The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-08-20

70 live among us.
But We did not uss his question Of The
plgce Of birth % au argument OF srpfapos
o, the editors Ng,tavl principles, only as
IN explanation OF suoHss Of ichg they were
OF that stamp, aad arc sorry hat the editor
has deprived himself Of a portion Of the
benefit Of it, by saying that he was "eaR-
eatea south Of Mason & Dixon's line
The kernel Of our argument, however,
was, that one with Northern ~priDapies
could not properly appreciate Southern sen.
fimezk.
We find elsewhere cCiaeHrc Of the senti-
menis Of the editor Of the Wing. We find
in bis paper during the present attempts by
the North upon tie South, continual cries
OF Peace! peace! when there was no
peace" We find attempts to lull the peo-
pie into a fatal sense Of security by repre-.
senting the great body Of the Northern
people as sound upon the subject Of South
ern rights, and the agitation IN the North
to be confined to a party contemplate in
numbers, as well as influence although
he knew the proceedings Of that people in
their public meetings, in their Legislatures,
in Congress, and in the cou%ntenancing and
supporting by the masses of attempts at
violence upon Southern property and life.
We have seen his paper advocate the i'm
mediate admission Of California, and at.
tempt TO make il appear that the opposition
to her admission IN tic South arose from
party opposition to the Administrations
he thus aiming TO split the Southern people
into parties upon a question Of vital i'm.
portance. We have seen the doctrine com
, mended, That slavery is now legally cBct,t-
; ded from the territories we have acquired,
by Mcrtcan kap. BY means Of his paper,
he has, in all ways, whether by ridicnle, by
argument, by representations of quiet, or by
denunciatlon tried to hinder action on the
part of the South to secure Immunity in the
assertion, and maintenance of her Threatens.
ed rights. The Presidents plan, the Clay
Resolutions, the Compromise of the Com
mittee of Thirteen, and sometimes the Sigh
appearances Of common reason upon the
subject Of Southern rights IN individuals il
the North, have been each, as it arose, mp
held by his sheet, as Jagorab6 TO the South
ern people, and an emu 10 all TO their fears
The Bill of tho Committee of Thirteen
which, in thankfulness, We remark, floats o
shattered wreck down the stream Of time,
has been held up as giving to the South
four Stare States, and everything else she
needed, IN return for one State, California
given to the North. In accordance witt
this same spirit, we find in his paper the
I Nashville Convention denounced as mex.
+ pediont and dangerous, and a portion of it,
g upholders, as traitors,
I II is upon such as this, and not upon biz
0 place Of birth, we found our opinion as tC
= the odito. of the Wing not being u South
, erner in principle" We by no means deny
t the full right Of the editor to hold these
b opinions, 1--WE hope we will not be so great
= ~ misunderstood whatever we may thinl
of the want Of delicacy, and Of kind feeling
towards the country in which he has use
T lected" to live, displayed in giving then
publicity. We have not before noticed hi,
position, because he claimed 10 represen
! the Wig party Of the country, and I'VE dc
not dispute the right Of a party to hold a,
opinion, and TO a0houfce il through thei
Q press, But all this while, though we hav,
not "no,iced' the Wing, we hope that w
have not been reereant in our duty to on
y dear native South. We are conscious tina
v we have combatted, as her son, with on
ability, every attempt upon her rights. w
c know that there is hardly a man &c one
of the democratic party, who will not up
e hold us, and we know now that very man,
h of the wing party of our county agree in on
views. Any argument however, betWeel
the Wing and ourself as to, Whether or no
does the Wing represent u mGiority of thu
il wing party of the county !-rust, unit
that party has las we pointed ont last week
declared its opinion by q called meeting, b
b Hypothetical, and vague AMI therefore us,
Is Tess.
In our unfortunate article, criticized b
IS the Wing, we mentioned specially tn
lie names OF four gentlemen, aud asked wheth
~ er it was most likely that they and imam.
other Southern men whom we could nam
u the most prominent and popular men of tn
At wing party" or that the Wilkinson Viii
ii represented the sentiment, &c. We do nc
i. know what to say. when the Wing assert
that two of the gentlemen named are OF