The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1850-10-22

whether we shall assert and defend our con.
stltutonal rights. In truth, among other
contingencies for holding a convention of
the people Of tins State, the last Legislature
declared as one--thdt Of The a60litton otthe
stare tyade Of the District Of Columbia.
The Legislature determined to be heard again
upon this Southern question, and to decide
upon the course to be pursued, in view of
any wan.on aggression.
A late published letter of ex-Gov. Lump
kin, of Georgia, contains this patriotic senti-
ment: "Our rights have been invaded
our treaties have been disEegarded We are
at the door of degradation. In life and death
| am identified with Georgia Her fate will
be my fate But my single heart says
ask for nothing but what is right--suomit
to nothing wrong"
Such is the feeling of our neople. We
cannot submit passively to acts of Injustice
no matter what may be the consequences.
But whatever shall be the result, this great
State and our sister States of Alabama,
Georgia, South Carolina and Florida, form
lug vast Gordon of agricultural territory,
have within themselves, resources which
the whole world stands ready to purchase:
and we have therefore means far superior to
the old States of the North for independent
existence, shouldlt ever be forced upon us
This fact smoothes the face of that spec
tire OF dlsmIion, once made so hideous by the
talterlng friends of Southern rights, and ur-
ges US to make no concession which may
hereafter end in the subversion of our slave
interests
The assembling of our Legislature will be
at or near the time when the States of Geor-
gla, Texas, South Carolina and Alabama
Will be likewise acting in their sovereign ca
pacities; and when the adjourned session of
the Nashville Convention will have met at
Mllledgeville, Ga. Itis sa momentous crisis,
and the people are deeply alive to the issues
which will be made. Mass meetings in
Georgia are now of common occurrence.
One took place on the Goth ult., at King
ston, where an immense throng assembled
together and barbacue was given The
man who could set down and pursuade him
self that the recent action of Congress has
delivered us from all further conflicts, and
brought peace to our family of States, would
be like the ill-starred passenger of ship
about to be wrecked by the infuriated storm,
who shouldsWallow a sweet luling anodyue
in order to avert from his eyes the impend-
ing danger. s...... .....- ....
The thinking mind ofthe South--the in,
telligent leaders of the two great parties
men inclined to act the part of enlightened
patriots and statesmen, have probed this
question of Southern rights too far weigh
ed It's consequences too carefully to recede
from the positions they have assumed. The
object of the North is clear. 1t is to limit
the domain of slavery. We shall never,
while in the Union, annex another South
ern slave State The limits of slavery be-
ing once fixed within the present bouhda-
res, the North looks confidently forward to
the time, when the increase of our slaves
will be an evil instead of a good to us. The
black IabDrers Ofthe South increase by births
three fold more Than the white aborers of
the North. We shall be pent up until the
value OF the abOr Of our slaves will not equal
their food and clothes, or until it will be
cheaper to employ white labor than buy
black. While the South shall thus event
uaJy decline IN prosperity and 90 to a de-
str1cuon similar to the British West India
Islands, the process will exhibit the contn-
mai transfer ofSouthern capital to free States.
No wise man will allow himself or his off:
spring to become the Inflated sufferers of
Southern supineness and neglect, by invok-
ing his capital in the improvements Of a coun-
try going through such melancholy trans
ition. We see the beginning of the end n0l0,
in the fact that the surplus Of Southern cap.
ttaI IS beng erery day INFESTED IN North-
err Cities and StateS.
Resistance sooner or later to the usurpa-
ton of the North must be considered as es-
sential to the existence of the South.