The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1850-11-29
October "a, 1850.


| Our worthy contemporary of the sole Demo.
cratic organ is never happy unless he can be
| fussing and foaming about slavery. It is only
few weeks since that he assured us the bow
of peace spanned calm horizon-and now it il
all storm and tempest, and fire and sword, and
civil and servjle war; ard the Union is to be dis
solved because there has been some little excite.
ment at the North about the Fugitive Slave law
He rants over an incendiary despatch or news.
paper paragraph as if the world were coming
to an end; and though there has been a law-a-
biding and conservative spirit exhibited by the
people ofthe non-slavehoIding States that ought
to disarm all apprehension. He is sure that
Mr.. FILLMORE is not the man that he took him
for, and calls upon him to come out and threat
en- half dozen vetoes, under the penalty of the
displeasnre of Mr.. RITcHIE and the destruction
of the Union and Constitution.
This manner Of rhetoric is all fudge-stuff-
nonsense. Does our worthy friend imagine thai
people are not to talk about the Fugitive Slave
law, and discuss it just as freely as they do the
Tariff or the Internal Improvement question?
Who is to close their mouths7 Does the Union
propose the panacea or sedition laws? The law
inquestion, being the law, will be executed faith
fully, firmly and efficiently. In so far as it may
be necessary for carrying out the provisions of
the Constitution, honest and patriotic citizens,
and lovers of the Union, viii be IN favor of pre-
serving it as it is. If, in its practical operation
it should be found not only TO operate upon iu-
gitive slaves, but to endanger the liberty oS Free
men, all good and patriotic and Just citizens,
North and South, will call for its modification.
We have not yet found the first Southern man
IN the circle Of our acquaintance who hesitates
upon this subject.
Whether the law so operates or not. is ques-
ton for statesmen to discuss and decide. It
will not be settled in mob meetings. whether
held in lecture-rooms or baf-rooms The deci.
sion will not be affected by newspaper para
graphs indited in mob-spirit, and crowded
with taunts and menaces, from whichever side
of Mason and Dixon's line they may ccme. We
hayea House of Representatives. and Senate
fully competent TO iegislate upon this or any
other subject. The Opposition organ
the Union claims to be--is in majority in both
branches; and the Union certainly pays but a
poor compliment to its friends when it announ.
ces that the country win be rufnad when Mr..
FILLMORE menaces Democratic Congress with
bis vetol
Our contemporaries pyramid rests on its apex
lit is turned upside down. The Vine pyramid
stands on its base. The present Executive
looks 70 the people as the source Of power It
usures no functions that belong to the represen-
tatives of the people and the representatives Of
the States. 1t will enforce the law which the
people have made. 1t will not sanction the
violation of al existing enactment, norinsult the
legislature BY the menace Of a vetos nor pfonul-
gate any Executive sedition law to meet the
case of the .RHETTs and the QU1TMAKs, or that
i Of the GARRIsoNs and the GfDDINGsEs. : Wash
ingtoa Republic.