The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-11-12


to separate from the iyee states. and TO ra
sumc the powers which have been coufde,
to the Fedora Government The history o
2 the last thirty years of the Fedora. Govern
ment, and OF the confederate States is his
tory OF repeated injuries, usupatous and NO.
gressions on the Southern States, all having
IN direct object the abolition of slavery. and
the establishment of an absolute tyranny
over these States by prescribing their laws
and domestic institutions at the dictatiOn OF
the people Of the free states To prove this,
let facts be submitted to the people Of the
South
By the Missouri Compromise, they pro-
hlbited to the people of the slave states the
right to settle with their property in all that
common territory, north of the line of sc
deg. 30 min, in clear violation of their con-
stltutlon aud equitable right to do So
They have suffered lawless associations of
men 20 seduce away our slaves from their
masters, and utterly to defeat the lust and
/ constitutional right of reclamation, by mobs
OF people, whom the civil authorities ncg'ect
or refuse TO control.
They have, by unequal taxation of the
products of slave labor, burdened us for the
protection and enhanced profits of Northern
capitalists, under the pretext of raising rev.
enue.
They have so djsbursed this revenue as
to foster the free states, to strengthen their
deiences, to open their roads light up their
coasts, and to eXpend about seven-ninths Of
the income IN the free states, while the
South and their interests have been almost
totally neglected, and only two-nnths of this
Income has been expended in the slave
states. Thus, i'll fact, making the slave
states pay tribute to the free states.
More recently, encouraged by the long
forbearance of the slave states, they have
encouraged aWIess adventures, from all
nations to seize upon the public lands, to
appropriate the rich mines of ore, although
in violation of statute law; to usurp the
sovereignty over the territory of the United
States, and form the organic government
thereof, at the dictatou of military chief
tains, or the President, for the purpose of
excluding the Southern Shareholder there
from.
They have invaded the territory of SOW
ereign state, threatened her citizens with
the armed force of the United States, at
tempted to constrain her to sell a large por-
J ton OF her territory, at price fixed by the
! Federal Government, not to acquire terrlto-
ry for the United States, but to exclude
slavery and the Southern slave owner there
| from
| They have declared the laws of Mexico
a foreign natlon noted for tyranny and anar-
chy, paramount to the laws of the United
States, and have, when requested, refused to
repeal such pretended laws-for the same
unjust purpose of excluding the Southern
| slave owner from participating in the use Of
common territory.
They have encouraged the people cfTeX-
as, sovereign Slave state, to rebel against
her authority promising them aud and sup
port from the military Of the United States
for the same unjust end.
They have invaded the private rights of
citizens in the District of Columbia, and for
| bid their taking slaves to their own houses
to sell them, under penalty of c0nfScatiOH Of
| property for the same end
They have usurped sovereignty in the
Federal Government, whose authority is
delegated and not sovereign, and threaten
ed the Southern States with the military Of
the United States, if in the exercise of their
sovereignty, they misuse the delegated au-
thority thus abused.
They have habitually insulted the South
ern people in Congress and elsewhere, de-
nouncing us as a demoraized people, and as
HlGH-aealerS.
They deny our citizens the projection OF
the o. for their persons and property,
from awIess mobs, when travelling in the
free states
And they avow in Congress and else
where, that these wrongs are not ended,
but will be persisted i'll until slavery is abol-
ished.
In every stage of these accumulated
wrongs and aggressons we have peacefully
demonstrated. Our repeated rcmonstrances
have been answered only by created inju-
ry Confederates whose character is thus
marked by SO many acts of injustice and hos
tility, are no longer to be regarded as friends
and confederates.
Nor have we been wanting in attentions
to our Northern brethren We have warn
ed them from time to time of their aggres-
sions upon us. We have reminded them of
the circumstances of our united resistance to
British oppression, and its glorious events.
We have appealed to their native justice
and magnanimity, and we have conjured
them, by the ties of common kindred and
country, to discontinue these aggresslons
and injuries, which would inevitably inter
rupt our connexion and union They have
been deaf to the voice of justice and consan'
quinity. We should, therefore, acqulesce in
the necessity which denounces our separa'
ton, and hold them, as we hold the rest ol
mankind, enemies in warm peace, friends
We, therefore, citizens of the State o
Mississippi in the exercise of the inherent