North are prop,
De manly, or polite, al least until some bett
N evidences have been given to warrant tn
" confidence than have yet appeared. '
CT may hope for the future, but the present,
nd must be confessed is not encouraging.
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